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BOOM <*> AUTHOHS ? E>EVO/S ** COMMENT
More New Novels of the Season,
Reviews and Briefer Comment
Mrs. Whartons Most Disappointing "Custom of the Country"
Stories of the Cowboy , Life of Long Ago?
Mr. Farnol's "Christmas Card."
MRS. WHARTON IN STRANGE
MOOD.
Mra CUBTOM OF THE COUNTRT. By
Edith U'harton. !2mo, pp. 684. Charlea
Bcribi ?
it ia an ngly cuatota, tho custom
ahtch glvea Mrs Wharton'a now novel
its title. People marry from tha baaaat
pettvaa and then, wrlthlng under ln
discctnforta promptly aaek
cilvnr,, They boy it. as they buy
Bjajrything 'ls('- UTln* M ,lu'y do ln
an ntterly materlallatlc world. Tha
picture ot married llfe drawn in this
book. or, rai rt?a of pletureo,
lor Undlne Bpi*vgg. tha berotna has
0ne husband after another, is unspeak
ai,iy revoltlng. But it la just at tha
rnoment of rcpulsion that tha reador
lagdna t-1 t!mil? and iweaently his amlle
me a grln, Ha reai
^aa tiiat what he ip looklng at is not
8 picture bul only a ciricature. The
??custom" is not a custom at all. hut
a si'or.i'i.'' Mcameaa to whlch Mrs.
Wharton haa aoughl to give tho sig
ghVance of a national dlaease. Btart
inewith 8 ratloaal sense of a well-rec
aanajged abuaa her castlgatlon of
Juacricafl f.uil.ty in tho matter of dl
vorce mlssee Its mark becauae she for
gets the Bral duty of tho satirist,
whlch la to keep his u-mper and ob
Berve Ua lawt of proportlon. lf this
petar, la awry II is for nO other rea
jon than that the author doaa not keep
.,n tho object. Bha dfastocates
her perspectlve by looklng all tha. tlme
hing which she thinks U there
led wt-.i b lan't
ln the mlddle of the book Mr. Ralph
Marvoll. Just - ? from a serious
Bjtaaaa calla al the offlce of bla father
in.;?u Mr. Abner Bpragg, and I
r ,!.. astoundlng information
wife has gone West to get a
The old gentleman baa oc
ca.sion to sllude to the train taken by
his daughter, aaylng that "tha Twen
tietn cei tenerally eonsldered
.? to Dakota," and in the
..:].- tragic crisis. at
^ ? ? ? irna out to be, ln fact, the hlgh
bjj , tional poinl in bat story. Mrs.
la tlme to note th;.: Mr.
pr n ounced tha word rowt."
m li vi nt and even palnfully
touch is aymptomattc of
ihness ln "The Custom of
: hy." of a kind of petty anl
ming through it sbnost from
beglnnlng to end. Wa aay MalmoatM
?ru'h is that in her open
haf chaptera Mrs. Wharton'a analyala
ma promlse
of an . 'i()I1 Of tho
ajtra-modern, heartleaaly aelflah girl.
i;ut u tl ? i ii- proct eda II is obvlous
that ihis berolne Is ln no wtse repre
aaatatlvi and that Mrs. Wharl
nol a type, but an Impos
sibie ci ' i ' laaa?of har oam
koaglning.
She cannol perauade ua to ahare her
aantempt for Undlne and her people
because pho cannot peeauade ua that
B] thing to do with Amerl
rnlvoroua beautlea doubt
Intelllgent men Into their tolla,
ind btvoke the ald of the dlvorce court
wh.n they are ready to take on other
partners: but tha realltlea of our aocial
phenon.e: ? ara too fantaatlcally dta
torted In Undlne'a pereorjaJlty and ca
reer for even rr.omentary belief. Her
r is crodiMe, hut not her
rajgarity or her stui-iriity. Nol even
the cltation of an hJstortcal 08*8 in
luppoit of the hypotheena, h<-re liius
trated. that a product of Apex City.
