The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-03-21
HARPER's MAGAZINE FOR APRIL

HARPER'S MAGAZINE FOR April
In Harpers Magazine for April, the new
series of papers by S. G. W. Benjamin OF
American Art is continued-the subjec
this month being American Sculpture
with wonderfully fine engravings repre-
senting works by Powers, Crawford
Randolph Rogers, Gould, Ward, Story
Simmons, Rinehart, Miss HOsmer, Palm
er, O'Donovan, Thompson, John Rogers
and Hartley. Powers is represented by
his Eve before the fall :" Ward by his
most recent and noblest work, the statue
of Washington; and OponOvan, one OF
our youngest sculptors, by his bust OF
Page.
Abbey contributes beautiful page IL
lustration of Robert Herrick's poem, "To
Bed of Tulips"
Colonel Waring, in the second of his
Tyrol papers, describes the customs of
the TyrOlese, and the charms of ms
bruck and Botzep, the metropolitan cen.
tres respectively of North and South w.
rOl. The illustrations are novel and
beautiful.
Helen S. Conant, in an illustrated pa.
per, entitled Picturesque Edinburgh, -
presents in fascinating style the histor-
lcal and roman ic associations of the old
town. BY way of contrast, this is fol.
lowed by Frank II. Taylor's Street
Scenes in Havana" with characteristic
illustrations.
Nearer home is the subject of the Phil
adelp hia Zoo, charmingly treated by Mrs.
NJ. Rowland, with sixteen illustrations
Olive Logan contributes an exceed.
ingly interesting article in a serio- comic
vein on the Ancestry of Brudder
Bones" with seventeen pictures which.
in connection with the tex, convey in
pleasing manner a vast amount of must
cal information.
The illustrated story for this Number
is a beautiful tale, "Cor Cordium," by
Mrs. l.. w. Champney. There is also
somewhat humorous, but significant
short story, entitled "How Abel M'April
Preached tor Mr. Smith"
The principal literary contribution to
the Number is r. H. StOddards admira-
bile paper on the late Richard Henry
Dana. In paper EMIT ed 1.-THE Practi-
cal Interrogation of Nature" Dr.-J. w.
Draper admits the reader to his labora
tory, and shows by what processes he
reached some of the important results
already set before the public in his Sci
entific Memoirs"
Mrs. A. B. Blake writes intelligent'y
of "Church Music in America" pointing
out its defects and suggesting remedies,
what resources for good sacred
music are accessible in the works of
English and Continental composers.
More interesting than all these papers,
probably, to large class of country
readers. will be Mr.. E. p. Roe's article,
ga Kitchen Garden" imparting prac
teal suggestions As to the most important
features of the subject.
A collection of letters written by DR..
Samuel Latham Mitchill to his wife
from Washington, while he was there as
and Senator from New
York QS0l-13), and hitherto unpub
lished, are full of interesting descriptions
of the prominent men, and of the excit-
ing social and public events of that da".
The Editors Easy Chair gives an un-
usual prominence to musical and theat
rical gossip The Literary Record is |
full and critical, with discrimination
The Scientific Record contains vast
amount of novel and interesting matter
in its field; and the Drawer. with its
good humor, closes number
Of great and varied interest.