Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-09
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I A fss February magazines have been
somewhat iy in reaching our table. and
We give them brief. though rather bate no
, tee
I II must be great study to make these
young peoples magazines so attractive
month afte: month the year round. bus Who
! ever does il succeeds admirably. Wide
Awake j1stihes its title. II i. brim full of
charming reading and artistic embellish-
ments- There are fzvori,s names among the
/ contributors. Trosoridge, Susan Coolidge,
Margaret Sidney, Ernest Syersoi, Z bridge
I Brooks, Oscar Fay Lams and Its of others
while the pictures seem more cute than ever
+ One of the most useful papers in the number
is that on '.Chilsiren in Italian Sculpture =
/ Boston: The Lo'hrop Company
{ Sropg, meaty, thoughtful articles make
I up notable number Of the AndoTer Re
I vieE in which literary AMI philosophic sub
iect- oSerbalanee theological onss,as witness
{ The tragic mosif inBrosninz's Dramas The
Intellectual Life of America, and Relation.
of Capital and Labor. The departments Of
Archaeological Notes, Social Economics,
Z Book Reviews and Englsh Notes, are each
exceedingly Interesting and contain god.
original work. The ten pages of ARCHAEOLOGY
cal sotes by Prof. Taylor are among the
most interestn g articles We have rela on the
subjects presented. for ZONE time. DIR.
Mckenzie, whom all Augusta people will
remember as = former pastor Of the Old
sonth, treats the problem Of the afternoon
Sunday service in a very liberal manner
Boston: Houghton. Miffiin & Co.
Among the articles in DR.. Young's useful
little Sanitary Inspector to which careful at
tention should be given, are those on the food
and medicinal value of milk, the dangers
from using impure or diseased milk, the i'm
portance of State registration of vital sta
tistics, and organization of town improve
ment te.eties. Augusta State Beard
Health
An exceedingly good magazine for only
81 40 a year il the Cosmopolitan. Il mum
Der. among It's contributors some of the best
writers of the day, aud many Of It's namer-
Gus eDgrayings are not inferior to those in
the higher priced monthlies. Among the
writers in the February number are Mon
cure ID Conway, Horace Stevens, Edward
Everett Hale. Il II. stoddard, Frank Car
penter and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Some of
the leading subjects are Verestchsgin's
paintings The New York Clearing House
All Around Lake Superior The Korean at
Home; several poems, and an account Of
Washington at Mt. Vernon, with some fac
SMILES of some hitherto unpublished letters
of the American Nobleman" as Mr. Con
way calls Washington. New York 1868
Fifth Avenue.
sam Logers Camps" is sequel to
Uncle Lishas shop" which was published
year ago and won some recognition for its
promscuous use of the old YaA 'See dielect of
early days il Vernon. In this pretty soi
ume the author, Mr.. Rowland E Robinson,
follows up the same vein in his first work,
and there is more outlandish Yankee slang
IN 1t TO the page than in any work We have
read Of late. Il is far too much So even if
it were always good. In any story one old
fashioned Yankee can be made a good char
acter, but to have five or six of them is tire
some in the extreme. New York Forest
and Stream Publishing Company
Mr.. James NJ. Tracy is the author of the
Students Modern Method for the Piano
Eorte-a work embracing all the necessary
rudiments to enable students to easily and
thoroughly understand how 10 study and
learn to play the piano. Mr. Tracy says in
h.a introduction that the book will be found
"melodiousiy interesting, progressive, con-
else and bene fetal" an opin.0n which is con-
firmed by a musical expert who has exam
ined it, and who unites with the author that
it will ne found Ito interest teacher as well
as pupils Portraits of Lisii and Rubinstein
form the frontispiece. Boston White,
Smith & Co.