Itke Undlne Bpragg, could throw dust
ln the eyes of a d.niz. n of AVashington
6qoare, like Ralph Marvell, could
make "The Custom of the Country" go
down. Tho ontlre affair is too Btratnsd,
too fraatto in moven* nt, too crude In
color, and too patently accented by
Any book reviewed or
mentioned in these pages
may be had at short no
tice at
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Tclephone 7400 Plaza.
A postal or the telephone
will bring it to you.
GorhanVs
New York Bookstore
"V.anv of our rnembers have written
us most enthusiasticallv about this
book shon."
?S'rjvs Letter of Shopper's Gui/d.
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J_^l*''?l on any .ubject Tiie moBt expert
JJTTL"n2*' *rt?nt. When ln Knaland call and
JjOoly **.'?".? rare bav.k*. BAKEH'tf (C'.EAT
"^K .noi-. Jo,,n urtgni ,u> jiirno'n-a.?
tl." author's eagcrnoss to pounce
upon tha social and other folhlcs of h,r
Bpngga and Kiusks and Poppln and
I ?r.i 1'iance C'hcttles.
COWBOY HEROES.
THK COMING OF CAB81DY, AM' THK
OTHERS. By Clarence E. Mulford. II
i latratlona by Itaynard LMxon. tZmo,
M'. 138. Chlcago: A. C. MeClurg & Co.
Thos,- who remember the atreauoua
dellghta i'f Mr. llulford'a taln of cow
boy life will. no dOUOt, be glad to have
thla collectlon of short stories from his
11 en, in arhlch ha tahea ua to the begin
Inlnga of the Bar-20 Ranch, and rciatcs
j ln detall the nrllet st. ry of the mem*
bera of the "outflt." One l.arns, for
Inatance, how HopaJong aoqulrad bla
cuiioua aobrlqueL For the roat, than
i liardly g i?age here wlthout the
thunder of hoofs lleeing and in pursuit,
wlthout wii.i ahootlng and marvelloua
markamanahlp, wlthout the confltct of
ccwboya and ruatlera, of honeal men
and vlllaina, without that drily humor
oua, bighly flguntlva dlalecl which haa
gradually become one of the tradltlona
,.f Weatera Bctlon, Than tales deal
with the perlod of the flf/g nnd early
mi'.-, the days of the "last frontlor," of
th.- vanlahlng buffalo and the Indian
danger, when holdlng up trains was a
fiourlahlng enterprln. Thon arho like
th< romance of the wlM life of the time
and the place will here flnd it ralsed to
tha Bth degrce. Tho stories are too
atrenaoua to he read through tn ona
.-itting. ln fact. to do so produces an
effeel of monotony in vlole9.ee. Hut
I taken up at odd momenta they nn
: livcly reading, indeed. And. belOW the
aomewhat fkaid IdeallaaUoa of their
maiily virtues, these cowboys are real
men.
A SEASONABLE DUEL.
THE HONOURABLE MR TAWNISH
r.v Jeffery Farnol. Wlth llluatratlona
by Charlea K. Brock Ltmo, pa. hw
Boaton: Little, Brown & Co.
Mr. Parnol'a latcst story is season
? ni th.it it has in it a duel fought
on a Christmas morning. II is a story
of dangeroua fellowa and devHteh ras
. ais who generadly pink their man; of
hard-rldlng, hard-tighting. alx-bottle
gentlemen, sir; of the ring of g!a-s, i
nnd tha atamplng of apurred haala; of
amall Brworda and long-barnllad pis
tola; 4,f such ezclamatlona in abun
i dann aa "The devil aunolnl ma! "\
ktttle ,.f lish!" "Egad!" an.i
"Damme!" wlth "methlnka" and "aay
I" apiinkled all around; of the lovely
i.ady Penelopa Cheater ami her lover.
the Honourable Horatk) Tawnlah, de
spised by her father, Sir John (Sir An
thony AbMluta over agnln), as a
? prani ing puppy do_r, a walklng clothi
pole, a dandtfled nli>compoop, nli
powder amd patchea," and a poatry
w r;t".'\ egad! And (inallv. after Mr.
Tawnlah has aucceeded In the taaka of
prOVlng himself a bnva mari and a
gentleman, ,.f nll'a well that enda well
Then an only elght chapti ra ot it,
Wlda niargin.-', and doublo h-atls ba*
tween tbe type, wltb colored ptcturea
by tha well-known Engllah lllu-trator
ot botlday booka, Cha-rin E. Brea 'k.
