Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-05-05

IHE MAY CENTURY presents the 3rd
of the five covers designed by Mr.. We'd
der: the chief items of which are the
figure ola young girl (Spring with sun
light, flying bird, and a frame of bios
SONS, the three appropriate signs of the
zodiac being combined up into the
borders of the title. The general effect
is animated, and the composition of the
page is well arranged.
The emphasis thus laid upon the
outside has its counterpart in the table
of contents. Here, and also accom-
panying their several contributions IAN
innovation which, despite its drawbacks,
seems to be called for, and is to be per
manent) we find the names of Thomas
Carlyle, James Russell Lowell, John G.
SAKE, f. c, Steadman, w. D. Howells,
Mrs. F. H. Burnett, Miss Constance F.
Woolson. "Uncle Remus," Richard
Grant White, Emma Lazarus, Archi-
bald Forbes, H. c. Bunner, Edward
Everett Hale, Lang and Goose, the
two English poets, and Tooker and Sax
ton, two promising writer's among the
younger poets of this country.
The opening paper is entitled ''rhe
Canadian Mecca the subject being
the Catholic pilgrimages to the village
OF st. Anne de Beaupre, on the st. Law
renee, and it is alleged Woodworking
spring.
"Carlyle in Ireland" from the recent
ly discovered MS, is interesting and
valuable for the light it sheds upon
Carlye in 1S49.
Miss Emma Lazarus's reply to Nine.
Ragozin's attack upon the Jews in tine
last number has special significance as
coming from Jewess, and throws
another kind oflight on the anti-Semetic
movement in Russia.
Mr.. Lowell's contribution is a poem
'Estrangement," and he is himself the
subject of a discriminating critical pap.
er by Mr.. Stedman, who pronounces
him "a poet who is our most brilliant
and learned critic, and who has given
us our best native idyl, our best and
most complete work in dialectic verse,
and the noblest heroic ode that Ameri-
ca has produced,-each and all rank
ing with the first of their kind in Eng
llsh literature ofthe modern tiRle.''
Mr.. Howells' story does not flag in
interest. BARLEY visits club of news
paper men, makes the ACQUAINTANCE Of
the Judgment Children's Surf bathing
Society, and accepts position as
manager ofthe "daily Events" In Mrs.
Burnett's story. Arbuthnot make a dis
covery, and Janey falling ill in the
country, Mrs. Amory telegraphs to the
Professor, and he being urable to go,
after much parrylng between Arbuthnot
and Tredennis, it is decided that the
latter shall go, which he does. Already
much curiosity is manifested to know
how this sto,y is to end. Miss Wool
sons two part-story is entitled "The
Street of the Hyacinth'' and deals with
1.-The most interesting feature of Rome
after the catacombs and ancient art the
American GIRL" This particular Ameri-
can girl Miss Elite F. Macks, has
come from Tuscolee, with her mother,
to study art. :.
In the departments, Topics of the
Time" treats OF zone Parson in Politics.
.sIews and Jew Baiters,' and Putting
Away the Pathies," "New Reasons for
Peace" etc. Morley's Golden"
receives an extended notice in "Litera-
ture." Arthur Penn gives some "Notes
on Reading" in Home Society. and the
"World's Work''is, as usual, devoted to
recent inventions.
In .'Bric-a-Brac," "Uncle Remus"
sings two of his inimitable Plantation
Songs, and Walter Hayden tells some
thing of folklore among the Objiba-
way Indians: etc.