Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-06
BOOK LORE.
What The Magazines Contain OF In
terest To Readers For December.

The December Woman's Home Com.
panion is a specially illustrated and
| beautifed Christmas number. Ii con-
| taius, aside from the usual illustrations,
| a great many pictures in color. Stories
are included in greater number than
usual and several of them are extra
ordinary presentations of the Christ
mas spiritual Of action and the best
kind of sentiment. Some of the con-
tributors Of the fiction are: Jeffrey
Farnol. Mary f. Wilkins Freeman,
Norvell Harrison. Owen Oliver and
Hubert Footner.
One of the notable special articles in
the number is entitled What Christ
mas Might Be" 1t is an eloquent
plea by Charles T.. Jefferson, pastor of
the Broadway Tabernacle in New York
City. Other special articles worthy of
particular mention are American Mu-
raj Decoration, " "Flashlight Phntog-
raphy. Christmas Fallacy,p Last
Minute Gifts" and The Professional
Parent. The special departments,
for which the Woman's Home Com
panion is famous, are oiled with good
reading such. tor example. as re-
markable article on The Healthy
Baby" by DR.. Roger H. bennett,
great specialist in New York, "A
Girls Charities at Christmas Sam
Loyd's Own Puzzle Page" and many
other contributions.
The fashion, household, home decora-
ton and handicraft features of the
Companion are remarkable for their
interest and practicality.
Among the articles in the December
Wide World Magazine is one entitled
com
which deals with the recent eXcava-
tions in Jerusalem by British explorers
for the purpose of recovering the
buried riches of the Jewish kings. 1t
is written by "a Resident of Jerusa
lem and is illustrated by most excel
lent photographs. The story reads like
a tale from the Arabian Nights"
Another interesting article is entitled
THE Last Great Buffalo Round Up"
This is an account of how the Cana
dian Government recently purchased
the only herd of buffalo of any import
ance remaining in the American CONT
nent and tran ported it from the States
to Canada, turning the great brutes
loose in vast reserve to increase and
multiply. Marguerite Roby writes of
her Adventures in the Congo" and
Lieutenant L. Noel describes his Bicy-
Ilt lOuA ANAOoA AIdIids Inc hummer
is full of adventure and interest and
probably contains more illustrations
than any other magazine published.
1.-Two very unique articles appear in
the December Strand Magazine
Flowers of the Future and What Six
Rich Men Could Do. In the former ar
ticle the author points out the rather
starting fact that Shakespeare, for all
his love of flowers, would have been
able to name scarcely a single bloom
in a twentieth century garden. All
the most popular flowers of to day are
modern productions, the result of cross
breeding, stimulated by electricity,
drugs and hot water baths In What
Six Rich Men Could Do it is stated
that the combined wealth of the six
richest men amounts to about five
Thousand million dollars 5000, 900, 000).
The author then proceeds to enumerate
a few of the things these six men could
do if they pooled their wealth ard
agreed how to spend it, The results
are truly astonishing. Other articles
of interest are: Houses | Should Like
to Live In, Weather Wit illustrated
with reproductions from Punch" and
other humorous papers), Some Ameri-
can Women Musicians, and Grace in
Games. The fiction includes stories by
Richard Marsh, Morley Roberts.
Horace Annesley Vachell and other
well-known authors.