The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-21
The Midwiuter Scribner.

The current number of SoRIBERR, of which 100,-
900 copies are printed, is called ''Midwlnter Mum
ber" and is thought by the publishers to exceed in
attractiveness the Midsummer Numbers OF 1876 and
1877. Among the notable features is a full-page
portrait OF Lincoln, by Wyatt Eaton, from the asl
and little known photograph. This view of Lin
coin fs here engraved for the first time, by Cole to
accompany Noah Brooks's personal Reminisct n
ces of Lineoln''. A sonnet to Lincoln, by Il. IL.
Stoddard, faces the frontispeice.
The fret paper of the number proper isiby Charles
c. Ward 'Moose-hunting," and Is illustrated by
Henry Sandman. by the auther a nd by others. A
hunt with Indians in New Brunswick is described,
and there is a story of bear hunt told in Indian
dialect by one of the guides Mrs Mary Hsllock
Foote, heretofore only known 10 the readers of
ScRIBNER artist, in this number furnishes
both drawings and text for afpicturesque paper on
"a California Mining Camp with glimpses of the
| Cornish, Mexican, Chinese and other elements
there found. This paper gives the color OF a most
interesting phase OF American life, where children
still sing Christmas carols from house TO house,
and treeboxes are never robbed Of the meat-wagOns
| consignment The landscape of California is here
| described only an artist, who is also a writer,
Decoration" of the work by John La Fargo and
others i'll TRINITY Church, Boston, ard Mr. st. Tho
mass Church, New York. Mr.. La Farge's pilaster,
and Mr.. st. Gaudens panel of angels in the latter
| church, are among the illustrations. Mr. La
Fargo also furnishes large illustration for ballad
| by Boyesen.-"Little Sigrid.' In THE Majolica
of Castelli Signor Castellani describes of the
less known kinds of ware in his collection, some
| fine specimens of which are produced IN the
| drawings. 1.-The Humming- Bird of the California
Water-Falls"-a bird that dives into the falls-is
the subject of an enthusiastic paper by Muir, with
| illustrations. 1.-The New Rudder Grange, by f. K.
Stockton, will be recognized by SCRIBNERs readers
as continuation OF the sketches of domestic life
on canal boat which appeared sometime ago.
This paper is isilustrated by Eytinge, and both II
and others TO follow independent Of the ones
already published. MIR. Stockton relates a novel
way of disposing of tramps. Still another ilustra
ted article is Mr.. r. II. SiOddard's poem, "a
Wedding under the Directory" in what is for him
a new vein: kaemmerer's painting of the same
title is engraved as all accompaniment.
I'M gl1Tautr afa1r 10,
in Llmeburg," a story by Rebecca Harding Davis;
Following the HalcyOn to Canada by John Blu
roughs; "Washington's Only Sister," by A. l.
Bassett (wiJh letter from Washington, giving hit
opinion of slavery; The College Rank of Dis
ttnguished Men," hy c. +. Thwing; ''Twenty-six
Hours day. the first of several practical papers
on subjects OF interest to women, by Mary Blake
THE Palmer's Vision short poem by DIR. Ho
land, and poems by Charles T. Dazey Charles de
Kay and R W. Glider. The serials by Miss TraitC I
and Edward EggestOn continued and the pub
ltshers announce, for new subscribers, 'pRmphle
containing the previous ,installments of Roxy
and the two "Rudder Grange" stories heretofore
published.
i In Topics of the Time" DR.. Holland discusses
THE Machine in New EeIfland' 1.-The ole
Cabinet is about Unnamed Pictures" "The In
Justice of Genial Criticism" and Antony an,
Cleopatra Home and Society Is occupied witt
How Man takes Care of his Baby In Brio. a
Brac" there is Visit to the Asylum for Literar,
Lunatics.' The usual space is devoted to book
and industrial progress
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