Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-26
aE OI.n MAGAZINE.

We have been lately permitted to examine sew
eral bound voumes-5, 6, and 8-of the Port
folio, "Monthly Miscellany" published in
Philadelphia, by Harrison Hall. The magazine
was first issued in 1916, two volumes year !;
and the numbers we examined were of course
published in 1918 and 1919. 1t was curious
admixture of politics, news art and literature.
The following, which we found on the title page,
will explain its character:
"Devoted in chief to original communications
in the popular departments of science, combined
with occasional criticism, classical disqulsltlons,
miscellaneous essays, records of the progress OF
fine and useful arts, with all the extensive and
variegated departments of polite literature
merriment and wit; to vhich is added The Pro-
ccedings Of Congress.
Each number contains Mt least SO pages. and
one elegant engraving. The price is Sir Oo'Iars,
in advance"
The noticeable points in this are the high price
of six dollars for the periodical, the free use OF
capital letters, and the publication of the pro-
ceedugs of Congress in literary magazine
These were, however, not SO 'long drawn out,
nor so devoid of the ''linked sweetness" of peace
and patriotism, as at the present time. One
number contained very long and dry message
from the then President.
The engravings in the numbers we saw. were
"The City Hall, New York;; "Portrait Of Mrs
Madison" in a frll cap, and tight sleeves; "VieW
of the Battle of Bunker's Hip; PORTRAIT of
James Monroe, Esq.,; "View of r. Steam Dis
tHlery"; "View of the Orphan Asylum, Norfolk
Va; "Portrait of Gen. Putnam drawn by Miss
A. Hall from an original picture by Trumbull /;
and "Portrait of Benjamin Franklin" in the
huge powdered wig of his time.
One is struck with such picture-subjects as the
"Steam Distllery" and "Orphan Asylum in
juxtaposition; rs we'll as with the Esquire instead
of Honorable as handle to president Monroe's
name.
The wives of William Meredith and Joseph
Hopkinson were occasionally contributors to its
columns; and were women of high literary char
acter, and drew around them the distinguished
men of that day. Tom Moore, the Irish poet,
during his residence in the surburbs of Philadel.
phia, in house which is now pointed out and
called tom Moore's cottage" knew both in
timately, and visited at their houses frequently.
In one of his poetical epistles to Mr. Spencer, he
speaks thus of these visits:
"Believe me, Spencer, while winged the hours,
Where Schuylkill unduates through banks oi
flowers,
Though few the days, the happy evenings few,
So warm with heart, so rich with mind they flew,
That my full soul forgot its wish to roam,
And rested there as in dream of home
ooh we have nights of that communion free
That flush of heart which have known with
thee
So oft, so warmly; nights of mirth and mind
Of whims that taught and foies that refined.
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The Death Of Jero'a. Bonaparte. learn by
the Parma of the death of Prince Jerome Bo.
naparte, ex-King of Westphalia, uncle to tht
Emperor of the French, and last of the brothers
of the great Napoleon.
Jerome Bonaparte was the last and youngest
brother of the great Napoleon First, and the only
remaining member of the family of his parents,
Charles and Letita Bonaparte-the first of his
brothers, Joseph, King Of Naples, having died in
ls43 the second, Napoleon, Emperor of France
in 1921 the third Lucian, Prince of Canine, in
1910; his eldest sister, Marianne Eliza, Duchess
of Tuscany, in 1920; Louis, King Of Holland, in
1916: Maria Pauline, Duchess of Guestalia, in
1925: Marie Antoinctte Caroline, Countess of
Lipaua, in 1889, and Jerome, ex.King of West
phnlia, the eighth and last, in 1860
Jerome was born at Ajaccio on the 18th of
December, 1884, and at the time Of his decease
was consequently seventy-six years old.