Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-23

America;" .'How Edwin brood was illus
trated;" 1.-The Cruise Of the Alice May"
'.The HERMITAGE "The Portraits of
Dante :" Keats (with editorial note Of the IL
lustrations y "Snow- born The other
prose articles are: "Dr Sevier." continued;
"a First Love-letter;" !" Impression OF Shakes
peare's Lear; Dante; The Convict Lease
System in the Southern States; can Aver
age Man; The Princes of the House of
Orleans. The poetry of the number is: "a
Shadow, quite lengthy poem by Frances
Hodgson Burnett; "The Phoebe Bird" "The
Butchers Row; "A Song of Hope; "Love
Songs; "Summer Hours. The depart
ments under the headings Topics of the
Time, "Opeu Letters, and "Bric-a-Brac",
contain the usual amount of entertaining
matter.
Lippincott's Magazine for February opens
with paper on" Old Germantown" 1t traces
the early history of the town, calls up its
prominent figures and characteristics in the
past, and describes the existing relics. The
illustrations, from drawings by Pennell, are
finely executed. French Chateau Life,
Past and Present" by Miss Brewster, deals
chiefly with the Breton home of Madame de
Sevigne. Alfred NJ. Williams, who has
travelled extensively In the Preservation"
gives an interesting description of can
Indian Cattle Town" Professor Horatio 8.
White gives a very pleasing account Of "A
Pilgrimage to Sesenheim," where Goethe,
while student at Strassburg, became enam-
| ored of the fair Frederick, whom he Tilted
| and immortalized. "In Glass Roof" by
Rowland u. Robinson, is an amusing descrip-
tion of winter fishing in Vermont. DrFelix
L. Oswald has second paper on 4" Healthy
Homes" which is replete with valuable sug-
gestions. The second instalment of "Sebia's
Tangled Web" by Lizzie w. Champney, is
animated, and there is a strong thread of in
| terest in the story. "A Mental Masquerade"
by Esther Warren, is brightly written and
well constructed. Explained" by Alice
Brown. is a pathetic little ghost story; and
The Great Jigtown Failure" by Charles II.
| johnson, is a clever realistic sketch. The
miscellaneous departments are well filled,
and the whole number is, as usual, "thor-
oughly readable"
The Atlantic Monthly for February Is .
| number of superior merit. The opening
paper is the continuation of 'In War Time.
Other continued articles and stories are: "A
Roman Singer Newport" "En Prov
| ince." The new papers are "a Trio for
| Twelfth Night" by II. Bernard Carpenter;
"Voices of Power" o. B. rockingham;
"Tbe Vagabonds and Criminals of India"
| Elizabeth Robins "In MADEIRA Place." c. II.
White; "a Visit to South Carolina in $780,"
Edward G. Mason; "Reminiscences of
| federate Cruisers" !" "Mr. Trollore's Latest
Character;'' "Greater Britain and the United
| States "Mr. Crawfords To Leeward;"
1.-The History of Sculpture" The poetry is
| "a Memory" '"TO-day;" "Foreshadow-
ings"-all brief poems. The "Contributor's
Club" keeps the even tenor of its way.
Books of the month are noticed.
| The Manhattan Magazine makes its month
| ly visits regularly. The February number
is out promptly. The frontispece is entitled
"The Queens Revenge" 1t illustrates .
beautiful poem in the body of the number
with the same title, by Thomas s. Collier.
"Autumn Camps on Cayuga,' is finely IL
lustrated article. An illustrated article en-
titled "Caricature" presents some very ludi-
crous pictures and thoughts, and makes some
excellent hits. The remaining contents are
| "Frost Work." poem; Transformation"
story by Harriet Prescott Spoford; "Op-
timism," poem "a poets wife," comedy !;
''The Old Elm,'' poem; .'Shskespeare's
Sonnets in a New Light" Thinking Gym
balls" continued story; "Across The Cau-
casus ;" "Creation or Evolution" q philo-
| sophical inquiry; notices Of recent literature; |;
Town Talk; Salmagundi
| The North American Review for Febru.
ary opens with an article by Carl Schurz
upon '.Corpora'ions, their Employees, and
the Public The article is supposed to be
based upon the anthur's difficulty with the
proprietors of the New York Evening Post
and his leaving that paper as editor. The
other contents are: Henry Vaughan, Sstir-
ist," by Principal J. C. Sharp; "John Brown's
| Place in History" Senator J. J. ingalls,;
4 C.c r.
West; "Race Progress, in the United States"
J. X. Tucker, NJ. c.; "Defects of the Public
School System" Rev. NJ. J. Savage; "Rival
| Systems of Heating" DR.. A. N. Bell, Prof.
| w. p. Trowbrid ge.