The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-04

erful story entitled Ny Friend Bingham by
Henry james, jr., .. \ Glimpse Of Genoa'' by W. D.
Howels political discussion Of the present condition
of the country callel The True Problem, by Carl
Schurz, and striking poem entitled g The River, -
continuing burst Of personal feeling, by Harriet
Prescott SpofIorl.
Harpsr for March opens with an amusing Illus
trated article entitled . The Dodge Club, sltirzing
a certain class Of American travellers in performing
foreign tour Gen. Strothers g Personal Recollec-
tions Of the War " well sustains the interest Of his
former papers, and throws much light on the char
acter and feelings Of the Southern combatants The
form Of a diary gives air Of freshness and reality
10 his pictures which i often wanting in more pre-
tentious descriptions. The article on y T. Stewa t.
We have already given in full in columns. The
description Of the New York Heraid and the way in
which the New York dailies are conducted is quite
instructive Readers there get idea of the
cost Of conducting a newspaper nowadays. Though
We have no telegraph here, yet the day will come
when We shall have to buy and publish daily tele-
graphic news from Europe, America and Asia. Don't
snile,-that day is not many years distant.
our Young Folks is n charming little ma gazine for
young people. The January, February AMI March
numbers are all exceedingly interesting In one
Longfellow furnishes the following verses
TIE CAsTLE-BUILDER.
4 gentle boy with soft and -ilkeu locks
\ dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes,
\ clstIe-buider, with his wooden blocks,
AMI towers that touc imaginary skies.
a farless rider on hi fathers knee
An eager listener unto stories tuld
At the Round Table of IN. nursery.
OF heroes AMI adventures manifold.
There VIII be other towers for thee To build;
There will b. other -tee,ls for thee ride;
There will he other legends, and all filed
With greater maryels and more g'orifei.
Build on, and make thy castles high and fair
Rising ard reaching upward o the skies;
Listen o. voices in the upper air,
Nor lose thy simpis faith in nysteTes-
The success Of our Young Folks is phenomenon
in the history OF periodical literature. That publi-
cation startel Ouy two years ago. and yet has
bona ie circulation of, believe, 10000 copies.
II numbers among its contributors OF the first
writers of the day, and deserves all the good things
that be said Of It.
Frank Leslie's Laly's .Magd=iHe Of Fashion is,
as its name purports, devoted the interests of tine
Iadies and Is filed with sketches and tales
OF the marvellous and sensational Leslie has just
made move IN the right direction in engraving.
Mr. W J. Linton. the wcll-known English WOODEN
er.lver. has recently come 10 America, to furnish
every week illustrations by his own hanl, and TO
exercise general supervision over the rest OF the
engraving done or the weekly and monthly published
by HIM
Godey's Lady's Boo.-should perhaps take the
precedence Of its New York rival at all events it Is
the oldest periodical of the kind published, and with
many of its old friends and patrons appears to be
their comfort coffee. 1t is
certainly conducted with great taste and filed with
just such information every lady and housewife
wants to obtain. The April number IS in hands
Biqekrood's N1Sa=ine, reprinted in America b.
the Leonard Scott Publishing company, is rs thor
oughy tory ever but still maintains the high posi-
ton it has so long held in the literary world. The
January number opens with part of Sir Brooke
Fosbruoke. Then follows a critical article on J. s
Mil. Memoirs Of the Confederate War is eyidcnt.
the work Of Southerner, it gives the South-sde
view Of the late war.