The National tribune., 1882-09-23
THE MAGAZINES.

as frontispiece. Robert II. Lamborn contributes
Life in Mexican Street." handsomely illus
trated by Mary HalIocl Foote. THE CorcOran
Gallery of Art" in Washington, by s. CIV. Ben
jamin, with illustrations by Joseph Purcell and
J. II. Cooke is a well prepared article and just
compliment to one of the four principal art
galleries in the United States. C. II. White
furnishes a we'll written story, entitled :" Five
Hundred Dollars" "The Gibralter of America"
by Chas H Farnham, illustrated by Sandman
and Smith, is an instructive description OF que
bee. Glow Lincoln was Nominated" by
Frank B. Carpenter, will amply repay perusal.
f. Z. Farman shows how the Egyptian obelisk
was brought across tho ocean and set up in
Central Park. E. V. SmaIley continues his
Observations of the New Northwest" David
| c. Barrow describes a Georgia Corn Shucking'
with illustrations of the happy-go-lucky race
whose songs and dances enliven the toll of the
freedmen in the sunny South. Charles G. Le-
land has an illustrated article on "Handwork
in Public Schools" w. d. Howells concludes
his charming story, "A Modern Instance"
and Mrs Burnett contributes chapter xii Of
"Through One Administration"
The above comprises little more than two
thirds the contents of this splendid number
1t is doubtful if so much and so great variety
of excellent literature was ever before furnished
for the money.
Ljppiac0tts Mdgd=ine, for October, opens with
"Norfolk New and Old" Charles B. Todd
tells the story of the ancient city; how it was
intended for o great commercial metropolis; (;
how it was outstrpped in the race by its north
| by- itc
it is awakening to its advantages. Annie
Porter gives a graphic picture of the overflow
of the Mississippi under the title, How Es-
capped from the Floods" Kanuck describes
his experience in Bark Canoeing in Can
ada" and B. c. Baylor contributes "A Shocking
Example" The story of "Faery Gold" is in
its sixteenth chapter, lively and entertaining
as usual. NJ. II. Catherwood has paper de-
scriptive of Camping on the Lower Wabash"
The amusing Monthly Gossip" is full of rich
ness, and constitutes very readable portion
of the Magazine.
| Pcters0ns Magazine for October.-Of the five
pretty girls, whose full-length portraits adorn
this number ono wears a bridal veil. The
remainder are arranged in most bewitching
costume. which must be seen to be appreciated.
"The Woodland Bath" forms the frontispiece.
''Ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
nynph, maid, a grace
OF fairer form or lovlier face"
The literature is, as usual chaste and pure.
Nothing finds its way into this exclusively
ladies' magazine which is in the slightest de-
gree offensive An article on "Thc Khedive's
Uarem," illustrated with several engravings,
is peculiarly appropriate to the period.
beautifulpannel piece engraved by Closson,
from a a picture by E. A. Abbey, entitled 'Au-
tumn, forms the frontispiece of Harper for Oc-
tober. A lady, by no means in the autumn of
life, dccked with flowers and embOWered in lux
uriant foliage, wearing Gainsboro hat trimmed
with fragrant tuberoses and geranium leaves,
beneath which beams lovely face; her arms
are demurely folded across her waist and, on
the pouting lips sweet as a nectarine, turks
come-and-kiss-me" expression peculiarly ap-
propriate to the scene.
The table of contents embraces some of the
highest names in English literature. The
Illustrations, always we'll engraved and clearly
printed, arc by masters of the profession. Mrs.
/ John Lille continues her Travels in Eng
land" and in this number describes quaint
old Surrey. "Medical Education in New York.
by William II. Rideing, with portraits of q
dozen of the leading lights in the profession, is
an interesting paper, Notwithstanding its title.
Certain New York Houses" by NJ. L. W.
Sherwood, beautifully illustrated by Lathrop
and Vauderhoof, affords glimpse Of the in
terror of the residences of New York million
aires. THE Artistic Young Lady" standing
before her easel, surrounded by beautiful OBJ
ccts of art, engraved by Hoskin, is a chef
davUrc of wood engraving Mary Robinson
sketches the career of the poet artist Dante
Gabriel Rossetti. "Old Miss Todd is a story
told in her graceful style, by Rose Terry Cooke.
f. +. Madden, late editor of the Louisville
Post, gives a remarkably clever sketch OF
Symmes and his theory, illustrated by W. NJ.
LalIan and J. G. Beard, showing "Symmes's
hole " as it would appear to a lunarian with
telescope, portrait of Jno Cleves Symmes and
the northward migration of animals. The
titles given constitute about one-half the con-
tents of this most interesting of periodicals
AHcltjc Monthly for October.-Thomas Hardy
continues 1.-TWO on q Tower" Lady Con
stontine discovers that her husband was alive
and comfortably married to a native priRcess
in East India, and that she, supposing him
dead, had married Swithin st. Clcevc, and
now, to render her marriage legal, it must all
be done over again. Among the Sabine
Hills" by Harriet w. Preston, is scholarly
description Of the classic ground immortalized
by Horace, and familiar to every school boy
rs the land which furnished to the Romans
their reluctant spouses. The poet Whittier
contributes storm on Lake Asquam."
4 cloud like that the old-time Hebrew saw
On Carmel prophesying rain began
To lift itself ocr wooded Cardigan
ing and backening suddenly aiiame.
Horace E. Scudder tells the story of an En-
glish interpreter
The eighth chapter of "studies in the
South )" contains the following sentence: -
had seen so many drunken men in Kentucky
and Tennessee that it began to seem that in
toxication was the normal state for the inhab-
tants of that part of our country" The reader
who knows anything of good society in those
States will regret that the associates Of the
writer of Studies in the South had not been of
more respectable character. And Mrs. SOmer-
sham" (Agnes Pator) writes good and readable
stories of homo life, genre pictures with the
pcn, in which portraits appear full OF character
and strength pilgrims Isle" by Thomas
Williams Parsons; THE House of a Merchant
Prince" chapters XIX and Xxx, by William
Henry Bishop; "The Nation of the Willows"
bv f. H. Cushing; "a Shadow Boat" by Arlo
potas. sEThe Red Man and the White Ma,, ~