The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-21
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New York Times on Harper's Feriodicals
The New York Times OF March s, 1891,
says of Harper's Observation-Disclosures
treated, each one as an individual pro-
duction or generally as a class, Harper's
periodicals represent the highest types of
American literary and illustrative work.
When on the part of many whose profess
sion it is to cater to tie reading puolic
there is tendency to meet more han half
way a taste which is by no means healthy
and coarse matter Is provided, garnished
with bad pictures, the bunting OF the
artistic sense is of small moment when
comparel with the abasement of the
moral one. Never have the publishers OF
the Magazine. the Weekly, the Bdzar,
or Young People lowered nat
high standard which was as
sufned in their first numbers.
Notifications and improvements have, of
course, followed, and today It is difficult
to conceive how they could be bettered.
Looking from the literary side alone, the
best known writer's at home and abroad
contribute to these publications. For the
proper presentation of subject, pictorially,
leading artists furnish their designs to be
translated by wood-euts, or process,
whichever method shows better the il
Illustrative idea. A column ~eulogistic of
these publications might be written. and
would barely suffice to specify their many
singular merits. IL must be Mt least salts
factory 10 the publishers TO know that
wherever English is the language in use
there a Magazine, a Weekly, aBdzdr, or a
Young People, bearing the lmrlat Of Har-
per & Brothers, is read. There are other
triumpns than ''the drum beats'' which
circle the world.
New York Ledger.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett con-
tributes to the twenty-page Easter mum
Der of the NeU York Ledger, issued
March 81, a touching sketch entitled
Eight Little Princes" right in the line
of her Little Lord Fauntleroy." Amelia
u. Barr starts "A Sister to Esau," a
Scotch serial. George Bancroft writss
"A Day With Lord Byron" Amy Ran
dolph, Doctor Felix Oswald, Jean Kate
Ludlum, Wilson de Meza and Helen NJ.
North are otner contributors.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for April.
The American Museum of Natural His
tory in the Central PARK, New YORK. city,
occupies a noble pile of buildings, the re-
cent additions to which are just approach
ing completion. 1t is an institution In
which every American ought to take
pride. The most complete description of
its treasures and the educational work it
is doing is given, with abundant pictorial
illustrations, by Mary Titcomb in the
April number of Frank LeSlte's Popular
Monthly. Another s~easonable article is
Carrie Stevens Walters account of "a visit
to Senator Stantord's famous Palo Alto
stock farm. "Some Western Texas
Types" are sympathetically drawn by
Belle Hunt Shortridge, the poetess of the
Lone Star State. }. +. Roe-sic describes
historic Lafayette Park, IN Washington,
D.. c., and Colonel Nicolas Pike con-
tributes a thrilling paper upon the dread
ed Octopus, or Devil-fish. Other elsbor-
ately illustrated articles are "Olives;" In
tine Mountain Paths Of Savoy;'' Dickens
Bleak House," Some Memories or Edgar
Allen Poe;" SHERMAN and Porter" etc.
There are short stories by Cecil Charles,
David Ker, William Wallace Cook, Bulke-
ley Booth and others, aud poems by Doug
las SladeR, Adelia Beard and William f.
Burbank.