Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-26
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in good time. and is found 10 be fully up TO
its generally high standard in illustrations
and literary matters. The contents OF tie
September number are The American
Grsces: Fish and Men in the Maine Islands :
The Family of George ILL.,; Bv-Paths IN the
Mountains The Seven Sieepers Paradise :
Beside the Loire Amid the Grasses; Squatter
Life in New York; Motherhood; all of which
are profusely and finely illustrated from the
pencils of the best artists. The other arti-
cles are White Wings. Amandar. Washington
Square, The Red Rose Tavern, Mid Summer
Night Adventure, Indian and Negro, Easy
Chair, Editors Record, Drawer, etc. For
sale BY J. +. Pierce.
In Scribner for September Mr.. Pickwick
and Nicholas Nicklebv afford a picturesque
topic to the writer who is travelling over the
scenes in England made memorable in the
books of Dickens. Georgetown college
(Jesuit) is treated at length, and "When
Woods are Green gives hints for some pretty
bits of Ian dscape. Richard Henry Stoddards
biography will interest many, and Peter the
Great has reached his 9th chapter. Millet
the painter, is dealt with by the aid of illus
trations and Thomas Paine without any.
The serials are continued: there are short
stories and poems. brio a-brac, etc. and other
matter of general interest
BackwOods Magazine for August is re-
ceived. Contents as follows: A Reindeer
Ride ShrOugh Lapland; A Talk About Son
nets; The Blackbird; Hans Proller; Le-
gend of the Rhine Falls: Bush-Life in
Queenslant-Part IN: Central Asia-.The
Meeting Place of Empires In the Deer
Forest-A Day Bewitched: DIR. Wo:tles
School-Part w.; Irish Distress and Its
Origin; Ministerial Pio5rcss.
The London Quarterly Review for july is
at hand. The contents are: The First
Lord Mimic; Midtllescx: Thomas Chatter
ton: Recent and Future Arctic Voyages {:
Marie-Antoinette; Universities and their
Grant: St. Paul and Renan: Wings, Rail-
Gals and Conservatives.
The International Review for September
has an able and important letter by John
JAY on the Presidential Election. The other
articles are as follows: Money" by Bon
amy Price; "'The Myth of the Virgin in
Painting and Sculpture" by DR. ID. Il. Hub
bard: George Whitefed," by William
Myall; ''Lamennas." by Auguste Langel ::
''Nubar Pacha and the American Christ
ians, by Edwin DE Leon 'tHenry Timrod, =
by Henry Austin; Notices of Contempo-
rary Literature.
The September number of the Eiectic
Magazine contains for its frontispiece fine
portrait Of George Grote, the eminent histo-
rian. The table of contents is as follows :
Henry David Thoreau his Character and
Opinions by X. S. Stevenson; Edgar
Allan Poe" by William Mimic: a Learned
Lady of the Sixteenth Century" by NJ
Creighton; son Ants" by Ellice Hopkins ::
"a Fable in the Manner of Mr. Cav" hv
Austin Dobson; a Stranger in America. :"
by George Jacob Holyoake: STORYTELLING, :"
by James Pawn; 'The Decline of the Ger
man University System" by A. r. S. Good
rick; IA New Poet" by G. A. Simcox
"'rhe Romance of Chinese Social Life - In
Town. a poem: white Wings Yacht
ing Romance" by William Black Chapters
XNXVIII to NJ; "Thc Migration of Pop
nlar Stories" by Sir George W Cox; lola
Montes;'' ''The Northern Shepherd by
Gilfrid Hartley: 1.-The Future of Asiatic
Turkey" "A Woman's Wisdom" poem; ;
The Editors Sketch of Mr.. Gro.e: Liter
airy Notices." Foreign Literary Notes =
SsSpianrp and Art opI s.Nor;.,.;o.