Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-07-22
New Magazines.

Lippincott's Magazine for August has a
number of contributions well selected for
summer reading. american AerOnauts." bv
Will o. Bates. and Canoeing on the High
Mississippi" by A. II. Siegfried. are. as their
titles Indicate records of adventure and ex-
plot, very agreeablv written and well illus
trated. "An Old English home" BY Rose
Kingsley, daughter of Canon Kingsle7, gives
a graphic account of famous country-seat
Bramshill House, and contains much person.
al anecdote, as well as some vivid bit, Of
word-painting. "Where lightning Strikes"
by George J. Varney, ia full of curious facts
and useful hints. An article on "The Early
DAYS of Mormonism." by Frederick G Math-
er, is based chiefly on material derived from
eve witnesses. and may be considered valu-
able contribution to the history of religious
imposture. 'Dungeness, General GreeEe's
Sea Island Plantation" is described BY Fred
erick A. Obcr. who has made several visits
to the spot and gathered up all the details of
family history and tradition associated with
it. Amelia f. Barr writes of National
Music as an Interpreter of National Charac-
ter ''Adam and Eve" and ''Studies in the
Slums" are continued. and there are several
short stories. The "Monthly Gossip" is va
ried and attractive. and there are poems bv
Edgar Fawcett and others.
The August Atlantic brings some chapters
of Mr.. Aldrich's saltwater Tragedy" so in
teresting as to make readers forget the hot
weather. DIR. Holmes in a characteristic
poem, entitled THE Archbishop and Gil
Bias sings of growing old. John Bur-
roughs. contributes ''Pepacton: A Summer
Voyage" Luigi Month the 'Young Sicil-
ian" of Longfellow's Tales of Wayside
Inn" writes very interesting article on
''Sicilian Hospitality" Mark Twain has
very pungent tale entitled Edward Mills
and George Benton" which satirzes keenlv
certain forms of pseudophilanthropy Ed.
Millet describes the method of teaching
practiced by Hunt; Mrs. Wallace, wife of
Gen. Lew Wallace. Governor of New Mex
leo, writes "Among the Pueblos:' f. II.
Underwood has a curiously interesting paper
on 1.-The Preceptor of Noses Richard
Grant Whites English article this time is
Taurus Centanrus can Englishwoman
in The New England Hill Country" is well
worth reading. The short story is "Svlvia's
Suitors," by Louise Stockton. The political
article discusses 1.-The Republicans and their
Candidate" whom itregards as wholly WORTHY
of confidence and enthusiastic support Col.
HigginsOn and Susan Coolidge furnish poems
and reviews of new books and an attractive
variety in the Contributors Club" complete
a capital Summer number of the Atlantic.
The Midsummer Scribner august mum.
ber) opens with frontispiece engraving bv
Cole. from the famous picture of Savonarola.
by Fra Bartolommeo. Another brief sum-
mary of large subject is Richard Henry
Dana's "Sketch of American Diplomacy.
MI adj TIL;
la Nouvelle Revue" the new rival of the
''Revue des Deux Mondes," answers pbilo.
sophically-and favorably-the question
will the French Republic Last?- The
most novel and interesting art feature Of the
Midsummer Scribner is Phillip Gilbert Ham,
erton's study of ''Mr. Seymour Hadep's
Etchings." 1t has been left to an American
magazine to first enter upon the literal illus
tration of Dickens, by employing artists to
look up the original scenes of his stories.
The first of this series appears in the August
Scrihner. some of whose remaining features
we can barely enumerate 'Our River a de.
scrir,ion Of the Hudson.-not "guide-book~
but one made con amore bv a
writer and an artist who have lived long on lie
hanks-Mr. John Burroughs and Mrs. Mary
Hallock Foote; 1.-THE Western Man." by
Charles Dudley Warner; THE Book Of
Mormon an account, by Mrs. Ellen F.
Dickinson. fortified by sworn and other tes-
timony, Of the origin Of the Mormon Bible.
which IL claimed to have been written as a
novel by her great-uncle, Rev Solomon
Spauldine: comic operetta 1.-The Sweet O.
the Year" words by Nellie G. Cone and mu
SIC by E. c. Phelps: Albert Rhodes on Am
-rican girls who marry foreign titles: an
amusing paper by Mr.. Rideing. illustrated
~ Mr.. Brennan and others. on 1.-THE Curios-
ties of Advertising;" an illustrated paper.
~ Principal Grant. on the present Position
md Outlook of Canada" in q series that has
attracted much attention; and further INSTALL |