Thi brlghl looking little book is u
Chrlatmaa card, and nothlng more,
wlnged with the name of the author <>f
"The Broad Eflghway."
PATIENT GRISELDA.
THE WONDROU8 WIFE. Hy ''liarles
Marriott 12mo. pp 189. Indianapo
lla: Etobba-Jderril] Company.
.Mr. Marriott is beginning to he an
exasperatlng author. ln ea< h of his
Bticcesslve novels he appears to he on
the point of "arrivlng," but he never
quite rcaehes his goal. "The Wondrous
Wlfa" contains many of the elements
of genuine succcss, yet in the hlendlng
nnd the outcome tho reader ls left with
a feellng of something lacking. The
author does not succeed in carrying
| us wlth him. His plot, in this case,
Ib as old as the Btory of I'atient Crl
aelda, even though this "wondrous
wlfa" is au-Bcleatly atodara to aepante
from the husl.ant' who has outraged
'her dlgnlty arid her affection hy his
Iconduct. Hellgious ecruples keep her
from. divorclng him and murrylng the
man she comes to love, even though
smh a course would in her case have
baaa more than Justifled. Nay, more,
' on the eve of going away with this
IOther man, Bhe abandons all hope of
bapptaan because her truant husband
has suddenly become a hopeless In
valid, and needs a nurse. There are
:a few realistic touches that add noth?
lng to the Btrength of the Btory, but
I its great weakness Bn in its failure
to ponetnto hryond the undcrstanding
to the emotions. And common sense
robela.
A CHIC AFFAIR.
JEWELfl IN HKAStf Hy Jittie Horllck.
l.rno. pp, :;_::. Brontanoa
It is rather a fetching thing, the rft'.s
flakjad, dellcati'ly tinted drawing upmi
the paaar jackct of this book. In fact,
this it was that biguiled us Into rcud
ing the story, of whlch it is a happy
__nggeatiO-_ We discovered that the
momaal it deplcts vas ln Home; An
toala had left Hadini to mount his
horse and ride again to his own
ajflrftTf She had gone in nnd yield.d
beinlf \up into the capable hands of
her French maid, Lfontlne. She had
bathed luxuriou: ly ln acented water,
Leontine had done bef hair ln a care
hssly artlstlc knot at the back of h?r
head, and because Bhe waa pleasantly
tired, with a Bllght headache, she had
rajactad Bl! her fltting dresses and had
put on a little n/ijllt/t affalr, very
pretty and intimr. The pink aatln
allppers that completed the tollette
bad only toca ln whlch to allp the feet,
the heels hanging allurlngly from the
tipfi. A little Oriental Image. on a
stand, suggests the thread of Baatern
inysticisni, of Buddhlat thought, in the
story. The vase on the rlght of tha
drawing donotos the atmosphere of
a-sthotie taste which BUiroundetl An
tonla The winter before she had heen
tho rage in Parla, the *vlfa nf the ec
centiic and famous portrall palnter,
Adam Chalna "an Bthete, a mystlc
a genlus, a hrllllant talker, a sullen re
ciuse, anything, everythlng ezcept a
human being," whom, as he said. Bhe
"had kindly asked" to marry her, to
the aocompanlment of the rOla of a
tragedy queen. Before that rery
strange things had bappened in An
tonla'a Ufa Her fathcr?was he her
father? -an Interestlng scholar, bad
taken her in London as a little mlte to
a weird and curious elairvnyant, fort?
une tciier, Boothaayer, "ahrivelled Ithg
a monkoy, bald as a coot, dreaaad llhi
HERO WORSHIP
Tales for the Young of Mighty,
Men and Mighty Deeds.
