The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-26
THE AUGUST MAGAZINES.
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The contents of the August number of
Harper's Magazine, which we have received
from Turner & Co., are as follows
'"The Raquette Club" Charles Hallock,
with thirteen illustrations; ''South Coast
Saunterings in England (Saunter VD, Can
terbury l." NJ. D. Conway, with nine illustra-
tions my Mocking Bird, Julia g. r. Dorr;
''The Electric Light, Jacob Abbott, with six
illustrations; "a Visit to Bangkok" Allan D.
Brown, with eleven illustrations; "The Auto
da Fe of 1856" w. w. Woodson; early His
tory of Colorado, William M. Byers; "Two
Hearts" Harriet Prescott Spofford; ''Frede-
rick the Great-IX. The Campaign of Mo-
ravia," with five illustrations; "The Old Love
Again" by Annie Thomas with one illustra-
tion; ''By- paths to Prosperity, William c.
Wycoff; "Played to the End," by the author
of my Daughter Elinor;" "American Artists
in Italy," Samuel Osgood, D. D.; GAS Easy
as Lying, Leonard w. Sewell; ''Two Poets,
Charles Landor; 'Only Clodhoppers," Mrs.
Frank Mccarthy; ''Female Suffrage-A Let
ter to the Christian Women of America part
y, Susan F. Cooper; "Anteros," by the au-
thor of "Guy Livingstone;" "Heart Ache"
Carl Spencer; Editors Easy Chair" 'Edi-
tors Literary Record" editors Scientific
Record" Editors Historical Record, "Edi-
tors Drawer"
We quote as follows from 'By-paths to
Prosperity" by w. G. Wycof:-
In certain trades long apprenticeship is re-
quired to confer by practice the requisite taste
and skill. But when there is added to the
necessity for experience and practice to in
sure good handiwork the restriction of small
demand for the product of such labor, the
craft can comprise but few members, and it
may become monopoly. A branch of the
industry over which Saint Crispin presides
has recently come into existence, to meet the
separate requirements of class itself widely
removed from sanity patronage. There is
now in almost every important city in this
country theatrical bootmaker;" and if the
statements that have appeared are reliable,
the price obtained for the adjuncts to the
elegance of ''the buskined stage" is about
five times that of the ordinary calf-skin foot
coverings.
The addition of genius to the dexterity
which is acquired by training may in some
occupations convert the artisan into the artist,
and by the perfection of handiwork secure
the need of fame. Of these, type-cutting
and hand-printing, in the early days of those
arts, tapestry-work and line-engraving, pre-
sent familiar examples, and the names of
lin family, and Albert Durer are not likely
soon to be forgotten.
There is an artist in New York who has de-
veloped peculiar skill in the rare art of cut
ting canoes. Do you wish the stone to repre-
sent your own lineaments or those of your
most loved one is there scene, device,
an emblem that is dear to your memory? name
your desire, and he will reproduce the like
ness in high or low relief, perpetual in stone
fha oft tha huc fba
photograph, the painting, or perhaps even
the pencil-sketch with a few words of descrip-
ton, this man of genius can construct the
counterfeit presentment. He, and the admi-
rable artist who has recently furnished the
public with silhouettes of marvellous deicacy
and singular beauty of outline-the original
cuttings of black paper being now copied as
engravings and popularized through the
agency of the printing-press-are probably
not much troubled by competition.
The manufacture of artificial noses is a
unique business in which rivalry is not apt to
be excessive; and should we pity the person
who makes this his specially at a season when
his trade is dull, we must yet hesitate to
accord him such sympathy as to wish him an
increase of customers: A certain studio in
the fifth story of a building in Broadwa
used to be better known to the Clancy
than any other rooms in the city where the
painters skill may give to fancy shape.
The artist who occupied those premises
rarely had in daylight an idle hour: sitters
thronged upon him, and waited for their
turn with their faces in their handkerchiefs,
their hats drawn down over their eyes, or if
of. the gentler sex-and there were many
such-closely veiled. His especial skill and
constant occupation was in painting to a
natural tint the human countenance, when
jts divinity was obscured by bruises or by q
'black eye"
OF humber grade is the "artist" who
confines his efforts to repairing the injuries
and fractures of meerschaum pipes. There
are professional destroyers of vermin who
contract by the month or quarter to remove
rats, mice, and reaches from hotels restau
rants, ETC. Some of these hunters of small
deer also furnish live rats in large numbers
within twenty-four hours from order, for the
exhibitions of dog-pits. They do not keer
the rats on hand, but catch them as required
1t is generally believed, and is perhaps true
that they use some bait or attractive scent il
trapping the vermln. Such is not, however
the explanation as the writer heard it from
the lips of one of the most skilled in thi
vocation.
st never use bait or drugs. l have studied
the animal" Here he drew himself up in tn,
consciousness of superior knowledge, ant
proceeded with lofty air. ''No man tina
understands the rat needs such things; mo-
are fancy rat-traps Of any account Look a
a rats nest 1t is hid behind wall 1t il
near chimney or heat hue, so that it il
kept warm. 1t is lined with soft stuff =
rags, hair, lint, torn paper. Would yoV
catch rats? Make a nest for them. Use
box having a sliding door to a small
dust, or both, and leave it in the warmes
nart of q roOnr fhot tho rafo fraonaot 49,,