The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-31
LITERARY.

Interesting EXTRACTS from Current
Literature---The Periodical Prcss-.-
Our Book Table,
Ha'pcrs Magazine and the Atlantic
Monthly for August have been beforethe
public for several days, and it is not
worth while to speak of them further
than to say that we have rarely seen two
more attractive numbers of these period
iicnls: Their contents are adapted with
n great deal of business and intellectual
tact to the season of the year, being n
fstyle of make up which of all others
the people care to read at a time like the
present, when the weather is hot, the
mind enervated, and the publicpulserm
own by the closing scenes of the rebel
lion. f'~ '.-'t 4.,...-.
We have also on our table the regular
weekly issues of; f;,Y Mrs, Grundy," the
new comic paper, published in New
York-the successor ofVanity Fair, and
the wOuld-be London Punch or Paris
Charivari of this country. While a few
tolerable hits from the pencils and the
pens of the managers of" Mrs. .Grundy"
have'so far appeared, a great many in
sipid and point-no-point attempts have
also appeared. The N. Y. Iri6nne, in
around-about way, ,intimatest TINT while
there is a field for first-class comic
paper in that city, yet, ,strangclyenough,
no combination of artists have SO far
been ablo to seize tho opportunity and
occupy the field. The Herald rctorts
that the Tribune is already the great
comic paper, and ably fills the field,
and so excludes all competition. ~ ss5.
d The +" Ndtio1G'' is new weekly of
quartoI form, projected and published
by Mr., Richards, the late publisher of
the NewIi York Independent, and in
many respects such paper ms the Cen
tury, started by Thomas McElratb, u
few years ago. 1t contains thtrty-two
lwell-illed pages, and embracesthe news
of the day, short editorials, dramatic
critiques, literary notes, and notices of
the fine arts. If the ''NatiOalr continues
upon the present basis it will really be
a capital paper, and will fill an undis-.
putedisphere of its own in the weekly.
issues of the day. 1t has published
some original articles of marked ability
SO far. The publisher understands his
business If he can only make it pay Mt
three dollars per year-which we doubt.
We have before us the "C0mmerciuL
aud FiMGmcinL ChronicLe,n another New
York weekly paper, published in quarto
form. It is a most elaborate and
comprehensive condensation of the
Industrial and commercial inte-
ests that centre, representatively, in
New York city, We have rarely seen
n paper that SO impressed us with a
sense: of the pqinsLtakihg work ne
cessary to produce it. To business
men, be their business what it may, tho
Chronicle is an invaluable advisor and
educator. We shall always be glad to
seeit on our table. The price is $40 per
year. = EfnSEa Ji
The Eclectic, Magazine for August, is
adorned by superb steel engraving of
the Grand Duches Marie of Prussia.
Who is she2 itV5 Ssit!flS-s "
asHThe Grand Duchess Marie was born
August 19, 1919, at st. Petersburg. Her
mother was tho beautiful Queen Lollisa
l'of Prussia, whose heart the Old Napo-
:
band, and laid in an untimely grave by
ldismemb bering Prussia, and robbing
the Kingof half his country. Her mos
ther, tho Empress of Russia, says the
late Marquis of Londonderry, 'pos-
ltseSsed an ihdeScfibableg majesty of de-
Il fportment' and fascinating grace that
mark this nlustrious personage.' CeIe-
brRted as are all the females connected
4 with the lanIented aud beautiful Queen
of Prussia, there is none of them more
bewitching in manner. than the EnL
pfess of Russia; nor is there existing,
according to all reports, SO excellent
land perfect a being. Such wns the mo-
ther of the present Emperor of Russia,
and his eldest sister, the Grand Duchess
of Marie, who, with her sister the Grand
Duchess Olga, were regarded ns the
most beautiful women of the empire"
Among the many able and instructive
reprint articles published in the num-
ber of the Eclectic before us is one from
! Frnser's Magazine entitled 'FEHgta'sd's
Future -Attitude toirards Europe, and To-
lDGrds the World"
We have before us the fourth mum
| ber ola monthly that'%e are beginning
to look, upon with great favor, viz
"HourSa at Home, = a popular magazine
devoted to religious literatnre.n 1t is
edited by ]. NJ. Sherwood at New York
This nagazine is not like any other q
: our monthly periodicals, and in its
kShesen field mot inferior to any o
Them The variety Is good and tht
: rfquality issexcellent. ''The Outside o.
Books, Is a acharming article, and the
I sketch of Fisher Ames, as Christian
y Statesman p which he was, cannot fail
TO attract and, impress the college boy
mind that meditates and dreams poll.
tics, and is casting about for political
L beau ideal. We commend "Hours al