Hera worahlp, ara kn<>w. is frowned
upon by the modern historlan, but,
nevortheless, it ls B g""d. a bra,-ing |
Influence In the impreasrtonabla yeara
of boyhood. it flvai our boya Ideala,
it helpa to form th.ir characters; what
historical dlsproportlona aocorapany
t'his valuabla procesa can easiiy he
remedied at a mter Btage of their edo
'iitKUi. Here, then, is a afaalf full of
booka or arhole-hearted het-o-worship,
written by bngllsbmen, books that ara
capital Christntaa gifts. Taklng them
i lir"ii.'l"gically, we have, tirst of nll,
Blaanor HuU'a Tha Northtaen in
I'.titain." whidi deaJa wlth both the
Noraa and the DajdBh Invaslon. at,
Merodith WiMiams furnishcs slxteen
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DrAWIWG Fl^OM "THE: NokTHMEM iN BRlTAlN"
T.y. Crowell co.
a Chlnaman," who under the hifi i
of oplum bad read atrange atorlea of
milllona ot 11 ara ago ln ber ?
atorli a thal were t.> Ond tt.. Ir comple
tK.ii ln ber lif. And Mn Chalne
found man:.- adventuri a In lo e.
the novefa tltle: life is a braea cbaln,
common, aordld, yellow braaa a braaa
. ham wltb lawela on It; and tha J<
ar" the momenta wheB ona La h
This is accordlng t" the whlaq i '
Rab) Btlgand to Ani
THE END OF THE WORLD.
THE POIBON BfiLT. Being nn Ac ount
oi Anothei AmaalnK Adventure ol Pro
r, boi . -ii.,;:. ng< i U) Bli Al thur Conan
Doyle. Illuatrated. l2mo, pp.
The 04 .,r>.'fc ii. I'oran Comj an;
? Auattu!" aald his naaeti r.
??> ea, r-irv'
"1 thank vou for yoUT falthful s.-rvlre."
A m le st'.i" over tba aanmnfa gaaited
tm "?
"Tve done mj duty sir."
?Tm e\].. ctlng tha - Bd "f the world to
day. Austin."
"Yes. air. What time. sir?"
"I can't aav. Austin. Bl fan evening."
"Very good, air."
jiurl so! And then araa no mtataka
abOUl it this time. or at bast ona tm n
ly of detnii. Every onn ln a whlla, it
is reported in th" newapapen, some < x
, luble peraon aelleth all thal he bath
;,!,,i giveth his mooeya t.. the poor (or
aquamdarath them), explalalag bla ao
tlOfl by tlie statement that on Thursday
next a light snow will COVW th,- lace ,,f
the aarth, that thla wlll take nre nnd
that animal and vegetahlo llf,- will ba
on thla plaael no more?or by B0-09
oqulyalenl prophecy. Thoughtleaa peo?
ple pay little attention to BUCh thlnga
and go on dning to thelr nelghbor as
they would not Wlah to he done hy jUgt
as before. Now take a Up from Sir
Arthur and lay In a generous iupply of
oxygen. As a matter of fact. you can
not tell what may happen bef.re tha
week is out. And this book ls enough
to ?can aaybody. The world pald Bttla
attention at first to th" anti.-un.?? nunt
?f Dr. (Worge Kdward Challe ng.r, thn
buge, bewhisk'r.d. emlnaal Hritish
aclentlat, whose feata make the erst
whiie oelebntad _Bberlock n<>imcs qulte
"fade away." HOW thla arlobe will pan
through a zone of lethal ethar whlch
will leave no livlng thlng upon it (save
those who have taken precaiitlo.i in the
matter of oxygen to dc'.ay a little
longar), and what nn BWful thlng It
wlll look like then to tha handful sur
viving. is the substance of this extra
ordlaary tayatary tale, eertalnly one ,.f
the weirdest and yellowest lnventl.cs
ever contrived.
?
MR. FARNOL DRAMATIZED.
Jeffery Farnol is a much-dramatlr.ed
novellst Just now. A stage version
of his "Hroad Hlghway" la announc. ,1
for almultaiieous productlon ln Hoston
and Loudon. and James K. Hackctt
has aectired tho dramatlc rlghts of
"The Amatcur tienlkman."
iwlnga N' Bl ? ora< ? "The '
? ? ' -.; . told to thel
I i:. i,. Machle, M. A.. ael
romai II a 1 age of B< oti h hlstory as ?
can ba found, and again Mr. wni
lama la the lllui tratoi rd we hava
bul in the form of for the
? ..-? vVall ice Oanai i "In the 11
? ??? ? ith a ? olon 'i rontls
nd "th>c pictui Jack ? a*r.
