The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-07-11
July MAGAZINES.

JULY MAGAZINES.
The Nursery for July is on our table
filled full of bright thoughts for children.
No more meritOriOus publication can be
found in our land for the little folks, and
it should he in every household. Pub.
lished by John l. Shorey, SO Bromfield
street, Boston Mass, at $l.50 per year.
st. Nicholas for July compares favor.
ably with former Numbers of that excel
lent magazine. 1t is certainly the first
among the best periodicals in the land
for young people. More good in one
number than in a hundred thousand
dime novels.
Sunday afternoon (s3 90 a year, Spring
field, Mass for July has in the way of
fiction "a Sorr3wful Guest" by the
author of Deephaven, Miss s. o. Jewett
1.-The Monkeys Story" by Mrs. L. w.
Champney, and two chapters of "Calvin
the Sinner" There are couple of poems,
and the editor talks about "The Probe M
of Revision" ''pickinson's English"
:'The Good Old Times" Lessons from
the Life of Garrison"
The July number of Lippincotfs Mag
azine, which opens the twenty-tourth
volume, is of a thoroughly popular
character, and the variety and beauty of
the illustrations, as we'll as the excellence
and vivacity of the reading matter, show
the steady advance which has marked
the course of this periodical, and afford
the best proof of the determination of Its
conductors not to be outdone by their
! rivals.
The July Vide Awake, which, by the
way is "thick NUMBER" having six
teen. page Natural History Supplement.
celebrates the national holiday with a
frontispiece full of battle-smOke, and two
capital patriotic stories, Bunker Hill
Revived" by J. II. Woodbury., and Gen
eral Washington and the Ragamullins,"
by Annie f. Preston. Altogether, this
number of Vide Auake, taking in three
serials, "The Dogberry Bunch, "St. Oh
ayes" and "Don Cuixote, j." is one of
the best yet issued. Only $500 a year.
Ella Farman, Editor, ID. Lothrop Il Co.,
Boston, Publishers.
The first article in the National Rep0s
tory for July is an illustrated account of
a "Summering among the Thousand
! Islands" of the St. Lawrence River, by
DR.. George Lancing Taylor followed by
| the first installment of touching and
tender story, from All the Year Round,
en- titled, My Land of Beulah." There
is well-written essay on the "Women
of the Bible;" and two or three selected
articles following, after which the ed
tors Miscellany" furnishes the reader
with large amount of varied and inter
esting notes-usually the most readable
portion of the magazine.
The chronological Journal and Science
Of Health opens its sixty ninth volume
with a variety of themes which must
please every reader. A sketch and cx-
cellent portrait of Dean Stanley first
attract the eye. The departments head
ed Science and Agriculture Memorial,
Editorial, etc, appear to be more crowd
ed than usual, and treat of their severa!
themes in a very direct and instructive
manner. The number abOunds with
numerous poems, some exhibiting genu-
inc merit. The Magazine is now pub
lished at $500 a year or 90 cents single
number, by mail, post paid. Address )
Il. Wells & Co, Publishers, 49, Broad
way, New York.
If one wants to know everything that
is new and popular in fashions, one has
only to read the popular magazine, the
Domestic Monthly The July number is
brimful with the latest Intelligence con-
corning every department OF dress, and
presents such an array of stylish costumes
and garments, suited to the season, As
will please the feminine eye. The num-
Der opens with review of fashions, CIV
ing full account of accepted styles in
costumes and prevailing novelties in
dress, which is followed by full and pre-
else descriptions of the various costumes
and garments, for both ladies and chill
dren, shown on the colored plate and by
numerous engravings. The domestic
Monthly is published by Blake & Com
pany, $40 Broadway, New York, at s1.5O
per year.
The July number of Harper's Magazine
is worthy successor of the beautiful
June number. The social gayeties OF
fashionable seaside resort are presented
in vivid colors in the leading article on
Narragansett Pier. by Prof. Chas. Car
roll, with striking number of illustra-
tions by Reinhart. Howard Pyle's de-
lightful and interesting gossip concern.
ing life on the Eastern shore is contained
in this number. The peach orchards of
Delaware, cypress single making in its
Dismal Swamp, its sleepy old capital,
and Yachting along its coast, afford Mr..
Pyle splendid opportunities for the use
of his pencil as we'll as his pen his pic
lures are novel and effective. This
number contains the first of a series of
papers covering the fifty years of Amer
lean Art from 1928 to 1878, by S. G. w.
BENJAMIN. This paper is illustrated
with remarkably fine productions of
paintings by Huntington. Wier, Inman,
Elliott, Grey, Baker, LIE Clear, Mount.
Cole, Durand, Kensett. G. l.. Brown and
Mignot.
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.
Prominent among the valuable fea-
lures of the New Edition of Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary, just issued, is the
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