Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-03-28
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being the republication of a series Of letters
by Mary E. Blake, first published in the Bos-
ton Journal, descriptive of trip to the Pa
cific. is a work which will delight all who
read it. We have seldom seen so racy, bright
and interesting a book of travel rs this.
From the Pullman car in which she travelled.
to the sights along the way, the country
prairie OF mountain, the people and their
manners, cities. towns and climate, every
| thing is noticed with brilliancy of touch
| that is continued from the first to the last
page. OF course such a work is only kind
of photograph of the things seen on the trip.
but it is as finely and skillfully executed as
picture painted by the sunlight. Horace
North has it for sale.
| Charles Scribners Sons have issued the
| first number of series of volumes relating
to the operations of the American navy, rs a
companion work to their recently published
series of the military campaigns of the Civil
War. The title of the present volume is
THE Blockade and the Cruisers" by James
Russell Soley, Prof U. s. Navy. The vol
ume opens with description of the condition
of our navy at the opening of the war, which
is followed by an account of the blockade,
the fight between the Monitor and Merrimac,
the operations of the Atlantic and
Gulf Squadrons. the closing chapters
being devoted to BLOCKADE Runners"
and The Commerce Destroyers." There is
an appendix conta aiming important statistical
matter relating to the navy, and there are
seven accurate maps to assist the understand
| ing in obtaining correct ideas Of localities
and situations. The volume before us repre-
sents the valor and exploits of our sailors in
the war in very faithful and interesting
manner. The plucky fight made by the
| Monitor and other vessels of the navy in
Hampton Roads, is an especially interesting
account of one of the bravest and most im-
portant encounters in the war.
The April Century has for a fronts.
piece a fine engraving of Emerson. Ben
Perley Poore furnishes a gossipy historical
account of the Capitol at Washington, which
| is illustrated with more than a bakers dozen
of excellent wood-cuts. Other illustrated
articles are: Eugene Fromentin," by Hen
nv Eckford; "Plottcrs and Pirates Of Louis
iana," by Geo. W. Cable; 1.-The Primitive
Flsh-hook," Barnett Phillips; Visiting the
| Gypsies," by Charles G. Leland Bible
readers will find food for thought in Ellice
! Hopkins article on the Song of Songs"
| To many the most interesting article Of the
number is +. c. Stedman's critical estimate
of Emerson as poet. Mr.. Elbridge King
ley's full-page illustration to Mr.. John Bur-
roughs' article AT Sea-" drawn 18th graver,
is only partially successful. The waves in
the foreground look like blocks Of wood
The middle distance and the sky are better
Fiction is furnished by II. II. Boyesen, How
els, Mrs. Burnett; poetry by Sidney Lanier,
l.. Frank Tooker, Margaret Veley, Elizabeth
Akers, and william M. Briggs. Mr.. X. Y.
johnson writes Of Salvini. Mrs. II. II. Jack
son of the Oberammergau Passion Play.
There are the usual departments.
| The April number of the Eclectic in its
table of contents comprises something for
every Variety of taste, and is as follows:
| "Gambetta. by a Friend and Follower;
Rossetti." by Harry Quilter; Adventures
among the Austrians in Bosnia" "Church-
going Tim" poem by A. Mary F. Robinson;
''The Creed of Christendom,' by Rev. James
Martineau "Poets and Nighlingales Fire
side Musings on Serious Subjects - 'Mex-
leo and her Railways" by j. Y. Sargent;
Hours of Rest" by Anna II. Drury; "Lorj
Richard and L." Story. by Julian Sturgis;
1.-The Violin's Voice" by Beatrice Harraden; |;
''The Photographic Eyes of Science" by
Richard A. Proctor; "Anthony Trollope,"
by Mrs. Oliphant; doctor Henderson's
Romance;" "The Beginnings of Art by
Stanley Lane Poole; "Dr. John Brown Of
Edinburgh" "The Odd.Looking Man."
''Curiosities of the Telephone;" ''By Neigh
bor's Well" Literary Notices; Foreign
Literary Notes; Science and Art, and
Miscellany.
"Harpsr's," for April has more than fifty
illustrations. The frontispiece is fine
engraving from G. 8. Newton's painting of
Washington Irving. The leading articles
are as follows English Farmers, . by Phebe
Earle Gibbons; 1.-The Treaty of Peace and
Independence--L," by George Ticknor
Curtis; ARTIST Strols in Holland-IV.," by
George II. Boughton, illustrated by Boughton
and Abbey; IAN English Nation,'' by T. W.
Higginson: "A Home Lawn by s. b. Par
sons; ''Tbe Heir-Presumptive to the I'm
perial Throne of Mexico" by John Bigelow,
with portrait Of Iturbide; and "a Visit to
ICetawayo,' BY Simon Newcomb, with auto
graph of Cetawayo. j. Frank Pierce has il
for sale.
The Westminster Review for January has
the 1oiiDwing contents - 'oneiiey-nls r Ilenus
and Critics" THE Employers Liability Act,
lssO-Aceident Assurance" "Shaftesbury as
a Moral Philosopher" ;"The Diamond" 1.-THE
Brothers Henry and Thomas Erskine' !;
l"Common Sense about Women; IT. MOI
Iley's Reminiscepcs" ''The Art Of Acting" !;
Literary Notices; Linda and our Colonial
Empire"
Blackwoods Magazine for March has the
following contents: Jonathan Swift" "The
Progress of the New Dominion; "The La
dies Lindores'-Part XII; Contemporary
Art, Poetic and Positive, Rosetti and Tadema,
Linnell and Lawson; TERRY Wigan" !;
'.Recebt French Novels; Europe in
Straits; MY Library; "The Opening of
Parliament."
A volume is published by the New York
Agent College Of Electrical Engineering upon
''Storage of Electricity" by Henry Green,
which is full and important work for those
who are interested in electrical science.
A new edition of Evans Advertising
Hand Book" has been issued BY T. G. Evans,
general advertising agent, Boston.
The bonds and privileges Of the Mutual
Uuion Telegraph company in Philadelphia
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