The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-23
Magazine Notices.

Demorest's Monthly for February is an
exceedingly attractive number in its il
lustrations and filed with its usual excel
lence and variety in every department.
"Babyland" for February which con-
tinues to be the most attractive monthly
for the little folks ever published is on
our table. Parents will never regret the
small sum Of fifty cents invested in this
charming magazine. Specimen copies
can be seen at this Office and We will
cheerfully forward names of subscribers
to the publishers. Dontt forget to look
at 1t. i-7
Ballou's Monthly Magazine for Febru-
ary is full of the most charming reading
matter. The leading illustrated article
is by the author of "A Whsleman's Ad.
ventures" and treats of the Fiji Islands.
Earl Marble has a poem Daddy Joe's
Sweetheart" /" written in a dialect which
will be interesting to Southwestern and
Missouri readers, and which is accompa-
MED by some capital illustrations drawn
from life. 1t is published by Thomes &
Talbot, 2S, Hawley St., Boston, at 81 80
year, postpaid, and for sale at all the
periodical depots in the country.
Peterson's Magazine for January is
already on our table, a triumph of art,
literature and fashion. Either of the
two steel engrayings, "The Playmates, !"
or "The Letter at the Gate. is worth the
price of the number. Then the triple
sized colored pattern, PERSIAN Embroi-
dery in Applique, etc." the very newest
thing out would be cheap at fifty cents.
As for the mammoth colored fashion
plate it is simply uurivalled; and beside
this, there are some thirty other fashion
illustrations. Now is the time to SUBJ
scribe. Peterson" is undoubtedly the
cheapest and best of the ladies' books.
The price is only two dollars year. To
clubs it is still cheaper, viz; four copies
for 90 so, with an extra copy gratis to
the person getting up the club, or five
copies for $500 and both an extra copy
and a superb premium engraving,
"Christ Blessing Little Children" Spec
linens of tie magazine sent gratis to
persons desiring to get up clubs. Ad-
dress Charles ]. Peterson, BOG, ,iChestnut
st., Philadelphia, Pa.
Harper's Magazine for February is
very superior in its illustrations. ]. G.
Boards article, 1.-THE Treasures of the
Deep" 8. G. w. Benjamin's ''Rambles
in the South of France" ""At the Mouth
of the Amazon" by NJ. Mauris, and
"Winter Sports in Canada" by Frederick
G. Mather are specially rich in scene pic
lures.
VIII Carleton's pathetic humor has
taken q new turn and "Our Travelled
Parson" is good story in his own home
ly style and happily illustrated by Abbey.
In this number Mrs. Muloch Craik be-
gins serial story, and all her old friends
will wish to read "Young Mrs. Jardine."
Horace E. Scudder treats on Education
by Hand" and artists are notified that
the series of papers on the sold Flemish
Masters" is concluded and to be succeed
ed by another on the Dutch Masters.
Mendels sohn's letters to Madam Mos
cheles. published for the first time. will
be read with great interest.
Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, one Of
the best story writers in America, con-
tributes 'Story of the Plague, and
Commodore Meade furnishes biegraph-
ical sketch of the late Rear Admiral
Paulding.
The Editors Easy Chair has reminis-
cences of Old New York, and discourses
of the Gambetta duel, the Tell legends;
and Mrs. Whitman's poems. The Liter
ary, Scientific and Historical Records
and the always interesting Drawer COM
plete the number.
The February Scribner Is embellished
as distinctively nid-winter, and one has
only to glance at its title-page to be
freshly convinced that ''Snow drifts pile
the window ledge" The fourth of the
portraits like those of Lincoln, Bryant
and Longfellow is now given in one Of
Emerson, and is followed by an illustra-
ted paper on the "Homes and Haunts OF
this Eminent Scholar" "The Tile Club
at Play" fills twenty two pages The poet