The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-01-15

The ALDISE.-Every cultivated American
should feel pround Of such snperb national pub
licstion THI ALprSE The first number for
the year, January, 1874, opens with such bril-
liant promise, we shall be astcnished at no
achievement which may he accomplished hereaf-
ter. The press of the New World agrees in pro
nouncins The ALDiSE the finest organ of art and
literature ever issne,I; and the January number
is wsrler Of beauty aud a marvel of lterzture.
The fsa page illustrations. consist, first of an
exquisite tint;s A. Show scene, by Thomas Moran,
of New Years Morning in England, with the
parishoners saluting the pastor in front OF the
porch Of the church. The drawing Of the trees
is excellent, while the snow effects are true as
nature. The second full page picture is grand
and magnificent view Of Maore's Lake in the
Rocky Mountains of Utah. the highest Lake in
America. This sketched an the spot by
Thomas Moran, and as a rare view of American
scenery i. alone worth the price of the magazine
The third Of these great pictures is The Irish
Schoolmaster," after Nicol, by John S. Davis, \
very clever and characteristic drawing Of race
Of Pe'lagsgues which once fourished in Ireland.
The fourth whole page picture is a view of Fair
field, Conn.,, hy kruseman Van Eiten-a quiet
New England landscape, with hills, dales, a riv-
er nestlfns village, etc. The other illustrations
in this number are two wanderfnl drawings of
Rocky Menisisin scenery, by Thomas Moran, of
SprinsviHes Canon in Utah-a stupendious and
frightful mountain. gorge; and Columns Butte,
in kannarro Canon-a mass of red sandstone,
two Thousand feet HIGH in the midst Of nnpar-
allclcd scenery. Gustave Dore furnishes two
wonderfully drawn pictures. depicting scenes in
the Bible; Christ BLESSING the Children" and
"The Descent from the Cross" The first is full
Of beauty and Iouvelness; the second is touching
in its sorrow, and grand in its sublimity. Bury
ing the Pet Bird, is sweet picture, after Miss
VI. f. Edwards, full Of rare bloom and SORROW for
the little songster. The German artist, Rossler,
has cosy interior, suggestive of home and love,
called "A Familiar Air" There is still another
picture, "wiId Flowers" which gracefully COM
pletes the long list of illustrations The literary
c.ntcnts of the January ALDISE equals that of
the .ihaafio Monthly or Blackroods-the best and
most interesting which can be found, every para
graph being original. Mrs. Elizaberh Akers Al
len, the popular poet, has charming song, pref
tily named "a Winter Rosebud" Rev. Samurl
W. Duffield, of Michigan, contributes little gem
of a song; William Whitman Bailey publishes a
graceful and seasonable poem "The SnOw -Flake;,
Lima Hayden, new writer, puts Thorwaldsen's
bas-rrliefs-" Day and Night" into a weIl-execrI-
ted poem; Annie +. Bradley sings of I" Soul Days"
and Mary A. =. Stansbury, in n poem called
" Holly yhocks," congresses whole love romance.
as sweet and rustic as any in the language. The
department of romance is well filed. Mrs. Julia
c. X. Dorr has an artistic and entertaining story
entitled Cinderella" which is not a fairly, but
is Vermont story. Fenno Dsuglas is the au-
thor of q well-written Swiss story, entitled,
Showing on Pilatus." Chara Broughtou, sis
ter Of the editor Of Harpers Ueekly, tells the sto
ry of" Ghostly Lodging" The miscellaneous
articles, all prepared for THE AIDINE, consist of
an account of "The Siamcse Now Years Day.
by Mrs. A. II. Leonowens, the popular authoress;
a paper on "The Esthetical among Brates," by
Rev. +. Il. Goulding, of Georgia; and editorial
articles by DIR. Fuller-walker on "The Irish
School Master Utah Scenery" Fairfield, Con-
uecticut," Dorc's Bible pictures, the death of
Sir Edwin Lanilseer, r. A., and "a Familiar
Air" In Music :" The italian Opera is written
about; in Art, glance is taken at the work in
progress by American painters and sculptors;
while in Literature, there are reviews of the
poems of W. ID. Howells, Laura C. Rcd,lsn, and
Henry Morford, notice of childrcu's books, AMI
of the new medical work by DIR. ] V. c. Smith.
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