The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-29

| ScRIBrER FOR MAY.-The three brigh,
faces that look out from the opening pa: Z
OF the MAY number OF Scribaer's Month";
are only different views of one girlisil
head-the still living heroine of traget y
which will be remembered rs long as Il {
name of Napoleon is lauded and revil' d
among men. The picture here skilfully
reproduced is Gilbert Stuart's threefo d
portrait of Madame Patterson-Bonapart
of 3 ltiuorc, one of the most conspit.
uous victims of the greet Napoleon's
selfish and unscrupuloUs ambition. The
accompanying sketch of ''the Baltimore
Bonapartes" is an authentic history OF
this family, which may yet give France
its emrcrors.
The New Paris Opera House is describ-
ed, with pen and picture, in the same
number of Scribner Though its archi-
lecture is flagrantlv French, using the
term with its most unpleasant Co@kney
| meaning,-it is still a marvellous building,
and in all its arrangements and details
worthy Of careful study The present
/ description is rapid and uncritical, but
! gives a good idea of the general style, and
! OF the most curious and striking features
of this Temple of Song
''Droogmakerij" is all DUtch-to-me title
| Dl SOI. w dilI1 CdicluiIy pIcpdiCi az
count of the drainage of Haarlcm Lake.
"by much the largest operation Of its
kind ever undertaken by men" THIS pa
per, which includes the entire subject Of
draining in Holland, is particularly valu-
able to engineers and those interested in
low lands along our coast; but the sub
ject is so simply treated that the general
reader will find 1t as interesting AS q ro-
nance.
DR. VIM HAYES Ward of the "lndepen-
dent" sums up in an illustrated paper,
some of the curious discoveries that have
recently been made in ancient AsSyrlan
literature.
'Some Recent Women Poets" is the IT,
tie of a brief, but thoughtful critical pa
per; some of these very women poets
have new poems in the same number of
the Monthly, by the way.
"Yung Wing and His Work" tells about
the Chinese Educational Mission, and its
devoted originator.
In the way of fiction we have two
chapters of DR.. Hollands Story of Seven
Oaks lin which there is more about jim
Fenton, and a new character is intro
duced) more of that exceedingly 'AlyS-
tcrious Island" by Jules Verne; an Elec-
tro- Mechanical romance, by Charles Bar
nard, that is original in several features,
and will be especially appreciated by
railroad and telegraph people; and an
other story by the young New Orleans
story-writer George W. Gable, who has
a field all to himself, just now, and what
is more to the purpose, the genius that en-
ables him to seize its artistic features.
BY the way, what delicious broken En-
glsh he puts into the mouths of his Gre
oles! 1t is more than dialect, it is drama!
Some Old Letters" these are genuine
by the by, and later installment will be
accompanied By fac-similes,) aud Both
Sides of the Shield" by Mrs. Davis, are
the other prose contributions.
In the Editorial pages, Dr. Holland
writes about Speaking Disrespectfully
of the Equator" Popular Arts" and
"The Premium on Productive Culture"
The Old Cabinet has something about
English Criticism on American Poetry
ann The Poets Mind and Mood" A
new department, Ell titled, ''Thc Worlds
Work." takes the place of Mature and
science" and "EtChings" gives way to
''Bric-a- brac;" and thus Scribner enters
upon its tenth volume. Q.