The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-06-01
sCRlBNER rOR JUNE.

A notable feature in the June Scribner
Is the resumption by j. w. Linton Of the
recent controversy in the New York pa
pers over the question whether an en-
graver should be called an artist. Mr..
Unions position as probably the most
celebrated Of living wood engravers,
gives especial weight to what he has to
say. Those who are accustomed to
think an engraver's work merely the
cutting Of 30 many lines at a certain
length near or far together will find
much information in this essay respect
ing the peculiar difficulties with which
he has to contend. Mr.. Linton's paper
is entitled, The Engraver: his Function
and Status" Mr.. Russell Sturgis, q
connoisseur in engravings and etchings,
writes concerning the work of George
Cruikshank, with over twenty illustra-
tons of his various styles and subjects,
selected from Mr.. Sturgis's large Cruik-
shank collection. The services of Mr..
Marsh and Mr.. Cole are enlisted to en-
grave Mr.. Riordan's drawings which
accompany DIR. Brewers second paper
on ird-Architecture," which is devoted
to the weaver-birds, Including an account
of an 0riole with two wives. One of the
cuts exhibits this unique and happy
family at home. THAT Same Old Coon"
by Frank r. Stockton. plays several
characters, being story of Virginia
life,-a study in two kinds of dialect,
and practical treatise on coon and
'possum hunting it is, moreover, illus
trated with number of pictures by Mr..
w. l. Sheppard. 'The Story of Lesken,"
by Miss Anna Eichberg, finds its hero in
musician of Wallack's Theater and its
scene in Holland, and is illustrated in
silhouette by Howard Pyle. misery's
Pear Tree" translation of Flemish
legend by DR.. w. Nichols, has two
sketches by Charles F. McKim, the
architect. '"The Eleventh Hour" a
story, by Emma Lazarus, and the two
serials, Roxy" aud "His Inheritance"
complete the fiction of the number.
Other papers are: "a New American
Industry" by Charles Barnard, descrip.
tive of fruit evaporating "a White Day
and Red Fox" by John Burroughs
and Lying as Fine Art" by w. L.
Kingsley of the NeW Highlander, who
examines the claims of Rev. Samuel
Peters as an artist, basing them upon his
History of Connecticut" from which
curious extracts are given. According
to Mr.. Kingsley, Peters is the chief au-
thority for the popular misconceptien Of
the so-called "Blue Laws" of Connect.
cut. Mrs. Piatt, Edward King, Caroline
A. Mason, Maurice F. Egan, and others
contributed the poetry of the number.
In the departments, DIR. Holland dis
cusses the political significance of Bayard
Taylor's appointment, "Crime in its own
Element" and "The Art of Speaking
The Old Cabinet" relates to the princi-
piles of taste, Literary Art-Judgments
and the Literary Element in Art" "The
Academy Exhibition" and summarizes
and further discusses "The Recent Con.
troversy about Engravers." The other
departments contain some special articles,
such as Improved Dwellings," for work
ing people, with a ground-plan, in "The
Worlds Work." and suggestions about
the planting of "Annuals" in "Home
and Society,"" Mr.. II. C. Bunner has in
"Bric a. Brac" some humorous verse in
the old French metrical forms now at.
tracing attention in England.