St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-02
PERIODICALS.


of Reviews is a readable sketch of
large number OF the most important
conventions and summer gatherings
which are to be held in the present
year, beginning with the great political
conventions, and taking up SUCCESSFULLY
the educational, scientific and philan-
throplc meetings, the religious gather
lngS of the season. Il number of miscel-
laneous conventions and meetings of
national scope, ten or dozen prominent
summer schools and seven or eight i'm
portant foreign occasions of the year,
including the Columbian celebration at
Genoa and the exhibition at Madrid, the
summer schools at Oxford, the Vienna
exposition Of music and the drama, and
the religious conferences at Grindel-
valid. The Article is interspersed with
illustrations.
The Cosmopolitan begins its thir-
teenth volume May issue, under the
joint editorship of w. ID. Howells and
Mr.. Walker, with table of contents
which will attract attention. James
Russell Lowell, Frank X. Stockton,
Theodore Roosevelt. Edmund Clarence
Stedman, Henry James, Prof. III. II.
Boyesen, Hamlin Garland, John Hay,
Sarah Orne Jewett. Prof. Langley, of
0iHililoOHldiit 4nOitdo w CnbWOTUl
Higginson and w. ID. HowelIs himself
are among the contributors. The Illus
trationS in this issue are by such well
known artists as h. w. Kemble, Fred
eric Remington, L. S. Church, Walter
Crane, William Nj. Chase, C. S. Rein
hart. Dan Beard, George Wharton Ed
wards, Wilson de Meza, etc
Edwin ID. Mead at the Elitors' Table
in the May New England Magazine
writes a strong indictment of Eastern
provincialism in regard to Chicago and
the worlds fair. Mr.. Mead has just
spent several weeks i'll the West, and
he denies the charge made by some
Eastern papers that the exposition will
be gigantic cattle show.
Charles +. lummis, the popular young
writer of the great Southwest has COM
pleted a new book which is now III press
with the ScribnerS. 1t is entitled "a
Tramp Across the Continent" and is
narrative of the authors adventures
while tramping from Colorado to Cali
fornia through the widest portion of
New Mexico and Arizona.
The April number No. "a of the
Riverside Literature series published
quarterly during the present school
year, at Is cents a single number, by
HOughtOn, Miffiin & Co.. Boston and
New York; contains more than score
of the poems of William Cullen Bryant
that are most celebrated and best adapt
ed for use in schools.
Romance, a monthly magazine of
complete stories for May, comes to hand
i'll its white dress with red and blue
trimmings, looking as fresh and trim as
the month that gives it date. The
opening story is one. of Edgar A. POe's
nh oafa .i..t %nlA i<NI
two William Wilson's" Alexandra Du-
mas. Alice S. Wolf, Charles Rease,
William Carleton, and other writer's as
we'll known fill up the book. 1t is
handy little volume, and just the thing
to please those impatient people vino
wish to finish story while waiting for
some weightier matter to transpire. and
who find life too short, or nervous force
too costly. to care to take their stories on
the instalment plan.
The Art Amateur is ever a thing of
delight to that constantly growing class,
the amateur artists, who can do only
little towards the bringing of that
hOped-for millennium when the gospel
of beauty shall rule in every house in
the land, and yet who are most anxious
to do that little well. He, or more often
she, who pins his faith onto the teach
huSo VI bHiS OCllSHllul LlOutulN tlSlJOI
can never 20 far astray from the path
that leads to artistic excellence. asa
The May number contains, besides
the usual papers on china, pastel;
oil painting and art needlework and
house decoration. an article on Miss
Mary Sargant-Fl0rence. young En-
gllSh woman, who, few years ago, set.
tied at Nutley. N. j. She is q deeOra-
tive painter OF great promise. The
article is illustrated by samples of her
work. Walter Crane is also we'll reps
SenteG in this humber. Some iiiuStra-
tions of exquisite tapestries and old en-
brOideries from the Splitter collection are
also given. Accompanying each NUN.
Der of the magazine are plates of work
ing designs for china painting. The
principal one for May is cracker jar
corntiowers, and beautiful panel for
wood carving. Another is a col
ored plate, flight of swallows, by
Helen Mcguire, and design of sport
ing Cupids by M. Sargant- Florence.
I he colored plate for water-color paint
ing is called "A Quiet Smoke, ''and rep
reSentS an old man enjoying his after
dinner pipe. The face looks out at you
with that calm SteadinesS that age
brings. 1t is the face of a working
man, on which care and toll and sor-
row have left their lines; but the blue
eyes are calm, as of one who had con-
quered, and we can easily fancy what
troops of memory are passing under the
shabby hat, some gay and some sad, but
none with power enough to rend the
mantle that settles down over him as he
takes his quiet smoke. G. Ii. Spiers is
the painter.