Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE July number of the Masonic JeiOeI il
a very readable one, Astounding in matte
pertinent TO the order and promotive of Its
sublime tenets. A. ]. Wheeler, editor anG
publisher.
AK address before the literary societies Of
Roanoke college, Virginia, by Hon. Clarksor
Mott Potter, LID, published for the So
cIeties and printed by Darby & Dowell
Washington, District of Columbia
How TO HUNT AND TRAP, by J. II. Batty
from the press of Albert Cogswell, New
YORK, is a handsomely bound, closely printed
and beautifully illustrated book, of two hun
bred and twenty pages, full of information
on all the topics that can engage the mind OF
attention of the hunter or trapper We COM
mend it to the public. A F. bod & Co.,
Main street, have it for sale.
THE Inner Life of the Virginia Military
Institute Cadet, ats Responsibilities and ats
Privileges, by Francis H. Smith, LII D.
This is an Introductory address of the corps
of cadets at the Virginia military institute,
on the resumption of the academic exercises,
September 10, 1865, published by order of
the board OF tors, aud is worthy of pre-
servation as an kOrIcal iesume of an insti-
tuition that did so much for the armies of the
late Confederacy.
THE st. Nicholas, for August, is bright,
CHEEKY, seasonable number, which opens with
a funny poem by J. T. Trowbridge, versifed
from story by Maud Christiani, and en-
titled "King Cheese" illustrated with a
very comical frontispiGce, and several smaller
pictures, by Hopkins. Sarah Winter Kellogg
provides a summer E:.hIng story, Rods for
Five, which has ;uil page picture of a
leafy trout stream; and from Lucy Larcom
there is a poem entitled ''Happy Fields of
Summer" with suitable illustration; while
Frank r. Stockton furnishes fairy tale of
i,H% i'll IL
title, The Emerr Mistress" There is
a short illustrated about the "Dlgger
Wasps, and : bil;i :,dt timely article, with
sensible hints about 81 How to Travel ~
Then, by way oi contrast, comes ''Gerty," a
pathetic story of very poor city boy and a
sick little girl in winter time. The serials
Under the Llacs, and Dab Kinzsr," tell,
among other good thiues: about an exhibit
ton of oratory in country schSslAouse; of
an interesting archery match amckRthe boys
and girls; and vi how ;:'ee boys had an ex-
citing trip to sea in :, yacht. The editorial
epartments-For Very Little Folks, Jack-in-
the Pulpit, Letter-Box, and RiddleBox-are
we'll with bright. varied and attractive
tid-bits
THE August Scribney opens with portrait
of William Cullen Bryant, engraved by Cole
from a crayon drawing by Wyatt Eaton, for
which the poet rave repeated sittings the past
homes is by Rev. q. n. Powers, and was
written before the formers illness. The illus
tratIons are about twenty In number, and
chiefly represent points of interest at or near
the Cummington and Roslyn residences ga
Seaport on the Pacific" by Mary Hallock
Foote, whose picturesque drawings for her
own text are thought to be among her most
charming work; ''To South Africa for Dia-
monds," an interesting record of rare personal
experience by DR.. William J. Morton, with
drawings, including a large view of the great
Kimberley mine by Moran; Sharp Eyes" a
field paper by John Burroughs, with bird IL
Illustrations by Mrs. Fanny Eliot Clifford, who
makes her debut as q magazine artist In this
number; and "Giimpses of New England
Farm Life by Roland E. Robinson, Intro
ducing draughtsmen new in Sc,ibner in
Messsrs. l.. G. Tiffany, R. S. Clifford, Henry
Farrar, Jarvis MEntee and Winslow Ho-
mer, besides Mr.. Shirlaw and Mr.. Kelly
"Falconberg,' Mr.. Boyesen's new novel of
Norwewian and American life in the north
west, begins In this number. Of the other
stories, "Longstaff's Marriage" by Henry
James, jr, deals with Anglo-American life at
Nice and Rome, and 'Our Tavern" by
Frank Stockton, relates a summer escapade
on this side of the Atlantic. The tenth in
stallment of Eggleston's Roxy" has draw
ing by Mr.. Shirlaw, as usual. OF the four
long poems in this number, two appear with
out cuts :" Off Scarborough, September,
1779,'' by Bret Harte, and MERIDIAN Mr.
Stedmap's Yale poem, here printed in full for
the first time-and two with cuts: Mr.. J. T.
Trowbridge's ''Old Robin having three draw
ings by Will II. Low, and DIR. Hollands bal
lad, "Hhe Pultan's Guest" having three by
Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote. There are also
shorter poems by G. 2. Cranch. Henry Eek
ford, Andrew B. Saxton and Mrs. E. NJ
Booth. The depal tments, in most cases, are
full and the subj cts seasooa3la