Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-07

its line; and there probably is no other
field that offers so much interest TO the
average mind as mechanics and science.
Anna Katharine Green's latest work in
fiction, Three Thousand Dollars" In the
December number Of the woman's Home
Companion. is a detective story which will
certainly make Sherlock Holmes look to
his laurels. other unusually good fiction
marks this December number. There are
stories by Josephine Daskam Bacon, Grace
S. Richmond. Florence Morse Kingsley,
Mary +. Wilkins-Freeman and Juliet VIII
Dor Tompkins, all charmingly illustrated.
James Montgomery Flagg, one OF the most
popular artists Of the day. has contributed
a full page drawing in color. AT Christ.
mas Time" showing a romance Of our
grandfathers' time, with a youthful gallant
kissing under the mistletoe a deliciously
pretty girl in hoop skirt and chignon-a
picture you will frame. A new poem of
deeply religious feeling, Before the Gospels
Were" by Edwin Markham. timely articles
by Edward Everett Hale, Herbert d. Ward
and Margaret e. sangster, are strong fea-
lures of this number.
The December number OF Van Nordon
Magazine covers an unusually wide variety
Of subjects OF timely interest. Its con-
tents include twenty-one articles very pro
fusely illustrated, including The City
House Cleaning by Robert sloss; TRUSTS
That Can Be Trusted" by Walter p. Nc
CURE; Hands Across the Sea to China"
by Emil 8. Fischer Of Picking. China;
Treasures Of the Sea- by Day Allen Will
ley; Fighting a Forest Fire." by Henry
Jay Case; Paper Not Made from Wood
Pulp" by r. S. Tigner; America for
Americans" by Thomas Hanly; Sanity In
the Drama" by Thomas Burke: Depart
ment Work at Washington" by Roy Gran
dali; New America" by Michael Will
liams; THE ak Tangle," by Louis
Springer; THE Romance of Copper by
William T. Partridge; People of the Pres
ent," and others. not emitting the neces-
ssry Christmas flavor in THE Story of
Christmas" by George winslow, and You
and Christmas" by Herbert Everett.
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The December Atlantic opens with a
Christmas talk by s. Nj. Crothers. The
Bayonet-Poker is his theme. In Ghosts -
Frank Crane protests against the inherited
notions which we imagine TO be convic-
tons Of our own. Again this month the
Atlantic presents an important article by
President Pritchett of the Carnegie Foun
dalton on THE Organization of Higher
Education" There are a number Of Other
articles of social and political Importance
The stories have the taste OF Christmas II
"A Beggar's Christmas" by Edith Wyatt,
TIL Poor" by Henry C.. Rowland" And
Son." by a new writer, c. B. Mclean
and Across the Creek by Lucy Pratt
For poems, there are 1.-THE Rhyme Of the
Voyager," by Evelyn Phinney; 'To r. p
c. with a Baton by Grace Hazard Conk.
ling; 1.-THE Play" by NJ. A. De Wolff
Howe, and Gods Hour-Glass," by r.
Valentine Heckscher.
The rich, iridescent colorings OF a stained
glass window seem caught and held In thu
beautiful cover design Of the Christina.
Century. the Angel of the Annunciation
And color reproduction seems to hav
reached a new standard in the color page
THE Holy Family by Frank Du Mond
THE Bath" by Hugo Balm; "Th'
Skaters by Carl Melchers, three notabl,
examples of modern American art. ant
The Christmas Dinner at Mount Vernon,
by oiive Kemp. There are. besides
twenty-six pages printed, partly or entirely
in tint.
The Worlds Work for December con
tains four articles that make 1t a numbe
Of unusual Importance: Mr.. Rockefeller, Fl
the third chapter Of his "Reminiscences,
discusses 1.-THE Difficult Art of Giving;
) Lieutenant Colonel ]. H. Patterson of tn
! English army, continues to tell in his mat
ter-of-fact way the wonderful story o
THE Lions That stopped a Railroad;
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie writes on "HoV
Men Get Rich, and the Right View o
Wealth" and Ray Chapman Andrews give
ian account of whale Hunting as It
Now Done" with a remarkable lot o
photographs taken by the author fror