Smyrna times., 1868-05-27
PERIODICALS.

| HARPER'S New MONTHLY MAGAZINE
The description of Lookout Mountain and the
victory won there by Hooker would loose half
OF Its value without the numerous pictures that
accompany and explain the text Mr.. Squire
takes the reader from the Alleghanian Noun
talns OF North America to the Andes of fSouth.
Then he dwells upon the scenery and ruins
| near Lake Iiticaca, in Bolivia, and makes real
to our day some of the arts that fourished with
the lncas. Professor Loomis contributes an
elaborate monograph upon shooting stars me-
teOrs and acrolites. Under the style ofWoman's S
Beauty, some one tells the ladies how to man
utacture washes, essences, pOmatums, powders
deplllatOrles and all the ammunition of the
toilette, and how to use them. The most curl
GUS paper is an essey to unravel the Baltimore
plot to assassinate Mr.. Lincoln The writer
uses the records of Detective Pinkerton. The
matter is opened at length, and with names
and Incidents in the article, and shows that the
murder that closed his Presidential career was
prepared and ready to forestall it, and that
great precautions were needed. There are half
dozen short and well-told stories-NIiv's
Mlshaps, Three Views of the Same Thing, Bu-
rcau Rations, English Photographs and con-
tlnuatiOn of a WOman'S Kingdom, by the au-
thor Of John Halifax.
TIE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.-Jamcs Russell
Lowell, Bayard Taylor, Rev. Calvin f. Stowe
and Eugene Benson, are among the contribu-
tors to the June Atlantic. Lowell signs plea
SAINT June idyl of some length. Taylor tells
what he saw and thought in week spent on
the island of Capri, where of old Venus had
chosen home. Mr. Taylor also contributes
some stanzas on Casa Guidi windows, in which
Mrs Browning is the central idea Mr.. Stoves
subject is the Talmud. St. Michael's Night
is pleasant story of love in common life in
the French province of Normandy. A paper
on Abyssnia describes the nature of the coun-
try and the character Of Theodore The story
of V TX is that Of a fine horse rescued from
drudgery, and found to be of exceeding merit
but killed during the war.
PUTNAM'S MAGAzTNE.-The June number
opens with a readable sketch of DR.. John
Moore, the father of Sir John Moore. The
sketch styled Peter Blossom is a friendly laugh
at the way they DO things in cities, viewed from
a country standpoint. The values of mercury,
and the pl laces at which it is found fill another
paper. The contribution about autographs is
nlmSy. The woman question is considered both
senslby and practically, and without any ex-
treme opinions. No one has furnished more
graphic account of the lOw-down people or poor
white trash in South Carolina. They will either
perish now or go to work. A review of Hey
woods 'SalOme" bestows warm commenda-
ton upon that drama. Some interesting ex-
tracts are given from Fenimore Cooper diary.
The stories are entitled "A Fair Face" and
The Blue and Gray" The number closes
with sketches of Japan and OF Schuyler Colfax,
and with the usual chronicle.
Our YOUNG FoLKs.-Round the World
Joe falls in love with Katy in this part of his
history, detaiedin the June number, and in
dulges in some reflections on the missionary
zeal of a Dutch lady who visited the cannibals |
II,nr l.
Wrestling of the British Magma Charta from
King John by his Barons, and pleasant de-
scriptiOn of American wrens. Indian Life in |
the West furnishes bit of entertainment, and !
DIR. Hayes continues his description of being
cast away in the cold.