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T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S'lj'NDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1897. o 3 £ E E ; 1 undertaking most fittingly to be conducte! | on a broad grin. | chosen the lizhter phases of the strifs, and h has clothed the trials of the soldier with glamor that to a take away from the career DICKENS® LAST LETTER. The New Amsterdam Book Company in Be- lecting e frontispiece for the volume of Dick 2ns’ writings could hardiy have mad ore sppropriate ct than the e great novelist ever penned later generation seems u cof a ta Sar the voluntee much of the haraship It is reproduced that was inevitable. in fac-simile n “New Lamps >t OId Never before have certain weil-known features Wwas wriiter day befose Dicken: 1 10| of arny life in the sixties been treated with Chbarles Kent, and shows how suddenly and | such keen appreciati of their humorous | unexpectedly for him x e been the sides. | Wennomtn Prace, diemay, 1 | FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS. 2y Dear Kent: To-morrow 1s a very bad day 101 | SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW—By W. L Linco'n e 1o make a call, as in sddition tomy usualoMice [ Adams. The Baker & Taylor Company. Nem business I have a mass of ac to settle with | York. Price §2 60 Wiks. Bot I bope I may be ready foryou at 3| The suthor's little book ed teur o'click. 1flcan't be, why I shan’t be. tography” was designed, as 1ts sub-title You must realiy get rid of those opal enjoyments. suggested, 10 be a “practical guide for the be- nl,:mn»(lc',\,r owering. ] ginner.” The preser seeks to aid the qbhere violent delighis have v lont ends. I | 1 oro gavanced : It is assumed = FAahE 29 caurch whoSmale | ibatithe stered the technicali- the wiso remark to 8 young genteman who rot | (18! he Sow a5 0 make Up early (or stayed out late) at Verona. Everaffec- | 108 of phot Lo Seh et Joine = tionatel D. | better pic author has collectec from the Photograpnic Times, the American The pathos which always nd other sources the author’s keene mo. ie best authori- fied in his own last words and studio art, 1870, it was indeed case 0 a illustrations | Ir. Kitton's introducts ¥ help, by ited work fs by no mea e vhotographer who utely the or ] Aenai ins one 2 iske ichea ch tone engravings illustrating the following e tacbthat the essayk, revis topics: Tue Choice of Subject, Lasdscape With- Tebem Be oollcrod for fhe st dime bavel il Landscape With Figures, Fore- | oyt Mol been reprinted will doubL i} ooy 14fE e = Sky': OR oot Bobeaitalana ] less surp ! who claim famitiarity | G oups " The Hand. Cs a, Instantaneous w which emanated from “.” Photography, Winter Pnotography, Marines, pen of Charles Dickens. Many of the | p tog at ght, Lighting in Portr c¥e mieces Jucinded In the mresent ¥olo 4 i or phing Children, At in Group- ime were app nown Lo bibliog- | {5 aphers as t niofa at ters are ). Wells Champnery, Alfred velist, and i mean P. Robinson, Walter E. Woodbursy, earch amor ripts in the For- ith, Dr. J. W. 1s, W. A. Fraser, | r collection at sington Museum Aisite | 1 elsew been enabled tc | tify several ore interesing of A SPELLING TEST. : occasional contributions to journalistic r oucan spell every word correctly in the ¥ has traced some of Dckens' |followinz rhymes—all legitimate expres- eYritest efforts to his unsigned contributions 1s—you may der yoursell qualitied to ¢ Ben “Misce * launched by | enter a spelling bee: Rlc n 1837,and gives as areason | Stand pellers, now and spell— 1 aringas & serlal | Spell phenakistocope and knell; s had agreed to ac- | Or take some simpl= word as chilly v ductor of the “Mis-| Or gauger or the garden lil. any” for a fe onth, whilo at the | 1 h words as syllogism, fame time it was stipulated that he should | And lachrymose or synchronism, ish the magszine with a seria! romance. ud Pentateuch and ssccharine, Of the more riant articles contributed | Apocrypha and celadine, [} the Examiner Mr. Kitton says: | Jepnine and homeopathy, t er days of the Examiner the| Paralysis and chioroform., gt es of that now cefunct j vere en- | Rhinoceros and pachyderm, ed by contributions from such distu- | Metempsyenosis, gne-kins, basque, sished writers as Leigh Hunt, William Hez- | 1Is certainly no easy task d Charies Lamb. Keleidoscope and Tennessee, During John Forster's editorship Charles | Kamtchatkn and er ns supplie s columns with several | Aund etiquette ands r s on ri subjects, the majority of Infallible and ptyalism ave been hitherto uadetected by | Allopathy and rh tism, lographers. Although the authorship of | Aud catuclysm ana beleaguer, ese ephiemernl never been ac-| Twelfih, e.ghice 