Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-02


Monthly for July are Mr. Lafcadio Hearns
.In Japanese Garden" Political Assess
rnents in the Coming Campaign by Theodore
Roosevelt a sketch Of Chicago by Edward u.
Mason; Arabian Horses by II. G. Aers'n,
and a poem, .sUngaarded Gates" by Thorn
As Bailey aIdrieh. In addition It may be
said that those who are reading Marion
crawforf's Don Orsino viii have the pleas
are OF two more chapters; while there IS
the beginning Of two part story by Ellen
olney Kirk. Boston; Houghton, Miihln
and Co, ~ 20 per year.
Mrs. Lambs Magazine of American HIS
tory opens its twenty-eighth volume Win
the July number, the leading article being
A chapter of the early history OF Troy
Y. from the pen of Mrs. Martha j.
Lamb. the editor Other articles are IRE
Columbian Literature of North America
How England Forced the Slave upon Amer
lea. Switzerlands Model Democracy ;
The Making of State; What Con
.tjtntes Good Citizenship; Virginia States
men Of 1888: United States in Paragraphs
An original letter of Washington is given
and the departments Of notes, queries,
minor TOPICS, transactions of societies, ETC.,
Abraham Lincoln forms the frontispiece
New York 74s Broadway $500 per year.
Nineteen articles covering wide range
of subjects but all of very high ability are
given in the July number of the Eclectic
Magazine which begins volume ffty-six OF
the new series Among the articles are t"o
short stories; chapter on Plato. by Walter
Pater: Greek Sonnets. by G. A. Kelley
A London Landscape, n poem by Frances
WINNIE; Europe and Africa by William
Creswell: Women and Worship il
Burmah; A Fourteenth Century Parson
bv Rev. Dr. Jessop. Ga graphic picture o.
the society of five centuries ago.; Human
Electricity, by Prof. Mekendrick; Shad,
Truths, by the Right Hon. l.. IL. Courtney
NJ. p. and other short articles, poems an'
miscellany. New York; +. X. Pelton
IA Eighth street; $500 per year.
In the Cosmopolitan for July, Dougla
SIaten. who is remembered in Boston
writes of Zone of Euglands Great Moderl
Schools * heltenham. Graham X. Tom
son has a pretty pastoral poem called "Sheel
Bells" Elizabeth BislaDd writes of 9Th
Great City Companies of London. Their
ia another draft from the apparently mex
haustible store of posthumous poems o
Mr.. Lowell called Love and Thought.
An interesting and thoughtful paper, con
sidering the subject of forestry. is by }.
Harrison, secretary of the n. X. forestr.
commission. The title of the paper is 9Th
State and the Forest" There are som
interesting illustrations showing the mamie
of encroachment of the sand dunes upo
the forests upon the extremity of Cape Cod
Dir Hale has a sketch in story form upol
the important subject of Making a Liv
ing New York John Brisbin Walker
$500 per year.
The Forum for July opens with pei
for uniformity in state laws by Prof. }. +
Colby; following this comes an able defence
of the Reading Deal" in an article on tn
coal supply. by President Mcleod of tn
Reading Railroad. Col. Dodge consider
briefly, but thoroughly. the various Euro
pean armies, and Mr.. W. c. Edgar, Com
missioner to the Russian sufferers, discus
sing the causes of the famine in Russia
Laws the blame for it largely upon the lane
system of the empire. Mr.. William Sharp
comments enthusiastically upot
Harly's novels. Commissioner Wrigh
discusses the question ''Wh,
Senator Hawlev reviews President lIarri
sons Sound Administration. and Charlei
Francis Adams tells what he thinks Cleve
lands nomination stands for. The whole
number il extremely interesting. New
York Union Square; 81 0o per year,
For frontispiece the July Arena has d
portrait of NJ French-Sheden, the African
explorer, which accompanies her account
of the first circumnavigation of Lake Chaia
a very graphic article with seven illustra-
tons, The study of Julia Mariowe, ths
dramatic artist. embraces copies of eight
different photographs. Women of the
Alliance Movement contains portraits
of six women leaders of this great
industrial movement. There il a sympos
ium on the pending presidential campaign
nv Congressman Springer. Watson and
burrows: an art Gle that will command
thoughtful attention on the" Confessions OF
a Theologian" from the pen of an orthodox
divine, and the first of the series
of papcrs on the on-Shakespears
controversy. by Edwin Reed. winch
promise much of interest. The open
ing of the ease for the plaintiff IS Ger
tainly able. ingenious and readable, Bos'
ton: The Arena Company, $500 per
year.
The usual complement of good things IS
to be found in the July number of Current
Literature. in spite of the fact that the sea
son drives most of the magazines into the
realm of fiction. 1t will be seen that the
scientific department has demanded more
space than usual and offers an enticing
array of interesting things for those who
are practically inclined, among which are
to be found articles upon the eurIosi-
ties of the Depths of the Sea.
the wonderful buildings of Chi
cago. The Little Men and Giants of the
World a. measured in inches, and so on.
The sportsman will be delighted with the
account of the Jew Fish. a gamey monster
of the Pacific coast, while lovers of art will
note with pleasure the account of the dis
coyery of the tomb of Aristotle, These are
but 1.-THE of the articles of the
month, which appeal to the taste
of the general reader. or the person
who wishes to keep pace with the latest
phases of research and thought. The Hook
List. Magazine Reference and other depart
rnents are right up to date. New York
s2-5+ Lafayette Place.