The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-03-08


There are about eighty illustrations In
the March number Of ecribner, twenty.
eight Of them accompanying Nj. W. 8.
Wards description u '.The New York
Aquariun." Among the subjects en-
graved sre the Kingiyo. the He'll blenders.
ses-R Raven, Toad. Fish, Angler, ekAtc,
Shark, Seals, and the late lamentsd
Whsle. Much attention 10 devoted to
the circulating and tlltering aystenn a the
Aquarium which ID ssid to be much su-
perior to those Of similar institutions
abroad. Other illustrated papers are
Princeton College" by Rey. Dr.. Alex
andsr, -4he last Of the College series ex
cspt Oberlin and Smith; the ninth Of
Clarence Cooks familiar talks ON house
furnishing, this month with unique de-
signs aud practical suggestions; the con-
GLIDING part Of Gen. McClellan's Winter
on the Nile" with descriptions Of an
Arab tournament and dinner with Sheik
Achmet and popular science discussion
Of the 1.-THE Pitchers Plants" by Mrs. =.
B. Herrick with drawings from nature by
the author. There is also . large en-
craving from nne portrait Of Gilbert
Stuart painted by himself this accom-
psnyilg Miss Stuart's "Reminiscences Of
her father, entitled 1.-The Youth OF Gil
bert Stuart, !" and containing anecdotes OF
Benjamin. West, Sir Joshua Reynolds and
others. A single illustration IL given
with DR.. Hollands Nicholas Ainturn, =
the motiye Of which is discovered 10 lie
in the discussion Of problems connected
with mendicant classes In all rAnKs OF
society Of Mrs. Burnett's serial, "T'hat
Las o L0wries," there is dramatic lii
stAlimsnt, and Sammy Craddock contin.
ues his readings of ssKobins0n Crusos''
other fiction Of the number consists OF
the concluding half of Farmer Bassett's
Romance" BY SAKE Holm, the author
dropping into poetry; light, cheerful
story, Celestial Pess," by Isabella T..
Hopkins, and one in minor key by
James r. Mckay, entitled "Stella Gray
land Bret Hxrte re-appears in 6cribner
with q poem. "Of William FFAneis Bart
lett;" Mrs. Anne Lynch Bot,s, who has
not published for several years, has a
noteworthy sonnet, "Harmony.' and Mr..
BoyesOn prints an .Elegy ON A. q. L.
The other verse il BY H. H Charlotte F.
Bates and Alice W Brotherton, Gen. Dix
has short sketch Of 'Claudian," enc OF
whose poems he translates in . happy
line-for-line rendition. Two other pa
pers complete list Of body articles:' one,
. clear, impartial .'Exposition of Life In
surance," BY Julius Wilcox, the other, .
defense of Chinese immigration by M
anonymous writer who seems TO. be well
informed on the sui ject.
Ia Topics Of the Time" DR.. Holland
writes of Political Training" and "The
ADJUSTMENTS Of the Rich;" The Old
CxbiHet" has something about The Pro-
'fessnr OF Literature" "Tennyson's 'Har-
old'n picture Frames" and Art at the
Cooper Institute;" aud concludes with
"A Song Of the City, in ''Homs and So
cisty," the fifth Letter to Young
Mother" deals with The cultivation OF
literary taste in children; Culture and
Progress" has notices Of American, En-
gffsh, French and German books" THE
Worlds Work" (which is widely copied
from month to month by industrial pa.
paDers) records some late inventions. and
''Bric-a- Brac" contains verse and pictures
In = h,,morous mr. rnti,etif vein