Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-20

TIE MAaAz1NEs.-T Westminster Review
July number) has been received from It's re-
publishers, tho Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,
of New York. It's contents are: The Chartered
Guilds of London; Illicit Commissions Harriet
Martineau; The Present Education of Solicitors;
Old Gaelic Culture; Successful Lawyers; Tho
Cradle Of tho Blue Nile; The Eastern Question:
and in the article OH Contemporary Literature
interesting and instructive roViews OF works on
Theology, Philosophy, Poi!ics, Sociology, Foy-
ages and Travels, Science. History, Biography
and Bellies Lettres.
Blackwood and the Qasrterlie1, ronublished
by tho Leonard Scott Company, the best Eng
lsh reading on the current topics OF tho day,
have been particularly attractive this year from
the general interest excited by tho sufjacts OF
which they trast.
Tho September number of Scrihnors Maga-
zinc has been received from its publishers, Serb
ner s. Co., Of New York. 1t is handsomely H.
Illustrated, end has varied table Of contents,
among which arc: Tie Immigrants Progress /;
The Cricket, The Fan, The Land OF tho Arab
ian Nights; Nicholas Minturn; Hooking Wa
termelons; VOLS and Cisterns; Old Streets and
Houses in England; An Island of the Sea; f
Portrait; His Inheritance; Lodusky; A Russian
Funeral; The False Oracle; Microscopicsl Co.
rails; The Mirage of tho Desert The Uso and
Care of tho Eyes College Instruction, 81, &c,
somo OF which convey really valuable Informs
ton.
PotLers American Monthly for September
has been received from its publishers, John T..
Potter 81 Co., Philadelphia Though compare
lively new, Potter's is one Of the best maya
zines now published in this country, and has
rapidly obtained popular favor. The present
number, as usual with its predecessors, beau!l-
fully illustrated. Tho contents are: Civic and
Scenic New England; Architectural Progress;
The Amazons Of Mexico; The Spectre Of Seneca
Lake; A Court day in the Morlach Country |;
The Puzzle Of the Philosophers; Doerfeld !;
Waiting; The Fair Patriot of the Revolution /;
Wooed and Married; joys Return; Sierra Nc
vads; Quito; Errors in Science, &C., &c.
The numbers of Littell's Living Age for the
weeks ending August 18th and 18th, respective
ly, have the following contents Morality in
Politics Lifo and Times of Thomas Beckett !;
Dresden China; Virgil as Link Between tho
Ancient and Modern World The Peak in Da-
rien; Tho Riddle Of Death The First Lord Alb.
niger and the Bar; The Dukes Piper; A Prln-
cess Moonlight Fitting; Ancient Modes of En-.
balming the Dead Distances of the Stars; Fa-
NOUS English Printers unsupported Ways Of
Earning Livelihood "Pauline;" the conclu-
sion Of THE Littlo Old Man of the Batignollcs,
a Chapter from Detectives Memoirs," Sc.
We have also received advanced sheets of
the Southern Guide and Catalogue, handbook
fer settlers and tourists. published by Brsmhall
& Co., Washington. The sheets just issued are
principally devoted to Virginia. The climate
of the Potomac region in its adaptation to fruits,
q paper read before the Potomac Fruit Growers
Association by its President Chalkley Gillng-
ham, TO which is added an address by Professor
Brainard on Preserving and Gaming Fruits, and
other proceedings of the association. An nd.
dress delivered before the Piedmont Agricultu-
raj Society by Judge VIM. Fullerton, the An
nusl Report of tho President of that Society,"
and its premium list for the fill of 1877. Don't
Put the Poor Workingman Down." song
published by F. w. Holmick, of Cincinnati.