Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-23
THE sEPTEM Der MoNTHL1Es

q EMr. William Blacks new story, enc
titlsd White Wings: a Watching
Romance,ns is begun in the Septem-
ber<number of the Elects lfdgazine.
@Itopens xery@ehafmingly, and p~om-
ises to be oneasof Mr.. Blacks btst.
Besides Nj. Back e story It contains q
large number Of Interesting aud val
liable articles from she foreign periodi,.
caisand E fin steeI engraying entitled
Penn's Treaty with the Indiaps.n
The new volume Of fi1e Magazine te-
gan with the July number. aud prem
ises to be one ofzthe best ever Issued.
The regular price Of the Eclectic is SIS
per year, or % cents per copy; hut the
threeEnumbers of the new volume
will semitic aoy one as "triaI sub
scrlption" on receipt Of 81. and now
is good time to give il a trial. Z. r
PeIton, publisher, 2s Bond stfeet, New
York.
THE leading article In the NORTH
AnaerjcGn ReUiesv for September is a
critical paper by Anthony Trcllole,
upon 1.-THE Genius of n ri haoie lei Haws
thorne. 1t has an especial Interest
from the fact that it contains the esti
mate which one novelist gives If
ano.hef. where there is the widest III
vergeaee between the literary wo,k Of
the tive. This diveEgenca, howeger,
does not prevent the ~ ritter from
warmly approaching the peculiar ge
MUS of. his fellow artist. HE gives the
strongtst praise to the works OF Haw-
IthoTna. analSZ ng the best Anown Of
hem from LOvelists poiut If view
Professor Simon Ne conb foIIa VIZ
| With q paper upon The Standa d OF
Value" in which he discusses the rel
alive merits of The single aud double
Standard, and the diff ;ui'ies ~ bich
| mast arise from the establishment Of
either as a monetary basis. His pTin-
cipal topics are the inevitable ductua-
lions in value Of each of the two
precious metals used as standards, al d
/ the best means of @z counter
acting the evils which necessarily
result from such sz fluctuations.
The third article is the concluding
| part Of r chari Wsgner's "The Work
and Mission of My Life" III this, he
continues the description of his art
life to the present lime. gives the rea~
sons and motives which led him to
write each of his operas, and tells the
story Of the great festival performance
at Baireuth, in 1885,. The next article
is the second part of 1.-THE Diary of a
Public Man." Tn this is given the
/ secret history Of events at Washington
during the week next preceding Pres
ident Lineoln Is Inauguration, and of
the intrigues in regard to theaforma-
ton of new Cabinet, and the esti-
mate which public men at that time
made of MIR. Lineoln,s g. character It
throws into strong light the immense
difficulties with which the latter had
TO deal, even among those who were
most friendly to the-new administra-
ton. The Confession of an Ag-
nostic,n which follows, is an anony-
nous paper. and processes TO be writ.
ten by s. follower of An Evolution
ists," who advertised for new reig-
ion in this ReUieaO ia July, 1878 The
scholar, 1t seems,= has gone further
than his teacher, " I'M rjgues ats t. g
i Paris Canal Congress- by A. 9. Man
peal. is a timely exposure Of the plans
and scheming Of the ring of advent
arers who called the Congress together
and using NJ, Lessep's il fllepce, man
. | agsd 1t for the purpose Of filing their
wn@poek ets.<T This bit Of secret his.
tory will be doubly interesting to
American readers, since it explains
why the American dele at aud their
project OF the Nicaragua route were go
ANONYMOUSLY snubbed. The number
closes with review OF 8 Three I'm
portant Publications." by Mayo w
| Il z Itine.