Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — The December Harper. [ARTICLE]

The December Harper.

For many years the December issnes -of Harper's Magazine have been distinguished by an unusual wealth 61 choice reading and pictures, with v. special emphasis upon Christmas subjects. Rich as have been the previous numbers, the one about to be published stands easily at the head of all the goodly company that for nearly fort\ years have entertained and enlightened innumerable readers. It is a royal banquet of refreshing variety, with sturdy staples, rare novelties, and ■delicous dainties worthy of the generous holiday saint. Everything is complete in itself, the serials being omitted from • this number. Reside the strongest atiraction-oi “The Boyhood of Christ," by the author of" “Btu-Hur." f'e Howells farce. “The Mouse Trap," <»ibson’s delightful “Wood Notes." and the bounteous dtyat tements o' confidential discourse, of litetan

judgment, and of overflowing •humor, presided over by the geniuses of (I \V . Curtis. W. D. Ho. Veils, ami C, D. 'Vnr>ner, we are regaled with six short stories (four es them beautifully illustrated) and five illusftaieil {iUOiLS. Ot tlie abundant cuts, twentv-hve oceupt ' full pages, and four are prime 1 sbparately on plate paper. NotwithsiamHug the unparaded richness of this number, we are assured by the publishers that it is only a Christmas form ot the exalted standard which wll be Uniformly maintained throughout tlie year: ano the magnificent prospectus detailing the coming treasures gives a sp’endot promise to tho--Volume begun oy this number.