The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-02
Come Again.

The AldiHe for August (part 20 of the current
series) conveys more pleasure to large circle OF
readers and art-lovers-we may say to many
thousands of the former, and to the whole array
of the latter in America,-than has ever been i'm
parted by any previous Issue. Not that 1t exeels
all former issues (though in that regard 1t is GER
tainly most perfect and welcome)-but that IN
its appearance, little while after the time
when it would have been in our hands, the late
calamity unknown, We have the strongest assur-
ance that both the motto on one side of the COW
er: "Ex lumo, lucis ~ ('From smoke, light y
and the defiant, fiame-surrounded figure OF the
Phoenix on the other, mean something praetlcai
and determined, and mean that at once. Know
ing the necessary delicaey OF much OF the MA
chinery and many of the arrangements made use
of in producing so perfect a work Of monthly art
as The AIdine, there was great reason TO rear
that, if the calamity was not sufficient to oreak
up the enterprise, we should yet be compelled TO
endure some months of interval, or the accept
ance for time of something very unlike our
magnificent art journal. Nothing OF the SORT as
the appearance of the August number, only ten
DAYS behind its time, well assures us. 1he dhdhe
is not only to live but to live in full vigor and
beauty. and to be, no doubt, eventually all the
brighter for the scorching. SO may 1t be!-for
the art-circles of America and the world are only
more interested in it, now, than the whole body
of readers who desire something impossible to be
met with in any other direction or publication.
In the present issue, artistically, we have an ex-
auisite dark engraving, with the full power OF
steel, by Cole, after a drawing of John S. Davis
Mnthar Of EUynt t-hrimful OF
the Nile personality and atmosphere; three fine
pictures in continuation of the series of epic tur-
esque Europe,"- "-''Maximifian's Tower, Suabia, y
''Tbe Nunnery of Ottilienberg, Alsace," and "Ihe
Dole of ST. Peter, Bohemian Wald ;" "Pietures
| in the Fire. and ''The Music Lesson" both by
Lamoureux the first with marked resemblance
| to Pauline Lucca, and the second with more than
a suspicion of Nilsson and two other stars in the
musical armament; pretty little early Sor-
row." by T. Cobb; bold original conception OF
Washington Taking Command" (at CambridgeG
and two spirited domestic fancies of Patience
and sSThe Unbdden Guest" Literarily we have,
| in poetry "Bessie," sweetly sensuOus lOve-sOng
by George Douglas "a Mother of Egypt" (de-
scriptive); EAST Wind and West" by +. E.
Brown "Modern Ingenuousness," spicy bit
| Dy EllZdDetu A. DdNlS, hou, anu DiuCj
pretty fancy by Mrs. S. NJ. Damon and word
of Justice to the children, in early Sorrow" In
prose we have a very valuable and instructive
paper, "Better acquaintance with Switzerland
by Henry Morford; "Washington's Appointment
| and Taking Command" and,much other edtori-
al work of interest, (including some trenchant
book reviews); a graceful paper on Thought
Travels" by Grace Benedict Troublesome
Servants of Old" by John Hay Furness; an odd
glimpse of the antique in "Prester John," by El
la Rodman Church "Katy-Did," by Wv. Bal
ley an interesting paper on Handel; and, nei'
ther last nor least, several chaptersof the RevO'
lutionary romance, "The Spur of Monmouth" in
volving glmpses of Major Andre, Sir William
Howe, and Captain Adam Huyler, the marine
guerrilla. Certainly, with this array, we have
no occasion to repeat the pleasant assertion that
The 1Idne has moulted no feather either of ar
tistic beauty or literary worth, in the late
''scorching" which alarmed so many Of its we'll
| wishers.