, ? .it. boI altog ther a reliable
? !;, but perennlallj
li paraphra ? d In "The Conq eroi of
i'. ru" by 11. M. Ollbert, who, too,
,, mpk>] - i" a t the sl |
form, snd, of courae, gl< er tha
i Inlater .-im- i t "f thla page "f bl
wlthoul Ignoring it altogether. Thomaa
Maybanh la the illustrator of this tuie
of almoal unmati had hravary clouded
by cruelty Arthur h DawaotVB
"Btoriea from Dutch Hlatory4' beglna
arlth Roman daya and enda wlth WIII
i.,in in. it is writti ii wlth full ap
preclatlon ol the cloaa blatoric bond
that has arwaya aaisted between Bng
Hah and Dutch \n it fi "Tho Boya*
w. iiini'toii." Harold i\ B. Wheeter,
Follow of th" Royal Hiatorical Su
dety, completea bla trilogy of three
great contempoiarlis begun with Na
poleon.and conttnued with Nelaon?
Allca Blrkhead has broughl togethcr
in "Heroea of Modern Europe" a com?
pany that embraces st. PTsncM nnd
Lorenao the Magnlflcent, Dante and
tovonarola, Luther, the Beggara of the
Baa and Wllllam th" BOent, Henry IV.
and Peter the Qreat, the flrat and
third N.ipoleoii*, Ma/zini, I larlhaldi,
Cavour aml tictor Bmmanuel, con
ciudlng -'ii Tolstpy, "tha Reformer
nf ll." Baat." (NOW York: Thomas V.
Crowell & Co.)
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ABOUT THE MARLBOROUGHS.
Why, gftar all lhal has baen written
about th" famous iluk" and duchasa,
there ahould hava remalned nntouched
ut i'.lciiheiiu many family papers nf
uni'iue hiatorical Importanca it La hard
tn aay; but auch there were nntJI Mr.
Stuart J. Reld had the good fortune t,,
be perinitlcl tn iis" tham. His fortsh
lutniiig book is t" be a character por
trait of John, th" graal duha and a
p,,rtrait nui' h more smiable andagrea
able than thoae palntad by Bwlft and
Macaulay. The Marissoroojfc of to-day
has furnished an introdintion for the
volume as well as rataTOdnXtlOOa of un?
published plcturos nt Ulenhelm.
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NOVELISTS' BLUNDERS.
A lawyer who was d' 0 ribed ln a
novel of the day as walking up and
down the garden "with his hands be
hlnd his baek eagcrly porusing a ncwK
papar*1 has inatrrad an Kngllsh etitk to
ewileal oomment. Bw h carelessness ln
the wrftera of thtlon is nothlng now. \
line crop of blundcrs was (liscloscd the
oth. r dav by an attentlve revlewer of
a new novel hy a prnmising young au
thOT "Th" wrlt.r," says "The Man
chester Ouardian," "had not sorted out
the members of the hero's family. Two
daughtera, arho wer? twelve and nine
In the opening pages, had gone back to
nine and five a week later, and ln-ne
had baaa transformeJ into Marjone.
The lovera suffered tortureg from tor
rld days and nights, yet the hero's feet
got numbed with the cold through rest
ing on the grars, and when they went
home *o tea the lovers wero cheered
by a cosey fire in the room, and so on.
In a certain qulte well known story by
a popular writer for girls the heroine's
hair ls fair in one part of the book nnd
dark in another. Probably this was a
case of wholesale llterary manufaeture
and tWO !ota of goods had got mixed
up."
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Tales of School and Athletics?
Girls' Books.
our pubUahen coattauo to honor in
the breach rather than in the observ
unce the sensible custom, introduced
B few years ago, of lndicatlng on the
altp-coven Of thelr books for the young
the age for which they aro intended
Nothing bumlllatn a boy of fourteen
more than to receive a present ot a
book wrltten for a "kid" of ten. The
custom _ a real aid to the hurried, and
,-\.n to thaj leisuniy buyer of Juvenllla
for sons and daugliters and nephcws
and nlacea and the children of fri' nda
and acpialntances; while, tinatly, the
la.i.kueller must bless the publisli. r
who to this axtent llghtena his labora.
