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MAGAZINE. June. The Century Com
paDy, Union Square, New York. From the

THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY
MAGAZINE June. The Century Conn
paDy, Union Square, New York. From the
publishers.
An admirable number A Literary Ram
BILE, Austin Dobson, will charm all lovers
Of old.time literature, who know Of Steele,
Addison, Horace Walpole, Swift, Hogarth,
Fielding, and Others of the glorious era,
and would further know. American Coun-
try Dwellings,, NJ. G. van Rensselaer,, will
interest unnumbered others, infinitely de-
scripted as the article is, and profusely IL
Illustrative by artistic engravlngs OF eX-
teriors and interiors Faith Healing, Har-
wards Botanic Garden, Unpublished Let
tiers Of Benjamin Franklin, with new por-
trait, Stonewall Jackson in Maryland, Har-
per's Ferry and Sharpsburg, &C., are de-
lightful and profitable reading, especially
with their liberal accompaniment Of
pictures. In fact no page, Of the Century
8 in any danger OF being skipped.
THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. June.
New York, 80 Lafayette Place. Monthly.
so cents. ......,...
This noble and grand old review, now in
It's seventy-flrst year, appears again bloom
ing like the roses around us. Its contents
are oil on most important subjects and by
the best informed writers such themes as
''Sociallsm in America" Prof. II. T. Ely;
Stree Trade in Discussion,n Gail Hamilton;
edwin NJ. Stanton" Dom Piatt, of WASH
ington fame, and many other articles Of pres
ent interest, and authors of established repu
tation. Such O magazine is q treasury of
pleasure, knowledge, and golden thoughts.
JOURNAL OF THE MILITARY SERVICE IN.
STlTUTION OF THE UNITED STATES for
June. New York: g. p. Putnam's Sons.
From the publishers, y cents.
This journal discourses OF "guns and
drums aud wounds" whereof we exclaim, in
our pacific disposition: "God save the
mark" But to military gentlemen 1t will
probably, " too, "' Of equal utility.
The various articles are written by
such competent authors as Brevet Col. Ed
ward b. Williston, U. 5. A., major 3D. artll-
lery, "Machine Guns" Brevet Mai. j. B.
Drill,n and Gen. Russell Thayer, "Dlrgible
Balloons" Now, this last article attracts
us. We want to navigate the air, even be-
| fore we acquire our wings, and here find q
| description of an invention by which we be-
| lieve we shall, 1t is a cigar-shaped ma
| chine, the motive power steam. A model
| OF similar contrivance was made here in
| Washington some thirty years ago by GER
tain Mr. Porter, the then inventor. lie ex-
hibited 1t in Carusi's saloon, now or late a
dime museum. Standing on a
| stage, at one end Of the large
room, he informed the great audience
that the model would start from his hand, cir
| cumnavigate the apartment, and return to
the point of departure, like a trained bird.
1t did so. A grand triumphal shout rose
| from the multitude Of spectators, and
everybody said the long desired problem
had been solved. Then the glad inventor
went to work In earnest. lie rented a
piece of ground, just beyond our northern
boundary, inelosed it, gathered materials,
produced skeleton of agigantic aeroport,
and was busy, day by day, Ia covering an d
completing, when, alas, only Il few days
before 1t would have been ready for the
regions of air, some vandals entered the In
closure by night and utterly destroyed It..
So ended what promised TO be q success.
| The new promise seems to be on the prin-
ciple Of the old This is pronounced a
certainty. May there be no further dlsap-
pointment The poet laureate OF Great
Britain prophesied the accomplishment IN
the following stanza:
saw the heavens ill with commerce, argosles
Pilots OF the purple twilight, dropping down
| with costly bales"
| THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Building
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One of the most attractive and valuable
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spectiye acknowledgement and beautiful
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All lovers OF healthful and proper sports,
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The Scientific AreRd.-The first number
of a new monthly Journal edited by A.
/ MILFORD Hall, LID, of New York, Is be.
fore us. 1t will be devoted to the invest.
cation of current philosophical teaching
and its bearing upon the religious thought
Of the age. DR.. Hall is the author of "The
Problem Of Human Life,n In which he re-
views most successfully the works Of Oar
win, Hurley, Tyndall, aud Mayer, and de-
monstrates the utter fallacy of scientific
mOterlalism. The price of the journal is
30 cents year In the first article of this
number DR., Hall says, that 'preylous to the
Inauguration of the substantial philosophy
no real scientific evidence could be found
anywhere on record IN support OF the doc
trlue Of future state Of existence for man, >
and further he says, ''that without those
fundamental principles, as FIRST promul
gated TO the world In the "Prohlem of Life
no uubibllcal evidence OF human immor
tally worthy to be called scientific could
possibly have eXisted.n II all this be In
deed true then Dr. Hall has been engaged
In great work. and his new monthly
ought TO have "A vide circulation and /
large subscription list