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5. G. w. Benjamin, whose article on the
Channel Islands delighted the readers of the
June number, in his Wanderings in Brittany
condenses volume of interes ling matter into
pages of this number, accompanied by twenty
thirty engravings.
Charles Rau continues his illustrated papers,
on the Stone Age in Europe. There is an Illus
tratedl humorous love tale, entitled The Story
OF Trombone; love story BY Virginia w.
johnson; A Palace of Cooweb; and Poems by
L. b. Aldrch and other popular writer's.
Edward Atkinson, in the ninth paper of the
First Century of the Republic series, gives
thoughtful and suggestive review of the devel-
op nent of American commerce.
John Bgelow continues his pitby comments
on Haytian Proverbs
The five Editorial Departments leave moth
ing to be desired by those readers who wish to
be informed as to the progress of science and
culture, or to be amused by the best of the
months gossip and anecdote.
The Atdine for June (No IS OF the current
series) has come to hand, and it may be called
one of the most substantial numbers of the
publication which has yet appeared. This fact
is especially notable in several of the ilIustra-
tons, Mothers Darling" the first, being a
perfect apotheosis of that hollest and most
self-sacrifcing of affections conveyed by the
name; while in two companion pictures ''The
Helping Hand" and Saved and Lost" the
story of mans spiritual peril and his only
abiding refuge is told most strkiDgly. Thee
tine pictures open the promised series of "Pc-
turesque Europe" in "a Wat ,rfall in the
Pyreuees," gem of Albert Rieger, the original
of which formed one of the leading art
attractions at Vienna in 1873-and two
charming ovals, "Surmont on the Rhone,"
and "The Heron's Rock" both from
picturesque Auvergne. The other full-page
picture of the number is a graphic Battle of
Bunker Hill, following out the patriotic Cen.
tennial series commenced three months ago;
and a handsome illustration of Scott the
drinking Stag" three noble views of Durham
Cathedral and portrait of Hon. Luther b
Wyman, of Brooklyn, make up the art-contents
of the umber.
In letter-press, we have story of the secer-
sion war "A Virginia Girls Experience at the
Fall of Richmond" of which part is given in
this numter. The novel of the Revolution,
''The Spur OF Monmouth" broadens and deep
freely enough to indicate wide fed before
the conclusion. Besides these, of prose- there
are little domestic story, 'The Belleuder
Difficulty" by Florsnce Allen the promising
daughter Of the lady who taught the world the
sweet words of Crock me to sleep, moth.
err pleasant paper on Germantown" by
Chandos Fulton; the first of scrappy series by
John Thompson Jr., on "Odd Personal Resem-
dances; careful papers on Bunker Bill," on
Music, Art and Literature. Then, and to con-
clude, we have the following poems THE
Mothers Darling" by John Hay Furuess; 'The
Best to Come" by Mrs. Susan Archer Talley
Weiss; "June Roses" by Alice Williams; One
Maideu's Way" by G. Woodward Hudson;
AMI ''The Brook of Kildare" by Sarah d.
Clark.
The first number of Vide Awake, the new
magazine for girls and boys is on our table,
aud wide awake it is too II is thoroughly
modern from cover to cover. The number
opens with an elegant frontispiece from the
dainty pencil of Mary A. Haock, followed by
poem, Wide Awake, from the pen of Mrs.
Louise Chandler Moulton which fairly fills
ones ears with the uproarious glee of a June
morning. The first serial, The Cooking Club
of Tu-Whit Hollow, by the editor Miss Far
man, is story quito out of the beaten track
The author has grand chances for fun, and for
some sharp doruestic lectures. The White
Chrysanthemums, by Mrs. Moulton, is an ex-
quisite little story, and as exquisitely illus
trated by w L. Sheppard. A Poets Home by
Hezekah Butterworth is description, accom-
panied bg an illustration we are glad to look at,
Of Longfellog's home. There is an entertain
ing paper, full Of pictures, concerni ig A Queer
People, the people of old japan. Yellow .ck.
cts Fright. by Mrs. Sol Eytinge, is something
much better than fairy story and full of the
fun that really exists, no doubt, among the
lower races of creatures. Toms Opinion is an
English serial of school-boy life, well-written
and dramatic. A Baby Lion, by Patty King
man, Is accompanied by two full-page pictures
that Will delight the baby men and women,
Young Rick, by Julia A. Eastman promises to
be quite as full of roickng fun and vivid char
acterization as anything Miss Alcott has ever
written. Other brief paoers follow: A True
Story, Nu-Er-Ching, Cry-baby Joe, eto Tho.
editorial departments are good. Miss Ella Far.
man, the editor, is one of onr rising writers,
and her work upon this number clearly indi-
Gates the possession of that varied talent need
full to conductor of childrens magazine
George Macdonald's Double Story is begun in
the supplement-.
The best of our American writers have prom
ised contributions to the magazine. Price $500
per annum. d. Lothrop & Co., publishers,
3S and 40 Cornhill, Boston.
The numbers of The Liying Age for June 18th
and 10th, contain The Covenanters, Charles
and Argyle, from the Contemporary Rev-w:
Gaspard de Coligny from the British Quarterly
Review; Parts VIII and TX of the Abode of
Snow, from Blackwood; Eton Thirty Years
Since, from Macmillan; Isaac Casaubon from
Backwood; TheDean of Chester on Fashion;
An Italian Spring in England; and the
| Esthetc Notifications of Dissent, from the
| Spectator; The Success of Humbugs. Saturday
| Review; The Future of Europe, Pail Mall Ga
zette. With instalments of Fated to be Free
| by Jean Iugelow; Three Feathers, by William
| Black, aud the Marriage of MORA Fergus, and
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