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Arthur IlOne NldSdLlHe, IoT
September, is also on our table. We
repeat that this is one Of the best and
cheapest magazines we receive, and
ought to be generally read by our
people. Great preparations are max
ing for new attractions for the next
year. Only $3.50 a year. Address
T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia.
People who really want a good
musical paper-one that is interest
ing from beginning to end, and that
will keep them posted in the musical
news of the country, besides also
furnishing a very select collection of
fresh vocal and instrumental music,
shout read the Song Messenger, pub
lished by The Root Il Sons Music
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Price sl>O6 per year. Monthly.
Scribner for September.
The discussion of the historical as.
poets of the Germ In Death Mask, to
which Scribner has already devoted an
elaborate illustrated article duly,
1874 is supplemented in the Septem-
Der number of this magazine by a
virile and enthusiastic paper from the
artists standpoint, entlrled "a Study
of Sha kspeare's Portraits" by VIM.
Page, who returns from Darmstadt,
whittier he went for the express pnr-
pose Of studying the Mask, with an
earnest conviction Of its authenticity,
based upon moral evidence. The
number opens with an article on
Chicago" by j. w. Sheahan, of the
Tribune" of that city, embellfshed
with over thirty engravings, amGrg
which are excellent portraits of Dav'S
Swing and Robert Collyer. Colonel
Warnings Vacation" series concludes
With Il jaunt to Guernsey and Sark,
bat It is rsmorc1 that this is not the
last thai We are to have of this agree
able writer. Otherillustrated articles
are: The Cross of Cadmon," by
Charles A. BeKay; more of the
Mysterious Island;" and two chap
tiers of DIR. Hollands "Story of
HSevenoaks," in which there is bit
Of female diplomacy, and Mr.. Bel
che "'rines for a theological semi
nary" Mr.. Stedman's critical papers
are continued with a study of "Minor
Victorian Poets" from the advance
sheets ef his volume to be issued by
OsgooG IF che autusan. The verse
consists e.: can early Poem by
Poe" given "a fac-simile, a tribute to
Longfellow by Charlotte F. Bates,
alma Matters Rolr' by E. Z. Hale,
"Omnicisence" by Alice Williams, and
"The sunshine Of thine Eyes," by G.
P. Lathrop.
In Topics of the Times" DIR. Hol-
land sums up the Beecher trial, dis
cusses "The Jury System" in general,
al has "a Word for Our Wander
ers." The Old Cabinet" takes ga
Text from a Tragedy" "Home and
Society" continues to increase in prac-
teal value, and in "Bric-a>Brac"
there are some clever silhouettes, and
a funny poem by Clara G. Deliver,
called f4E!yp Tie"
The AIdInc for August
part 20 of the current series, con-
veys more pleasure to a large circle
of readers.aht"artssoSers-we may say
to many thousands of the former, and
to the whole 'ttfray of the latter in
America-than has ever been i'm
parted by any previous issue. Not
that it excels all former issues) though
in that regard it is certainly most per-
feet and welcome)-but that in its
so little while after the
time when it would have been in our
hands, the late calamity unknown, we
have the strongest assurance that
both the motto on one see Of the
cover: Eek fumo lucis !" From
smoke, light !') and the defiant flame
surrounded figure of the Phenix on
the other, mean something practical
and determined, and mean that at
once. Knowing the necessary deli
caey of much of the machinery and
mauyssf the arrangements made use
of insereaoe;ag so perfect a work of
montA4y art as PIE Aldine, there was
great reason to fear that, if the ca
lamity:wasr not saffieiehtto break up
the'enterprise, We should. yet be COM
PEELED to endure some A4e,iths of in
teryal, or the acceptance for a time
of something very unlike 'car mag
nifcent art journal. Nothisg of the
sort, as the appearance ofthe August
only ten days behind its
time, well assures us. The sldine is
not only to live, but to livesh full
vigor end beauty, and to be, no doubt,
eventaslay all the brighter fer the
So may it bel-for tse
art-csrcles 9f America and the world
are only mere interested in it, now,
than the whole body of readers who
desire semethipgtnpossible to be met
with in 3oy-other direction or publ