Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-23
Briefs on May Magazines.

81. Nicholas has . table of contents EN-
bracing thIrty-Hinc articles twenty-five of
which are beautifully illustrated. The NUM-
Der is charming one an most appropriately
arranged for the glad May-time of the year
New York The Century Company; 50 90
per annum
An interesting series of letters from Rus
kin To his secretary are published in the
number of LiuelFs Living Age for April so.
Other articles in the number are Nh. Spur
gron Electrical Discovery Scenes in Al
gicrs; The Milky Way. Boston; Littell
K Co.. weekly. $500 per year.
ATTRACTIVE illustrated articles in the New
England Magazine are ; Village Life in Old
England: Governor Wintlrop's Farm; The
Chicago Stock Yards Jenny Lind III North
ampton, and the first part of We Romance
of Caseo Bay, interesting to all Maine read
crs, by Herbert NJ. sylvester. Boston
50 Federal street. % cents per number.
Leading articles in the Atlantic Monthly
are: The Emprson-Thorcau correspondence
edited by F. B. Sauborn \ Plea for Sc
robustness; Don Orsino, chapters NM by
Marion traw ford; Home Scenes at the Fall
of the Confcderacy, and the first of Sc
res of papers on Private Life in An
cicut Rome. Boston; llou.hton, Miiflim &
Co. Sl.oo per year.
OF chief interest in the Wide Awake
where all is excelent-arc: Dr. IIales stor,
Almost q Deserter; ElbriIge $. Brooks
Decoration Day; In Quentin Dnrwartl',
Time and Il most appreciative tribute to the
founder of the Wide Awake, the late Daniel
Lothrop. Every page of the number Is
fresh AMI delightful. Boston: The u.
Lothrop Company; 500 per year.
The article which will attract most atten-
ton in Ilarpers Magazine is that on Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Annie
'rhackcray Ritchie. which is very entertain
ing and fully illustrated. Other articles
are The German Army of To-day, The
Dakotas, Amerigo Ncspucci and part -four
of Mr.. +. d. Miliets' From the Black
Forest to tn Black Sea, Price b cents
per copy. For sale in augusta by J. Frank
Pierce.
The complete newell in Lippincott'> Maya
zine for May, The Golden Fleece. is by
Julian Hawthorne, who coniucts his readers
to the Pacific slope and the borders of the
desert. Ii is Il curious medley of the moi
ern and the antique. of the weird and the
practical. of civilized manners, wild adven-
lures, Aztec hidden treasures. and Legends
or sip 'rstitiUus OF long ago. Philadelphia
j. Il. Lippincott Company; price p cents
per number.
\ portrait of john Quincy Adams form,
the trontispiccc to the magazine of Ameri-
can History. and it has articles on Colonial
Memories aud their Lesson; The Old and
the New in History: IEulls Surrender of De
al al
There are in addition other interesting arti-
| clcs, several of which are illustrated. and
numerous brief articles notes, queries, etc.
New YORK: 7i3 Broalwayl
Three articles ON the Silver Craze and
the Present Danger lead of in the Forum.
They are by Hon. NJ u. lIarter. Senator
Villas aud j. G. lIcmpill. President Dwight
writes on The True Purpose of the Higher
Education "idlcncsS and immortality i
discussed by T.. l.. Golkn; and Does the
Factory Increase immortality by Col. Gar
roll D. Wight There are eight or nine
other articles by eminent hands. New
York Union square; 5000 per year.
The Cosmopolitan begins It's thirteenth vol
umc with the Nav issue, under the joint cdi-
torsiipof Mr.. " n. IlowcllS, AMI Mr.. Walk
er with Table of contents which will attract
attention. James Russell Lowell, Frank
Il. Stockton, Theudorc Roosevelt, Edmund
| Clarence Str'lman Henry James, Prof.
| II. II, Boyesen. Ilamlin Garland, John
| IIav. Sarah Drnr .Iewett. Prof. Langley of
Smithsonian. Thomas Wentworth lIigIu-
son. and W. ID. IIowclls himself arr
| among the contributors. The illustrations
in this issue are by such well known artists
as T.. w kemble, Frederic Remington
+. :. Church. Walter Crane, William VI.
Chase. c. s Reinhart, Dan Beard, George
Wharton Edwards. Wilson de Meza. etc.
New York: $500 per year.
The May Century is remarkable for the
beginning of a new volume and of three
new serials. namclv.-thc life of Columbus,
by the distinguished Spanish orator and
statesman Emilio CASTELAR,, who, in his first
paper, considers the age in which Columbus
lived: The Chosen Valley" novel of
Western life in the irrigation-fieds by Mary
Ilallock Footc. illustrated by the author ;
and the architect Van Brgut's semi-of'icial
and fully illustrated papers on Architect
urc at the Worlds Columbian Exposition
from which the reader will obtain fresh
idea of the magniiiccnc" of the housing of
the Exhibition at Chicago. There are also
other articles and thu number is brich,
illustrated. New York The Century tom
pany: s4.DD per year.
Mr.. r. \. Elliott Of Brooks has three
year-oll hcifer of liolstein and Jersey
blood that has made good rccorl. Since
the first of last Octobrr he has sold So
worth of milk from her. and they have had
all they wished To use in family Of three