1 zvous, intriguer, rowledged or ere can be no | And hosts of other words all found »ubt to t o e o 1 On Eugtish and on cless ¢ ground. anuseripts, in Dicke ph, ere stil: | Thus, Echring Straits ana Michaelmas, extant * * * Special in aitackes to | Thermovylae, jalap, Havana, snotable eriticisms of end comments upon Cinguefoil and ipecacua: ha, e work of his two sorge Cruiksh in amous contemporaries, ppaha And Schy nock, Shenandoah, kill and a thousand more, Are worls s me 2004 spellers miss now din exte In diction ke this Th e natortl ihe tton 1 Nor need one think himself a scroyle supplies many interesting facts and data. If some of these his eff i, . T Nor deem himself undone forever HUMOR IN THE ARMY. | Tomis the name ofcithes rivr, = The Daileper, & JIE ATMY MULE, AND OTHER STORIES- | A el s B A LITTLE GEM. Captain Castie's memo; had gou B BEck foftin b cloll S S obd il TALES FROM MCULURE'S —New York: ns of printed memoirs and recollections of Doutleday & MecClure Company Forsale b ™. rebellion which we trust will be cffered Peyot, Upham & Co. Price 25 (en g i1 evidence ngainst writer the day of This is a collection of seven well-salected judgm. nd from his kuowledge of that and powerful short stories culled-from Me- starred h he has created again The Army | Ciure’s Magazine. and offered to the reading tler, The Shelter Tent an Dress Parade, Itisnotgiven-to man Mule, The public in handsome book form. Considering the besutiful appearance of the books pub- unaided the fun that the favored few | lished inthis series, one can hardly compre. discover on every hand; fewer vet find it in | hend how the pub.ishers can putthem on the the stress of war. But 1o one o! Captain Cas- | market at such a low figure. The fllustrations tle’s spirit it would scem that & campaign was | are far above the sversge and the binding {s | In a fun-loving way he has mmrmnnmwmnmmmmmumnrmnmnnmnmg BOOKS AND BOOKMAKERS, { better than that of many volumes selling at | | four times the price. ' IT MIGHT BE WORSE. son, Wenzeil, Bunner, V | cquatly p-ominent. worthy of being handed down 10 posterity. FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Boston and Price 48 cents. Kate Louise Brown. r. purdett & Co. sous of which are partly talks and dislogue: | with and about plants; partly simple storie: in which the same characters are along s them as friends. of lenves and flowers they heve, par | form, with fliustrations by such artists as Gib- ! 1 Schaik aad others None of the selections | are commonplace and several of them are | THE PLANT BABY AND ITS FRIENDS—By New York: An exquisite little book, the illustrated les- s s carried that the children come 10 recognize Without conscious effort the | children discover how plants grow, wnat sort | the various of each snd many things connected with out-of-door 1e. (Cloth ) | THE MODERN PROMETHEUS—By E. Phiilips A STORY FOR CLERKS. Oppenbeim. New York: F. Tennyson Neely. — | Forsaie by Doxey. | A ROMANCE IN TRANSIT—By Francls | This modern Prometheus is a stalwart, tall, | Lynce. New York: Charles Scribuer’s. tinguished man,” who in his youth had the coursge to give up poetry ard “drew from tae earth, a spade in one hand and a revolver in the other, a great fortune.”” With this he returas to civilization, meets the love ot his pauper days, who has married a Prince, and— marries scme one eise. The story is full of a e a o gurgling and gnashing of teeth and should | #ppeal to the sentimenally inclined. | SOME OLD FRIENDS. TAKEN FROM iIFL (verses) 1'oub edny & McClure Com Payor, Upham & Co, Price 75 ceats. The best Vers ce Society published in this | country undcubtedly abpears in that excel- | lent publication Life. Seven hundred of these rhymes have now been issued in daint; book the president’s golden: tinally marries her. seldom occur in every nch ay life that their ap | existeace is not q ITH a w to furnishing a relia W William Doxey, publisher, At the Sig the Lark, hus 1ssued “Wiid Flowers of California.” ject hat whercas ted seasons, here they bloom from Jan uary to December. wonderfully varied cimate thet is probab gion of like area ¥ sphere. The greatness of the task might wel huve appalled the rendering a permarent service in it recorded, Pa resolution whose sed success from whole-souled promi a earnestness tained. Whether treatise a literary product catalogue of alike deserving The As we regard the on of the bighest s noted in the prefsce a flower is Le disfavor with which The dry cupation. | who have compiled this work on fornia wiid flowers. of nature. the study of botany und they [ think 1t 1 try will enjov reading this book, and engine- | drivers, brakemen »nd Pullman poriers, beinz | also among tue