Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-03-21

has it for sale.
Houghton, Miflin i Co.. have published
the Lowell Birthday Book" q companion
to the Longfellow and Emerson Birthday
Books. 1t is in all respects worthy to be
ranked with those. 1t is an interesting re-
minder of one of our most gifted American
poets. whose works grow in popularity as the
years pass by. Horace North will supply all
demands for it,
1.-The Battle of the Moy," or "How Ire
land Gained Her Independence" is the title
of bright little volume issued by Lee and
Shepard, Boston. The narrative opens with
the year 1892. Ii traces the seQuent events,
and depicts with a force and picturesqueness
which seem almost realistic, the train of
causes which ultimately lead 10 the decisive
Battle of the Moy in 1894. The characters
are intensely Celtic, the writer is person of
military knowledge, and the description Of
the battle is as vivid and real rs though it
had taken place yesterday instead of being
put down as eleven years in the future.
Horace North has it.
The North American Review for April
opens with an article upon divorce" by DIR.
T. ID. Woolscy and Judge John A. Jameson.
Other articles are: "A Canadian View Of
Annexation BY DIR. p. Bender; "National
Aid to Public Schools" Senator John A.
Logan 1.-The Dangerous Classes" Rev. DIR.
Howard Crosby; Race Education" Presi-
dent James c. yelling; "The Water Supply
of Cities" Charles +. Wingate; Ethical
Systems" Prof. F. II. Hedge; "Street Beg
ging," Rev. DIR. Charles +. Deems; ''Criti-
cism and Christianity" o. b. rockingham.
The London Quarterly for January has the
following contents Archbishop TAFT and the
Primacy'; Progress and Poverty; "Pri-
vate Life of Cardinal Mazarin"; "Pawnbrok-
ing; 'Sir Archibald Alison's Autobiogra-
ply: "Corea'; American Novels; "Was
the Egyptian War Necessary" "The True
Position of Parties"
The Atlantic Monthly for April is a choice
number. 1t opens with a comedy in three
acts. by Henry James, Jr., entitled Daisy
Miller" This is followed by a characteristic
article by Oliver Wendell Holmes upon .'Pil-
low Shooting Authors-wth Prelude on
Night Caps and Comments on an old Writer"
Charles Dudley Warner discourses on "Mod-
ern Fiction" The remaining contents are a.
follows "A Poet" l.. Frank Tooker; "a
New Parishioner," Sarah Orne Jewett;
Loves Opportunity" Sophie Winthrop
Weitzel; "An Early Humanist," Harriet
w IleTeuAN, DaileN
Aldrich; ''The Bacon Shakespeare Craze"
Richard Grant White; BIRD Songs" Brad
ford Torrey; "Unloved,' Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop; Stage Butfoons," Elizabeth Rob
ins; "Recent Biographies" Law and Law
yers in Literature; Memorials of Rosetti''
"A Frenchman in the United States in 1887;
Carlyle and Emerson" 1.-The Negro Race in
America
The April number of Lippincott's Maya
zine has for an opening paper East Hamp-
ton, Long Island" finely illustrated. "A
Pilgrimage Down East" by r. Riordan, gives
capital sketches of places and people-New
port and Concord, Holmes, Whittier, ETC.
in piquant style. ''The German Element
in the United States" is the subject of an
article by +. V. Smalley. "Mr. Freeman on
American Speech" is the title of a racy piece
Of criticism. An article on Wagner, by
Philip G. Hubert, Jr., is the production Of a
fanatical admirer. One of the most striking
papers in the number is one on "The Climate
Cure" by Frank ID. Y. Carpenter. Miss
Tincker's serial, 1.-The Jewel in the Lotos,"
is captivating story. OF the remaining fc-
ton, 'An Everyday Affair is q capital
"society story" while "Cyrus's Wife" and
"Clock Work" give faithful pictures, hum
orous and pathetic, of rural New England
life. The editorial departments are as well
filled and interesting as usual.