The Republican journal., 1912-10-31
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the November magazine there are 3O8
articles and 266 illustrations, the range
of topics being limited only by the
achievements and developments of the
period.
Camping in the Winter Woods
| book for younger readers by Elmer Rus
sell Gregor, was published last week by
Harper & Brothers in Harper's Camp
Life series. Two boys just before going
to college spend winter in the Maine
woods under the tuition of famous
guide. Their adventures are innumer-
able, and they not only study nature,
birdcraft, and animal lore, but by doing
things for themselves are prepared for
self-reliant manhood.
The October National contains a re-
view of the political situation SO far as
it can be projected in the future in these
been unique in many particulars, and
the prospects of five presidential candi-
dates are analysed. 'Weighing the
Presidential Issues" is contributed by
Joe Mitchell Chapple, in response to re-
quests for the editorial opinion on the
campaign, and his statements are re-
markable for fairness and impartiality.
The November Woman's Home Com
panlon contains many entertaining
special articles, among which are .'Wo-
the Small Town." IA Successful Step
mother" "A Patients Account Of
Days in the Hospital" and "The Train
ing of Child.'' Fiction is contributed
by Justus Miles Forman, Kathleen Nor
ris, Isabel Gordon Curtis, Beulah Marie
Dix, Ward Muir and others. In the
household, fashions, cooking, home dec
orations and handicraft departments
special attention is given to practical
suggestions for Christmas-how various
kinds of attractive gifts can be made,
economically.
David Grayson, author of "Adven.
lures in Contentment, returns to the
November American Magazine with
new series entitled Adventures on the
Friendly Road" The first adventure is
entitled 81 Leave My Farm" In the
same number of The American Maya
zine is a symposium entitled 1.-THE Pro-
gressive Dilemma" which is made up of
five short articles by Jane Adams, Her.
bert Quick, Senator Charles E. Town
send, Victor L. Berger and Herbert
Croly, in which each explains the rea-
sons for his political preferences this
fall. ''The Express Bonanza" by AL
bert W. Atwood, reveals the cIumsness
of the methods used by the express
companies as compared with those used
in the postotfice department. Aside from
the regular departments, which are full
of good reading and interesting pictures,
there is fiction by Edgar Wallace, Edith
Brainard Delano, John Fleming Wilson
and R. 3. MacAlarney.
There are number of good things in
the November Strand, besides nine short
stories by such writers as Bertram
Atkey, P. G. Wodehouse. Post Wheeler,
Mary Tennyson and Austin Philips. An
article entitled 1.-THE Press Agent" is
contributed by the late Henry B. Harris,
the theatrical manager, and many anus
ing stories of the tricks of the profess
sional publicity man are related. An ar
ticle that is timely is ''The Story and Ro-
nance of Shorthand" Next year we
celebrate the centenary Of photography
and everyone who has had occasion to
use Sir Isaac Pitman's invention will be
interested in the ANONYMOUSLY illustrated
article in this months Strand 1.-The
Light Side Of Flying" "My Favorite
Love-Scene' Ia symposium of we'll
known actors and actresses Parsons
WITT and ''The Perils of the Pedestrian"
and other articles of note make an in
teresting number.
The National Magazine for the current
month carries with it the spirit of the
harvest festival. The bumper crops and
prosperity of the country are typifed in
a description of the State of Maine,
where the owners of the ancient and
modern farmhouses down East" are
fully IN line with the agricultural devel-
opment of the nation. The marvels Of
Maine are portrayed in a series of com
prehensive and deliberately illustrated
articles showing how the Pine Tree State
is witnessing marvellous developments
The story of the great Aroostook potato
fields, the lumber camps, the hunting,
the industrial water and power develop
ment, make the story read as if Maine
were, indeed, one Of the newly discover
ed States. of the Union. The openings
presented have already attracted so
many energetic young men that it is no
longer necessary to go West" as in
the days Of Horace Greeley, to find the
knob on the door of opportunity.
One of the most interesting articles in
the November Wide World Magazine is
entitled "The Surf-Board Riders of
Hawaii" The author calls it 1.-THE king
of summer sports and few people reading
his account of its delights and thrills will
be inclined to cavil at the description.
Surf-riding is one of the most ancient
pastimes of the Hawaiians, but the white
man has taken to it with enthusiasm and
bids fair to beat the native at his own
game. Another interesting article is
''In Pursuit of Silver-Tips," which re-
counts how party of -punchers
went after couple of siIver-tipped bears
with their ropes and an old revolver
minus a sight. Nothing more exciting
than the sequel has ever happened in
Wyoming. Other articles which will be
widely read are with a Camera in
Egypt ''To Menelik with a Motor
'"The Pirates Of the Neuvra Tigre" and
''In the Heart of South America Lady
Swayne, wife of the Governor of British
Honduras, wildly describes that little
known colony.
Lippincott's for November is rich in
fiction, long and short; and there is also
some seasonable matter that is easy to
road and uorth ropoovobor;por Tho