Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-01-03
New Magazines.

.NcritRer for January. The January Srib-
ner begInp and ends with h Christmas. poem.
Mr.. BOye,en'. opening ballad. "Jarl Sigurd'-
Christmas Eve" is the means OF re-intr oduc-
ing 10 the magazine the pencil of Mrs. Mary
Hallock Foote. who has made large lu.tra-
ton for this poem and /. here .iter 10 contrib
ute frequently. Another phase OF the holiday
feeling is given in Irwin Russelrs Christmas
Night in the Quarters" which reproduces an
old-time scene in the south and coutain. three
separate dialect poems, with illustrations by
Hopkin. "Fox.huntiag in New England
may fairly be called Christmas topic, and Mr..
Row land +. Robinson discusses 1t with enthu-
siasm in sn illustrated paper Of fourteen pages.
an anoDymou. paper on DIR. Schliemann at
NyceEa, reviews in a Judicial vein the famous
discoveries Of that explorer, many OF the OBJ
jects inc uding some OF the finest being shown
in the engraving. John Burroughs returns
TO his iayorte topic in Bird. and Birds"
for which Mis- Bridges, who is so we'll known
by her bird-pictures, has made several draw.
ings. DIR. Holland contributes short poem
entitled "A Glimpse of YOUTH" and Stedman
another on The Last Token" suggested by
Maxs picture OF the same name, which is here
engraved. There are also poems by II. II.
Sidney Lsnier. Paul II. Hsyne, Mary +. Brad
ley, and others. The story OF the number, BY
the elusive SAKE Holm" relates - the Civil
War and is called Joe Hsle's Red stockings"
Many readers will turn At once to q paper OF
new anecdotes Of .'Pidgin English,T by A. A.
marvellous enterprise OF American frontier life,
entitled "A New Anvil Chorus" " hat the
Presidents have thought in regard to appoint
ments Is summarized in l.. II. Dorman's
Century Of Civil service" The Growth Of
Cities in the United States" Is treated by b.
Z. Magic, Jr.. who hs. q word Of warning for
the South. The serials by Miss Trafton and
Edward Eggleston are continued, the latter
with . picture Of Twonnet and Roxy telling
fortunes by Waiter Shrlaw.
In n dams ant H. Ill
"West Point and the Educational Charities"
Book. and Reading" Fitting fer College"
and Work for the Machine" The Old Cab
met has something about Gossip and the U.
S. Census" Law Points in Novels" Re xsons
for not Voting for Reform Candidate. "A
Young Cambridge Student" "Midgets," etc.
Home and Society" contains sugge stions
about "Private Thsatricals," etc. "Cult ure
and Progress" has dozen book notices, and
the Worlds Work" records variety of indus
trial improvements. "Bric- -Brac" is given
over TO Irwin RusselPs poem mentioned above
The Ne,o Volume Of the Liring Age The
new year Of Littel's Living Age opens with
the number for the week ending January j,h.
Owing to the recent establishment OF i'm
portant periodicals abroad-notably The Nine.
teenth Century in Eaglsnd,-and to the stimuli.
tsneOus improvement Of others, a fresh inn
peius has been given to foreign periodical liter
AZURE; the ablest living thinkers and writers
being enlisted In its service to an extent here
tOfore probably unequalled. The Living Age
presents with satisfactory completeness what
Il most valuable 10 this literature. The pub
fishers already announce for carry numbers Of
the new year. articles BY Louis Kossuth, *.
Governor Of Hungary ION the Turkish Ques-
tion,) Prof. Max Miller. Prof. Goodwin Smith,
the Duke Of Argyll, Ri. Hon. W. Z. Gladstone
ION Course Of Religious Thought,l Richard A,
Proctor, Prot. Owen and others Studies In
science,l Frances Power Cobbe Alfred Russell
Wallace, Prof. C, Blachie. Edward A. Free.
man, Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen, John
Rpskin, and other eminent writers.
In the department Of fiction the best foreinn
authors win be represented 10 serial and shoft
stories. The publication Of . new story hy
william Black . to b begun IN JanQay, ftom