Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-20

Bliss Perry's editorial entitled turning
the New Leaves" which fairly Launches
the magazine on it's tifty-first year
Among the many noteworthy STORIES es-
says and poems in this number the hrst
installment of Edith Whartons second
Motor Flight Through France mas
prominent position. Justice to the Cor
porations" is a spirited reply to the re-
cent merciless attacks against THESE
| monsters of sim" The writer, Henry
Lee Hgginson, is a well-knoWn hhancler
and speaks from long experience ooh-
, fessions of a Railroad Signalman, py
j. o. Pagan, towerman on New Eng
! land railroad is a paper of great I'M
portance and insight, and is the nrst
word from the employee side of the case.
In an essay called 1.-The Industry OF
| Music Making" William E. Walker DIS
cusses the business end of this art. me
Home of Buresque' by Rollin Lynne
Hartt is another of his brilliant essays
in the Atlantics popular amusement
series. while under the pen name Dip
lomatist," q widely read author writes
some delicious Notes from a Persian
Diary"
The New Year issue of The outing
| Magazine is big handsome, prontaole
number. 1t has several articles OF I'M
portance that so intimately concern prop
| lens before the American people TO-DAY
that a careful reading of them is worth
while Clifton Johnson, for instance, III
the service of this magazine was sent 10
Canada to picture the social ana lhous-
trial conditions just as they are WIFI
out the lure and glamor that seems TO
hang over new countries. His article is
entitled. ION the Edge of the Canadian
Northwest" and Is at once skillfuliy mat
ter of fact and unusually interesting II
really PICTURES nation builders at work.
THE Sightless Athlete" is glimpse Oh
training methods whereby the olnd are
taught to excel in athletics 1t Is 49,
short of marvellous that the blind ooys
herein described can perform the feats
they do.
Uncle Remus' Magazine for January is
a particularly interesting and well pal-
anced number of that typically southern
magazine. The editor of the magazile,
Joel Chandler Harris, has contributor
more literally than usual and Is repre-
scented by an editorial, THE Story or
| lf-Educated Dog" a dissertation py
MIR. Billy Sanders on His Wishes, his
| Homes and His Prophecies; by pully
| Uncle Remus story which relates no"
"Rrer Rabbit Caused Brer Fox to Lose
His Hide" and by the republication Oh
his famous story, Free Joe and the Rest
of the World" with the original illustra-
tions by A. B. Frost
The January number of Scrloner
Magazine begins its forty-third VoiuIne
with a remarkable list of Contributors
and initiates several of the most impor-
tant features of the year. Theooore
Roosevelt describes his recent bear nunt
I'm the Louisiana Canebrakes." There
is a direct and intimate quality in this
narrative which makes very real the ma
five hunters. Ben Lilley, Holt Collier and
| the rest with their packs of hounds In
addition there is the final hunt with hlts
| successful ending in the killing OF tne
| bear. and after that some animal stories
| told around the camp fire. The whole Is
| illustrated with abundant photographs
| A very romantic idea Is back of the series
on 1.-THE West in the Orient" which be-
gins in this number. 1t is study of the
! Oldest means employed by man to pro-
/ cure sustenance in arid regions. Today
j Egypt India and Turkey are linked with
Arizona and the southwest in this country
by similar gigantic schemes OF irrigation
Mr.. Pepper, who has Travelled all over the
world for the department of commerce
and labor, shows most graphically now
this old force is being newly applied. ANY
one who begins the new serial by john
Fox Jr. THE Trail of the Lonesome
Pine" will be caught by the charm OF
It in the very first chapter.
/, One of the greatest parts of the Italian
tragedian Salvini was King Lear, and 1t
is the character of the half-crazed old
king that he consideres this month in the
series of papers on his Shakespearian
roles now appearing in Putnams Monthly.
Portraits of Signor Salvini in costume are
exceedingly scarce, but the present paper
will show how he looked as Lear. Among
the contributors to the January number
n u MOSS.
nor Salvini, William r. LEIGHTON, James
Grant Wilson, Helen Zimmern, Laurence
Rinyon. Lille Hamilton French, Emily
lanes putnam, F. Norrys Council, W. g.
Fitzgerald and Amelia Won Ende.
"NTr Doolev." who is now writing ex-
clusiyely for the American Magazine,
describes congress in the January num-
Der The cartoons are by McCutcheon OF
| Chicago In the same number OF the
American scenes and incidents illustrat-
ing the extravagant and fantastic life OF
the super-rich are reproduced from The
Metropolis" an unpublished story OF New
York society by Upton Sinclair, author
of 1.-THE Jungle" David Grayson, author
of Adventures in Contentment," begins
n new series called 'The Open Road.
Il Stewart Edward White writes of 1.-The
Flight for the Forests" Ida M. Tar6ell
tells the story of Roosevelt vs. Rookie
teller" Walter Prichard Eaton tells of
'The Rise of David Warfeld."
The Theater Magazine begins the new
year with a splendid number. A strik-
ingly illustrated article is devoted to
} actresses who own their own automobiles,
] the writer giving an interesting account
of long Journeys made in their cars by
} some of the leading theatrical stars. An
: other important feature is description
J of the theaters or London, likewise pro-
fusely illustrated with photographs. This
J article gives a view of the royal box
occupied by King Edward when he goes
} to the play Arnold Daily tells of his
early stage beginnings, ano there is an
article describing the personality and
the work of William ]. Locke, the nov
elist and dramatist. An interesting ar
, ticle is contributed by woman writer
on the subject, THE Psychology of Stage
; Clothes" the writer pointing out that
, very few actresses understand the art OF
dressing a role properly, that is select
ing gowns appropriate to the character.
Edwin L. Sabin leads the fiction in
the Red Book Magazine for January with
! a story entitled Love of Woman" which
i has to do with war between Japan and
the United States, 1t is an aerial wal
and the description of a battle in the
clouds may be more prophetic than nc
tional, after all. Especially noteworthy
among the wealth OF interesting fiction in
: the same issue are the stories 1.-THE Kai-