Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-12

What Tile Grui,hic is among English magazines,
The .fliine is among American magazines, the
difference in point OF artistic excellence being
generally in favor of The .4diae. 1t Is certainly
so in the July number of the latter, the illuetra-
tons of which are Of a more varied character
than any hitherto published The fullrPase front.
ispiece, !Patriotc Education" by =. Beard, Is
spirited realization Of Fourth of July night. 1t
represents a buxon little lady, holding blazing
Roman candle. facinatcd by, but afraid Of, itf
spouting sparks, Her father stcadies her hand,
while her brother looks on admiringly, with more
fireworks, and waits his turn to show what he
eau do. Facing this is liking Witlaf's Drinking
HoFn." by A. Kapps, group of jovial monks
who have evidently mortified the Ac3h with the
best that their refectory affords, and whose thirst
appears to be unquenchable. Then come two
mountain pictures, "View in the Surenen Pass,
Switzerland" and 1.-The Lotfier Fcak, Tyrol,' and
anotherl full-page illustration, "A Shipwreck on
the Coast of DIcppe,'' after r. Weber. From John
s. Davis we have ''Blowing Hot and Cold, q
charming glimpse of chld-lifc, to which the en-
gravcr has not done full justice; and from c. +
Townsend, ''Puss Asleep likeness Of Cat a.
fine in its way his famous dogs head iu the
March Ahline. The Ahiine possesses advan.
zinc can claim 1t is hampered by no traditions
which it must support, and II has laid out no
specially to which it must adhere; consequently
it is what its editor chooses to make it. We can
never predict fIom one number what another will
be except that it Will be igood, with most likely
some new feature. The feature of tho July num-
Der is Mr.. w. l.. Alden's 'After the COMET 1t
clames to DO lecture read before the New York
Historical Society in 1882, and to DO a vcritable
ecord of great catastrope that befel the cart h
sixty years before. We smile ut the notion. of
course, but we read on the verismilitudc of this
record and its circumstaniality of details, puzzle
and startle us. When did all this happen! we ask
for surely it must be true. The hoax is as clever
as anything that Poe ever wrote. In the shape Of
fiction there is agreef bic story" En- MINIATURE"
a translation fyom the German of Ellie PolkO, by
Mrs. NJ. A. P. Humphreys; I'm the Garden.
chaity eittlo sketch by Betsy Drew; and the THE
Sccissof Family" by Lolly Dink's Mother. From
Charles Dawson Stanley we have pleasant pa
per on ''Trout Fshing;" from Julian Hawthorne
a characteristic essay on shadows" and from
Miss. Z. b. Leonard, a womanly plea on woman
in Art-Rosa Bonheur." The editorials are as
bright and fresh as ever, patriotism and Powder"
being as sensible as it is seasoaabe, and :Puss
Asleep" and "December and May" models OF
light chatty writing. Mr.. Henry Morford contrib
utes striking poem, 1.-Two Queens in Westmia-
ster;, Mr.. W. W. Bailey, an airy little lyric,
ssThistla Down. and Henry Richards an uprhym-
cd and apparently faithful version Of'"rwO Gazels
Of Hafiz" The subscription prise is $500 per an,
mum which includes a superb OIL Chrome, and
the publishers are James Sutton & Co., - Liberty
Street, MY,