New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-02-27

The Editorial Departments are unusually
full and important.
The Easy Char discusses, among other
things, our system Of penal discipline
topic Just now especially inviting the public
attention. The Scientific Record has a large
number of very interesting and important
articles. The Editors Historical Record, in
addition to a full summary Of the months
history, has nearly ten pages devoted to ed
ucationa subjects. The "London Scrap
Book" IA part Of the Drdeer) contains
characteristic description Of Covent Garden,
with six illustrations.
TIE GALAXY for March is on hand, and con
tains the following articles: The Wetherei
Affair. Chap. MIL, XIV, Nv, and WI.
| By j. W. De Forest; Artemisia, by Barbara
O'Brien; Casual Cogitations. Ill. Our
Mercantile Spirit. ". The Labor Qaes-
ton" By Carl Benson \ Sonnet on SON
nets, by T. W. Parsons; Life on the Plains,
| b. General G. A. Custer; Whether / Love
| Thee. From the German. By c. p. Cranch
/ The Antcher. Parts l. and II. BY |. ).
/ Turgenef; Views Abroad. French Living.
| By Albert Rhodes; Abiit Ad Majores, by
/ ". l.. Alden; \ Nagabond Heroine. Chap
! ter VI. By Mrs. Edwards; Waiting, by
| Mary l.. Ritter; Recollections OF Horace
/ Greeley, by Thurlow Weed; LIES Afu-
ence, by Mary Il. Dodge; My Step-daushter,
/ by Ella Williams Implora Pace, by Bayard
/ Taylor; Wanderings. Part III. Society in
I ~ / oily Rlan.l Nurf,lks | - A
surance Women as Inconstants, by Junius
Henri Browne; Drift wood, by Phillip Quill
| bet: |. Plays and Players. ,. Johnny Cra-
paud and Oncle sam; Scientific Miscellany:
/ l. Scientific Advice to Providence. ;. SAM
tary Water Pipes. 3. Cerebro-Spinal Men
nights. I. Is Intellectual Labor Transfer
nation Of Heat. Remains of the Polished
Stone Age. G. Microscopic ENacttude. :.
Guarana. 5. Physiological Action of To-
bacco. . The Tarantula. 10. Poisonous
Action of Putrid Blood. IL. Primitive Man.
u. Sand-Engraying on Glass. IL. Dyeing
with Indigo. Ii. Scientific Items Current
Literature The Galaxy Club-Room: /. Pro-
tessional Metaphors; Nebule, by the Editor.
The Kansas Magazine entered upon its
third volume with the January number, 1873.
1t is the truest and best exponent of Western
culture. 1t makes a speciality Of Western
sketches and stories, and endeayors to pre-
sent truthful conception Of the character
and life of the men of the frontier. The aim
of its conductors will be, to make it a monthly
visitor to families, professional and business
III -. -,
in the Middle and Western States.
The dme-novel idea unfortunately too
widely disseminated-of the great West, will
find no place in its pages. The East has long
possessed its own peculiar literature, and one
of which her people may be proud a litera-
ture, very different, indeed, but not the less
interesting, is growing up west Of the Mis-
sissippi The Kansas Magazine hopes to aid
in this task, and not unworthily. Its past
success affords a very strong encouragement
for the future, and no pains will be spared to
present to its patrons, monthly, all that
they desire to see in publication of the kind
Terms-Single numbers, 3J cents yearly
subscription, $500. Clubs-Two copies,
800; five copies, $1,000; ten copies 5000 !:
and each additional copy $500.
For every club Of twenty subscribers an
additional copy will be furnished free.
The -iHGaitic Monthly for March, 1873, con-
tains The Quarrel Of Jefferson and IIamil-
ton, by James Parton The Madonna Of the
Future, by II. James, Jr.; The Able Cali
ana, by Edward Rowland My Sparrows, a
Poem, by Kate Hillard Robert Owen at
New Lanark, by Robert Dale Owen; Best,
a Poem, by Rose Terry; A Good Word for
Quacks, by Edward Spencer; Life Under
Glass, by George A. shove; IIeartbreak
Hill, Poem, by Celia Thaxter A Chance
Acquaintance, by W. d. HowelIs John
Reeds Thoughts, Poem, by Bayard Taylor
Recent Literature, Art, Music, Science, Pol
tics.
A Voice from Hu,pa's Fe7y.-A narrative
Of events at IIarper's Ferry, under John
Brown, is now out in connection with the
life and death Of the last Of the John Brown
heroes Osborne L. Anderson. This nara
tive is sold for the support Of the aged father
of Anderson. 1t will be found valuable as
brief but truthful history Of the greatest event
in the history If slavery on TIL. continent
To be had at all booksellers.
OH Young Foiks for March is at hand AZ