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Literary Notices


engraving of Lord Duferin. Governor
General Of Canada, which is accompanied
with n very full and useful sketch Of his
life, The literary contents embrace some
fifteen articles, In which solid information
and sound instruction are combined, with
reading of light and entertaining char.
acter, appropriate to the season.
Published by H. II. Pelton, l0S Full
ton street, New York. Terms, So year;
two copies, Sc. Single number, As cents.
ST. NICHOLAS FOR AUGUsr-Is an ex-
cellent shot weather number. 1t con-
contains 1.-The affair of the 'Sandpiper, ."
story Of adventures on the water, by
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; IA Whaleman's
Ghost" story of the ocean, by j. Ii.
Woodbury.; and even poem, telling in a
very quaint and amusing way, "How a
Little Bird went to Sea-" There arc
large instalments fthe two serials, "Fast
Friends" aud What might have been
expected" Natural History receives a
good deal ofattentiOn in this number. The
Geological Gardens of London are de.
scribcd, with eight pictures of their occu-
pants. Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm contrib
utes "Willie's Little Brown Sister" q
sketch Of the far West; and Mrs. A. NJ.
Diaz has a thoroughly New England
sketch, "The Moving of the Barn." with
funny amateur pictures. The poems, sin
Summer Time" and 1.-The Little Doll that
Lied" arc each marked b. a peculiar
quaint humor that will be sure to make
them widely read and quoted, and the
first is most cxquisitely illustrated from
the author. Besides all there is beauti.
full fronIispiece.
--Scribner's invites to an instructive
jaunt over Georgia and Alabama with
King and his artist and reveals lost
art ir the leaning edifices of Pisa, intro
duces the reader to Whitelaw Reid of the
Tribune, with a portrait and sketch,
and, under the guidance of Kate Field, to
"Our Mutual Friend" The rccollections
Of Charles Sumner, begun in this number
by his private secretary, A. B. johnson,
are interesting. Trafton brings her
"Katherine Earle" by an old-fashioned
expedient to the crisis of marriage there
is bit more Of Verne anoth her chapter
of Stoddard's pleasant talk about authors
ancestors, story called "Cinnabar City,"
and some TRANSACTIONS from Martial by
Sake. DR.. Holland discusses Sumner
and Prof Swing.
-Harper's Magazine for August con.
tans seventy sight capita! illustrations,
aud in its illustrated articles is as charac.
teristcally American as was the July
Number. Here we have both the sea and
tie mountains--the former in Junius Hen
ri Brownies brilliant pictures of Newport,
profusely and beautifully illustrated, and
the latter in +. 6. Mather's minute and
interesting description of the Green Mcun-
tains and Lake Memphremagog. Lyman
Abbott, in an illustrated article, entitled
1.-The American Railroad" gives q gra.
phic and interesting description of a rail-
road from its inception through all the
stages of its construction, and shows how
the Institution is operated. "The Living
Link" is concluded. This is to be follow.
ed by serial story, Grape ofthe Camp"
illustrated by Fredericks, the artist, who
in the present lumber illustrates Mr..
Stoddard's striking poem. The Editorial
Departments are as comprehensive and in
teresting as usual.
The GALAXY" for August contains
contributions by Justin Mccarthy, Albert
Rhodes, Henry James, Jr., G. p. Lathrop,
Richard Grant White and others.
An article upon musical precocity gives
some account Of the marvellous perform
ances of certain musical prodigies at the
tender age of two or three years. While
some of these, including Mozart and Pag-
amin, reached distinction in after life,
many who gave early indications of rare
genius, developed afterwards into merely
mediocre musicians and composers, or
failed to be heard from at all in the must.
cal world.
"Broken Idol is a sketch Of the early
campaigns of McClellan and Lee, evident
y from the pen Of an army officer, and
goes to show that neither was at all capa.
Bile Of commanding an army.
An entertaining article entitled "How
They Lived before the Revolution, speaks
Of the Occupations, amusements, fashions,
and primitive modes Of living. of our de-
mure ancestors. Besides the above arti-
Giles there are several stories and poems
and the usual departments Of Science,
Literature and current gossip.
The papers most read in the August