Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-30

hero-worship?" Entirely different in;
theme, yet also on an important ques-
ton Of current interest, is the Study
of the New Plan of Chicago" with re-
marks on city-planning in general, by
Charles w. Eliot, president emeritus of
Harvard University, which is given
added vividness by reproductions of
drawings by Jules Guerin, maps, dia-
grams and plans.
The contributors to the January HUI
man Life include Alfred Henry Lewis,
Vance Thompson, Ada Patterson, Rufus
H. Gilmore, Earl W. Mayo. Alice Robe,
and a host of others.
Everybody's January number opens
with poem, America" by Herbert
Kaufman, of the type that our British
cousins are used to calling Drag" OF
course, when they make this accusa-
ton against US. they forget their own
song, Rule Britannia" And anyway,
all prejudice aside, even those afore-
said cousins could hardly refuse to adj
NIT that if we must brag it were well
that we Dragged in the lorily rhythm
of this new America" AS in previous
numbers the most eagerly read article
will be the installment of Judge Ben
Lindsey's Beast and Jungle" These
articles grow in interest with each sue
ceeding month.
Scribner's Magazine for January is
the first number of its cath year-a
year during which it will reach the
largest audience ever held by a maya
| zine of any similar class. During most
of the coming year Theodore Roose-
velt's great series on his African trip
will be continued. and will include his
elephant hunt, his journey round Lake
| Victoria Nyanza and into Uganda, Gull
| minating with his journey down the
Nile to khartoum. where he expects to
arrive on March 18th, and thence to
| Cairo over the usual route
| The January number of Success
Mas azine" opens with a big political
feature entitled THE End of Cannon
ISM by j. c. Welliver. Business Con-
troll of the Press, the Parties and the
|
| of articles by Charles Edward Russell
under the general title, The Power
Behind the Republic" How the negro
faces the problem of marriage is shown
by Harris Dickson in THE Negroes
Idea of Marriage" Fighting Faces of
Our Senator'S" by Sloane Gordon is IL
lustrated with interesting caricatures
by Vet Anderson. This number con-
tains a concensus OF the opinion of
$4,000 life subscribers on political ques-
lions of the day, analysed under the
general heading, rs Taft Leader or
Follower of His Party?''
The Popular Science Monthly for
January contains the following articles:
'Halley's Comet" by Professor C. L.
Doolittle: The Darwin Celebration at
Cambridge" by Professor T. D. A.
Cockerell; "Darwins Probable Place in
Future Biology" by Professor William
E. Ritter; THE Evolution of Man and
its Control" by Roswell H. johnson;
college Diversions" by Professor John
j. Stevenson; The Theory of Style"
by Professor Walter Libby; THE
Transmission of Disease by Money" by
A. Greasy Morrison; How Could an
Explorer Find the Pole?" by Professor
Harry Fielding Reid; Anton Dohrn;'
The Non Magnetic Yacht Carnegie;
THE Conyocation Week Meetings al
Boston"
The American Magazine by it's as
tonishing articles on "Barbarous Mex
| leo" has awakened thruout the country
an intense indignation. In its January
issue, the editors bring forward furthe,
and absolutely convincing proofs of the
truth of their statements and they re-
affirm that slavery is existing at the
present moment in Mexico, that that
country is rife with barbarous politica
persecution. that there is Imprisonment
for free speaking and that personal an6
political liberty is being suppressed
Other features of this issue are: the
beginning of a new serial entitled, 1.-THE
Cabin" by Stewart Edward White;
THE Spirit of America" by Henry
Van Dyke; Miss Ida NJ. TarbelIs his.
torical serial, The American Woman
Hans Wagner" the greatest ball play
er in the world, by Hugh S. Fullerton
and "Mr. Dooley's' Opinions on 1.-The
Cost of Living" by F. P. Dunno.
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