dramatis persoum, it is only natural suppose thai they will also be among its purchasers. The heroine of the story rides with her young man on the en- xine and runs ihe train at express speed for fitiy miles or so, aud no one seems to think 1t out of the ordinary. All this is done with the | epprovai of the milljonaire father, who finally to Itis always refreshing to read how a rail- road clerk on $40 a month falls in love with aired devghier and exiravagsnces so pearance fu fiction ieads oneto suppose that | nounced by ble handbook to those who are in- terestea in the flora of this State, n of a volume entitled The sub- is a Jarge one by ieason of the fact colder climes nature only permits flowers to grow in stated and lim- California with her bhas a flora v not surpassed br any re- the northern hemi- botanist desirous of 1o resi- dents of California, but, to their credit be Mesdames Mary Elizabeth rsons and Margaret Warriner Buck, the author and the illustiaor, respectively, of the book before us, laid hold of it with very the start, and this they bave undoubiedly at- took as a botany pure and simple, as ,or as an illustrated California plant life, it is praise. study of botany is not a populer one. otten looked upon as a trivial thing by the un- thinking, wiich may perhaps account for its study is re- garded, not only in the schools but among those whose fancy it is to devote a cer- tain poriion of leisure time to a fad or oc- s-dust textbook may be held accountable in this regard and it , would be well if all writers on the sciences brought to bear on their work a little of the enthusiasm manifested by the ledies They bave done their best 10 impart to the reader some of their They point out how little an e xpenaiture of coin is required to follow indicate very ratlrond clork in the coun- | “A Preludo to Milton.” Tre author has al. | provides for his unwelcome son-in-law, and Poem its appropriate setting of natural per- brings the tale o a happy conglusion. soual and historical associations and will ren- der the book of value both to the student and the genersl reader. A, OTEEBO o Messrs. L. Prang & Co. of Boston have for- warded to us some samples of their holiday publications in the way of Christmas cards, calendars and booklets. They are beautifully gotten up, and a notable feature of their work is thatitis American from beginning to end. | the designing, the lithogravhing and tne printing being done in this country. In acontribution to Har, December 4, Ch per's Weekly for ries F. Lummis supports the conelusion of M Hodges that the celebrated Mesa Encantada’ was, as Indian tradition asserts, most certainly inhabited. icidentally he argues for the intrinsie reliabiiity of In- dian traditions, alluding to the exireme ac- curacy which they bestow, not only upon the crcumstances recorded, but upon the actual words in which it is handed down, from which no deviation is permitted, and citing exam- ples of the marvelous retentiveness and method of Indian memory. We have received from the publisher, The Dodge Book and Stationery Company, a copy | of the “California Girl Calendar.” It is en- tirely made fn San Francisco by a native | artist, Miss Gertrude Partington, and is pub- | | lished by the firm mentioned. Its generalap- | peerance is equal to that of any of the high i class calendars of which so many areissued at | | he examiners of the Plymouth and Devon- port board schools in conuection with the Peek vrize fund report that they have noticed at holars to bring the tendency among some s criptures up to date, to the utter disregard of sstern manmers and customs. In Dipers Herod's foast was referred o as an “At Home” ; other scholars stated that it was *a musical evening,” others again considered that it was “a ball,” and one brilliant youth this season, and it can be recommended as & | neat souvenir to be sent to Esstern or foreign friends. Its price is 50 cents. The shorter poems of Johu Milton, edited cilied it “a garden party.” Many of the with notes by Andrew J. Georee, are an-{femile charccters in Biblical history were The Mucmillan Compans for pub- | called ““adies”” and Cornelins was styled uite so humdrum ss we | lication in the early spring under the title | “‘that gentleman,” and many scholars mixed come to be what it is; when we noteits relationship to otber closely alliel forms, and locate its place in the great world of plants.” The important point that we would em- phasize in a review of the “Wild Fiowers of Caiifornia” is the completeness ot the book. ¥he names, haunts and habits of each flower are taksn up and discussed in detail, not in the dry manner of the pro- fessional botanist, but in the chatty form of an enjoyable