The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-19


Fox, Jr. In the Louisiana Canebrakes.'
Theodore Roosevelt. "A Run to the HOr!-
zon.' Frederick Palmer. The Old Pole
Star" Poem. Edith Wharton. "Haw-
thorne.' w. C Brownell 'The Dead
Du Guesclin." A ballad from Froissart
E. Sutton "A Little Knowledge" Fran
ces Wilson. ''Of Islands," H. C. Dwight
In the Doctors Office" Robert Her
rick. Star of Bethlehem" Poem. Har-
ley r. Wiley "A Defense of Prejudice.
John Grier Hibben. Twilight in Tus-
Giffert. THE Point of View."-Is it a
Local Aesthetic?'' -The Point of View
The Unquiet Rustic. THE Field of Art"
The Sully Portraits at the United States
Military Academy. West Point Frank
FOwler) Illustrated.
THE CIRCLE-The January number
of the Circle is splendid tonic for the
blues The deStrOyers have done their
work ably during the past year or So
but the hour for the builders has come,
and this Issue of the Circle is an aus
picious beginning of the work laid down
in the plan of the magazine for 1893. The
opening article is by Francis Augustus
Carl, commissioner of imperial Chinese
customs, entitled. Modern China-Amer-
ica's Share in Her Awakening" The
mere mention of Mr.. Carls office lends
authority to his statements Lyman
Beecher Stowe has made study of The
School City and Its Work" and has
great deal to say about the miniature
governments which have been established
IN our pubic SCnOOlS ~ teach CHliUt6 ell
the duties of the American citizen. Prob
ably the most timely article is one by
James w. Van Cleave who tells why
We Need Not Fear a Panic" an able
comparison of present day financial and
industrial conditions with those of other
panicky times. The fiction and depart
ment sections are all that could be de-
sired
TROPICAL AND SUB TROPICAL
AMERICA is a new monthly magazine
dealing with all phases of tropical and
sub-tropicel life in, America. This mag
azine will be the opponent of the prog
ress and development of South America,
Central America. Mexico and the West
Indies. The magazine is attractive in
typographical sense as well as in its sub
ject matter. The cOlOred cover was de-
signed by Will Jenkins. the paper used
is exceptionally fine, and the printing
work in magazines of much longer life
and greater celebrity. The editor, G. M.
L. Brown, has been widely known for
years as an expert and writer on South
America and its affairs
AMERICAN MAGAZINE.-"M Doc
ley" who is now writing exclusively for
the American Magazine. describes con-
gress in the January number. The car
ICONS are by McCutcheon of Chicago.
In the same number of the American,
scenes and incidents illustrating the eX-
travagant and fantastic life of the super
rich are reproduced from 1.-THE MetrOpO-
lis an unpublished story of New York
society by Upton Sinclair, author of THE
Jungle" This new story by Mr.. Sinclair,
which is bound to create a sensation, will
run for several months.
David Grayson. author of Adventures
in Contentment," begins new series
called 1.-The Open Road Stewart Ed
ward w mite writes of The Fight for the
Forests" Ida NJ. Tarbell tells the story
of Roosevelt VS.. Rockefeller" Walter
Prichard Eaton tells of "The Rise of Da-
Vid Warfield."
The Pilgrims Scrip contains "A Muck
raker's Christmas Carol" The 1nterpre-
ter discusses Upton Sinclair's new and
sensational novel which is now running
in the American. Other contributors of
stories are Annie Hamilton Donneli, Lyd-
ia Schuyler Mrs. Mckee Rankin, w. r.
Hopkins. Charles Buxton Going. Edith
Barnard, Kate JordOn and Julian Street.
BROADWAY-Th magazine presents
the following special articles for jan
uary: Great Cooperation Lawyers and
Their Master Strokes" James French
Dorrance "Hetty Green: Mistress of
Finance" Mabel Potter Daggett. ia
nous Art Treasures in New York" w.
Harold Standisb "A Crusade for Amer
lean Fellowship" Asa Steele. Grand
Opera as a Business" Gustav KObbe
Ada Patterson. Prominent People in
Picture and Paragraph" Women of the
Fourth Estate" Helen Hambidge. MI
steal Comedy: The Real and the Ready
lot on Broadway" John Kendrick Bangs.
Carnival Night In the Metropolis" Stu
art Gould. In addition to the above, the
fiction section is well up to the standard.
TRANSATLANTIC TALEs.-"Prince
Julian Begins the New Year" is the time
~ novelette, for the January number of
Transatlantic Tales. The story deals
with the adventures of a madcap Ger
man prince. who takes it into his head
to exchange vocations with a night
Waterman. Court politics, humor in
trigue and very pretty love theme give
it a wide appeal.
Probably the strongest and biggest
piece of writing in the issue is THE Out
laws God" translated from the swedish
of Selma LagerlOf
Her Last Moment is little story of
characteristic French delicacy and charm,
with a rather pathetic ending.
THE other Lover" is an Italian story
from the pen of Grazia Deledda. Jeal-
ousy. mistaken identity, and the hot blood
of Young Italy result in an almost tragic
climax. which, the denouement brings to
an unusually HANDY ending.
''Pere Zidore's New Years Gift"
short narrative of humble life in Paris,
fittingly concludes the number.
POPULAR MECHANICS.-This maya
zine covers a wide field The January
number contains $50 articles, illustrated
with 134 splendid pictures, every one OF
special and peculiar interest. The leading
feature for the month is description
and discussion of the Lakes to the Gulf
Deep Waterway. project every Ameri-
can citizen should be informed on. Wo-
men will read with interest the article
on electric household utensils, which are
eliminating the disagreeable features of
homework. The Shop Notes department
is If possible better than usual, while
the amateur mechanic who makes one of
the inexpensive lensless microscopes dc
scribed IN his special department, will be
delighted with the result. The number
contains too much for us to do 1t justice
IN our limited space.
OUTING.-The New Years issue of the
Outing Magazine is d big. handsome pro-
fftable number 1t has several articles of
Importance that so Intimately concern
problems before the American people to-
day that careful reading of them is
worth while. Clifton johnson. for in
stance, in the service of this magazine,
was sent to Canada to picture the social
and industrial conditions 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 Northwest" and is at once skill
fully matter-of-fact and unusually inter
esting. 1t really pictures nation builders
at work 1.-The Sightless Athlete is a
glimpse of training methods whereby the
blind are taught to excel in athletics. IT
is little short of marvellous that the blind
boys herein described can perform the