Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
APRIL MAGAZINES.

HARPER's MACHINE for April offers
fresh attractions TO all classes of read
ers. 1t opens with beautiful narra-
tive by Miss Constance F. Woolson,
amply and fiuely illustrated, ofa SUM-
mer tour among the mountains of Wes-
tern North Carolina. The grand pic
turesque scenery on the French Broad
River is here graphically portrayed by
pen and pencil, and there are numer-
Gus er-sketches-alwaysa prom
inent features in HarpeT's descriptive
articles. The Sixth Paper of the First
Century Series is contributed by the
Hon. David A. Wells, and is an able
and comprehensive review of our pro-
gress during the century in Manufac-
ture.- A Lew and very important Sc
ries of papers is commenced in this
number, entitled The Stone Age in
Europe and prepared by an eminent
larCh3ologist, Prof. ChaS. Rau. The
NEST entertaining and novel feature of
this Number is the Hon. s. S. Cox's
paper on American Humor, which. is
Enthusiastically illustrated. Mr.. Cox
makes his readers laugh while he is
telling them ,chy they laugh. James
Parton continues his series of papers on
Caricature, dealing this month with
'Caricatures of the Reformation The
two serials, Rape of the Camp and
Miss Angel are continued; and there
are also three capital short stories. The
poems of the NumLer are by r. III.
Stoddord, Titus NJ. Coan, viii Wal
lace Harney, and Louise Chandler
Moulton. The Easy Char recurs to
the moral of Jefferson's Rip Van Win
kle,' and chats in characteristic vein
about the Greville Memoirs, st. Val
entine's Day, and the sincerity OF true
courtesy. The Scieutifc Record is very
comprehensive in its summary of sci
entific progress, and the Drd,cer con-
tains some hitherto unpublished anec-
dotes of President Lincoln.
SCRIBER's, e.. MoNTHLY.-One who
seems to know writes as follows about
Scribner for April: Miss Mary A. Hal
lock, whose designs in Scribner's
Monthly, apd accompanying Longfei-
lows last poem, The Hanging of the
Crane,' have attracted Sd much atten-
ton, has charming design, delicately
engraved by Marsh, on the first page of
Scribner's for April. IG illustrates
'The Proud Lady of Stavoren,' poem
by Elizabeth AkerS Allen. Prot. Wells,
who writes about German Parliaments,
was himself victim of the famous
March Revolution in Berlin, while
a student in the University OF that ci-
ty. This pleasant paper has historic
as we'll as personal interest. In the
same number of the Monthly Col. Wa
ring gives us a chatty and pleasant
Farmers Vacation paper; the subject
being 'Hollow-land.' The first of the
illustrated series of papers on Ameiri-
can cities is also given; Mr.. Edward
King writing enthusiastically about
Baltimore, which he styles The Liver
pool of America Mr. -Rideing's arti-
Gle on 'Death-DeaIing Trades should
he read by everybody-especially the
lawmakers. DIR. Hollands STORY of
Sevenoaks' gives US a glimpse of camp
life in the woods, and shows us Mr..
Belcher as a confidential friend, and
speculator; and Jeles Verne's people
keep moving in their mysterious way.
There are poems by Julia G. r. DOrr,
Harriet McEwen Kimball, and B. F.
Taylor-the latter pleasantly sugges-
ting;sOme familiar pictures of country
life under the title of The Psalm-Bo
in the Garrett DR.. Hollands Topics
are Our Newspapers THE Overcrowd-
ed Cities and BY their Fruits The
EditoIial Departments are unusually
full, and the EtchingS cover more
ground than ever before. 4