Smyrna times., 1868-02-05
PUBLICATIONS.

PUBLICATIONS.
The February number of the Atlantic Month
Eu opens with an article from Parton, Does it
Pay to Smoker" As an old consumer of the
weed, with a'peculiar right, on that account,to
talk about it, he makes out a powerful case, In
the negative of his inquiry. Among the poet
ry is a'eontribution by Tennyson, called The
Victim, (which is soon to appear with others
in volume. Whittier also contributes one. OF
his most beautiful and impressive poems, call
ed 1.-The Meeting" Dickens story, George
Silvermans Explanation" is continued; so
are ''FlOtsam and Jetsam," and DIR. Hayes
pleasant account of doctor Molkes Friends. "
The Little Corporal, published at Chicago,
ILL.,, by Alfred L. Sewall, commences new
volume with the January number. 11fff Il
Peterson'S Magazine The February num-
Der Of Peterson Ladies National Magazine Is
on our table. The embellishments are really
beautiful, the fashion plates elegant and accu-
rate, and the reading matter chaste and enter
tanning. 1t is among the best monthiles Is
sued.
The Philadelphia Ledger has the following
kindly word for "Godey's Lady's Book"
"a magazine that has been read and cher
ished by three generations of readers, spread
over every part OF our country, and who may
| be numbered at any time by hundreds ofthou-
|
is not so much one of popularity or favor as it
is of real affection. The great success it has
achieved, and steadily maintained, shows that
it supplied an undoubted want in our home
literature, and did il in exactly the right way.
Its influence has been salutary i'll those higher
and more important matters that no fashion
can bestow unless the heart beneath the beau
tiful garment is in the right place, and
beats to healthful music
Our Young Folks will, perhaps, disappoin-
some of its Juvenile readers in not presenting,
in the current number, the second \instalment
of Dickens story "a Holiday Romance" The
illustration could not be prepared in tune. The
next instament will be given in the March,
and the third and fourth in the April and May
numbers. DR.. Hayes gives us further rec
ord of the adventures of the two whaler boys
who were Cast Away in the Cold of the
Arctic regions. Perhaps the best feature in
the Young Folks" after all, is {" William
Henry's Letters to his GRANDMOTHER"
The LadyS Friend.-A beautiful steel en-
craving, representing the hiding OF Moses In
: the bulrushes, opens this number of the Queen
of the Monthlies" The double Steel Fashion
: Plate is elegant as usual. The engravlngs OF
) the Fashions, Patterns, Fancy Work, &c, are
: numerous and excellent. The music this month
is the popular song, Paddle your own Ca
5 noe. The literary matter is good.
There has been laid on our table a copy o
the Northern Monthly for January, and an ex
animation Of its pages shows that this new ven
ture in the world of periodical literature ha!
taken fresh and hopeful start. Harriet Pres
; colt Spofford begins serial story, the Janua
ry portion Of which is a magnificent prose
: poem. An article upon Charles Dickens il
America reveals a keen and terrible pen, anC
; although the views of the writer's will call Ou
: criticism, they will also command attention.
> Other contributors are Writ Skies, who tell
e us all About Philadel phia;" Mr.. Tufts, wht
: analyses the power and the style of three emf
nent metropolitan clergymen, Beecher, Chap
: in and Duryea Harriet McEwen Kimball
!; whose poem Betriended," is a gem; AM
/ several other writer's less known but thorough
y able The Editorial Department has fea
g lures which distinguish it from the other Mag
L azines and its literary matter is worked up II
y quite novel way.
> The Empress Josephine The first thing tha
n impresses the reader as ne takes his prelimlna
. ry twirl through the pages OF this book is tn
. exceeding beauty of the illustrations. The
y belong to new school of art, resembling NOR
nearly than any thing else the choicest picture
in that superfne magazine, London SOcIt
ty." The artists name, GaStOn Fay, is ne'
d one, but he will make himself favorably know
'e at once to a great congregation of those cult
1t waited people who take pleasure In the Muh
e bach novels. The vignettee representing th
g. young creole Josephine idly swinging in he
e, hammock, under trophical bower, happil
n strikes the key note of the whole book. w
as would naturally expect creature born in sue
s a climate of passion and luxury to go throug
some wild, eventful career in which poverty an
N riches, perfect felicity, and unutterable desc
lation, would succeed each other as swiftly {
i, sunshine and shadow in her native island. III
w other pictures, Napoleon at Brienne, u,
sephine Divorced" a sweet sketch of Ho
70 tense Beauharnias, and the secret meeting b.
% y. tween the divorced Empress and the litt
e King of Rome, mark other epochs in Il
m 90 mournful story. The life of poor JosephiT
is SO full of dramatic contrasts that we are su
q. prised that no daring writer before Louis
% Muhlback had thought of working it up in
W =, an historical novel; 1t is useless to institu
- comparisons between this romance and tho
no =" which have already made the name of Mul
no 'ro back familiar in our mouths as househo
ne ,,@ words. Some will find it more interestin
- some less SO, than her lifeike sketches of Gt
na' ra man courts and counters The verdict of t
10 ladies, who have always been staunch cham
ons of the injured Josephine, will probably
as clare that this book in some respects is supe
Is, or to any Of the Muhlbach series.