The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

SCMBNER FOR MARCH.-There are abOut eighty
illustrations in the March Number Of Scribaer,
twenty ty-eight of them accompanying Mr.. ". s.
Wards description of The New York Aquari-
um.- Among the subjects engraved are the
Kingiyo, the Hell-benders, Sea- Raven, Toad
Fish, Angler, Skate, Shark, Seals, and the late
,iap,euted Whale. Much attention is devoted to
the circulating and fltering system of the Aqua
rinm, which is said to be much superior to those
of similar institutions abroad. Other illustrated
papers are princeton College" by Rev. DR.. Al
exander,-the last Of the College series except
Oberlin and Smith; the ninth of Clarence Cooks
familiar talks on house furnishing, this month
with unique designs and practical suggestions;
the concluding part Of Gen. McClellan's "Win-
ter on the Nile," with descriptions of an Arab
tournament and dinner with Sheik Achmet;
and popular science discussion of "The Pitch
er Plants" l,y Mrs. s. B. Herrick, with drawings
from Nature by the author. There is also .
large engraving from fine portrait Of Gilbert
Stuart painted by himself-this accompanying
Miss Stuart's "reminiscences Of her father, enti-
tied The Youth of Gilbert Stuart" and contain
ing anecdotes of Benjamin. West, Sir Joshua Rey
nolds and others. A single illustration is given
with DIR. Hollands nicholas Minturn," the mo-
tive of which is discovered to lie in the discus
sion of problems connected with mendicant clas-
in all ranks Of society. Of Mrs. Burnett's Sc
rial, 1.-THE Lass O. Lowrie's," there is q dramatic
installment, aud Sammy Craddock continues
his readings of Robinson Crusoe" with the aid
of "Manyeusis." The other fiction of the num-
Der consists of the concluding half ofFarmer Bas-
setts Romance" by SAKE Holm, the author drop
ping into poetry; light, cheerful story, "Celes-
tial Peas" by Isabella T. Hopkins, and one in a
minor key by James T. Mckay, entitled "Stella
Grayland." Bret Harte re-appears in Scribner
with q poem, "Of William Francis Bartlett; !"
Mrs. Anne Lynch Botta, who has not published
for several years, has noteworthy sonnet, "Har-
mony," and Mr.. Boyesen prints an "Elegy on A.
G. L." The other verse is by H. H., Charlotte
F. Bates and Alice W. Brotherton. Gen. Dix has
a short sketch of "Claudian," one of whose
poems he translates in happy line-for-line rem
dtion. Two other papers complete the list Of
"body articles y one, clear, impartial "Exposi-
tion of Life Insurance." by Julius Wilcox, the
other, defense of Chinese Emigration by an
anonymous writer who seems to be well inform
ed on the subject.
In "Topics Of the Time," DIR. Holland writes
of political Training and "The Amusements of
the Rich :" "The Old Cabinet" has something
about "The Professor Of Literature "Tenny-
sons Harold" "Picture Frames" and "Art at
the Cooper Institute :" and concludes with "A
Song of the City, in "Home and Society,"" the
fifth Letter to Young Mother deals with the
cultivation of literary taste in children; "Cul-
ture and Progress" has notices of American. En-
glish, French and German books; "The Worlds
Work" (Which is widely copied from month to
month by industrial papers) records some late
inventions, and "Bric-a-Brac" contains verse
and pictures in o humorous or pathetic vein.