The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-02

Tbs .ftdiae for August part 20 of the
current series,l conveys more pleasure to
large circle of readers and art-lovers-
/ we may say TO as many thousands of the
| former, and to the whole array of the lat
| ter in America, than has ever been i'm
parted by any previous issue. Net that
| it excels all former issues Though in that
regard it is certainly more perfect and
welcomel-but that in its appearance, 50
| little while after the time when i. would
have been in our hands, the late calamity
unknown, we have the strongest assUr
( ancc that both the motto on one SIDE of
! the cover: "EX fumo, luciS," t"From
/ smoke, light.0 and the defiant flame sur
rounded figure Of the Phenix on the other,
mean something practical and detormin-
! ed, and mean that at once. Knowing the
necessary dclicacy of much of the ma
chincry and many Of the arrangements
made use Of m producing 50 perfect 4
| work of I5onthly ant as The -iliiHe, there
! was good reason 10 fear that, if the ca
/ lamity was not sufficient to break up the
enterprise, we should yet be compelled
to endure some months Of interval, or the
/ acceptance for a time of something very
unlike our magnificent art journal. Moth
! ing % the sort, as the appearance Of the
| August number, only ten days behind its
/ time, well assures Us. Tie -ilfiHeis not on
/ ~ 10 live but to live in full vigor and beau
/ IS, and to be, no doubt, eventually all the
| brighter for the scorching. So may it be!
for the art circles Of America and the
world are only more Interested in it, now,
| than the whole body Of readers who de-
/ sire something impossible 10 be met with
/ in any other direction or publication. n
| the present issue, artiStlcally, we have an
exquisite dark engraving, with the full
power of Steel, by Cole, after drawing
of John s. Davis from Bonnat-"A Moth
er of Egypt, "-brim full of the Nile per-
sonality and atmosphere; three fine pic
lures, in colt:nu.tion Of the series Of
/ Picturesque Europe" 49, "Maximilian'S
Tower Suubia, The Nuancry of Otti-
! licnbers, Arsatc," ana The Dole Q. St
/ Peter, Bohemian Wald;" Pictures of the
! Fire, " and "Thc Music Lesson, both by
LamoWeux, the fFSt with a marked re-
scmblancc 10 Paulira Lucca, and the sec
! ond with more thar suspicion Of Nilsson
| and two other stars in the IlGsical 1irma-
ment, u pretty little Early Sorrow by
! T. Cobb; bold original conception Of
Washington Taking Command'la Cam
BRIDGE; and two spirited domestic fam
| Cics of Patience and The Unbildcn
Guest" Litcrarily We have in poetry,
Bessie, "a swectly scnsuouS love song, by
George Douglas; a Mother of Egypt
| (doscriptiTcl: East Wind and west" by
T. Z. Brown; Modern righteousness. -"
a spicy bit, by Elizabeth \, Davis; RED
White and Blue" 4 pretty fancy by Mrs.
5. NJ. Damon; and I word Of justice to
the children. IN Fairly Sorrow" In prose
VIZ have I very valuable and instructive
paper, Better Acquaintance with Swift
zcrland," by Henry Nortord; "Wa>hing
tons Appointment and Taking Command
and much other editorial work Of interest
Cncluding some trenchant book rovicws;l
a graceful paper on Thought Travels,
by Grace Benedict; Troublesome Ser
wants Of Oh" by John Hay Furncss; m
odd glimpse OF The antique in "Prcs;cr
john" by Ella Rodman Church; Katy
Did" by W. W. Bailey; an interesting
paper on Handel; and neither last nor
least, scvcra! chapters of the Revolution
ary romance, The Spur Of Monmouth"
involving glintpses Of Major Andre, Sir
William Howe, anu Captain Adam Huylcr
the marine guerrilla. Certainly, with
this array, We have no occasion TO repeat
The pleasant assertion that The AtiiHt
has Il Quilted no feather either Of artistic
beauty or literary worth, i'll the late
"zcorchins" which :,iarmed so many Of
its wcll-wiShcrS