The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-12-02
The MonfhIies

| For November lie on our table, and furnish rch
literary treat The two leading Ones,-Harper IL
Scribuer-are full Of instructive articles. some OF
which are finely illustrated HaPerS opens with
one of those descriptive articles for which it is
famous, and in which the Bahama Islands are
sketched in the most attractive hues. Mr.. Con-
way contributes for another class Of readers q
second paper of his series on Decorative Art
and Architecture in England " i; a Chicago sports
man gives chapter of experience Among the
Water Fowl of the West" Emilio CASTELAR,, the
Spanish patriot. contributes his thirteenth paper
on the " Republican Movement in Europe" Of
which, valuable they are, readers must be get
ting little tired Some Talks of an Astrono-
mer" are continued, and are worthy of Proctor
in their popular style of putting the most inter
esting facts Of the science. Another specially
excellent paper is one giving bird's-eye view Of
1.-The First Century of the Republic" which is
history in its most palatable and digestbe shape.
lScy'i6neT's opening sketch ofthe Great South, by
Edward King, embraces some of the finest illustra-
tions ever produced IN a monthly. They are taken
from life and furnish perfect image of Southern
scenes and scenery, as any one familiar with Flor
ida and its people will coneede. Then follow two
or three readable contributions of prose and poe
try. after which we find "The Miracle of Lour-
des," described and illustrated by Charles Fair
banks; Mildred in the Library" excerpt
from DR.. Hollands new story in rhyme The
Mysterious Island" which Jules Verne describes
so plausibly " Richard Wager" by Franz Huef-
fer Z" My Tourmaline," the beginning of new
story by SAKE Holm; and a Recuections Of
Charles Sumner" second and very interesting
paper by Mr.. A. B. johnson, formerly Mr.. Sum-
ners private secretary.
The Atlantic contains several excellent poems
the last half of Mr.. James story of Eugene
Pickering -; two chapters of Mr.. Howell's serial;
a school sketch by Lucy Ellen Guernsey and
the story of slave woman, by Mark Twain
Charles Warren Stoddard gOssps of his expert
ences when he was travelling actor John Fiske
contrasts "Athenian aud American Life to the
disparagement Of American life Of turmoil, care,
overwork and neglected culture Robert Dale
Owen tells, in his interesting way, how he came
to study spiritual phenomena; George Cary Egg
gleston contributes his Rebels Recollections
of the war, which are entertaining and valuable
for the inside view they give of the Confederate
shell.
The Eclectic presents to its patrons a fine steel
engraving of Dean Stanley of England. Among
the articles are Prof TindalI's address before the
British Association at Belfast Woman Suf-
frage," reply to Goodwin Smith. by Professor
Coirnes an instructive article on Astronomy by
Professor Proctor, &C., &c.
For children never was such publication as
ST. Nicholas offered to them. The pictures are
as plenty, and pretty, as happy faces at picnic.
The reading matter is amusing, exciting instruc-
tive, varied, wholesome-everything but dull.
1t is wonderful where its editress, Mrs. Dodge,
finds SO many good things. She certainly was
"cut out to cater for juvenile readers. We adj
wise all our young friends to make her acquaint-
ance by securing this very attractive monthly.