marazine article. We have a complete list, first ofall, of the wild flowers; secona, an explanation of the terms used; then a chapter on important plant fam:lies and genera; following this are elaborate descriptions of the flowers themselves. The.e are cleverly illustrated with some of the finest pen and ink draw- ings we have ever seen bound in book form. It should be mentioned that the classes of flowers are divided according to color as well as species. mplete indices of Latin and English names and of tech- nical terms, as well as a glossary, the book to a close. The volume, as we have said, appears to have been compiled with the greatest of care.. Its autuors have evidently had be- fore them, not the mere idea of making money from_ their work bave been im- byed with the desire, first, of accuracy, and heuce reliability, an! then of en- deavoring to instill into the mind of the reader a love of piant life in g Land of the flowers of California in particular. Surrounding thi. short notice will be found some specimens of the illustrations contained in the book, but these merely serve to give some slight idea of the beauty of their originals. The author and illustrator are to be commended for the care they have taken in their work, and a measure of praise is due to the pub- lisher for having supplied the uneed of a valuable guide to the flora of California, which will ¢oubt ess find place in the lis brary not only of the protessed botanist, but in that of all who desire to bscome better acquainted with the profusion of uncaltivated flowers to be found within the borders of this State. EMANUEL Evrzas, what a large field there is in this State for original research into the mysteries of so interesting a subject. Through the pages of their book there is an essentially dainty touch that could come only from lovers of the naturally beautiful, affording an ad- ditional source of inspiration to the reader. Who other than the most ardent student of plant life could present an argument so succinatly, so definitely and with such entire truth as it is put forward in the folluwing sentences extracted from the preface? “Mr. Burroughs, thst devout lover of nature, says: ‘Most young veople find botany a dull study. So it is, astaucht from the textbook in the schools, but study it yourself in the fields and woods and vou will find 1t a source of perennial delight. Find your flower, and then name it by the aid of the Lotany. There is so much in a name. To find out what a thing iscallea is a great help. It is the beginning of knowledge; it is the first step. When we see a new person who in- terests us we wish to know his or her name. A b.rd, = flower, a place—the first thing we wish to know about it is its name. Iis name helps us to classify it. It gives us the bandle to graspit by. It sheds a ray of light where all before was darkness. As soon as we know the name of a thing we seem to have established some sort of relation with it.” “Having learnea the rame of a flower or plant, or havinz been formally intro- duced to it, as it were, cur acquaintance has just begun. lustead of being our end and sim, as it was with students of botany in the olden times, this is but the begin- ning. 1f this were our ultimate aim, all our pleasure would be at an end as soon as we had learned the names of all the plants within our reach. But the point of view has changed snd broadened. The plant is now recognized as a living organ- ism, not a dead, unchanging thing. Itis vital; it grows; it is amenable to the great laws of the universe, and we see it daily complying with those laws, adapting it- self toits surroundings, or perishing. It becomes a thing of absorbing interest wuen we tracethe s eps by which it has up Herod snd Pharaoh in glorious confusion. | ready edited with lude,” “Selections | 8:lect | notes “Wordsworth’s Pre- From Wordsworth,” ““The Pocms of Burns™ “Tennyson's Prin- cess” aud others. Tae aim of this volume is | to present the poems which preceded the great | epics in the order and under the ligt of those | influences in the home ana in .he <chool; in | the untversity and in the world—ixfluences of heredity, environmentand will, which molded the poet. The notes will, therefore, give each | The secona volume in the series entitled “Periods of Euronean History” is just an- nounced by The Macmillan Compauy. This | lcaves the third and the eighth period now | lacking to complets the series. The present volume deals with the years 918-1272 A. D., | sud the author is T. F. Tout, M.A , Professor | «f History ' Victoria University, Manchester, England.” The value of the book is greatiy enhauced by exceilent maps showing national several | | and social