Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-02-12
PERIODICALS.

l|g- ne iRyTtcdH fIrfE<f or ftuThaES
comes to hand we'll laden with a rich freight
Of matter not only readable but Instructive and
directly practical Prominent features in this
issue are ,eports from numerous active farmers
clubs correspondence from every quartc-. in
Cluding letters on agriculture from Germany
and France; instructions for making super
phosphatcs on the farm letters on sheep hns-
bauirv u yery full horticultural department,
embracing fruit and vegetable growing. the
cultivation of flowers, DC. valuable paper
giving detailed account of ;he mode OF ralS-
ing early potatoes hy the tTtfckers of Southeas-
tern Virginia: fish culture, with instructions
for making irou, ponds on the farm, Sc Eve
ryihing in the number, indeed, is substantial
and adapted To our intelligent farmers, who
cannot go amiss in subscribing for this useful
farm journal the price of Shich, including
postage, 81 so year, or only Si.lO each to
clubs of five or more.
The Aldine for February. is75 (No. II Of the
current series, the publishers seem 10 prefer
calling III, leaves th" reader little in doubt
whether the impression created by the previous
number-that 10 wa> IA triiie better especially In
variety, than could be Kept up as nh average
was indeed well founded. For the February
number i quite the equal of the January III
variety. and II has one or two features OF even
rare excellence. ATtistically, there are few bet
{. r drawings. and scarcely any better wood
picture bS Peter Moran quite worthy of Land
Seer in b best days, with which the number
opsns The late John A. Huws supplied Just
before his death. the three exquisite Views of
the Conemaugh," which follow: and not even he
ever did any better work than some of the rock.
tree and water elahorafions Of these fine pictures
Two Pleasant Occupations, and THE Forum
ate Moment. are companion pieces, after
rural love-stoIy Of which the didiae has before
given more than one charming glimpse by the
same artist Hunting the stag" Is n noble fuli-
page picture well conveying that grand sport In
the costumes and manner of the olden time and
"a singularly well-drawn little picture, without
name, but showing two girls rolling about on the
summer graSs,--and three views of oddly beauti-
full Peterborough Cathedral, one of the hand
soonest i'll England,-make up the art-contents
ol me hninoer, really perfect enough, well to
warrant the secondary name the Art Journal
of America.
The literature of the number. meanwhile, quite
Keeps pace with The pictures, in excellence and
variety. The leading paper, in many regards, il
what promises to be the first of "a series, called
secret Facts In History by Walter Pleydcil
Earle, of London-the opening paper after an in
PRODUCTION, dealing somewhat startlingly with
the question: Nv no was the Real Lady Mac
bcth?" such n series III papers, II pursued W tn
the same care ana inrct, may make more at
tractive allure in the .ifjirie than even the putt
servatism in n leader: Letting Things Alone
n Lost Art OF the Present, over which there will
probably be nearly a. many conflicting views as
readers, while the subject Is certainly worthy of
short sketch by Mrs. NJ. +. Butts, is singularly
fainter's f W Mantle" by Alice d. Wilde; Vestiges M
OF summer by Jenny Burr: About Weeds, =
by W. W. Bailey: charles summers Art Lee
gacy," by Earl Marble; very quaint and enjoy
able continuation OF the serial story Lost Lillian
i;racy :" and papers on Music Art. and Literature.
make up fun Justification of our charge of in
fnite variety" OF rhy mes, there is equal variety,
in poem somewhat long and full of odd interest,
MY Early Iirtl." by Henry Morfori; "Queston-
ing the New Year tsomething that many per-
sons doing, just now, by Mary i, Brine;
| songs in sleep, by Wm; c. Richards: THE New
and the Old by Ettie Rogers; and "A Midwin-
ter sicrenade.' by d. L. Paine The opinion is
worth repeating, that the -fidine in this new
issue well keeps mp to the standard of January
and no higher praise is needed.
The Aldine Company has determined to estab-
iish an Art Union, similar to the well-knOwn
Art Union in England. and distribute its works
of art, both sculpture and paintings, which are
constantly collecting among its subscribers.
Art premiums, valued at $3.50, will be dstribut-
ed among each series of 5000 subscribers Sub
scrption tickets at So each entitle the holder to
the IlIine for a year, to the new chrome, and to
ticket in the distribution of art premiums. The
.tLDINE COMPANY, publishers. No. ~ Maiden
Iapp New York CITY