Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-30
WRITER'S AND WRITINGS.
BEING PERSONAL AND CRITICAL


A. F. MATHEWS, as was to have been
expected, is furnishing the Leader with
very full and spicy local page.
GoDDY for the current month is good
number. AT least that is the verdict of
its lady readers and to their judgment
we always defer in matters pertaining to
dress or fashion. Louis A. Cooley,
Philadelphia. -f.a
THE September number of Peters, Mu-
sical Monthly furnishes its full quota.-of
vocal and instrumental pieces. By pur-
chasing this issue, as we are informed
by the publishers, one gets, for only 80
cents, an amount of sheet music which
at regular rates could not be purchased
for less than $4.00. Certainly the out
lay is small enough for all to test the as
sertion. J. l.. Peters, 500 Broadway, N.
Y.
''Patent outsides" seem to be falling
off in public favor. At least the cum
ions' are beginning to offer especial in
ducements" to their patrons by way of
prepaid express charges and in various
other ways show that they feel the COM
ing charge. A fraud and swfndle, the
present decline in popularity is simply
the natural reaction that was to be eX-
pected and which we trust will continue
until the last of the hybrid creations
shall have disappeared.
"THAr Engineer" by Mary Hartwell,
'fMax Kroner" !" Goods Ways;" "Fens-
ter Gucken," German story by Prof.
Selah Howell; "Choice of Colors," a
pretty character sketch by II. Fl. Helen
Hunt?) "John Stephens Pericardeum
humorous story by Eleanor Kirk ;'"The
Haunted Cask," by j. Chambers; !;
"Misery Jippean," by the editor, and a
number of short tales, poems and
sketches make mp an entertaining table
of contents for the September number
of Woods Household Magazine now DIT
hand. Appropos of this publication we
learn that the firm of S. S. Wood & Co.,
dissolved in March last, the Co. IS. E..
Shutes, Mayor of Newbnrgh,) retaining
possession of the magazine, and recall
ing Ii. V. Osborne (Tenoroon) as editor.
So, though the publication really chang
ed hands, it has not suffered from the
management of new publisher or new
editor, but under the redoubled efforts
of it's energetic proprietor, has gained
new force and new attractiveness. Price
only one dollar year, Address, Woods
Household Magazine, Newburgh, N. Y.
The Aldine for September is artistic
ally fine number. All of the illustra-
tions are good and some of them of even
superior merit. The three views of
Rocky Mountain scenery, as given by A
F. Bunner, are fine specimens of art,
but the following full page engraving,
ssThe Blue Bird,'' lacks so much in
meaning and expression as to reduce
even its engraving to a level below me-
diocrity. "Brookside Willows" by John
Hows, and "Who is it," by Mary A.
Hallock, are excellent, howeyer-the
latter, especially, being good style OF
art now becoming very popular in this
shape of illustrations for the fairy le-
gend of the "Sleeping Beauty are, as
might be expected, exquisite in design
and wonderful in the effects produced
There are also several other illustrations
which would be worthy of notice else
where but which, appearing in this
work, are hardly to be considered as de-
serving special notice. AS usual there
is too little attention paid to the literary
part of the Aldtne and it is tine more tC
. be regretted because of its almost uni
form excellence in its art productions
Possibly the present number appears to
serve rather better naenGge than usual
and it is to be hoped that the publish
, ers will render any improvement in
this department a permanent change
, With the we'll earned reputation of be
ing the best executed, geographically
, of any magazine in this country, if no
4 in the world, its literary qualities ough
e to be on a par with its claim as an ex-
I ponent of art.
From the National Publishing Com
f pany of Cincinnati we have received the
t the Territories by John III. Beadle
! Quite probably the most attractive, a
e we'll as the most remarkable portion O
our country, is that which lies West o
the Mississippi. 1t is attractive to tn
emigrant, because it is to that region
: that he looks for home; to the studen
: of nature, because of the stupenduou
: marvels of creation in which it abounds
/. to the capitalist, because of it's wonder
- full capacity for producing wealth. 1t il
0 a land of grandeur, beauty and ro
Q nance. Among its interesting portions
s our old friend Beadle spent nearly fiv
!, years for the especial purpose of explor
Il ing the country. Setting out on foot
# he traversed the states of Iowa, Mime
# sofa, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, a
n we'll as Dakotah and the Indian Terri
:. tory; visiting in person all that wa
II worth seeing; examining the lands, liv
= ing and conversing with the people, am
% gaining for himself fund of informa
n ticn, based upon his own observation
. and discoveries. more extensive tha
y one man in a million can obtain. Th
% book is full of information and facts @