Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-18
TENN, WEDNESDAY,.

renown," etc. All Of which is in execrable
bad taste and may or may not be true.
Most of the poems are trashy, but here
and there there is a spark, scintill alton
that relieves the dullness and will Justify
the reader in running over them.
THE CENTURY for December will contain
the fullest account yet published of the
life of Mrs. Helen Jackson n. H."), with
a frontispiece portrait and group of her
L,st POEMS" The latter are seven in
all, and were written in view of her aps
preaching end. The anonymous writer cf
the article saye thet thess rei.lart able
poems "add new dignity to the falling
away of the flesh and new nobleness to
human nature" The very last Of tbesa
poems was written on August 8th; on the
18th the poet passed away.
The Nashville Americdn announces that
the FIRST of DR.. ]. Berrien Lindsley's great
Tennessee historic series is now very
nearly finished at the Southern Methodist
Fehlithing House. 1t will be a III sssive
volume of nearly 800 PAGES. 1t has been
written by some eighty contributors, rep
resenting every grade of rank among the
Tennessee Conf sderate veterans, from Pri-
vate Sam Robinson 20 Lieut.-Gen. AieXan-
der P. Stewart. 1t is the result of very
nearly four years of patient travel and cor
re .pondencs, and iu this work DR.. Linds-
ley has the meritorious ambition of being
in Tennessee what Chambers, the EdiE-
burgh publisher, was to Scotland.
THE December CektlTy will contain two
or three papers of general interest relating
to the war, viz: 1. A description by Capt.
John Ericsson of the construction and
work of the monitors, illustrated strikingly
by pictures oil these vessels IN cction. 2.
THE Loss of the Monitor" graphic de-
scription by sureif6r,- Francis d. Butts,
and 3. "The Private History OF a Cam.
paigu that Failed" by Mark Twain, being
his personal experience land not altogether
an untypical one), of war in Missouri in
1861, with var maps by the author, erd
Illustrations by kemble. In the January
number will appear a fully illustrated
paper by Gen. John Pope on his campaign
against Lee in Northern Virginia. The
Confederate side will be described by Gen
Lopgstreet in the February number, where
Gen. Grants fourth paper will probably
appear.
The bound volume (XI), in two parte
OF the st. Nicholas is the handsomest and
most de lIght-producipg rrs $ Al that can be
Offered to little boys and girls. The Illus
trated work of this gem among the msga
zines for Chi dren has long been famous,
and many CT its stories and poems, papers
and sketches are among the children's
classics. No pains has been spared to
keep the 81. Nicholas up to its own high
standard of excellence, and that is the
best. The best writers, with equal capaci-
ty to the wants of children and fu lest
sympathy with them in their lives, write
for it, the consequence: is the absence of
anything like trash. Every line in every
page is precious in quality, looking to
direct purpose to amuss or instruct, or
both, and the artist keeps pace with the
writer in illustrations that ma his or her
meaning plain at glance. How blessed
the children of this age are in such pu bill
cations they can never know, but we who
are of elder growth can realize it all by
contrasts with those that thirty or forty
years ago msda the acquisition OF infolm A.
ton difficult indeed Would we were
boy again, to revel in the st. Nicholas, and
realize with child-l'ke righteousness all
its beauties and apprec ate its treasures