The Ifnan. Appleton advlso us on
the paper cover of Ralph Henry Har
l.oiir's "Around the Knd" that :t is
intended "for boys of t< n to sixtcii,"
but omit tn mak" a sltnilar announce
ment In th9 case ,,f Um same author's
"The Jumor Troi.hy." Now, Mr. Bar*
i.our is a baat nller among our boys,
and deeervedly s... Moradver, thelr
?aalon na alway9 baplicttly trust
him. He tells manly, struightforward
talea, whoea teatchlng ka aound and ef
foctlva becaan it la never obtrudad, and
he provldes good measure of plot, ac?
tlon and IttrCtdent 'Around the Ki, I."
whlch, of course. deada with football,
is another tale of the Yardl.y Hall
whi.h has bOOU the scene of so many
of Mr. Barbour'a aarller taln: "The
Junior Trophy," which one arould Judge
wiii furnish ampla entertalnment to
boya from t< n to fourteen, is conceraed
with bockey and baaeball, bul ais.,
wlth a revolt of Juniora against aenlora
in a prtvate BChOOl, and with tho ad
ventuna of a boy who ran away, sa\.-,i
a train from being dltched, and thdg
becama a bero.
Leelle W. Q lirk's "The Freshman
Elght" (Little, Brown <v. r,..) is, the
publlahi ra Inforna ua, Intended i<?r
"boya of fourteen and upwards " Who
.-. t th.. WeUwortb CbllegB arymnaalurn
on Bn? The ahell of tha tnahman
elghl was burned up Ln IL v,t, wlth
this obataclo to face, aad, indeed, on
? ml of the aaargy it nlled forth,
the crew wenl to Poughkeepale aad
?won tb" race, tbe '??, which atlrrod
up so many suspi. mns, being saiis
factortly nplalned la tha end. Oa tha
way to the aquatlc vietory then are
baaeball, tra, k athletln and bozlng.
BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
All honor tO A.l .riijah Mann, who
ImarrMd the wldow Plrth. who was the
| mother of elghl chlldran, All honor,
to,., to the Mrs. Plrth that was for
having 90 large | familv a set of
Itwlna among them. And all honor,
linaiiy, to the chlldnn themrolvee, for
Ihey never gave tn.-ir Bttepfather caun
for regret, and ev. ri the nelghbon
learned to love them. Amanda M.
Douglaa teiis. pleaaantly, about this
unlted groiip in "The Rad House Chll
Idran al Oratton" (Lothrop, LnJkBhep*
ani Company >.? The widow Tucker
had sev.ti chlldna, but no second hus?
band, wherefore the Interest on tho
_r_ortga_ra aoroly worrled her. But th.
s.-ven loved h?r tbarly and had the
rlght spirlt. They started In to earn
money, each und every one of them
accordlng to tus age and opportunltiea.
The oldnt becama the only nportar
of Ihe Tucker town "l'agle," for lt was
"Hetty Tucker's Ambltlon" to writ.-.
.she ?\.-ri started a BOClal life in the
little pla..- In order to justify her
lolnmn of "social Jottlngs." Need it
l.e told that ln the end the mortgago
was paid, and that nli tho Tuckers
were nappy. (Lothrop, Lee & Shep
ar,l Compaay).-Margaret Vander
COOh I'cgins B new "series" of books for
girls wlth "The Cnmp Fire Cirls at
Sunrise 11111*' and "The Camp Fire
Ollia Amid the Snows" (John C. Wla*
aton t'ompany), both of them fllled not
only with the rites and the fun hut'
also with the spirlt of the organizatlon.
The Christmas Magazines
Stories, Verse and Pictures
Contributions by Dr. Henry van Dyke, Margaret Deland. Mary
Wilkins Freeman. Gilbert Parker and Edwin
Markham?Night Photographs.
