The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-20
"sCRiBNER,s MOVrHLY.v

The February number of ScribneT'S M0nthty
has the following list of articles:-
''The New York Mercantile Library" illus
trated, by John r. G. Hassard; ''The French
Conquest of Lorraine and Alsace, illustrated,
by Henry M. Baird; ''A Tartar Love-Song,"
by r. H. Stoddard; 'The Story of Valentine, "
by Edward Eggieston; 'Lauriger, by Charles
trated, by F. r. Thompson; Lucky Peer"
illustrated, by Hans Christian Andersen;
The Haunted Ship" by an Old Tar; ''Mada-
line," by Alice Cary; weather kilograms
and Storm Forecasts" illustrated, by Pro-
fessor It. B. Maury; Conference Wrong Side
Out" by Gail Hamilton; "Wilfred Cumber-
mede, chapters xiii, xiv, by George Macdo-
nald; ''The Bondage of the Pulpit, second
article, by w. @. Wilkinson; 'Augelque Ar
nauld," by Elizabeth Sill Topics of the
Time, "The Old Cabinet" ''Home and So
ciety, "'Books and Authors at Home, ""Etch-
ings, Tomorrow is st. Valentines Day." by
Addie Ledyard.
The readers of this magazine must have
already recognized as one of its most at
tractive features the story of ''Wilfrid Cum
bermede," by George Macdonald. This
writer has already taken front place in the
ranks of living novelists, and there are few
among his compeers who better deserve an
extended popularity. Macdonald is essen
TALLY poet, and it is the glamour OF poetry
pervading his writings that constitutes their
principal charm. The story of "Wilfrid Cum
bermede," SO far as it has progressed, i'm
presses us as one of the best, if not the best,
that has yet proceeded from his pen, and we
hope that its serial publication in Scri5ner's
Monthly will have the effect of making large
of Al
merits of certainly the most original fiction
writer of the day. The other contributions
in the number of the magazine before us
present an entertaining variety of reading
matter.
From Something about Balloons, " by j.
r. Thompson, we take this description of the
first balloon voyage:-
But the time had now come for the first
aerial voyage, and this was magnifcently per-
formed by the intrepid RoZiers, who had
zealously taken up the subject of aerostation
from the earliest announcement of Mont
golfers success, and the Marquis d'Arlandes,
fine gentleman of the Court, who wrote an
Interesting account of the perilous and un-
precedented trip. The balloon of the Marquis,
which was inflated with heated air, and not
with hydrogen gas, far exceeded our modern
balloons IL magnifcence of decoration and
elegance of equipment and must have pre-
sented splendid appearance as it rose above
the temples and columns of Paris in the
lovely October sunset. 1t made the entire
circuit of the capital, passing over the boule-
wards and lowering always in sight of the vast
crowds of wonder-loying Parisians. nov
fairly intoxicated by the brilliant spectacle
There were eyes that marked its course with
other feelings than gratiied curiosity or un-
reasoning delight Among the faces turned
upward to the sky above Paris on that 2Ist
of October, 1888, was Benjamin Franklin's.
Henceforward for many months all France,
SO soon to become conyalsed in revolution,
went wild upon the subject of balloons. AS
tensions were made in every part OF the
kingdom, and hundreds of people OF both
sexes earnestly begged a seat in the car. 1t
was doubted only by the judicious few that
the navigation of the air was uia rat accom-
pi, or that men might 60 where they pleased
with the speed of the wind. The Due de
Chartres, afterwards Orleans and the notori-