The Republican journal., 1911-12-07
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.
The December Woman's Home Com
panion is a specially illustrated and
beautified Christmas number. 1t con-
tains, aside from the usual illustrations,
a great many pictures in color. Stories
are included in greater number than
usual and several of them are extraor-
binary presentations of the Christmas
spiritual of action and the best kind
of sentiment. Some of the contributors
of the fiction are: Jeffery Farnol, Mary
E. Wilkins Freeman, Norvell Harrison,
Owen Oliver and Hubert Footner.
Among the articles in the December
Wide World Magazine is one entitled "a
5000, 1000 Treasure Hunt" which
deals with the recent excavations in
Jerusalem by British explorers for the
purpose of recovering the buried riches
of the Jewish kings. 1t is written by
"a Resident of Jerusalem" and is illus
trated by most excellent photographs.
The story reads like a tale from the
arabian Nights" Another interesting
article is entitled ''The Last Great Buffa-
10 Roundup" This is an account of how
the Canadian Government recently pur-
chased the only herd of buffalo of any
importance remaining in the American
continent and transported 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 E. Noel describes his Bicycle
Tour Across Arabia. The number is full
of adventure and interest and probably
contains more illustrations than any
other magazine published.
Two articles in the December Atlantic
amples of fresh and interesting discus
sion of current topics. Mrs. G. A. P.
Conner, whose Letter to the Rising
Generation is still fresh in the minds of
Atlantic readers, returns to the charge
with a discriminating study of changed
social conditions entitled The Vanishing
Lady, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick
contributes an equally invigorating dis
eussion under the title, 'Heckling the
Church. A Christmas atmosphere is
given this number by story by Charles
Egbert Craddock, entitled His Christ
mas Miracle and another of Wini-
fred Kirkland's charming 'Littleville'
sketches, entitled Christmas in Little
Vile Edward E. Hunt contributes a
poem of unusual quality, "A Christmas
WISH Of the serials, The Principal
Girl. by j. C. Snaith, fulfills the prom
Use of the earlier chapters, and The
Promised Land is another installment of
Mary Antin's astonishing Autobiogra
ply.
The December American Magazine at
tracts unusual notice because it contains
a new Sherlock Holmes detective story
by Conan Doyle. This new story, which
is called THE Disappearance of Lady
Carfax," is really one of the great Sher
lock Holmes stories. 1t is a murder
story, full of mystery, and ending in an
amazing and unexpected solution. In
this same number H. G. Wells goes on
with his serial novel, Marriage, and
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin pro-
ceeds with his Autobiography In addi-
ton to these notable features, Ray
Stannard Baker begins series Of arti-
cles on Wonderful Hawaii-A World
Experiment Station, in which he shows
how the property of the islands has fallen
into the hands of a very few, most of
whom are descendants Of the early
American and English missionaries.
Another lively article is one entitled
1.-The Wrong Man, in which the author
tells the story of Andy 10th, the Hunga-
rian, who served twenty years in the
Pennsylvania penitentiary for another's
crime.
Two very unique articles appear in the
December Strand Magazine: Flowers of
the Future and What Six Rich Men
Could Do. In the former article the
author points out the rather startling
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 produc-
tons, the result of oss-breeding, slim
ulated 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 (S5, 900, 000,-
000) The author then proceeds to
enumerate few of the things these six
men could do if they pooled their wealth
and agreed how to spend it. The results
are truly astonishing. Other articles of
interest are: Houses l Should Like to
Live In, Weather Wit illustrated with
from Punch and other
humorous papers,, Some American Wo-
men Musicians, and Grace in Games.
The fiction includes stories by Richard
Marsh, Morley Roberts, Horace Annes-
ley Vachell and other well-known au-
thors.