Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-06-02
LITERARY NOTICES.

| llelnOrtSb Magazine Is an unusually
attractive one. Mrs. Alexander inter
esting story, "The Admiral's Ward" Il
continued and among the shorter
articles worthy Of note may be men
toned THE Crown of June" "Tht
Sto.v OF Lesing,' "Biornstierne Bjorn
son at Home" the Country Wedding
and Home Art and Home Comfort.
Jennie June continues to her admira
bic "Talk with Women and ''Topics o.
the Day." are pleasantly written up
The various departments are full anc
interesting, especially that of Fashion
The illustrations are numerous anC
excellent, the frontispiece, "The Princes
IN the Tower an oil picture, being
really a gem of art.
The JUNE CEyTURy-The reputation
of .he Century Magazine As an art edu'
Gator is emphasized in the June mum
Der by a brilliant frontlspiece portrait
of Cardinal Newman, engraved by Cole
from Rajons etching after Ouless's
portrait; 10y the inimitably racy and
breezy sea sketches OF the opening illus.
trated paper "Around Cape Horn,
and by Mrs Schuyler van Rensselaer,
article on "Wovd Engraving and Cen.
fury Prizes.
Other notable illustrated articles in
the June number are: The concluding
paper on Opera in New York by
Richard Grant White, the first Of two
papers on the "Bee- Pastures of Califor-
MIA by John Muir, who writes with
stimulating enthusiasm Of the howsry
fields and honey makers of the Califor-
MA bee-ranches; and a short article by
Robert w. Welch on Marble Mining
in Carrara," which has supplied sculp-
torr with the best material for statues
for nineteen hundred years.
The second part of Carlyle's postum
nous "reminiscences of Ny IRISH
Journey Ito be completed in the July
number) describes the testy philoso-
piers visit to the Lake of Killarney
and the south and south western coun-
ties, and abounds in character iStic pic
lures of persons and incislve comments
on the generally wretched condition of
the common people.
a prominent Civll-Servlce reformer,
T.. i. Godkin, editor of the Nation"
has a strong paper combating the ar
gument advanced by the advocate of
the spoils system that the tenure on
the Civil Service basis would bring
with it "'rhe Danger of an Office-huld-
ing Aristrocracy.
Mr.. Howells, IN this number, intro
duces the hero and the heroine of "A
Modern Instance" to housekeeping, to
an amusing phase of Boston society,
and to a baby which, 1t will interest
the reader in this charmingly realistic
serial to know, is named Flavia, after
Squire" Gaylord, who makes another
visit to Boston in honor of his name
sake. Mrs. Burnett sends Bertha, the
heroine of Through one Administers
ton to the mountains of Virginia,
while her husband is absent in the
West looking after his railway inter-
ests. The concluding part of MIS-
Woolson's Roman story, "The Street
Of the Hyancinth,' shows new type
of the American girl abroad, undeceiv-
ed as to her having talent for art.
supporting herself by teaching young
pupils, refusing an Italian Count, and
sustaining herself, with nobleness o
to satisfactory conclusion.
The short story of the number is
sketch of New England seafarlng life |
by Mary Hallock Foote, in which Cap
tain John relates. with native pith and |
idiom, the STORY of the Alcazar," a
slayer that was deserted at sea, with
cargo of negroes confined IN the hold
This moEtl the departments treat
great variety Of subjects, such as the
and genius of Henry Word
worth Longfellow." ;'Practlcal Educa-
ion in the Common Schools" minis
er and Citizen,'' "The Free Library
Movement etc, in Topics ofthe Time;
| letter by Mr.. Whittier, on his poemof
Mogg Megone," and interesting infor-
nation about the Pitcairn Islanders. in
Communications.
ST NICHOLAS, for June opens with
harming frontisplece illustration by
". I. Smedley, entitled "Mr. Lor efel-
ow and his Boy Visitor" accompany
ng an account by Hezekiah Butter
worth Of a visit paid the poet, shortly
'efore his death, by some boys from
'oston school. Lucy Larcom also
ontributes an article full of reminis-
ence and pleasant anecdote of Long
elbow and his relations with children,
interesting to old and young alike.
Seals and Seal-hunting in the North
atlantic" is an entertaining paper, oy {
.arnest 1ngersoll, strikingly lllustrat-
d with twelve pictures by d. e. Beard.
+. c. Beard, w. Taber, and NJ. J
burns.