The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

tributes HIS MY yesterdays. Ills is the
story of a talent that would not be downed
by Encouragement. In the series OF Thu
morous College journalism THE Yale
Record" is described.
Stirring stories, interesting information,
instruction and encouragement along lines
of right endeavor make the January
American Boy a noteworthy issue. DR..
Owens pirate story is continued two
chapters, as is also THAT Dillingham;
Boy" Mr.. Trowbridge's serial, 1.-THE Boy
and the Beast" is concluded, and Mr..
Tomlinson's serial, -Four Boys On the
Mississippi" is begun. A notable article
is Canal and Jungle, the Boys Own
Story of the Big Ditch at Panama. writ
ten by Hugh C-Weir, who was specially
sent by the American Boy to Panama to
write up the true conditions for its read
ers.
In the Woman's Home Companion for
January DR.. Hale's monthly talk is on the
subject of New Years Wishes" Jack
London contributes the first letter of his
series of frst-hand impressions, for which
the Woman's Home Companion sent him
around the world; it is the record of
adventure among the lepers Of Molokai.
Among the fiction is an instalment or
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's great novel
Though Lie Us Do Part" and THE Adj
iGsted Honeymoon" by Anne Warner.
The New Years issue of the Outing
Magazine is a big number. 1t has sew
eral articles that intimately concern prob
lens before the American people today.
/ Clifton johnson, for instance, in the serv-
ice of this magazine, was sent to Canada
to picture the social and industrial con-
ditions just as they are, without the lure
and glamour that seems. to hang over
new countries. His article is entitled
ION the Edge of the Canadian North
west" and pictures nation-builders at
work. 1.-THE Sightless Athlete Is a
glimpse of training methods whereby the
blind are taught to excel in athletics. A
glimpse of the world in Its swaddling
clothes is furnished by Robert Dunn in
his article entitled "On the Chase for
Volcanoes 1t Is a description of this
young writer's trip over the volcanic
island which was thrust above the surface
of the Boring Sea last year. Ralph d.
Paine's article, entitled 1.-THE Vikings of
American Commerce." is the first in his
series Of "old Salem Ships and Sailors"
This is the story of the rise Of Salem's
glory as a seaport In the days just after
the Revolution.
The January Worlds Work contains
timely articles on present financial and
commercial problems. THE Builders.
1.-THE House of Morgan" The Small In
weston and the Panic Medical Fees
on a Business Basis Workmanship in
the Navy "a Trip on the Two Largest
Ships Might Not Every American Have
a Homer" are a few subjects discussed.
Literary Notes.
1.-THE Great Secret is the title of e.
Phillips Oppenheim's new novel, which
Little, Brown & Co., Boston, will publish
January II. In this new story Mr.. Open
helm deals with international conspiracy.
"A Few Months Later; a Sequel to
Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn" will make
its appearance about January 10. "a Few
Months Later Is announced to be not
only a laughable burlesque on the Eng
lish woman's notorious book, but is also n
s~atirical rebuke to her and to those who
have given her and her work their vogue.
A new book by Winston Churchill is
always an event of prime interest. Ever
since the publication of "Coniston," nearly
two years ago, Mr.. Churchill has been at
work on a novel, the title and subject of
which have not yet been divulged, and
his publishers, the Macmillan Company,
now announce that it will appear in the
course of the first half of the year.
Within recent years so much has been
written about mosquitoes in a number of
books and scattered periodicals that the
average student now feels the need of a
single work, containing, in a compact form,
as does Mosquitoes by Evelyn Groes-
beck Mitchell, which has just appeared
under the Putnam imprint, the essential
facts, SO far as science knows them, in
regard to these dangerous and troublesome
creatures. 1t is to meet the demands of
the constantly increasing number of both
professional and lay workers, that the
volume Is designed.
In Harry Leon Wilson's new novel.
"Ewing's Lady" %. Appleton & Coz, one
Of the characters at n Bohemian restau-
rant propounds the following scenario:
~"Say-new idea for a melodrama, the old
thing with an Ibsen twist. Stern father
ready to drive erring daughter from his
door in a snowstorm, but it won't snowi
or course he can't send her off in pleasant
weather. 1t clouds up every few days,
and the old man hopefully gets his speech
ready-'Chrse we, We are no longer a
daughter OF mine!' but the sun comes out
again. Girl gets nervous. Young squire
gets nervous too, though he's married the
girl in secret. He begs the old man to
put her out and nave it over with, even
IL the weather Is pleasant. Old man won't
hear of such a thing. Got to have a howl
ing snowstorm. His mind fails. he sits
in the chimney corner driveling about the
horrible winters they used to have when
you could curse a daughter out almost any
day in the week. Everybody disguised at
the way things are dragging. Young peo-
pie quarrel. Divorced Young squire sails
for Labrador to try it again, where you
can count on the winters. Girl watches
ship out of sight, and it SHOWS! Shows
hard. But too late-ah, God, too late!
She PUSHES back home to find the old
man delirious with joy. He starts in to
do his speech at last, but she slowly
~strangles him with her muscular young
hands. Rather good curtain, t~hat-yes?
He looked around the table appealingly."
Current Literature opens its campaign for
the new year with an analysis Of "The
Panic in Politics" It follows its previous
article on Taft's experience among the
Celestials with a description of TIA
Among the Mnscovites,' John Johnson,
the dark horse of the Democracy, us
the subject of a character sketch, and "A
Tale OF Copper and Brass relates the
romantic career of Heinze. d Women
Write More Bad Books Than Menu" The
Spectral Loves OF Edgar Allan Poe" and
''The Vampire Nature OF Genius" are three
of the articles under literature and art.
Mofat. Yard G. Co. will publish at once
a book of a good deal of distinction en-
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