Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
Literary Notices.

courier Of the April magazine, opens
this month with the continuation of
Miss Marian Reeves serial, The Nut
Brown Maid, picturesque narrative,
which combines q clever bit of charac-
ter sketching with the charm of q
sprightly story. Among the contents
we find the following in addition to
those already mentioned; only by
r. s. Il am Weary by Matte Gaylord.
"A Directors Flag by Charles w.
Frost. Dissolution by Emma l..
Clapp. The Ghost of MaplewOod,' by
e. Howard. Getting over a Difficulty
by Max Wander Weyde. 'Mildred's
Trial. by Louise Alexander. THE Let
ter by Birdie. "A Partisan Idyl,' by
Eleanor Moore Hiestand. 'Barcarolle,
by A. F. Judd. Easter Lilies by
Emily Lennox. 'Abijah BeanpOle,
Storekeeper,' by the author of The Bad
Boys Diary Rosa Bonheur.' Art
Notes. Zachary Taylor etc. etc. etc.
The Ladies' Floral Cabinet, New
York, has among the illustrated arti-
cles in its March number two that rem
der 1t especially attractive. One, on its
first page, of scarlet lilly, the blossoms
of which range themselves in circle
at the the top of the flower stalk, MAX
ing gorgeous crown. The Outher of
Floral Arch, illustrating one of the
ways by which the lawn can be Orna-
mented aside from bedding arrange
ment. Various interesting papers are
contributed by well known writers. Mr..
VIM. Falconer, formerly superintend-
ent Of the Harvard Botanical Gardens,
describes how garden can he made
beautiful with hardy flowers collected
from the woods and meadows. F.
Lance tells us of the novelties among
Roses grown both in this country and
abroad. f. d. Sturtevant has some in
teresting facts to give about yellow
Water Lilies a subject on which he
is an authority. In the department of
Home Decorations only such novelties
In fancy work are shown as are easy of
execution and require small outlay for
materials, feature which commends it
to all ladies. AS the season is at hand
when Spring Flower Gardens must be
made, it is timely to say to our readers
that the publishers of the Floral Cabi-
net send this year, post free, to every
yearly subscriber Two EverblOOming
Roses, or Ten packets of our Choice
Flower Seeds. AS before stated, any of
our readers may have a copy of the
Cabinet for examination at half price
(six cents,) by mentioning this paper.
Address, Ladies' Floral Cabinet, %
Vesey Street, New York.
Whether the United States are to re-
gain their former pre-eminent rank as a
commercial and naval power on the
seas, is question that no American can
contemplate with indifference. The
subject is discussed with marked ability
in the North American Review for
April, by the Hon. Nelson Dingley,
NJ. c., who opposes the project of ad-
mitting foreign-built ships to American
register, and by Capt. John Goldman,
who is we'll known as Jealous advo-
cate of that measure. Judge j. A.
Jameson, in the same number of the
Review, discusses the question, "Shall
Our Civilization be Preserved" point
ing out the means that are at hand for
withstanding the various agencies, ply
sical, moral and intellectual, which
thereafter to overturn our existing civil
and social institutions. The Rev. DIR.
Philip Schaff gives sketch of the "De-
yelopment of Religious Freedom" DIR.
Felix L. Oswald writes of "Changes in
the Climate of North America" with
special reference to the increasing fire.
quency of disastrous floods. Prof. G..
4. Eggert offers IA Plea for Modern
Languages in the higher education;
and Julian Hawthorne's discourse of
"Literature for Children" Finally,
there is a discussion of "Recent Criti-
cisms of the Bible" by the Rev. DIR. r.
Heber Newton anddhe Rev. A. G. Nor
timer.
st. Nicholas for April, with its varied
table of contents, reminds us, like the
month itself, both of the winter that is
past, and of the summer that is to
come.
An account of the first ice-palace, that
built by the Empress Anna Ivanovna
of Russia, with picture by Blum, is
offset by Mary A. Lathbury's pleasant
summer sketch, called" Fairy Lodge"
which the author has charmingly illus
trated.
The important "Historic Boys" series
Is continued with the interesting story
of the boyhood of Henry V. of Eng
land, in which the author, E. s.
Brooks, takes occasion to differ with the
Shaksperean estimate of the Boy Cen
erals character. Louisa NJ. Alcott's
third "Spinning-wheel Story "tells OF
the devotion and Spartan heroism of a
young Indian boy, who rescues from
captivity the children of his benefac-
tor. A bright, breezy, wholesome-toned
sea story is the Rev. Chas. r. Talbot's
''How Bright Benson got his Appoint
ment to the Naval Academy" while
John r. Coryell relates in "Tsang Tsan
and the Man-eater" the amazing adven-
ture that really happened to u young
China boy. Other interesting articles
follow.
THE APRIL CENTURY.-Fivep profuse
iy illustrated articles and Biographical
paper with two portraits lend unusua
pictorial interest to the April number
The frontispiece is a portrait of the late
Sidney Lanier at the aye of fifteen, anC
with the text of DR.. William Haye.
Wards essay on "Sidney Lanier, Poet,
Is also printed u portrait of the poet il
mature age. In "Open Letters Ar
thur Penn writes of ''Sidney Lanier OF
the English Novel,"
In their order, the illustrated article.
are: An interesting account, by X. v
Smalley, of the memories which cluste
about "The White House." and the
life of the Chief Magistrates domicile
Miss Sarah Freeman Clark's conclud
ing paper of pen and pencil "Notes OF
the Exile of Dante''; u description, b.