The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-06-29
LITERARY NOTES.

THE Atlantic Monthly for July. contains the last
written by Mr.. Longfellow entitled 1.-THE Bells
of San Bias" The manuscript bears the date of
March Is, which but very few days before Mr..
Longfellows final illness. The poem is one which he
only could write, and will be read with peculiar in
terest his hundreds of thousands of admirers The
important series of articles Studies in the South
is continued and the present article like the preVt
gives the reader exact and vivid idea of
the state of feeling and the POLITICAL religious, COM
mercal, and social conditions in the South. In 1.-THE
Political Economy of Seventy-Three Million DOL
lars,' Mr.. Henry d. Lloyd, who wrote the pungent
'Story of Great Monopoly" in the Atlantic a few
months ago, discusses the way in which immense
fortunes are made, and writes in vigorous, tren-
chant style which makes his article peculiarly read
able and intensely interesting Other important art-
cles in the number on the 'Care for the People
under Despotism," by o. B. rockingham; Naval
Courts Martial and the Pardoning Power, by Henry
Cabot Lodge; "Shall Members of the Cabinet sit in
Congress?" by Willard Brown. Miss Sarah Orne
Jewett contributes another of her delightful stories
entitled 1.-THE Mate of the Daylight" MIR. Hardy's
excellent and most interesting serial "Two on Tow
er; Miss Phelps's story of "Dr. Zay" and Mr. Bish-
ops novel New York society, 1.-THE House of Mer
chant Prince are continued. There are poems by
Annie R. Amman, Susan Coolidge, and H. C. Bunner.
Reviews of recent books and the Contributors Club,
discussing literary and art matters, complete an unu
suay strong and interesting number of the atlantic.
Houghton, Mifiin & Co.. Boston.
PETERsoN's MAGAZINE for July is before us, with
one of the most exquisite steel engravings we have
ever seen, "Chasing The Butterfly" alone worth the
price of the number. Then there is q charming COL
ored steel fashion-pate, with five figures; coored
pattern in crewels, Pomegranates and Leaves;' and
something like fifty wood-cuts of dresses, workable
patterns, etc.: perfect galaxy of good things. The
most noticeable article is illustrated "A Lon
don Dinner-Party,'' by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, des-
cribing dinner at which she present. at the late
Nothing read
brings before wildly the state and splendor
of such meal in the houses of what pIsraeli used
to call the higher aristocracy" There are in addi-
tion, several capital ove-sories: especially white
Simplicity, of very unusual merit, even for Peter
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ECLECTIC MAGAzINE.-The July number of the
Eclectic is at hand, and 1t begins volume, it
offers favorable time for commencing new subscrip-
tions. The number is excellent one. 1t is illus
traed with of the finest steel engravngs that has
appeared in the magazine, entitled Loves Con-
fesson and this engraving alone is worth the price
OF the number. The table of contents is as follows
"a Word About America" by Matthew Arnold
"Charles Lamb and his Friends" by John Dennis
"Across the Yellow sea:" 1.-THE Gun as Perpetual
Machine" by r. A. Proctor: "Wagner's 'Nibelung'
and the Siegfried Tale by Karl Blind "Adrift,' by
May Probyn; ''The Lady Maud" sea tale by the
author of ''The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc.;
flames and John Stuart Mill: Traditional and Per-
sonal Memorials, by j. S. Stuart-Glennie "The Last
King of Tahiti by c. F. Gordon Cumming; "Oiing
the Waves; a Safeguard in Tempest" by c. F. Cor
Cumming; "What is There Left for Me to Say ?'
by Ethel de Fonblanque; "Three Great Dictionaries "
1.-The Story Block of Coal" by Prof. A. H. Green
"A Day at Margate," by Margaret Lonsdale; "Thack-
cray as a Novelist" ELK Hunting in Norway" by
clement Runbury; poor White Trash;" "Titles OF
Books !" Good Morrow and FareWellw y Literary No
tices Foreign Literary Notes. Science and Art; and
Miscellany.
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