Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-01-27
The Magazines.

LippincOtt's Magazine for February opens
with a descriptive paper on "Saragossa," by
S. p. Scott. ''homeLife in Bombay" is
graphic and lively. DR.. Wister's account
of "A Cruise Among the Windward Islands, -
is concluded in this number. Edward c.
Bruce writes of "Our Native Fauna in a
very pleasant strain. ''This Our Brother" "
by Louise Seymour Houghton, depicts the
condition and character of the freedman in
Florida. The anonymous author of Beauty
Versus Bric-a-brac" denounces the prevail
ing rage for rairities. In the second install
ment of 1.-The Jewel in the LOtos" the sepa-
rate threads developed iE the first are gath
| cred up and woven together, giving promise
of a strong and well-sustained interest as the
story proceeds "A Wayside Episode BY
Rebecca Harding Davis. is written with vigor
and fine touches of humor and pathos. 'sThe
Queer Service" and A Work of Imagna-
ton" are clever and amusing short stories.
and the editorial departments are. as usual,
well filed.
The Eclectic Magazine for February comes
promptly to hand freighted with the usual
admirably chosen assortment of seasonable
good things. There is something for every
variety OF taste, and yet the high standard of
merit at which the editor aims is maintained
-
THE Fallacy Of Materalism," a joint dis
| cussion by George G. Romanes and the Lord
Bishop of Carlisle; -Four Months in
Morocco" fascinating record of adventure
in strange land; "a True Ghost Story" bv
Gerard Lewis. Clerk; Star unto Star" BY
Richard A. Proctor; "a Lesson on Democ-
| racy," by James Anthony Froude; 'sGoethe's $
West-Eastern Divan;" "a Festival Among
the Basques; - Eau Pair story in six
chapters IAN Autumn Morning." "Ameri-
can Millonnaires - Walt Whitman" by G.
c. Macread; ''Ensilage," by Professor J. E.
Harold Rogers "John Harrison, the Chro-
| nometer Maker" by Samuel Smiles; "The
Water We Drink" by Professor Simpson.
NJ. D.; Literary Notices; Foreign Literary
Notes Science and Art; and Miscellany.
Blackwood's Magazine for January is
received from the Leonard Scott Publishing
Company, New York. The contents are :
''On Some of Shakspeare's Female Characters
vi -Imogen;s "a Singular Case,'-con-
elusive "A Little Chat About Mrs. Olph-
anti" ''The Ladies Lindores"-part X ;
Literary Bohemians ;"''Omens of Trouble -
american Literature in Engand;'' 1.-The
Political Outlook of 1888"
The Midwinter Century Magazine is an ex-
ceilent number. A portrait Of George Will
liam Curtis forms the frontispiece. new
| story BY W. d. Howell's, entitled "a
Womans Reason" is begun in this number
Two Of the illustrated articles are noticeable
| for the number and excellence of the pictures.
and appeal directly to a large number of
readers, who, in one wav or another, are in
interested in the development of American
art. These are Mrs. Van Rensselaer's study
of american Etchers," and Miss Charlotte
| Adams's entertaining account of the life of
Artists Models in New York" Other IL
lustrated articles in the same number are
George W. Cables second historical paper on
''The Creoles in the American Revolution" !"
and Frank H. Cushing second chapter OF
| MY Adventures in Zuni." The poetry OF
the number is excellent and of large variety.