The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-01-27
LITERARY.

The most notable contributions to
Scribner's MontAly for February, are
Major Powel's strikingly illustrated
Colorado paper Stedman on some
of the latter-day British Poets !:
Blauvelt's essay. "Christ's Super
naturalism, Scientifically Consider
ed = and sketch, with portrait, or
Theodore Thomas and his art work,
nv J. II G. Hassard. Three adj
ditional chapters of DR.. Hollands
STORY Of Sevenoaks" are given
jules Verne's Mysterious Island
is continued: and SAKE IIolm's my
ToRrmaline'' is concluded. Noah
Brooks tells about " Miss Patty
Gibson's Strange Adventure !" there
is another installment Of Some Old
Letters" through which we have
glimpses Of London society Of forty
years ago; and Mr.. Fairfield con-
clndes his essay on Spiritualism.
with some references to the phe
nomenon of Standardization" This
number opens with poem by Louise
Chandler Moulton, illustrated by
Mary A. Hallock. There are poems.
also, by Z. w. Bourdillon, Mary L.
Ritter, James Maurice Thompson,
and others.
In Topics of the Time DR.. Hol-
land discusses ''Theaters and Thea
ter-going," Temporal and Spirit
ual,' and Reform in High Places"
The Old Cabinet has to do with
Z" The Modern Quality in Ancient
Verse;" and 1.-The Distinction be-
tween Prose and Poetry In addi-
ton to these, the editorial depart
ments have a number of brief prac
tical and critical papers, and mark
ed feature of Etchings'' is the re-
production Of several of Thackeray's
recently published pencil sketchs.
The frontispiece of, the February ST
NICHOLAS is a remarkably well-executed
wood engraving, from Sir Edwin Land
seer's picture of "The Marmosets ;" Sew
eral well-knOwn writers are represented
by short stories. Rebcca Harding Davis
has an interesting story founded on the
old fable of 1.-THE Fox and the Raven, J"
and in which a Yankee trader and the
son of an Indian chief persOnatc the re-
dents in the career of certain Birch
Bark Boy" are narrated by Isabel Francis
and the " boy " himself is shown in a
picture by Eytinge. Lucretia p. Hale
gives another bit of delightful anecdote
about the famous ''Peterkin" family !;
and Mary 4. Hallock contributes a story
and large illustration drawn in that
beautiful style in which she is surpassed
by no artist in the country.
I, - L.,
tines has not been forgotten, and the
number contains valentine story by
Susan Coolidge, and an article, by
Alexander Wainwright, describing the
manufacture and the different styles Of
those dainty little missives, together
with few hints for making them in an
easy and economical way.
Another practical sketch, entitled
s. How Dolls are Made, " is written by
Olive ThOTne, and sets forth in detail the
various changes and experiences in the
life of wax doll, which is really an
eventful one; while w. III. Rideing's
account of % Chimney-Sweeps, Past and
Present, and John Lewees' sketch of
the great traveller, Nambery, are admira
BILE descriptive articles
Among the poems, there are two which
are quite fanciful: 1.-THE Coal-Imp, by
G. p .Cranch, and The Fairy Wedding,
by Mary A. Lathbury; each accompanied
with an illustration designed by its au-
thor.
6T. NICHOLAS also gives in this number
the ''Ice-boat Song" from % Hans Brink
err" set to fine music by George J. Huss.
The serials by Louisa NJ Alcott and
J. T. Trowbridge progress favorably,
and the fortunes of 81 Rose" among her
Eight Cousins" and of 90 Jack" among
the Western settlers, are likely to prove
equally interesting.