San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-07-05
The July Century

Anu SuAy NOusSsJ
Contains number Of features appealing to
n wide audience. The opening paper, Of
special interest to those who are following
tho International Sunday school lessons is
q description OF recent visit to 'Sinai and
the Wilderness" by Edward L, Wilson, with
engravings Of photographs by the author.
The route Of travel from the Rod Sea to
Mt. Sinai, ia that supposed to have boon
tnken by the Children of Israel
"The Stsppes Of the Irish" by George
KEENAN,, In the series on Siberia and the
Exile Systom," Of which the Literary World
says ut Is perhaps not too much to pre-
dict that It will prove epoch making"
topic treated In this months Lincoln His
tory, and Col. Hays diary is drawn upor
effectively to olucidate tho narrati o. Thore
rs also O chapter on the Mason and Slidsll
affair, In which Ia reproduced Mr.. Stewards
original dispatch to tho American minister
In England, showing Mr.. Lincoln's correo-
tons therein.
1.-THE Gettysburg Reunion, Ia remember
cd BY stirrinR poem, .'The High Tide at
Gettysburg" by an OK Confederate soldier
"Waiting for tho Bugle," by T. w. Hig-
ginson short paper on tho Reunions
OF the Blue aud tho Gray" and q story by
Brandor Matthew'S, ION tho Battlefield"
Special Papers "Disense Germs and
How to Combat Thom," by Lucius Pitkin,
includes q frontispiece portrait Of Pasteur
dreams, Nightmares and Somnambulism."
by tho Rev. DIR. J. NJ. Buckley, contains
much of popular intorost. "LichAeld Oath
odral,n includes number Of beautiful illus-
trations by Pennell. There ere other con-
tonts. including "Opon Letters" "Brio-a-
Brac," otto.
Tho July Eclectic presents many features
Of interest. The placo Of honor Ia hold BY
an article, written by Mr.. Gladstone, on tho
great novel, "Robort Elsmere." now exctt-
Ing no much controversy. The battle OF be-
lief finds In the great English statesman .
most sturdy upholder Of religious ortho-
doxy w. II. Mallook contributes paper
entitled Conservatism aud tho Diffusion OF
Property" discussing the land and labor
question Of Great Britain. Mr.. +. w. d.
Myers contributes m appreciative paper on
"Matthew Arnold" All readers will DO In
torcsted In tho article entitled "Prinoe Bis
marck and the German Reichstag." There
IL O capital paper, rncy and instructive, on
"The English Gentry from Blaokwood's,
aud tho discussion Of o very interesting
question 10 found under the hsad of Sen
tlemen Emigrants" Onelof the most sug-
gcstive articles In the number 10 that on
HThe DislocationG OF Industry, by William
Smart, In which th reader will find clear
and searching study OF the dangers OF our
modern industrial syatom. Rev. DR.. WI
liam White makes known to ua o curious
chapter In the history of religious bigotry
In the story Of ''Lasserre's Version OF the
Bible" and how II was suppressed. Among
other specially interesting articles attention
may be called to those entitled ION Dates"
''In the Dark Continent" aud "Gluck;" the
latter being sketch Of the great musical
composer who anticipated In his opera mo
of tho important reforms claimed for Wag-
ner. A noteworthy article, too. Is that on
Henreioh Heine," the material for which 10
largely photographed. drawn from pos
thumous papeys OF the great poet-critic-
humorist. This number contains beaufi-
ful steel engraving. "Leghorn." az front
ispiece. AZ this number IL the commence
ment of q new volume, Il Is q good time TO
subscribe for this excellent periodical.
The July Magazine OF American History
has graphic and instructive account OF the
caroor Of Chisf-Justice Morrison X Waite,
from the pen of ths editor, with full length
frontispisce portrait Of the great jurist. The
reader will hnd In this timely paper many
Of the personal characteristics OF IL great
subject with glimpses OF his domestic life.
The second paper Of the issue Il An able
and scholarly essay on The Continental
Congress. 4" BY Judge William J. Bacon. OF
Utica, abounding with information that
would do good service n placed in the hands
Of every youth In the land. Then comes
Personal Recollsctions Of Andrew Jack
,ou," readable skstoh By Hon Charles X.
Tucksrman; Fast Tennesses one Hundred
rsau Ago" By Senator Joseph s. Fowler;
"a Chapter 10 the History Of Spain. By
Hon. J. L. NJ, Curry, OF hsdrid; wash
ington's Diary for August. 17sl." from :hs
manuscript collections Of GensFal Meredith
Reed. nov Ia Paris; 'Ertrasts from an En-
Qlishman's Notebook. IN ISIS" Pst ~.
IL which the Traveller leaves New Orleans
and reaches Vera Cruz, Tbs Mound Build
srs we're Indians" An important confr1bu-
ton By The antiquarian scbolnr Cyrus Thom-
A.. Pm ID. and Pioneer WORKS Of Jared
Sparks." BIZ Prof. IIsrbsrt D. Adam. q
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