Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-22

The Functions OF the Investment
Banker" by Montgomery Rollins.
There is verse by Henry Austin.
Richard Wightman and Edna Valen-
tine Trapnel.
We find attractive special features
in this months number of the
Woman's Home Companion. A dou-
bic page of pictures shows some
OF the most famous work of
modern European masters. there
Is also a large full page painting
by Mary Sigsbee Kerr OF Young 1910"
waiting on the threshold of the New
Year. Seven photographs of that most
popular actress, Ethel Barrymore. pic
ture her quick rise from amateur to
leading lady; and the music. "Gavotte
Madrigal." is by Francis Thome.
Octave Thanet tells the story of two
lonely women in I'm Place of Their
Own" and Myra Kelly surpasses her
OWN standard of gentle humor In "The
Spirit of Cecilia Anne" Anne War
ner's "Susan Cleggs Courting" is but
one of the series she is writing for the
Womans Home Companion. and
Room Number Three at Three Forks
Tavern" the great detective story by
Anna Katharine Green, Is continued in
this number
The articles are the kind that are
talked over for weeks. Fifteen Years
With My Wife" Is leaf out of life
experience; and "Shall We Stay In the
Ministry" and "The Music Student
Abroad" are earnest and truthful
articles.
A really delightful innovation is the
page of New Years Cards. oIn fact.
the whole magazine begins the New
Year In a manner calculated to more
than satisfy Its readers
The regular departments are replete
with suggestions, help. and the best OF
obtainable ideas on the subjects of Fa-
shion. Housekeeping. the Children, the
Home, Sewing and Reading.
The most coherent and intelligible ac-
count that has appeared concerning the
new order of corporate control inaugur-
ated by President Taft appears in a
paper by Gilbert H. Montague at the
head of the table of contents of the
Atlantic for January. Indeed the con-
| tents of this number is quite as timely
as the most journalistic magazines, for
among the more salient titles appears
a paper on "The House of Lords" now
| the very center of the British state.
| by Sydney Brooks. and an important
| article on Essential Financial and
| Banking Reforms" by Charles N
Fowler, the capital opponent of Senator
| Aldrich in the debates regarding the
| central bank; and paper on the
present-day ambitions of the Japanese
| both in respect to Asia and the United
| States.
Among the more leisurely papers In
| this Issue Is a delightful essay "On
| Dogs and Men, not altogether to the
| advantage of the latter. by Henry c..
| Merwin, q second installment of the
| alluring and exotic letters of Lafcadio
| Hearn. and n paper by Grant Shower
! man. who under the title PHILOSOPHY
| OF Trimmings" makes some wise and
J whimsical reflections on our modern de-
| sire for frills In education and else
| where. Among other papers In the
| number are one by Redfern Mason on
Modernism In Music" Progress" @
| discourse on the general unprogressive-
| ness of human nature, by Clifford How
ard: and diverting record of ''Dr,
| Johnson's Cambrlan Experience" by
turesque history Of the Battle of the
| Wilderness" is continued
Among the stories and sketches In the
number must be included Our House.
| keepers" an admirable faithful sketch
| OF domestic conditions In England. by
| Elizabeth r. Pennell; THE Masque-
rade." by Alice Brown; THE Klnzer
Portraits" by Cornela A. P. Conner;
| and "Out of the Dark" by Margaret
p. Montague.
, There is a long poem in the number
| by Josephine Preston Peabody. and
| shorter verse by William H. Eddy and
Sarah n Cleghorn. while the Contrib
utors' club keeps up It's reputation for
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