People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — In the January Wide Awake, [ARTICLE]

In the January Wide Awake,

Margaret Sidney’s paper on “Whittier with the Children” naturally leads all others in timeliness and interest. It is sympathetic, personal and delightful, and shows the good Quaker poet as the ehild-lover and with that child-nature his poems have led us to ascribe to him. The article is profusely illustrated. Another leader is Frederick A. Ober’s “The Bridge that Spanned the World.” It deals with the localities made famous by Columbus in Spain. Kirk Munroe, the founder of the League of American Wheelmen, contributes a pithy article “About Bicycles” to the Wide Awake Athletics, and makes some sharp criticisms on the present method of “jackknifing” in the saddle. The short stories in this number ire especially bright. Annie /Cowells Frechette’s “Bill” is the study of a small boy that shows the Howells’ realism in a new vein; Mary Kyle Dallas’ “The Little Turk” is a tale of pluck arid endeavor; Mary P. W. Smith in “Behind the Wardrobe” delights all those who love or hate arithmetic. The serial stories by W. O. Stoddard, Molly Elliot Sea well and Theodora R. Jenness are increasingly absorbing. Kate Putnam Osgood’s “Ballad of the Bonny Page” is full of strength and fire; M. E. B’s dog poem, “A Morning Call,” Mrs. M. F. Butt’s “So the Snow Comes Down,” and Richard Burton’s “Landlord and Tenant” are charming. The Men and Things department is full of bright paragraphs. The illustrations are beautiful. Meynelle’s exquisite frontispiece of Whittier with the children, has almost the softness end strength of an oil painting, and is well worth framing. Price 20 cents a number; s2.4oayear. On sale at news stands or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by D. Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston. “Your chairs look so colloquial,” said a ’Visitor to her hostess the other day; “they really seem to beg your guests to sit down cosily and chat in comfort together.”—Boston Transcript.