National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-01-21
The February
MIDWINTER
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(Scribner's Monthly,

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year. 2O,5OO copies of November have been sold.
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ent designs for the seasons. The title "SCRIBNERs
MONTHLY" is, with this number, omitted from
the cover page The contents include:
LOSGFELLOw.
A new poem by Henry W. Iongfcllow, entitled
Hermes Trismegistus," occupying two pages
EMERSON.
An essay, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. on the use
of THE Superlatiye" in ordinary speech and
writing,
"THE
TILE CLUB
ASHORE"
doings Of this famous Club. The twenty illustra-
tions include the work of w. NJ. Chase, Frederick
Dielman, Arthur Quartley, r. Swain Clifford, +.
Hopkinson Smith, Frank d. Millet, N. sarony, and
C. S. Reinhart
HOWELLS.
The continuation of W. D. Howclls' Novel, "a
Modern Instance" begun in the December num-
Der, Of which an extra edition of 1900 copies was
printed.
sTEDMAN.
poem. "Lovers in the Tropics" by Edmund
Clarence Stedman
A FRONTIsPIECE
PORTRAIT OF GEORGE W. CABLE,
accompanying an article by George L. Warng,
jr. on the life and works of the author of " Old
Creole Days" "The Grandissimes, etc.
STOCKTON.
"Euphemia Among the Pelicans," story of the
"Rudder Grange" people in Florida.
MRS. BURNETT.
Interesting chapters of Mrs Frances Hodgson
Burnetts novel of Washington life, Through one
Administration" Another notable contribution
of Mrs. Bunett's to this number is the text some.
what condensed, of her new play,
"ESNERELDA,"
now having long and successful run at New
York theatre
DEAN STANLEY.
A paper on Frederick W. Robertson, with por.
trait and autograph, by the late Arthur Penrhyn
stanley,-writen just before his death.
other contents include "a richly illustrated ar
ticle by " II. H." Brother Stolzs Beat" describ-
ing the picturesque Moravian settlement at Beth
lehem, Penn. Significant Aspects of the Atlanta
Exposition" by Edward Atkinson; Daniel Web
ster," by w. c. Wilkinson; 1.-THE Phldian Age Of
Sculpture
by Mrs. Lucy NJ. Mitchell, with eleven illustra.
tons. "Thc Proposed National Library Building"
etc. In the Departments there are able editorials
from various pens in Topics of the Time" in
d" Home hnd Society" paper on
''Lawn Tennis,'' illustrated
with sketches, of value to every Tennis player,
showing the most approved strokes.
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