Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-25
The january Century.

General Shermau's retirement from |
the army lends timely interest TO the
frontispiece OF the January Century, !
and is evidence TO the eyes that cor
eral sherman has been re!iiEs, nv law
have even zen Is ma i.a mental p EoT;ig 1"
- ,aracter and his services TO the
country are discussed by Il. V. Smalley
in Il fresh and authoritative paper,
which contains several good anecdotes'
General Grant has assisted IN making
the paper exact ana valuable WIN
reference to war history by giving I'M
portant information and 10y reading
the proofs.
.sC;arfield in London is an account,
in the main, of President Garfield
experiences and impressions while in
the British capital, being extracts from
his journal OF his trip to Europe IN
/ 1897 in company with his wife. HIS
/ views on English politics and on prom
/ inent men lihe Bright, Disraeii, aud
4 Spurgeon have a strong au!obioSraph-
| ical interest.
The most interesting of French in
stitutions, the academy, with It's For
~ Immcitnls,' is made the subject OF
a cosby paper, by the author of the
striking biographical sketch of Cam
beta, y which was printed in the Cen
tury for last March. Portraits of thir-
teen of the most widely known
academicians illustrate the writer's
crisp eharacterizations. a portrait
ana Biographical notice of the Hindoo
, girl, "Toru Dutt, calls attention once
more to the remarkable command OF
English possessed by this young poet,
J who died when she was only twenty
! one.
"In WORDSWORTH Country" is M
English prose pastoral by John Bur
roughs, who says that "Shukespeare is
the universal genius, but Wordsworth:
poetry has more the character of ,
= special message, and n message specia
i arc per-onal 10 "A few reapers."
: "Edinbo Old 1own,n by AID ev
= Lang, ~ the opening article of \.
: number, and is profusely ILLUSTRATED
5 by Pencil. Both the writer and tn
0 artist have felt The romantic and pic
o turesque influence Of "Auld Reekie.
: IN the 'Log of an Ocean Studio'' j
= described vacation voyage to Europ
u OF seven New York artists, VIII
o amused themselves with decorating
= one of the steamers cabins. The Illus
= trations, taken for the most part fror
= the cabin pictures, are by VIM. Nj
. Chase, J. Carroll Beckwith, Frederi
- p. NintoD, Robert Plum, Arthu
g Lungren: c. L. Buel contributes Tia
:, 'Log.p
it ''Husbandry in Colony Times,n
Ne perhaps the most popular of DR.. n,
10 ward Eggleston's studies of colopi'
ifTn .,f 4 H. oil, ,af Of
m plies ofthe country has II romantic hi
+ tory. Many curious illustrations ad
10 10 the interest of the paper.
+r In fiction, the January number
nj notable for the conclusion of "Tl
"a Bread-winners - the third part of M
AZ Cables romance. DIR Sewer ~ Il
ii second Part OF Robert Grants Ne
p York story, IAN Average man ~ al
l. "A humorous story by Frank k. Sto,
ID ton, entitled "His Wife's Deceass
Ia Sister,
ee The poetry OF the number is co
n, tribu,ed by Henry Tyrrell, Miss Gan
We line May, Henry Gilman, Mrs. Eli2
lie beth II. Blanchard, james Herbe
at Morse and ISIS Eliza Calvert Hal
pit and he "Bric-a-bracn verse by Jol
i'd Vance Cheney, Samuel Minturn Pee
N. Miss Grace Dei.io LitchGe.d, II. \
III c.. and others.
or Topics of The Time contains edi
n rails on "The Difficulty of Polite
" Reform, "Religious Snobbery - NJ
~ under the title "Ministerand Citizen
49, -, IA. N.i.ise+l.,ile.l z. 4ist a.. L!a.i
,ct Henry 9. Potter. In Opera Letters
III w. III. Bishops comments ON Ill.
", Burners rscent essay In the same {
te- parlment on New York AS IA File
he for Fiction,n and Mr.. Bunner Offers
an brief rejoinder. Other contribute
N are "Our jury SYSTEM by Enge
20 Lewis, Some New INVENTIONS
rs Charles Barnard, Free Trade
,e- Canada by j. Fred Harley, "Jose
ms Jefferson. as Caleb Plummer,n by
,ly Ranisen Towse, Jefferson Davis a
III General Holt,' by "Loyalist,n Al
in "rhe Influence of Christi by Pr
hs George T.. Fish.