Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-24
THE MAGAZINES.


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Inc ieu>ae .4on Of The Century
'i'' SINE as an art educator is ems
phasized in the June number by
brilliant frontispiece portrait of Car
dinal Newman, engraved 10y Cole,
from Rajons etching after Ouless's
portrait; by the inimitably racy and
breezy sea sketches of the opening
illustrated paper entitled around
Cape Horn, and by Mrs, Schuyler
Van Reussel@r's article Wood Ems
craving and the Century Prizes"
Other notable illustrated articles
in the June number are: The con-
Guiding paper on "Opera in New
York, by Richard Grant White, con
tanning portraits of Mario, Grisi,
Louisa Pyne, Brignoli, Ronconi,
Piccolomins Parepa Rosa, Kellogg,
Patti, Nilsson, Lucca, Annie Louise
Cary, Minnie Hauk, and Gerster; the
first of two papers on 'The Bee
Pastures of California" by john
Muir, who writes with stimulating
enthusiasm Of the fowery fields OF
honey>makers OF the California bee
ranches; ard short article 10y Robt.
W. WEIGH on Marble Mining in
Carrara, which has supplied sculp
tors with the best material for statues
for nine yeen humid ed years.
Accompanying the portrait of Car
dinal Newman is a biographical study
by G. Kegan Paul, the well-known
English publisher.
The second part of Carlyle's pos
thumous "reminiscences Of My
Irish Journey" Ito be completed in
the July number), describes the testy
philosophers visit to the Lake Of
Killarney and the southwestern
counties, and abounds in characters
istic pictures of persons and incisive
comments on the generally wretched
condition of the common people.
Mr.. Howells, in this number, in
troduces the hero and heroine of
&" A Modern Instance to housekeep-
ing, to an amusing phase of Boston
society, and to a baby which, it will
interest the reader of this charm
ingly realistic serial to know, is
named Flavia, after Squire Gay
lord, who makes another visit to
Boston in honor Of his namesake.
Mrs Burnett sends Bertha, the he
rome Of Through One Administra-
ton" to the mountains of Virginia,
while her husband is absent in the
West, looking after his railway in
terests.
The poetry of the number includes
plea in verse for the prosecuted
Hebrews of Russia by Joaquin Nils
Ter, entitled "Jewess" two tributes
to Longfellow, by Helen Gray Cone
and Wilburs Larremore; ''Wiihelmis
ma; by Clifford Lanier; '.In the
Haunts Of Bream and Bass, by Mau
nee Thompson; and ''RoseeGerar>
dia, by John Albee.
This month the departments treat
great variety of subjects, such as
the character and genius of ''Henry
Wordsworth Longfellow, practical
Education in the Common Schools, -
Minister and Citizen" "The Free
Library Movement, etc; in Topics
of the Time; a letter by Mr. Whittier,
GA his poem of "Mogg Megone," and
interesting information about the
| Pitcairn Islanders; in Communica>
tons; reviews of several important
books In literature; the second arts
Gle on blouse Construction, in
Home and Society, in which Charles
Z. Wingate discusses the sanitary
arrangements OF a well-constructed
dwelling, and exposes common and
dangerous evils IN plumbing; de-
scriptions of recent inventions in
/ The Worlds Work; and several
sprightly poems in Bric-a Brac,
which opens with Longfellow's in
scription on public fountain at
Shanklin. Isle of Wight