Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

How would you like to 80 to news
stand and pick UP a magazine with the
Following list Of contributors:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Heine, Du-
mas. Kip|ing, Gaboriau. Bret Harte,
Richard Harding Davis. de Maupassant.
Tolstoy, o. Henry. Mark Twain, Owen
Wister. II. c.. Bunner, Anatole France.
Won Heidenstam?
Well. you can do it
1t is a magazine with a brand-new
idea behind it, No. l of Volume /, dated
January, having just made its appear
ance upon the Washington newsstands.
1t is called the Golden Book, and is
published by the Review OF Reviews
Cooperation. Henry Wysham Lanier is
the editor. assisted by az distinguished
board composed Of William Lyon
Phelps, Stuart p. Sherman, john Cotton
Dana and Charles Mills Gayley.
The original Libro D'Oro. the
Golden Book OF Venice. the editor ex-
plains, was the official list of the
Venetian nobility, who alone could
vote or hold office in that remarkable
republic of aristocrats.
The names in this Golden Book
magazine" Mr.. Lanier states, will
represent aristocrats Of letters, an
aristocracy not of birth, but of per-
Torrance. They will be drawn from
the whole range Of world literature,
from its beginnings down to yester-
day, for the prompt and hearty CO.
operation Of the most famous living
writer's, and the great publishers
have already extended the range of
the magazine to cover practically
everything which has demonstrated
its enduring quality"
* Il II i:
A pleasant afternoon with this first
number Of the Golden Book has con-
WINGED me that here is monthly
publication which no lover OF good
literature can afford to miss.
For many years l have thought that
il was a shame that so much good
STUFF should be lost after one print
ing. The best in literature. like the
best in music. is as good today as 1t
ever was. in the main.
The ore printing ought not to end
It. If it was worth printing once. II
Is worth printing again in this world
of ours, where generation succeeds
genera tion, but where the best seems
eternally the best.
Many fine essay by Oliver Wen
dell Holmes lies lost to US in the old
files of the Atlantic Monthly. Steven
son wrote many stories, but how
many own complete sets OF r. l. S, Z?
Der of the Golden Book, a truly ap-
propriate and pleasing name. seems
to me to be an event, not merely the
appearance OF a new magazine upon
stands already 100 cluttered up.
The artistic cover caught my eye.
The Golden Book stood In the news
stand rack Immediately alongside an
other rev magazine. a representative
OF the school of filth which during
the last two years has grown tre-
mendously in this country.
What contrast was there. my
countrymen, On one hand, a real
book of 100 pages, sswed back-so
that the magazine opens fiat-beau-
with the work of some of the mas
tiers of literature, and on the other
hand. a cheap. fiashy article, poorly
printed, filled with pictures of the
nude and semi-rude.
/ wonder If there will be as many
buy the one as the other? But IL
makes no difference. / suppose: there
are never as many OF the genuinely
cultivated as there are OF the vulgar
II the Golden Book ever brays on It's
cover, 100000 this issue" we will be
disappointed.
A genuine success, however. which
means subscription list and news
stand sales sufficient to- make a GO
OF the venture. will be wished for
the Golden Book by all those who
love good books, good magazines,
good newspapers.
What have we, then. in this first
number of the magazine Of fiction
and true stories that will live?"
Well. there are two serials, Prince
Otto" by Robert Louis Stevenson
and " NJ. LecoQ," by Emile Gaboriau
the first little read story, and the
latter a we'll known detective story
introducing master detective.
One of the fine points of this
ma gazine comes in right here. Mos,
of US have heard of prince Otto