Our magazincs celebrate Christmas more
aenatbly nowadays than they did some
)ears ago. Then they tilled their pages
by maln force wlth holiday stories and
poema ani sermons and piotures from
cover to eover. To-day they judiciously
give their December Issues a leaven of the
season ln VSrsa and prose and colored
picture, but refrain from forclng the note
that formerly ahnost invariably rcsultod
lr: eatiety. Among tho epecial covcrs of
thla naOBth'a magazines mentlon must ba
made of (,e.,rge Innes, Jr.'s. "Three Wiso
Men from the Kast," in colors and gold,
or. "The Century Magazine" covr: of
N. C. Wyeth's old Kngllsh coaehing
accne at Chrlstmastide, gay in color nnd
artlon. whlch adorna "Scribner's." and of
the multt-colored Christmas tree effect on
IhS cover of "Kverybodv's." whlch. one
thinks, will greatly please tho youngsters.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE.
Henry van Dyba Margaret Peland.
May Suiclalr, .Mary Wllklns Frceman
these be good names to be slgned to
Christmas magazine stories, and there
are. othera by Clarenoe Dav. (Jeorgla
Wood Pangbora and Khznbeth Jordan.
There Is here, also, B new poem by
Thomas Hardy, "The Telegram," but the
(reat Bovaual ia a true poet only at long
est bttsrvala By way of contrast Nor?
man Duneaa takes us away from the
prospect Of ice and onow and the i'hor
Of tba aVroel King to follow more "Aus
trallaa Bypatbe," und.-r the parching
sun. ln the buah and among its lumber
m. n. (if Rtehard La Galllenne's ohronl
Cle of his \lsit to Arles it may be said
without lnjustlce that Its most exeollent
illustrations are more lnteresting than the
t.-xt. Professor Henry B. Csnby ooeatrtb
Btaa b paper arorth pondering on, "The
Luxury of Betng Bducated." No other
r.atlon VSlOee so hlghly the beneflts and
advantages of a ajood educstlon as ours,
but, BCCOrdlng to the Yale professor. the
American parent'a coaMptlon of what a
good aducataOB means ls far too often a
vague, if not an altogether mlstaken one.
in this number begtee the seriai pubttca
tion of a new novel by Arnold Hennett.
? -;? ,. PrtOfl Of Lova" Mrne. d" Heger
rumn-Lindencrone contJnues the paaUca
tion of her clever, observanl lettera writ?
ten during tl ?? Oranl nnd Haves mlminls
trations. There ls more poetry by Kdlth
M Th ttnaa UmiIsb Morgan Blll, Braest
i.iss, Burges Jotaneon, Anna ' 'imrin Kay
and Jamea Btephena
SCRIBNER"S MAGAZINE.
\ |.m by BeriJamln R C. taaw, "The
Mlnster Btatua on Chriattnsa Bve," arlth
b fuU-paga llluatratlon hy Chartea Cul
ll n, ls the Christmas feature of "Bertb
nei's." Dr. Henry van iiyke's "Uran'
BOUle" is B poem of UM BCa ln Krench
CanadlaB dlaleet ^ir Ollbert Parker taUa
a tate of Arctle royaticlsni In "Tha Oreal
Wbicb ls notal'Ie for the feliclty
aith whleh II reflecta tbe loastllaeaa of an
laolated Hudson Bsy Company post snd
its effect upon a young Bcotehinaa'fl
Bltnd The third Of Mr. Roosevelt's
lap.rs, "ti the "life HlBtorlee "f Afrlcan
Qame Anlnuua," le BOtabla for tbe eawel
lence of Phlllp R OoodwbVa amwtnga
Bnd af tha photograpba from Bfa Tha
t.\t BOada ii" "imment. Mr. Hoosevilt
lovea his subject nnd knows lt. A novel
srhosl atory la "On the Btalrcasa" by
Kathsrine F. Oerould. its ghosts nre Bv
Ing persona who uneonaclousty proJeet
themeelvee into tbe futura where they are
aeen foraabadoaing aventa to come. Wlnl*
frod Loulae Taylor conttouea her studles
of "Tbe Man Behlnd.the Um^." As they
unfokt, theae papera promise to become a
Vlvid eontrlbutfon tO tba literature of
penology. Ih her "EngUah Writ.r's Xotes
on England" this month Vernon I.ee vlslts
I'oiiiw.ill. Wnles and Ireland. There are
more stories by Ceorarta Wood Panghorn.
