The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-04
November Magazines.

November Magazines.
Scribner's Monthly celebrates its
tenth birthday with a permanent
change of cover, and with a number
for Noveniber) which tthe conduc-
tors have done all in their power to
make one of exceptional beauty, in
terest and value, and it is also the
largest number of Scribner. Scrib-
ner's cover has turned from violet
to warm brown, and in the design
the aim has been at distinctness, sim
plicity and a rich decorative effect.
Millet's most famous picture, "'rhe
Sower," engraved by Cole, forms the
frontispiece, and among the principal
artistic features of the number are a
striking portrait of Gladstone, new
portrait of Walt Whitman, an exqui-
site engraving Of a Russian nun, en-
cravings after Veddcr's works, nota-
bly, the ''Thc. Lost Mind" and repro
auctions of others among the best
known of the works of Millet, the
story of whose life is being told for
the first time in Scribner: With this
number is begun the second and con-
Guiding part of Eugene Schuyler's
profusely illustrated life of Peter the
Great, entitled "Peter the Great as
Ruler and Reformer," also a new
short serial by 4 new writer-''Tiger-
lily" by Mrs. Julia Schayer. An
illustrated paper on "Bordentown
and the Bonapartes" will open a new
and curious chapter of American So
ciety to most readers. The article
on ssTablesu," with pictures by Miss
Oaky. goes more thoroughly than
usual into the artistic capabilities Of
such entertainments. But there is
no paper in the number which will
be read with greater interest, e,~pe-
cially by the elders of this genera
ton of his countrymen, than that on
the late President Leonard Woods,
of Bowdoin College, by Mr.. Richard
Henry Dana, who was once, in his
youth, under the care of Mr.. Woods.
The November Atlantic opens with
five chapters of striking new serial
story, "The Portrait of Lady," by
Henry James, Jr. Col. T. w. Hig-
ginson writes "a Search for the
Pleiades," charming out door es-
say on New Hampshire mountain
scenery, birds, and animals. The
third paper Oh the eliminate Life of
a Noble German Family is no less
interesting than previous papers.
Miss Phelps discusses the puzzling
question "What is Fact?" Geo. p.
Lathrop describes the Concord
School Of Philosophy in a paper en-
titled PHILOSOPHY and Apples"
Prof. Shaler of Harvard treats ''The
Future of Weather Foretelling."
Rev. S. J. Barrows has thorough
ly interesting article on 'sThe Silk
Industry in America" Richard
Grant White seems to conclude his
excellent English papers with one
made up of Letters and Notes from
"The Washington Rem
iniscences," whic;, have been pro-
nounced by competent Judges the
best series of papers ever written on
Washington political and social life,
this time relates to the close of
the Tyler administration. Miss
Miss II. w. Preston furnishes
capital translation of "Storms in
Autumn" from the Georges Of Vir-
gil. 7. b. Aldrich contributes ssThe
Jews Gift" striking poem, and
there are alsofpoems by E. II. Glenn
ent and Anna Head. A variety Of
topics is treated entertainingly in
''The Contributors Club" which
closes remarkably good number of
this sterling magazine.
Captain Mayne Reid, even before
his corporeal. frame has Quilted the
is said to live again in the
new author, Felix L. Oswald, who
to the new volume of
st. Nicholas Gin Natures Wonder
land; or, Adventures in the Ameri-
can Tropics" He is traveller of
wide experience, and his sketches,
which are to run through the year,
will afford many de-
lightful and wholesome morsel to
that omnivorous creature, the Amer
lean boy of the period.
Frank Il. Stockton, the author of
the "Rudder Grange" papers, who,
through these inimitable recitals,
has made half America laugh during
the past two years, is engaged upon
a special series of serio-comic giant
and fairy stories for the St. Nicholas
They all are to be illustra-
ted by Bensell. The first IF these,