The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

Ralrl Henry Barbour has surpassed
4 even the charm of his ,,wn previous eff
forts in the rapid-fire movement and
absorbing breeziness of his latest
novel, "A Fools Wooing,' which is
published complete in the January
Smart Set. To meet The conditions of
an inheritance an impecunious young
New York club man with bachelor pro-
pensities must marry within thirty
days. The f-aLtic search for an elig-
ible parti, the terrific whirlwind
wooing that ensues and the stormy
4 progress of this made-to-order romance
makes a story that is one of the very
greatest 'thrillers" of the year.
Kate Masterson is show at her best
IN this issue of the Smart Set in a
4 story entitled 'The Earrings of the
| Princess, which traces the influence
upon a delightful Notwithstanding
love affair of sacred scarab of mystic
/ properties worn as a love token by a
Theban princess when the Nile was
young and the Sphinx yet unborn. The
/ scene of the story shifts easily from
Cleopatra's needle on the -Alexandrian
s..1ds to the Bots de Boulogne at Paris,
! to the archives of the BritiTh Museum
and at last to the denouement of this
charming latter-day romance in quiet
apartment overlooking Central Park,
New York, 1t is on of the great
stories of the month
/ What is TO be done about alien i'm
migration9" We are always ASKING our
4 selves this. There is an answer, and
practical one, and John L. Mathews
has outlined it in the story of "Tontit-
town, in the January number of Ev-
1 erybodys Magazine. There is no
/ preaching about it. no theorizing-it
tells of Accomplishment, and as story
/ ii Is told With a lot of heart and con-
vincing simplicity.
/ Among other articles in this num-
Der are: Burnt Money" Samuel Hop
kins Adams sensational Indictment of
our shameless fire waste in this coun-
4 try: Macmillan Fosters Illuminating
statement OF where we are at in the
matter of fiying-sThe Highway OF
the Air it is called-which, while il
:! deals particularly with the expert
ments made by the Wright brothers,
sums up the whole situation in the
most satisfactorily manner. The
Least OF These, the greatest uplift
story OF the year, by Lincoln Steffens
the third installment of The Woman 5
Invasion, which discusses the saop.
girl and her relation 10 the rest of the
female wage earners. There is. TOO
an interesting account of a picturesque
industry in The Quest of the Pearl. ;
by C. B. Taylor. In fiction the Janu
airy number is strong.
The rich, irridescent colorings of a
stained-glass window seem caught ant
held in the beautiful cover design o.
the Christmas Century. the Angel OF
the Annunciation. And color repro
duction seems to have reached new
standard in the color pages-.-The
Holy Family" by Frank Tu Mond;
The Bath, by Hugo BALM: The
Skaters By Carl Melchers. three
notable examples of mode-n American
art, and The Christmas Dinner al
Mount Vernon by Oliver Kemp
There are, besides, twenty-six pages
printed. partly or entirely, in tint.
) The Christmas Century contains the
) first chapters of the new novel BY The
author OF Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
: Patch" and the new story By ths
author OF The Biography Of a Griz
Fly. Mrs. Rice's story, Mr.. Opp.
opens with delightful minsline q
: quaintness. humor and pathos and
with promise of proving the best worl
yet written by this popular author. Mr.
/ Seton's Domino Reynard of Colder
) Town is tie study CT noble silver
fox-with a purpose 30 show The
Man-world how the Fox world lives
and above all to advertise and empaa
! size the beautiful monogamy of the
beiter-class Fox"
The Worlds Work for Decembe,
contains four articles that make il {
number OF unusual Importance: Mr.
Rockefeller in the third chapter Of hi:
"reminiscences, discusses The DIFF
, fcult Art Of Giving" Lieutenant Col
onei J. ". Patterson of The English
! army. continues TO tell in his matter
of-fact way the wonderful story o.
TIE Lions That Stopped 3 Railroad: :
Nh Andrew Carnegie writes on How
Men Ger Rich. and the Right View o,
Wealth ana RAY Chapman Andrew:
gives an account of Whale Hunting
/ as il is Now Done. with a remarkable
LOT Of photographs taken by the autho-
from The deck OF whaie-
The December ST Nicholas is +.
: number 81 many CHRISTMAS stories anl
poems and pictures The Yale It'd.
Lights. \ stop-over Christmas. b,
! Claire H Gnrney How Christmas
] Was Saved. A Christmas play b,