Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-03-24
Literary n Offices.
ooDEY's LADY's BOOK FoR APRm

GODEY's LADY's BOOK FOR APRIL
Is on our table. The steel plate il a beau .
tiful picture from SCOTS Monastery.
and one Of the very best Of the popular !.
series which have enriched this magazine
for several years. In the literary depart d
ment are given a complete novel, of in /
tense interest, entitled Sacrifice and
n number of short stories, poems, and
sketches. In the fashion department are
elegantly colored full length figures,
numerous illustrations of dress for women
and children, and the work department
is replete with useful instruction, sup
plemented with engravings. upon various
matters of interest to housekeepers. The
array of receipts and the fun for children
are still kept up with old-time care. IL
seems to us that the money spent for
wears subscription to the Lady's Book is
one of those safe investments that can
never bring regrets. ANY of our readers
who do not take the Lady's Book can be
supplied, promptly, by leaving their
orders at this Office. Wewill furnish our
own paper and the Lady's Book for the
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fishers agree to start subscription with
any month you may select.
The Score for March, is an especially
enjoyable number. In spite of fire
which destroyed its printing Office. and
occasioned delay of three days in its APP
pearance, it comes out enlarged to ten
pages of literary matter, and nineteen of
music. Its criticisms of musical events
are from the pen of its editor, the we'll
known journalist and critic-Louis c.
Elson. Although they are entirely relia-
BILE and analytical, Mr.. Elson does not
affect the pedantic style Of art review,
and his remarks are rather in the fertile
tom style of the French reviewers. An
article by tx. NJ, c. on "Reed organs"
trenchantly points out the humbugs that
have crept into this business. Musical
Shopping" is a satirical screed on the
miseries inflicted on music clerks, by
half-informed young ladies, The other
numerous departments of the paper are
well filled. Address The Score, Boston.
Mass.
The contents of Appletons' Journal for
April are as follows: "A Question:: a
Greek Idyl." by Professor Georg Ebers
author of 'Uarda," IAN Egyptian Prin-
cess" etc., in Two Parts Part First;
Mysteries and Miracle-Plays," by Lucy
Fl. Hooper; Oliphant's Land of Gilead";
son some of Shakespeare Female Charc-
ters" UI y Portia, by Helena Faucit Mar
tin; 'Greek Dinners" by F. A. Prley;
'.Why does the Crab go Sideways? by
Robert B. Roosevelt; "A Culture Ghost:
or Winthrop's Adventure" by Vernon
Lee: "The Caliph Haroun Alraschid'
.'The Earl of Beaconsfeld as Novelist" !;
"Ruskiniana" Ruskin's ARROWS of the
Chace'O: Concerning the Cheerfulness
of the Old" by A. K. H. B., the Country
Parson). Editors Table: Carlyle as a
Thinker-The English Estimate of Carlyle
Tact not Special Feminine Quality.
Notes for Readers. Single number, Is
cents. Yearly subscription, $500.
In the North american RerieU for
April is a noteworthy article by Judge A.
W. Tourgee, in which the professed re-
formers of the civil service are put on the
defensive and their schemes of reform
pronounced to be incompatible with
American ideas of self-government, and
on divers other grounds inadmissible and
impracticable. The same number of the
ReiieW contains, under the fanciful title
THE Thing that Might Be-" profound
ly philosophical study of the laws and
" conditions of human progress, by the
Rev. Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln
College, Oxford. The third article is a
strong defense of the Roman Catholic
side of the controversy about religion in
the Public Schools, from the pen OF
Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester. The great
problem of the governmental control oi
monopolies is discussed vita reference tC
railway management by the Hon. Geo
Ticknor Curtis, who contends that when 6
railway company is incorporated by any
State it agrees to this much and no more
that its property shall be subject to sucf
legislative control as the act of incorpo
ration embraces, to the exercise of the
taxing and police powers of the State
and to the power of the eminent domain
The same broblem, in its bearing upor
telegraph lines, ably discussed by thu
Hon. VIM. NJ. Springer. Mr.. John Fisk,
has an article on The Historic Genesis
of Professionalism, and Mr.. Anthony Troll
lope, an essay on the Poet Longfellow
Mr. Desire Charnay, the author of tht
series of papers on the ruined cities o
Central America, has for more than TIVE
months been pursuing his researches il
regions remote from all avenues of com
munication with the civilized world
and consequently neither the presen
number of the Review nor the one las
preceding it contains any contribution
from him. In the May number, however
will be published another of his very in
structive papers.
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