Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-28
LATE MAGAZINES

/ the thrilling happenings on the Red reef
lighthouse. The third installment OF
''The Hemlock Avenue Mystery" by
Roman Doubleday continues to be of abb
sorbing interest. mot According to Pro-
gram" the first of the series of stories
of "The Exploits of the Red Meteor" by
William Macleod Raine. is clever auto
tale.
f. Roney Weir, one of the younger of
the magazine writer's, contributes the
| complete novel which opens the January
| issue of The Peoples. 1t is a rather un-
usual tale with novel setting, entirely
American in theme and characters The
story is called "a Romany of Rabbit
Run" and there is a secondary character
In the person of an old gypsy whose mind
clings to her days on the road. Another
of the younger writer's is Horace Hazel
tine, whose tale, when the World
Turned Over is told with directness and
simplicity.
January 10 Story Book Is out and brings
with It Santa Claus in the act of bestow-
ing a full fledged lordling on very
pretty girl "Theys mildoo on the sun"
says Mrs. Wood Bee limit in her letters
home She tells all about her variegated
experiences in high ''sussiety' in series
of extremely funny epistles entitled 1.-THE
Letters of Mrs. Wood Bee limit by
Saidee Gerard Bugbee. THE Breaking or
Hearts" by John l.. Dillon, and THE
Trying Out of Ethel by George T. Pardy
are two distinctively 10 Story Book stories
and both well worth reading. The sharp
ers have found new way to play an old
game, and they play 1t successfully in
story entitled 1.-THE Preacher Pays the
Freight" by R. slade Bond.
The current number of Smiths opens
with a complete novelette, by Juliet Will
bor Tompkins telling the experience of a
girl suddenly forced to earn her own
living. She adopts newspaper work as
profession There is a grip and sense of
reality to the tale that lift it at once out
Of the ordinary run of magazine fiction.
Charles Battell Loomis contributes SER
mon, very much to the point and well
worth reading, called Its Up to YOU"
The essay on the servant problem which
follows Is written by Anne O'Hagan. who
has something new to say on subject
which, however widely discussed, never
becomes hackneyed.
Develop our waterways is the text Of
John l.. Mathews striking article, the
leader In the December Atlantic. In view
of the recent interstate deep waterway
convention at Memphis the timeliness
and Importance OF the subject cannot be
exaggerated. Now, when the interest Is
at white heat, is the moment to rouse the
slow machinery of reform to work. The
proposition is no paper" one. Ii the
great natural highways draining the
country southwark lie unused and clog
ged with snags, just so much constric-
ton results on the overcrowded eastward
and westward going railroads. Before
the railroads came, the rivers carried
freight; since then, ruinous neglect. 1t
remains to see IL congress will wake up
to its wasteful, half-hearted improve
ments and develop nationally the normal
paths of commerce.
The editor of the Reader has invited a
most brilliant galaxy of notables to his
Christmas table-the contributors to this
number being William Jennings Bryan
and Albert ]. Beveridge, debating on the
tariff; short stories by o. Henry, Gelett
Burgess. Inez G.. Thompson, John Ed
ward Lauer; articles by Brand Whitlock,
Sara Hamilton Blrchall and ]. o. Cur
wood; poems by James Whitcomb Riley.
Perceval Gibbon, Florence Earle Coates
and Ellis Parker Butler. Each contribu-
tion is illustrated many of the pictures
being full pages In color.
The Popular Science Monthly for De-
cember opens with an article on Asiatio
Museums, by Professor Bashford Dean
of Columbia university. The article
contains exact descriptions and elabor-
ate Illustrations of the museums at
Singapore, Colombo, Madras. Calcutta,
Lahore and Jaipur. This year is the
two hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Linnaeus and the hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Agassiz, and
contains articles on the place of Lin
naeus in the history of science, by Pro
fessor Arthur o. Loyejoy of Washing
ton university, and on Louis Agassiz,
by Professor Edward s. Morse, director
of the Peabody museum at Salem, Mass,
a former student and friend of Agassiz.
The December number of the North
American Review opens with the twen-
ty-fifth chapter of Mark Twain's auto
biography. Sir Gilbert Parker con-
tributes a thoughtful article entitled.
Fiction: It's Place in the National
Life" Henry G. Ide, lately governor
general of the Philippines, discusses
philippine Problems" =. w. Henry
asks HAS, the United States Repudiated
international Arbitration" and pre-
sents some surprising facts which seem
to indicate that In one case It has.
Price Collier is the author of charm
bility." A. D. Noyes endeavors to ex-
plain "The Panic at New York"
"a Mighty Cry for Carbon" by Edgar
L. Larkin, appearing in the December
Balance, is an echo from the national
irrigation congress. which should re-
sound from continent to continent. In
Science and Religion Frederic w.
BURY writes interestingly of the awak-
ening of cosmic consciousness. mo
tions of Right and Wrong" by Rem
A. Johnston, holds that EVIL" Is neces-
sary to fulfill the law of evolution.
Life" by Norris c. Sprigg, lends wings
to expanding thought. what Is Truth?"
George L. Lipscomb. is an instructive
essay treating truth as relative term
A universal question has been answered
by Julia Seton Sears, M. d. in impress
sions and Intuitions."
Harper's Bazaar, which has drawn to It's
assistance during the past few years the
greatest authorities in the world on all
known feminine topics, has now persuaded
Worth, the great Paris dressmaker, to
write for the Bazaar on dress.
A notable array of writers and artists
contribute to the forty four-paRe Christ