LADIES HOME JOURNAL. 



The November issue marks the fifteenth 

 birthday of this now famous publication. 

 During that short period it has developed 

 from an eight-page magazine with a few 

 hundred readers, to one of fifty-two pages 

 with the present immense circulation of 

 850,000 copies monthly. Under the modest 

 caption "Fifteen years of Mistakes," the 

 editor. Mr. Bok. traces the history of the 

 Journal in the past and gives a short out- 

 line of what its future is to be. It is a 

 history he can well feel proud of and the 

 journal today is a splendid example of 

 what may materialize from a small begin- 

 ning. Its one fault is the unhandy size, 

 but after the clear explanation of why 

 this size is still retained, which Mr. Bok 

 give?, we will patiently await the change 

 which we hope the future will bring. We 

 are given the first of the three illustrated 

 articles which are to appear called "My 

 Collection of Dolls. " of much more inter- 

 est than would be supposed from the title 

 The oddest of those in this month's illus- 

 trations is the doll made by nature the 

 mandrake root doll. "Snap Shots at Fam- 

 ous People/' from the private collection 

 of Maj. Jas. B. Pond, is a page which will 

 be appreciated by nearly all readers, serv- 

 ing as it does to give us a glimpse of some 

 of our favorite writers. The second arti- 

 cle ; * About Men" will of course be read 

 by the women and will be found to contain 

 a great deal of what is vulgarly called 

 "good horse sense." Those interested in 

 palmistry will find something to their lik- 

 ing in "Easy Reading of the Palm" by 

 Blanche W. Fischer. These, and many 

 more equally good things serve to make 

 the Journal's "birthday number" especially 

 attractive, not the least of them being the 

 handsome cover. 



THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS 



for the month contains articles on the 

 timely topic of the Nicaragua canal: one 

 by Prof. L. M. Keasbey. "The Nicaragua 



Canal and the Monroe Doctrine" deals 

 with the subject from the political stand- 

 point, while Dr. Emory R. Johnson, who 

 has devoted much time to the study of the 

 economics of transportation, treats of the 

 commercial side, the trade benefits to be 

 derived from the construction of the canal. 

 These articles are such good ones that we 

 urge all who can to read them and gain a 

 idea of what the Nicaragua Canal would 

 mean to this country. 



THE FORUM 



Is another magazine that devotes some 

 space to the discussion of the proposed 

 Nicaragua Canal and ex-Senator Warner 

 Miller answers many of the questions so 

 often asked regarding this immense vent- 

 ure: First as to its feasibility, is the route 

 proposed possible from an engineering 

 point of view: Second, as to its desirabil- 

 ity, will it greatly benefit American inter- 

 ests: and. Third, will it pa.y'1 All of these 

 questions he answers in the affirmative, 

 giving his reasons for so doing. "The 

 Change of English Sentiment Toward the 

 United States'' is discussed by Sidney 

 Low, late editor of the St. James Gazette. 

 Among the other many important subjects 

 taken up in the current issue are "Some 

 Weak Places in our Pension System," by 

 Maj. S. N. Clark: "The Dreyfus Affair." 

 by Yves Guyot: "The New Panama Ca- 

 nal." by Brig. -Gen. H. L. Abbot: etc., 

 etc. 



SCRIBXERS'. 



Walter A. Wyckoff reaches the end of 

 his long journey and career as a day-la- 

 borer in "The Workers the West from 

 Denver to the Pacific,'' in the November 

 Scribner's. and this second series, describ- 

 ing a remarkable experiment, will be 

 shortly issued in book form. Thomas 

 Nelson Page's first long novel. "Red 

 Rock," also ends in the November num- 

 ber, and will be published immediately as 

 a book. Jesse Lynch Williams contri- 

 butes another of his newspaper stories. 



