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Marie Baskirtseff the Journal of G
Young Artist-1S73-1ss4 is by the
Capell Publishing Company New York
| Very much has been said and written
of this remarkable BOOK, aud tia
critics have Wed with each o,he,
/ cence and its frankness. The translator
Mary ]. Serrain, has perhaps best de-.
| scribed the character of the journal
| which she calls the record OF an extraor.
binary life-'a book without parallel, as
| Gladstone has called il. In these pages
| science, art, literature. social questions
! love, are treated with all the cynicism
! of a Machiavelli and the naigete of an
ardent and enthusiastic girl. On
| background SOLEMN and somber
! as the steppes of her native
land are traced pictures that rehec: the
vivid hueS, the luminous atmosphere, the
life, the movement, the variety, of France,
Spain, Italv. With nature that was pro-
toundlv religious, and a spirit that was es-
sentially skeptical, with ambition TO con-
quer the universe, and heart that yearn ed
with passionate longing for affection, de-.
handing all things for herself, yet capable
Of the most utter self-abnegation, hoping
all things and fearing all things alter
pately, clinging TO life with an eegerness
that is pathetic in is intensity, wishing for
death with an eageTness no less pathetic,
regarding herself by turns as the superior
of kings and as less than the least OF
created beings, Marie Bashkirtseff has left
US IS her contribution to the literature of
humanity these confessions, which no one
who has mind 10 think or 4 heart to feel
can read Qnmoysd.
The froutispiece Of the Magazine of
Art for April is q photogravure By Da-
.isrdin, from the painting nv Frank Bran
ley entitled Saved Il is ore of the most
beautiful even among the many fine ones
which have appeared Of late IN this maya
zine. The opening paper : bT Frederick
Wedmore, on old Masters aud Deceased
British Artists at the Royal Academy"
Day continues his Lesson IN Ornament"
embellished with fourteen illustrations.
Pope Leo X, as en- Art Patron" with an
illustration engraved BE- Jonnari from
Raphael, is discussed by f Mabel Robin
son. 4 full-page illus.ration of Miss
Macdonald accompanies sketch Of this
LADY by Sir T. Lawrence, P. r A. Win
Ter ia the Country is by E 2. Brewtnall,
r W. S. The Imperial Institute by Sir
Some-s Vine, with illustrations from draw
lngs by the architect Thomas E. Colcuit,
f. R. l. B A., follows and the usual notes
on current art. Cassell Publishing Com.
pany, New York.
The current number of Frank Lesiie's
Popular Monthly" contains fully a dozen
deliberately illustrated articles The Sen
ate and its Leaders is discussed in bright,
cosby style by Frederick s. Daniel, and
nearly a score Of illustrations accompany
the text. VIM. Hosea Ballou describes the
Tennessee B ne Grass region and its thor
oughbred horses. The wonders of Edi-
sons perfected phonograph and graphic
phone are set forth in Arthur Y. Ahbott's
paper. An excellent account of the Union
League Club Of Chicago. with IT'S palatial
new home, is furnished by Lieutenant
Bassett. Sophie Worthington gives pic
turesque Notes on Nuremburg"; Andrew
s. Fuller studies The Domestic Life of
Prehistoric Americans" in their pottery
ware the celebration OF the new Constitu-
ton Of japan is illustrated; and the history
of The Umbrella The short stories and
poems are b. favorite magazine writers,
including Lucy Hooper, Ella Wheeler Will
cox, Charles Henry Week, Frances 3. Cur
RE and others.
"Littell's Living Age" (Littell & Co.,
BOSTON,, presents for the numbers for
March S.h and 10Th the following articles
from leading English reviews and maya
zines: Democracy in Switzerland" Edia.
JlUgh; Sir John Hardwood" London
lC''-' VI ~ L lC 4<2iIu dL-u LIS Wv i-SIS III
Past Times Niue,eeath Century: The
City Of the Creed, and Russian Character
is!ics, Fort1ightlH odd Boston," Black
rood; Mothers. according TO English
Nove!ists, Temple Bar; "Afterthoughts.
and Real Estate in Volcanic Regions, -
CorahW; Browning as Religious
Teacher Good Words; "On Some Church
Services Fifty Years Ago" Loagman' s;
Greek Settlements and Jewish Colonies in
Asia Minor, and The Mystery OF Africa, y
Spectator; General Gordon and Emin
Pasha, Times; with installments of His
Uncle and Her Grandmother" and Mar
cia, and poetry.
a pretty picture, The Chiidrens Pray.
ers, IS the frontispiece of The Culver
for April. The Boyhood of St. Paul" is
the opening article, followed bv an install.
meat of Worthy 10 be Loved" Mistress
Anne BFadstreet, Poetess,n is a paper by
Margaret Bertha Wright. in Remem-
brance of Christ" is, as the title implies,
particularly adapted to Sunday reading.
''Northward, Ho!" is an account of recent
visit to Iceland. The Snapdragon and
Her Friends is by the Rev. Alfred J. Bam-
ford. Professor W. G. Blaikie begins q
series of Half Hours With the Worthless
OF Yesterday and Today" only a Brave
Girl is a story. Give Him Another
SiabCcs - less w mai
the Jews Believe About the Future Life" a
number OF poems, music, pictures and a
bundle of Short Arrows bring the num-
Der to close. (Cassell Publishing Com
pany)
a work entitled Semitic Philosophy
showing the Ultimate Social and Scientific
Outcome of Original Christianity in Its
Conflict with Surviving Ancient Heathen-
ism. by Philip c. Friese, is from the press
OF 5. c. Griggs & Co, of Chicago In il
many interesting subjects are discussed.
Beginning with instructive thought, its
GENERALIZATION by means of language, the
author treats of the social contract between
God and man, the meaning of the formula
Kingdom of God" as promulgated in the
days OF the patriarchs, applying its princi-
pies to the subject of a general social re-
formation. He touches upon such ques-
tons as the relation OF Church and State
and Church and school, the publication OF
politics, the labor question, aud the various
phases Of the race problem A work
unique in its combination OF peculiar and
original ideas, with strong practical sug-
gestions.
The Ladies Journal philadelphia,
Curtis Publishing Company, for April
consists of thirty-two pages exclusive of the
covers. It's departments are as full as
usual and address themselves to all house
hold tastes ana. much literary matter, choice
stories, poetry, ana fine illustrations There
are besides many columns OF useful infor.
nation and no little news of 8 charsct er
seldom found in newspapers.
"A Saratoga Romance, or a Mark OF
Honor" is novel by Caroline Washburn
lockwood, with an Introductory note by
Leu Vanderpoole. Ii is novel very much
out of the ordinary run, and so wholly
original and peculiarly attractive that Mr..
Leu Nanderpoole, the critic, has given it a
hearty Endorsement. Press of Funk &
Wagnsler, New York and London.
From the Bancroft Company San Fran.
cisco. We have Worthington & Co.'S New
York. print of Heimburg's novel The Pas.
80 nar,arhsnr y L. = -, L. L.