News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
Literary N Ote s.

James Russell Lowell article on Lam
dor, in the forthcoming february Centu-
ry, includes brief, hithefto unpublished
poem by Lowell himself, and also an &C
count of his visit to Landor at Bath, in
1852. LOwell's essay precedes some I'M
published letters from Lander to Miss
Boyle, lady still living in London.
With firm grip upon what is best in
literature and art, the February number
of Harper's Magazine issues in excellent
form from the great presses in Franklin
Square. Its pages contain the most re-
cent efforts of such writer's as Henry
James. William Black, William Dean
HOwells. Charles Dudley Warner, Hon,
George F. EdmundS, George William
Curtis, Bishop Hurst, j. II. Rosny, etc.
An exceedingly interesting article bv
Lily Higgin on Modern English Artists.
with portraits, appears in the February
number of Frank Leslie's SUNDAY MQgG-
zine, giving just the information that all
wish to have. Colonel c. Charlie-LOng's
From the SueZ Canal, Through Two Seas
to the Equator, is important in view of
the perennlally interesting Eastern cues
ton. Among the shorter contributions
may be mentioned the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, jerusalem Joan of
| Arc; Hymns The Sacred Books of
China Some SuperstitiOns of the Syna-
gOgue, and others of interest and value.
There is not much poetry in this num-
Der but what there is is god. The num-
Der closes, as usual, With a piece of
sacred music.
Never more popular and prosperous
than to-day, the Magazine of American
History opens its nineteathvolumew with
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The graphic and informing description
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CT the magazine, who introduces an ac-
count OF Mr.. Weeds marvellous expert
ence III France at critical period III our
clVll war, IN his oWneXact language. 4
facsimile OF one Of President Lincoln
letters TO Mr.. Weed accompanies this
t valuable paper. The second eontribu-
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