The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-05-12
May Magazines.

Our Little Men and Women for May is
dainty number There are pretty pictures
pretty stories, merry rhymes and happy verse
with bit of music and good treat is in store
for every little man and woman VINO readi
this magazine.
The brief pen pictures of" Historic Moments
are represented in the May issue of Scribners
by an account of 1.-THE First News Message b,
Telegraph sent on May 1,1sH,from Annapoli,
junction to Baltimore, announcing the nomi
nation of Clay and Frelinghuysen by thu
Baltimore Convention on that day. The auth
or is John w. Kirk, the only man present witt
Morse in the little room in the capitol wher
this message was received.
Reuben Goldthwaites writes an interesting
account Of Village Life in Old England" II
the May New England Magazine. 1t is finely
illustrated by Louis A. Holman, who spent the
summer of 1891 in England, and who furnishes
the frontispiece of the number, A picturesque
Bit of Old England ninety engraved by VI
Lamont Brown.
The North American Review has, among the
contents of May number, Il symposium on
The man or the Platform? by senator Quay
of Pennsylvania, senator Vest of Missouri
Representative Boutele of Maine, Represent
alive Burrows of Michigan, Representative
Wilson of West Virginia and Representative
Kilgore of TexaA. Gen Butler has an article
on the present status of the Behring Sea
question. The same question from another
point of view will be treated in that number
by the Marquis of Lorne
The Cosmopolitan begins its thirteenth
OF Mr. w. ID. Howells and Mr.. Walker with a
table of contents which will attract attention.
James Russell Lowell, Frank X. stockton,
Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Clarence Sted-
man. Henry James, Prof. II. II. Boyeson, Ham
lin Garland, John Hay, Sarah Orne Jewett,
Prof Langley of the Smithsonian, Thomas
himself are among the contributors. The
illustrations in this issue are by such well
known artists as i. w. kemble, Frederic
Remington, +. $. Church, Walter Crane,
NJ - Rainbnrt Dan BEARD.
George Wharton Edwards, Wilson De Meza'
etc.
prominent literary feature of Harper
Magazine for May is an article on Robert ana
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Mrs. Anne
Thackeray Richie. Mrs Richie relates
several interesting personal "reminiscences
not hitherto published, and portraits are
given of Mr. and Mrs. Browning, and of their
friend Mr.. Milsand together with picture of
Mrs. Browing's tomb Mt Florence, and also
fac-smiles OF the handwriting of the two
poets.
All things considered, the greatest and the
most interesting man who now lives on this
planet is William T.. Gladstone and it is with
in bounds to declare that by far the most in
teresting sketch OF Mr.. Gladstone's personal
ity, character, career, and methods of work
that has ever been written is the brilliant
article which is published as the leading
feature of the May number OF the Review OF
Reviews.
new volume Of The Century begins in May
with number of unusual interest. Three
important serial features are commenced
in this number, namly-Senor Castelar's Life
of Christopher Columbus; 1.-THE Chosen Val
ley" novel of western life by Mary Hallock
Foote; and the series OF articles describing
the architectural features of the Worlds
Fair which well known architect con-
tributes.
my Lady Of Make Believe" is the subject Of
a delightful chid's poem from the pen of Mrs.
Emily Huntington Mason of Augusta in the
May number of Wide Amake. 1t is embellish h.
ed by two full length portraits of the subject
of the poem, Miss Margaret chadbourne
Philbrook, the little grand daughter of Deputy
Secretary of State, Hon. $. j. Chadbourne, in
dainty and bewitching costume.
Mr.. Scudder should be congratulated on his
success in obtaining for The atlantic the
brilliant correspondence of Ralph Waldo
Emerson and Thoreau, which occupies the
first place in the issue for the month of May.
The letters are edited by Mr. f. b. Sanborn, of
Concord, and they give characteristic glimpes
of the life, physical, mental and spiritual, of
the friends during "the Dial PERIOD as the
editor calls tin other words, 1913.
The May number of The Forum is note
worthy because of the unusual variety of it 8
contents. 1t has il general discussion of the
late silver craze and the present danger by
Hon. Michael D. Harter, of Ohio, who writes
on 1.-THE Blight of Our Commerce." and by
Senator Villas, of Wisconsin; and Mr. j. G.
Hemphill, editor of the Charleston "News and
Courier offers apropos of timely subject a
suggestive paper on "rhe Loss of Southern
Statemanship."
One of the articles in the May 81. Nicholas
is "Prehistoric Photography" by Tudor jerks
which shows that even in the good old times
the amateur had his troubles when he tried to
make pictures. 1t is an amusing story, and
W. II. Drake has cleverly emphasized the
most striking points in his artistic and delight
full illustrations.