Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
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mas stories, Christmas pictures by prom
inent artists and hundreds of Christmas
suggestions of all sorts-practical, fanci-
full, unique. The stories include "A Wild
Boar Rampant" by Robert Barr; "An
Undiscovered Siddons," by Claire Wallace
Flynn; "Capn Gilly," by Mary Catherine
Lee; 1.-The Lost Spirit of Christmas" by
Grace s. Richmond; "Frederika's First"
| by William Hamilton Osborne; "The Little
Water Boy" by Julia Hampstead Bull,
and "A Bachelors Christmas Eve" by
Marguerite Campion.
The December issue of Suburban Lite
contains number of articles which are
specially suited to the holiday season.
These are introduced by christmas
Toast" by J. Horace Mcfarland. There
is an illustrated poem by Arthur Gutter
man entitled Spying on Santa Claus;"
Booker L. Washington contributes Christ
mas in Old Virginia." an account of the
plantation festivities in the days before
the war, and Jacob A. Riis has an Illus
Cheer to City Waits" Other special
features of this number are: "Thc
Pleasures of Winter Photography" by c.
Il. Tucker; "a Christmas Feast for
the Birds and Squirrels" by Eleanor
r.. Thatcher: "An Out-of-the-O Ordinary
Christmas Gift,"' by Mary Taylor-Ro
describing different sort of aquaria and
goldfish, and Should the Young Man
Who Works in the City be a Commuter?"
a symposium of the opinions of prominent
business men on this subject.
The December McClure's abounds in
strong features. Burton J. Hendricks
! Great American Fortunes" is the his
tory of the exploitation by a few men of
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present installment deals with Ryan and
the Metropolitan Railway company.
Cleveland Moffett describes the evolu-
tion of the oldest of toys, the spinning
| top, into tine gyro-car, which bids fair
to revolutionize the life of the world.
Harry Smith Williams follows this up
with THE Gyroscope and Ocean
Travel" President Eliot of Harvard, in
The Canadian Act" gives an interest
ing account of what the Dominion gov
ernment has done to aid the prevention
and settlement of strikes in mines and
industries connected with public utili-
ties. Professor Lowell's THE Planet
Mars" is the very latest word from our
neighbor planet. Some American Col
lege Boys" by Cameron Mackenzie. is
thrilling account of the Cornell uni
yersity fire, which proves that hero
ism is not dying out. This number is
notable for the beginning of a serial
by Mary Stewart Cutting. called "The
wayfarers." Perceval Gibbon, Her
mimic Templeton and Mary S. Watts
each contribute characteristic short
story, while Charley ON the -Orphum-
House." by Augusta Kortrecht, intro
duces a new writer of much promise.
The thousands of Americans who
laughed over Gelett Burgess admirable
essay, care You a Bromide?" will read
with keen relish his sparkling motor
story, Courtesy of the Road" which
serves to open the Red Book Magazine
for Christmas. No less interesting, If of
quite another sort, is F. L. stealeys tale
of the border, 1.-THE Toy Amansador." A
tense little sketch is "In the Dark" A
story that contains all the coldness of the
far north is "The Sin of the Silent One"
by Newton A. Fuessle. Harriet Prescott
Spofford contributes "The Christmas
Gift" and "For Shorty Cullen's Kids"
by William Hamilton Osborne, breathes
the very spirit of the Christmas season.
An elopement by balloon forms the basis
of Harriet Gaylord's sprightly narrative
of 1.-The Elopement of Naneen," and
wife's education of her husband is clev-
| erly disclosed in Reclamation" by Alma
Martin Estabrook.
The real Santa Claus must have come
| SITdlRnC ITOHl Ills 10Y SHOp " pOS6 lOT
the cover which J. C. Leyendecker has
painted for the Christmas number of The
| Circle Printed in four colors, 1t is one
of the most attractive covers of the hol-
iday season. The cover, however, is but
an introduction to a wealth of Yule-tide
good things, for The Circle celebrates
it's first Christmas right royalty. There
is appropriate fiction by such notable
writer's as Gilbert Parker, Maude L.
In
Pangborn and Egerton Castle. in all
splendid collection of Christmas tales.
Putnam's Monthly for December opens
with the first of a series of papers by
Charles H. Caffin, collectively entitled
Painting and the Word" AS this is a
Christmas number, the article is appro-
priately devoted to 1.-THE Word of the
Christian Faith" What Mr.. Caffin pro-
poses to examine in these papers is the
utterance through the spoken or written
word Of common or collective want in its
influence upon painting in different peri
DDS. The text lends itself readily to
pictorial illustration, and the present ar
ticle is accompanied by a reproduction
in colors of Raphael's Sistine Madonna
Cfrontispiece) and half-tone plates repro
ducing famous masterpieces by Giotto,
Andrea del Sarto, Murillo, Rembrandt
and more modern men.
A critical burt heartily appreciative pa
per on John Greenleaf Whittier appears
over the signature of H. w. Boynton
1t is apropcs of the Whittier centenary
and contains portraits showing the
singer of New England rural life and the
anti-slavery cause at different ages.
In the Nautilus for December one of
the leading articles is what Know
About the New Thought" by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. Katherine Quinn writes
on "The Man with the Hoe" with an
interesting side light on Edwin Mark
man. Adelaide Keen's "Habit of Happi-
ness" and THE Road to the Kingdom
of Heaven" by w. r. C. Latson, M. D.,
are worth while; and Prof. Edgar L. Lar
kin's This New Movement" Among the
special features are a concise, short