St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1866-05-10
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LITERARY NOTICES.
EolEcrlo.-The May number opens with
portraitof Rev. David Livingston, whose
explorations through Africa Nave given him
. worldwide repnh,ioh. The lending ar
ticle " a highly interesting s'esaripti onsof
the "Peninsula Of Sinai" from amidststhe
lightnings on whose mountain tops the
great Jehovah delivered His laws to His
chosen people; askctch Of +. W. Robertson,
the eminent divine an outline Of the life
Of Carl Maria Won Weber, in which are in
trodaced others Of. The. great German COM
posers; Memoirs Of :.southey; the ''zam-
beski Expedition is an Instructive review
Of one Of Livingston's late reports Of his
discoveries in Africa; 'The Gipsies;"
''The Late King Of the Belgiaps; ..'Notes
on the Cattle Plague" etc., etc.
The Eclectic may truly be said to be with
out an. equal in it's special field Of litcra-
ture in the United States. W. H. Didwell,
New York. ST, !; asyG *4G k,s; i.
The April number OF thi, magazine fail
ed to reach us. Will the publisher for
ward US another sopy? Il. sgI S
ATLANTIC MoSrHLr.-The May number
| is unusually good, 1.-The Harmonists," .
sketch located in Ohio;s ..Abraham Daven-
port" poem by Whittier; Tho last days
Of Walter Savage Landor,' by Miss Fields,
is continued; .sTo-morrow," by. Longfel-
Elcw; ..Dr. Johns draws. near its conclu-
+ sion Passages from liawthorne's Note
books" '.Ths Fenian Idea" BY Mrs. Fran
ces p. Cobbe,; the .'Chimney Corner" in
which Mrs. Stowe discourses on the sour
ces Of beauty in dress; '.Edwin Booth,'
! by Edmund c.. Stedman; ''Among the
Lhurels, 2. . poem by Mrs. Akers; t'Grifith
Gaant," continued; ..What will it COS,
us!" in which E. II. Derby advocates re-
tarn to specie payments; "Mephistoph-
elean," by Chas ]. Sprague; .'Mr. Hosea
Bigelow's speech in March meeting" by
James Russell Lowell; s'Question Of Mon
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ofthis magazine, being that tor May, is on
our table. It's table Of contents are, s.Bnm,
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