movements, and in voint of schol | and carcful handiing the sube jeet ay 10 have been treated With the same skill that has coatribute! so largely o the suceess of the periods already published, | Few more artistic publications are placed on the market than those issued by the pube lishing-nouse of R. H. Russell, New York. Among the Christmas publications announced by this firm we notice: -The People of Dicke eus,” “Drawings by Frederic Remingion,” “Going to the War in Greece,” “‘Picturesquo Bits of New York” and 1 May’s Sketch Book.” Lesides these there are numerous beautiful calendars, containing fac-similes of illustrations by such artists as Phil May, Remington and Wenzell. Needless 1o say, all o1 these publications sre got upin the best style. The ordinary editions are worth pos- sessing, while the editioas de luxe wil. doubs less sell well also. | Mr. Howells is in Paris, has been visited by th now almost ss busy and all-pervading an indie vidual in Europe as he isin Americs. Mr. Howells views his country’s fiction with spa- cious complacenc The transatiautic real. istic school satisfies him entirely. Messrs. Brander Matthews and Hamlin Garland, Miss Jewett ana Miss Wilkins seem to him to be do- ing excellent realism of the ‘‘Jane Austen and, it appears, he mterviewer, who is | i American writers, Mr. Howells added, are getting to be more distinctively Ameri- can—*the floweri of our modern literature is to come.” For modern American poetry Mr Howells cannot, even with ail his national | enthusiasm and lentency, say very much. These are bad days, he admits, At most Ameri- cans cax boast some ‘“Captivaiing songsters.’’ | All things considered, he continued, it 1s not possible for America to claim Mr. Kipling. No, it is not, | tirely Qifferent vein from anything he has ever written before. Ruth McEnerney Stuart hes a sketeh, “An Old-Time Christmas Gift,” a slave | story with a very charm ending. Two new 1 begun, J. T. The Century. Tne opening article in the Century is “Merry Christmas in the Tenements,”” by Jacob A. Riis, suthor of ‘“How the Other Half Lives Clarence Cook contributes a sketch of the author of the familiar poem **Twas the Night Before Christmss.” and & portrait is given of the avthor, Dr. € rent C. Moore, The late General Francis A. Walker is represented by a paper on “The Causes of Poverty.” W. Le Fraser writes a critical sketch on “’A Religious | serials are Bidaicutt Boys” and Larkin Athietic | Club” by Robert Hughes. A beautiiul colored frontisplece gives distinction to the number. The Atlantic Monthly. Paul Leiceste Peter Sterling, | | | Ford, author of “The Hon. lias written the opening arti- Painter,” Fritz. von Uhde. One of the mOSt| o, tor tne Decoinber Atlantic Monthiy He iutgresting papers in the magazine is en-| o4 wyip ¢g i orical novel ana 1 Tennyson and His Friends at Fresh- | ; e nor wall” by V. C. Scott O'Conuor. Peopie in- g i tercRed in the Orient will enjoy Mra. Beld- | ,v0 gyocessiully trested and farther indi. mor\: articie on “The Wonderful Morning- toudl f cates to what exient our history lends its | to such treatment. Colonel T. . Higgiason writes chaiting!y on “Literary London Twenty | Years azo.” and Zangwill contributes a mas- | terly paper on the last hours of Hetnrich Heine. Other features are “Tie Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift,” a further installment | of the serial, ““Caled,” and “Penelope’s Prog- [ ess” by Kate Douclass W glories of Japan,” and for iovers of lighter literature there are six shortstories by well- nown writers, The entire maguzine is full { the Christmas spirit and is admirably illus. trated throughout St. Nicholas. Kipling seems 10 be in demand at present, for he contributes the chief storr to this| charming monthly e150. 1tis entitled, “How | 1heWhale Got It¢ Tiny Teeth,” and is in anen- | : 4 Scribner’s. Good fiction aud abundunt illustrations are Trowbridge’s “Two | the features of the December number of Serib- The frontispiece is a charming picture sbowing the immortal Pickwick at | theside. A story by Dr. Henry Van Dyke entitled “A Christmas Loss” is full of religious | feeling, and is beautifally told; in “A Run of by Luck” Joel Chandler Harris tells a tale of days ilong beiore the war, and a Southefn romance be Mrs. Edicte is well worth reading. Kip- ling’s poem, “The Feet of the Young Men,” al- though sing-s0ugy, is not bad, and avother by J. Russell Tuylor, “The Posiug of Vivette,” is botn original and dajut: y iillustrated. James Whitcomb Riley's sonnet to Robert Loui Stevenson is accompanied by a hit pubiished porirait of the late author tuken in the early seventies. McClure’s. The first instaliment of Anthony Hope's new romance, “Rupert