Jamea B. ConuaUlf, Katherine Mayo and
Alice Duer Miller. and moro poetns by
WlUa Sil'.-rt cather. Sara Teasdale, I*
Brooke and tha alwaya arelesaas TJaaa
dosla Carrlson. Montgomory Schuyler
writes of the new Ht. Thomas's Church.
A wrlter ln the Point of View draws a
comparison between American and Kuro
paan manners. She flnds the erux of the
matter In our feeling of ecpiallty: "We
treat each other ns emials?and thla ae
eounts at once for the lack of oeferonre
Ul public aervanta of which foreigners
COmphtln, and for their profound friend
llness, whlch foreigners do not seem able
to eompnhend."
CENTURY MAGAZINE.
"The Carpentci's Son." a poem. by
Snra Teasdale, opens the Decemher
"Century," OM of whose npecial feat
nrea le a aeriea of elght nlght photo
graphs by v7. M. van der Weyde. of
BCensa ln I.ondon and l'aris after dark.
Prancss Llttla the author Of "The
I.adv of the l>ocoratlon," contributes B
stojy of chri.stmas ln Japan, told in
Japaaasa Kngllsh, "Mr. Hamhoo and the
Honorabla Llttla God." wbk-h la alabo
rately illustrated ln colors by Wakana
Ctagawa. Dr. Henry van I>ykc de
scribes the mission play af CallforulB,
th-v photographa being reproducd ln
tlnt. And Kdwln Markham has a lOBg
poeir,. "The Shoes of Happiness." with
plrtures in colors and tints b] Praah
Vincent Du Mond. The anonymous
novel, "Home." reaches its third Instal
ment whlch brin??s with lt the end of
the seeond sltuatlon in the story, and
the heglnnlng of a third. Its author
ship remalns unrevealed, hut the edl
tor is willing to help the cnrious to the
extent of lnforming them that It is the
work of an American oonaeoted with
our dlplomatic and con.oilar services.
What with Kdward Alsworth 89-89*9
aaBeational pecond artlcle on immlgra
tlon, "American ond Immigrant Hlood."
aad W. Morgan Shuster's <|uestion, "ls I
There a Sound American Polloy?" and his '
aaawer, the ifntted states la deridediy'
ln a parlous state. Robert Haven 8chauf
fler deals wlth a famiiiar subject In
"Versatility and Dr. S. Weir Mttchell."
Mr. Wlnston C'hurchlll is unmistakably
tn dcep earnest ln "The Ifodacn Quest
for a Kellgion.'' but his paper is in no
way remarkahle. What he eays has al?
ready been said before ln various ways
hy various people. Greuze's "Madame
Morcler" La the subject of TImothy
Cole's latest wood enirravlng. and Wil
lam M. Chase's "Dorothy and Her Sis
ter" ls added to the "Century's" Ameri?
can artlsts' eerles.
THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE.
To be presented in the "movies" at the
tlme of publleatlon in a magazine ls th<>
dlstlnctlon of John A. Moroso'a Christmas
story, "Miracle Mary," in the Christmas
"American." Wlthout douht lt wlll be
aeen by enthusiastlc audiences. and lt ls
a good story to read, too, particularly well
constructed. Mr. Moroso has become
known to many readers as a sympathetlc
blographer of our unfortunate brotrers
who have fallen under the shadow of the
law. This is the story of Joseph ("ondon.
allas "Uttle Joe," allas "Idaho Shorty,"
and of flergeant Mary Meakins, a Salva
tion Army lassie. two v,-ry appeallng fig
ures. Tho machinery of courtrooms, the
touchlng faith of the lowly and the ln
si.le of prisons are presented by one who
knows a great deal about them.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE.
The December numler of "I'oetry"
wlll contain eix nanative poenis hy
Kahindranath Ta-ore, whose work w.is
Introduced to American r.a<l, is hy
"Poetry" ln Its December number of last
yenr. These new poenis have t..-.?!,
translated from the Beagall by the
author expressly for this ma_-azine, and
represent a new phase of his work.
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Boyhood Recollections of the Civll
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