Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-02
REGENT PUBLICATIONS.

In pictorial and literary features the June
 Century is not behind recent issues in time
 Illness and general interest. A finer portrait
 piece, engraved by T. Johnson) has rarely been
 printed in the Century. Two other full
 page portraits, of William, the father, and
 Caroline, the sister of Sir John, accompany
 Professor Edwin s. Holdens authoritative
 paper on 'tThe Three Herschels'' Amuse-
 ment and information are mingled in Eugene
 " Smalley's second paper, fsIn and Out of the New Orleans Exposition" and the illus trations, by Kemble, are full of character and humor. MT. Howells' third paper under the title, "A Florentine Mosaic" (to which the artist Pennell has contributed some of his best works), has the grace and humor of his travel stories combined with a other interesting an readable matter be- sides the "war" articles. In the May Cen tury McClellan's Peninsular campaign was treated broadly by the leading commanders on both sides. In the June number special events like the disaster to the Confederates at Beaver Dam Creek and the terrible battle
 the next day at Gaines Mill are particularly described by General D. H. Hill; and by General Fitz John Porter, who gained great credit for his manner of fighting two-thirds of the Confederate army with little more than half the number at Gaines Mill. The maps in these papers are probably the most complete and satisfactory battle maps ever published in this country, and striking pie lures and portraits accompany in profusion. General Imboden contributes a striking an- ecdetal paper on E'Stonewan Jackson in the Shenandoah" describing the famous valley campaign, which had an important bearing on the withdrawal of Mcclellan to the James
 T., l. nel J. w. Bissell describes the ingenious methods adopted in saving out channel above Island Number Ten, which leds to the fanking of the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi.
 St. Nicholas for June contains the open ing chapters of 'sSheep or Silverg'' A new serial by the late w. M. Baker, author of "His Majesty Myself" The other serials are carried on in interesting installments: E. P. Roe, in ''Driven Back to Eden,'' keeps abreast of the season. J. T. Trowbridge tells how "His Own Fault'' involves the hero in still more trouble; Lieut.. Schwatka gives further account of the sports and oc- equations of s'The Children of the Cold" and Edmund Alton, in ''Among the Law makers" informs us how the Senate pages and Senators have great deal of fun in and out of hours. Haydn is the subject of the third ''From Bach to Wagner" sketch. There is a full quota of short stories and arti- cles. Frank R. Stoekton's ''Old Pipes and the Dryad," is illustrated by frontispiece picture by Kenyon Cox. There is histori- cal and practical article on ''The Royal Game of Tennis" with illustrations showing the antiquity of the game; ''Helep's Prize Dinner" by Anna Mcclure Sholl, one of the prize winners in the recent competition, will find many interested readers; "A Terrible Gymnast" is a thrilling tiger story by Mrs. M. Sheffey Peters; Princess Papillones'' is 8 bright butterfly story from Central Ameri- ca; and there are poems, stories and pictures by Helen Gray Cone, Walter Learned, Celia Thaxter, John R. Roryell, Margaret E. Eytinge, Bessie Parker, Lizzie Chase Deering, R. B. Birch, Jessie Curtis Shepard, w. A. Rogers, Culmer Barnes and many others.