of Henizau,” appears in this number. Initarenarrated toe further adventures of Rupert Rassendyt and the Princess Fievia, our 0'd favoriles in “The | Princess of Zoenda.” That tre story is tull of excitemeni goes withoutsaying. “Dr. Hedin's Hardships in Uzexplored Asia” is the tite of an interesting aricie irom the pen of R. H. Sherard, sccompanied by numerous illustra tions from sketches and photographs. The iate Mr. Dana passes judgment on the generals in Grant's army before Vicksburg, and Kip- ling, Robert Barr and W. T. stead are among the other contributors. Frank L;slie's Monthly. This number of Frank Leslic's Popular Mouthly is in no wise behind its competitors in point of interest. Frank Stockton’s “0 d App.ejoy’s Ghost” contains a clever 1den worked out in nis own peculinr manner. “The Famous Rancnos of San Gubrie! Valley,” by Miss de Luna, is accurate and of interest { locally. The other erticies and poems are by melin E. Barr, Margaret E. Sangster and a Wheeler Wileox. The nume:ous Baptists on this const will enjoy the paper by General T. L. Morgan, who deals with the past history of their orderand also furnishes some interest- ing statisties. The Review of Reviews, Although the Review ot Reviews contains somewhat heavier matter than the other Chbrisimas magazines, its contents are none the less interesting. Ernest Knauffs contri butes an elaborate study of ““Jonn Giibert and Iilustration in the Victorian Era’; Dr. C, H. | i | | | Supreme Court of Pennsylvan Levy tells “Hew the Bible Came Down to Us”; E. V. Smalley discusses Canadian reciprocity, and Alex D Anderson summarizes the prog- ress of the American Republics. There is also appeal to many readers, but the most taterest- ing article in the magnzine is tnat on “Gold X g in North America,” which deais of | mines and m niug from California to the | a twenty-three-page department devoted to | Kiondise. Other articles of interest are | the season’s new books, with an introductory | “‘Some Literary Shrines of Manhautan” and | chapter by Albert Shaw on “Some American | “Who Are the Greeks? by W. A. Gurtis. | Novels and Novelists,” The Forum. An article of timely intercst in the Decem- ber number ot this magazine is *“The Policy of Annexation for America” by James Bryee, author of “The American Commonwealth.’’ Captain Ayres treats of “The National Guard and Our Sea Coast Defense,” and Gustay Kobbe deals wita “The Dramasof Gerhart | peciaily, is happliy selected, and the stories Hauptmann.” The *‘Unconstitutionalizy of | run f:om the pathetic 10 the grewsome and the Hawaiian Treaty” is shown up by the | yei Numerous illustrations are scattered Hon. Daniel Agnew, ex-Chief Justice of the | throughout the space devoted 10 a considere- | . and Projessor & | tion ot Loiiday books, ana altogether the Hunt of Princeton contributes a masterly magezine is worthy a prominent place on the article on *“Tn e Mission of Literature.” Chrisimas tabie. The Ladies’ Home Journal. Our German citizens will be interested in the article entitled “Christmas With an Em- peror,” waercin Herr Brawe, an atteche of the court, tells how the German Emperor, with | The poctical seleciions are up to the usnal standard. 1 Current Literature. There are many seasonable features.in the Christmas number of this popular magazine. | The regular departments are of the usual uni | form excellence and much space is given over | to Teguiar Christmas maiter. The verse, es- | i . Lippincott’s. “Poor Chola,” ujoweriul story by Julia P. Dobney, nus the piace of Lonor in the Decem- ber Lippincott’s. Emily Tolman’s article ou “The Club Movement Among Women” sbouid the Princess and the royal fymily, spend Christmes day. The pictures accompanying the articie were made on tne spot and ap- proved by the Emperor. Sir Artbur Sullivan contributes the words of his great song, “The Lost Chord,” whici, he claims, has never yet been correctly printed, Numerous Chrisimas £tories appear over tue signatures of Hamlin Geriand, Lilian Bell, Mary E Wilkins and others equiliy prominent, and the regular departments have the true holiday flavor. Outing’s New Volume. The thiriy-third volume of that admirabls monthly, Ouiing, covering from April to Sep- tember inciusive, is now out, and forms a litie libra:y in itself of articles interesting to sporiswaan, hunter, athlete and traveler. The number appears to be especially rich 1n papers on wheeling and fishing. What to Eat. If you are aesirous of living 100 years, an articie in the December What To Eat will tell You how to doso. Another interesting article lells whet Shakespeare nad to say on the sube Jectof “Kissing for Dyspepsia,” and there {8 much else in the ¥tile magazine to amuse sad insiructs