The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-28
Januarx Magazines.

Hea0 the story. It's Wen WORTH IT,
January Magazines.
Though the January issue OF The Cen
tury is a Fiction number" the CHIEF
point of interest are the first two repro
auctions in color made in America from
the new color photographs by the Lumiere
process. tho worl, of Bduard J. steichen-
prescriptions admirably indicating the
subtlety. range and beauty Of the proc
ess, which is the subject of an article by
j. Nilsen Laurvik. The fiction includes
DR.. S. Weir Mitche1rs new novel. 1.-THE
Red City" and short stories from May
Sinclair. Jack London, Charles D.. Stewart,
David Gray, Barton w. Currie, Katherine
Metcaif Roof, Roger A. Derby and Frances
II. Lea. r. Marion Crawford tells the
true story Of Beatrice Cenci, basing this
new version OF a long misunderstood
tragedy, in part, upon some recently found
valuable letters and documents not before
published.
The January number Of Scribner's Mag
azine begins its forty-third volume with
a remarkable list OF contributors, and IN
itiates several of the most important fea-
lures of the year. Theodore Roosevelt de-
scribes his recent bear hunt Tn the Louisi-
ana Canebrakes." There is a direct and
intimate quality in this narrative which
makes very real the native hunters, Ben
Lilley, Holt Collier and the rest, with
their packs of hounds. In addition, there
In the final hunt with its successful end
ing in the killing Of the bear, and after
that some animal stories told around the
camp fire. A romantic idea is back of the
series on The West in the Orient, which
begins in this number. 1t is a study OF
the oldest means employed by man to pro-
cure sustenance in arid regions. Today
Egypt, India and Turkey are linked with
Arizona and the Southwest in this country
by similar gigantic schemes of irrigation.
Mr.. Peter, who has travelled all over the
| world for the Department of
and Labor, shows how this old force Is be-
ing newly applied. Anyone who begins the
new serial by John Fox, ir, 1.-THE Trail
of the Lonesome Pine" will be caught by
the charm of it in the very first chapter,
we are told.
In the Engineering Magazine for jan
uary, Alexander Del Mar makes a sugges-
ton for a system of international gold
certificates, by which the costly and en-
barrassing shipment of coin to and fro
might be avoided. The result, he thinks.
would be q mobility of the gold stock or
the world quite impossible to secure I'M
der present conditions, and thereby a vast
gain in elasticity Of currency and stability
of financial conditions everywhere. Other
articles of wide interest in the same issue
are those OF IL. v. Goes. on the prevention
of railway collisions by automatic mechan-
zeal devices for enforcing the stop indi-
Gated by the signal; by j. Hartley Knight,
on the present state of the various rail-
WAYS building into the heart OF Africa,
and by A. d. Williams, jr, on the many
difficulties Of third rail electric transmits
sion for heavy railway work.
g. $40 aarfainG faThn
Game Got Them" by Edwin Lefevre, the
Wall Street expert. William Hard takes
I'D the question of DE Kid Wot Works
at Night" and writes of the newsboy, the
messenger boy, and the street gamln, ana
the problem they present collectively and
individually to themselves and to society.
1.-THE Romance of the Reaper" Is con-
tinued by Herbert N. Casson, who tells
of the introduction of the harvester, and
of the war of the reaper kings and the
effect of their rivalry upon American in
dustry. One of the most remarkable offer
ings is THE Autobiography of a Climber
In which a self-made society woman con-
fesses the history of her ascent from the
bottom to the top of the social ladder. In
his continuation of Where Did You Get
1t, Gentlemen Charles Edward Russell
pillories the Metropolitan Street Railways
of New York. An echo from the SYM
DOSluh Ii q 0bOA A
attracted such a widespread attention last
month, is found in a contribution from
General Count Kurokl, who is chief in
command of the Japanese army. In its
eight fiction stories ~Everybody's introduces
Joseph c. Lincoln, IONA Gale. Philip YER
rill Mighels and Samuel Hopkins Adams
among the authors. Booth Tsrkington's
serial, 1.-The Guest of Quesnay," continues.
In the leading article of the January
Craftsman, called 1.-THE Guild Stamp and
the Union Label" the defects of our mod
ern Industrial system are discussed by the
editor. The picturesque quality of New
York streets is discussed in an appre-
citation of the originality of the artist
Birge Harrison. A sketch of the work of
the clever cartoonist, Marius de Zayas,
showing how caricature can indicate not
only peculiarities of the features, but also
express character, Is illustrated by many
OF his sketches. Among the interesting
subjects are Nine. Nazlmova, John Drew,
Clarence White, Leon Dabo, Charles
Haag and one of the ~artist-showing how
a man can laugh at himself. The de-
velopment of the deaf mute into a useful
citizen by manual training Is shown in an
illustrated article. Behold, the Dreamer"
by Emery Pottle, is a story about the
vagaries of the artistic temperament.
The january NUMBER OF Inc IraNel
Magazine contains many articles Of in
terest to the stay-at-home, as we'll as the
traveller. In Dresden, a City of Music
and Art Laura Lindsay Carter tells of
the quaint German city where the visiting
or resident American lives in comfort
without undue expense. Lawrence Lewis
describes THE Royal Gorge of the Ar
kansas River in Colorado In 'Tobog-
gaming at st. Moritz, Switzerland" we
have the joys and thrills of sliding a mile
a minute on the Cresta Run. "Housekeep-
ing Near the North Pole by Blanche
Nesmith, is the story of home life on the
Yukon when the thermometer registers 70
degrees below zero. Walter Quackenbush
convinces us of the joys of winter walk
Ing in climbing the Snowbound Cats
kills.
Uncle Remus's Magazine for January IS
n well-balanced number of that typically
Southern magazine. The editor. Joel
Chandler Harris has contributed more lib
orally than usual and is represented by an
editorial, 1.-THE Story Of a Self-Edncated
Dog" a dissertation by Mr.. Billy Sanders
on His Wishes. His Hopes and His
Prophecies by an Uncle Remus story
which relates how 'Brer Rabbit Caused
Brer Fox to Lose His HIDE and by the
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