Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-21

The New England Magazine for July
opens with q finely illustrated article on
'.Oar National Songs," accompanied By
four portraits, seven pages Of fac-similes
asd seven illustrations. Annals OF Old
HsverhiiP' 10 illustrated by nineteen hne
engravinzs. An aeconn, Of the city Of st
Paal, MINI. is accompanied by twenty
eight engrsvings. Longfellows poem,
NY Los, Yourh" has ten beautiful pic
lures connected with the engraved text
~hich occupies seven pages. Other con-
tfibations are House with History;
Womxn Of Shawmut; A Romance of Cas-
tine; Stories of the Fugitive Slaves;
lbssn's Social Dramas with Portrait
An Instance; An Alumni Meeting, and DIR.
E Z. Hale's ever delightful ''farry at
Home TraveP paper, which are always 90
readable one can never pass them by. The
whole number 10 excellent in both literary
and artistic characteristics. Bostoa 3s
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Prof. Charles Sedgvick Minot opens the
June number Of the American Naturalist
with an article on the Concrescence Theory
Of the Vertebrate Embryo. which is but
chapter Of his work on Human Embry ology.
II IS accompanied by nine figures. An in
IrrtsllEk hIuIit IN VA l. AaAt
and Animal Life under changing conditions
Of environment is neI. given. Other ar
ticles are Classification of the Testudinata,
and Prof. Kingsley's Record of American
Zoology. The minor departments Of this
magazine on Geology, Minerology, Botany,
Zoology, Embryology, Archaeology and
Ethnology. are crowded with important in
formation, aud form quite the largesr, as it
is often the most valuable portion Of each
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Boston will have grand good time next
month entertaining her thousands of visitors
and the New England Magazine
does not wish to be behind others in taking
a hand at 1t. The August issue of this
magazine will be deyo ted almost entirely to
Grand Army articles. Major Geo. s. Mer
rill will give An account of the rise and
or gin of this great organization which will
be accompanied by well-excuted eDgrav-
ings of all the commanders in chief from
Hulburt down to Alger. The frontispiece
will be given to a large portrait of General
Logan, while on smother full page General
Sherman's portrait will appear. But all
the attention will not be given to Grand
Army men. The women of the Woman $
Relief Corps come in for an equal share of
attention in an article by Mrs. Sarah E.
Fuller which will also be fully illustrated
with the portraits of the leaders. Boston,
So Bromtield Street
For several years Wide Awake has from
time to time given some beautiful stories
of highly fsnciful nature from the pen
of Miss Mary Il. wilkins one of the best
H. taI
The Princess Rosetta and the
trations by Garrett Another charm
ingIy ianciful story in the same
number is by Susan Coolidge and is called
Three Little Candles Perhaps one Of
the best things in the number is a short
paper by Louise Stockton, "a Game of
the Senses, in which she suggests the de.
veiopment possible to the senses through
the using of them. The Confessions of
an Amateur Photographer. by Alexander
Black, relates to Dark Deeds" the photo
graph, "A Lake Party by Prof. Newton,
is very beautiful. A delightful illustrated
| literary paper is contributed by Mrs.
Frances A. Humphrey, entitled Early
Days of Lady Anne Lindsay" the author
of "Auld Robin Gray. Mr.. Wards Serial,
THE New Senior at Andover," which is
attracting 50 much attention, is ell worthy
the interest it exci.es; while the extrsva-
gauza, 1.-The Quest of the Whipping Boy,
is good light reading MEN and
Things as usual gives good original anec-
dotes and talks, and the Margaret Patty
Letter is worth the while of young people
who are careless of grammar and spelling
in conversation and letter writing. The
Prize Anagram, "The Perplexities of a
CrymanQle, ia translated in this number.
ID Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston,
Mass