Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-02
LATE MAGAZINES

| Author" and "a Five-Thousand-Dol
! lar Christmas" by George Fitch. "One
| Woman--Or Two?" is the title of the
third installment Of Leroy Scott s
/ serial romance. "The Shears of Des-
tiny" and there is another installment
of ''The Sky Man." by Henry Kitchell
| Webster. There are poems by Edna
Valentine Trapnell. Mabel Hartrldge
| Wilson and John Kendrick Bangs.
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| Country Life in America for Decem-
| Der is a sumptuous Christmas annual.
| 1t is printed largely in color. The cover
! and four pages of beautiful illumina-
tions are by Walter Title. An inter-
esting article on Fruits Under Glass
| by A. Harrington, is also in full color,
the Illustrations, including the frontis-
piece, being autochrome photographs
| of fruit blossoms and fruits growing
| in greenhouses. by A. r. Coleman, Ar
| thur G.. Eldredge and A. Radclyfte
/ Dugmore.
The number also includes contribu-
tions from several popular writer's.
Ernest Thompson Seton, the author
naturalist, has written of the records
of the winter woods. His article Is
! illustrated with a series of photographs
| by o. l.. Foster showing animal tracks
/ in the snow Jolly Old Santa Claus
/ is the title of the third story in Ellis
Parker Buffers Adventures of n
| Christfhassy. 1t is illustrated with
three of A. b. Phelan's humorous
photographs.
The Christmas Century will be no.
table for the first installment of Nine.
| Modieska's s Memoirs, which are to run
through the year. These memories OF
one of the greatest genuiuses of the
modern stage, and one of the most
admired and beloved women OF our
| time, were completed not long before
Nine Modjeska's death in April last.
| They tell the story of a career prob
ably not exceeded in romance and I'M
portance by that of any other con-
tinental actress who has visited Amer
lea and England, and abound in remi-
niscences of interesting persons IN
many walks of life, and in wise and
useful observations on the art of act
! ing in General, as well as on the cnar-
acteristics of contemporary dramatic
artists in both Europe and America.
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Among articles dealing with civic in
terests during 1910, the Century will
publish in an early issue study Of
the New Plan of Chicago" with discus
sion of "city planning" in general, by
/ CnaIIeS
Harvard university. The presentation
of the "Plan's" details and its possi-
bilities will be supplemented by many
reproductions of plans, maps, and
drawings by Jules Guerin. There will
be mention too in DIR. Eliot's article
of certain good things planned by
Cleveland, Baltimore, and other cities.
s.
The Red Book Magazine for Decem-
ber offers a collection of short fiction.
1t is not often that magazine readers
are offered, in a single issue, specl-
mems of the best work of such Well
known writer's as Robert Herrlck,
whom no less a critic than William
Dean Howells regards as the foremost
living American novelist; Zona Gale,
whose "Friendship Village" sketches
have won her so many friends; Edwin
Balmer, whose stories always have a
deeply human idea behind them;
Maude Radford Warren, Rupert
Hughes, no less dramatist than fiction
list; Porter Emerson Browne, whose
humor is distinctly American; and
William Hamilton Osborne. The il
lustrations and decorations in the
Christmas issue of the Red Book Mag
azine are in keeping with the literary
quality of the issue.
The Youths Companion announces
seven new serial stories for its next
volume. One of them, "The Collerton
Engine" by Hollis Godfrey, author of
For the Norton Name" will make its
appearance before the first of jan
uary. 1t is a tale of the science of
aeronautics, very modern in its depic-
ton of mechanical progress, quite old
fashioned in its portrayal of human
courage, ingenuity and quick wit. This
will be followed by others written by
such popular writer's as Arthur Stan
wood Pier, C. A. Stephens and Charles
Miner Thompson. whose calico Cat"
made such a hit recently.
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