The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-24
ST. NICIIOLAa.

St Nicholas for April opens with at
article on the invention of printing. BY
Donald @ Mitchell. aud illustrated by .
large engraving of Guteuberg's statue a,
Strasburg. An article. entitled Life
Saving On Our Coast by William u
Rideiug, gives useful and highly inter
estipg account, Of how poor sbipwrecked
sailors and passengers are saved wher
they are thrown upon our coast for il
appears they are nearly always saved
Another useful paper is that upon Wood
Carving illustrated by working designs
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps contributes 0
short story called Taken at His Word,
finely illustrated by Sheppard. T. b
Aldrich has an account Of the infant vic
linist, James Speaight, ybich is full Of
pathetic interest there is The Church
Cock, a translation, from the Swedish Of
Topelius; Mrs Pomeroy's Page by Mr.,
Mary L Bradley The Wrong Bird,
by Paul Fort, story of the trouble u
little negro boy got into by going after
birds nests that we're bigger than him
self aud the conclusion of that real boy
story, Wrecked at Home by NOAH
Brooks. The poems are by Celia Thax
ter, Margaret Eytinge aud Mary A Lath'
bury. The latter illustrates her poem
which is curious conceit, showing how
old Mother Moon goes about after hci
little sters who stay up too late. The
three serials are increasing in interest
In Fast Friends there are adventures II,
boarding house in New York 10 MIN
pos Troubles the children get lot,
scrapes in Western village, and it
What Might Have Been Expected,
wonderful schemes are concocted in th,
backwoods Of Virginis. Jack -in.,he
Pulpit is unusually good this month
be fairly sparkles with fun and everybody
old, and young, will be sure to have
jolly laugh with Jack for April. Th,
Letter Box apd other departments ar,
full and interesting as usual.
scRIBsER's MONTHLY.
The April plumber of Scribner's cou
tains another generous installment of NJ
Kings Great South the subject thi
time being A Ramblc in Virginia, iron
Bristol to the Sea- The illustrations, u
usual, ale proiusc. Among the notabl
features OF the Dumber are the begiDniD,
Of Jules Verne's serial, The Mysteriou
Island; ; un essay by Augustus Blauvelr
author OF the articles on Modern Skepti
cism, entitled, 'Christ's Resurrection
Scientifically Considered : and timel
paper, by Miss Beedy, on The Healtl
and Physical Habits Of English an,
American Women Noah Brooks ha
an article Concerning some Impcria
Booty Tho new story.writer, Georg
W Gable, tells tale Of the Bellies De
moisclles Plantation Mrs Davis's seriu
is concluded, and Miss Trafton's is con
tinued. The number opens with a
illustrated poem by Benjamin +. Taylor
and there are verses by A R Macdonougt
John Fraser, j G II, Charlotte f Bates
and Edward King. DR.. Holland, i
Topics of the Time, writes abont julie
Verue's New Story The Taxation G
Church Property and Social Usages
The Ola Cabinet is concerted with 'VeI
acity Amateur Theatricals are practi
cally discussed in Home and Society, an
the other departments have their charaC
teristic variety.
EVERY SATURDAY
Published by Hurd & Houghton, Boston
maintains its old time excellence, and
one OF the best of the elective class c
journals. The number for March 2St
has the continuation Of His two Wive,
by Mary Clemmer Ames; Far from tn
Madning Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The College life of Maitre Nablot : Tn
Great World in France : The Story {
Burtops Loan : JchDsons Writings
jerry Donovan's Midnight Mass ) Nj
Gladstone's Translation OF Homer's .Shel
OF Achilles; Robert Buchanan's 'Maste
Spirits : Foreign Notes aud Editori,
Department.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
The following is the table Of content
of the Atlantic Morthly for April, froi
which it is apparent it is rich numbe
and deserving Of place 10 every house
hold /: Nose Evans by William
Baker; Prudence Pallrcy,' by Thoms
Bailey Aldrch, increase in power an
interest The April Atlantic runs fror
grave to COY, from lively to severe,
such articles az "A Modern Financi;
Utopia how it grew up and what be
came of it, BY David A. Wells /; 'BaC
deck and that sort OF thing by Charlie
Dudley Warner ; In Wermar with Listz
by an enthusiastic pupil 'Mistrals Ca
endau, by Harriet W Preston; 'Th
British Upper Glass in Fiction by Z
Nadal The Cohansey Tea.Fight,' b
Lucy Ellen Guernsey Life in the BacI
woods of Canada, by II b X. I'll
Poetry in the number is by Edmund
Steadmau, Christopher p Cranch, Elz
beth Stuart Phelps, aud others, and ii
departments Of criticism in recent liter
ture. art. and music, are especially iu
aud interesting Published at Boston
II. o. Houghtou & Co.
LITrELL : LIVING AGE.
The numbers of The Ltring Age Fl
the weeks ending Mrach ii and 81 ha'
the following noteworthy contents :
Henry Tboreau, the Poet, Naturalis
British Quarterly Revie'o; The FreuC
Press, part Ill. COrnhW Magazine
Meudelssohn, by Ferdinand Hitler, pa
IL, Macmillan's Magazine; A Chris
mas in India, FrGser's Magazine II
Acoustic Transparency and Opacity
the Atmosphere, Nature A Gold Goa
Tragedy, Saint Pauls; RecOllections
Visits to Ashistiel and A5botsiord, TIE,
pie Bar Winkelmann, Qaarterlg II
rieuc Three days in Sark, by Villa
Forsyth, Easer's Magazine The Ph
osopher's Baby. Blackvood's Magazine
: Gladstone's Ministry, Economist NJ
,, Gladstone as Force, Spectator; II
Two Speransky, page of Russian Of
o;al Jife. Bl1cIu0od's Ma0azine al