Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-02
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music have been received from the
White -Sm tn Music Publishing Co., 81
West Street, Boston.
St Nicholas for February contains
additional chapters Of the continued
stories by Mrs. Laura Z Richards, Charles
e Carryl, Brander Matthews and Lieut.
Fletcher, together with many short
stories. sketches, poems and jtngles APP
propriate to the valentine season. 1t is
profuselv illustrated with charming pic
lures. New York: The Century Com
pauy Union Square; $500 a year.
"A Boy Lieutenant is the title of 4
true serial story of the Civil War by
Lieut.. Free 5. Bowley. which begins in
The Youths Companion Of February
It'll. Lieut.. Bowley is from San Fran
cisco, and has been railroad man on
the Southern Pacific for twenty years.
The simplicity, directness and dramatic
power of the opening chapters Indicate
a writer Of talent VINO ought to have
begun literary work long ago. Boston
Perry Mason & Company.
The Magazine of American History
contains its usual complement Of inter
estng and instructive articles, among
iitI al LhS RhPtI vi iDN
ELECTORAL Commits sion of 1877" by
Hon. Charles Cowley; "Virginis in the
Revolutionary Period" by hon. William
Writ Henry; Pen Portraits of Stone
wall Jackson BY Mary Anna Jackson
conclusion of Hon Arthur Haryey's
article on christopher Columbus
Tribute to the Memory of Theodore
Parker" There are also many brief
articles. notes, historic queries trans
actions Of historical societies. etc. New
ork: 7i3 Broadway.
The portrait of Mr.. IIowells which
forms the frontispiece of the Cosmopol
ltan for February is not pleasing. The
pose is not in good taste and the expires
sion is devoid of life or animation. The
leading article is by Sir Edwin Arnold
on Love and Marriage in Japan. Mr.. W
f. Curtis continues his study IT the
Columbus Portraits, which is profusely
illustrated by many copies Of rare por
traits. other articles of interest are DC
Juventatc. Il study in boys, by ID. C
Gilman; Peppercd by Afghans, by Ar
chibald Forbes, and DR.. Hale's discus
sion of social problems. The number
has several poems of varying merit
New York: John Brisbin Walker
The selection OF articles in the mum
bers of Littell's Living Age for January
I'D and ,;0th, is excellent and they ap
| peal TO a wide taste. The leading arti
cles are on the memoirs of Gen. Marbo
and on French Politics; there are gooC
| short stories an interesting account Of
that well known English naturalist, Mr.
| Philip Henry Gosse: Children and Mod
I ttnr tr,fn ftt,n
! travellers sketches in different parts of
the world; delightful unpublished
sketch by Richard Jeflries. THE Com
ing of Summer; a study OF that sturdy
Old Engli-hman, william Goblet by
George Staintsbury; numerous short ar
ticles and poems Boston: Littell X
Co
Messrs Macmillan & Co, III Fourth
| Avenue. New York, publish The His
/ tory of David Grieyc the new story by
| Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of Rober
Elsmere Mrs. Ward has shown hersel
| TO be a writer of incontestablc genius
! Her high enthusiasm for the moral Gle
| Walton of the race has been at one witt
the artistic impulse that has guided he
| pen. Like George Elliot she has onc'
more taught us that fiction, far from
| being merely superficial representation
| of passing situations and emotions, may
! grapple with the greatest problems ant
| teach men noble truths. Her delinea
ton of the development of David Grievei
character is said to be unsurpassed fol
! insight and delicacy of handling by any
| thing in her previous famous work. 1t
| the main the story traces the career anc
development of II disciple OF the Els
merriam doctrines in his work among tn,
poor of London. The story is thought
| by good critics to surpass in interest anC
literary merit Mrs. Wards former book
Price in cloth, Si.00.J
Among the important articles in the
| Forum tor February are Bank Circuia-
ton and silver Coinage, by the Hon
John Jay Knox. late comptroller of the
| Currency and president of the Bank OF
| the Republic, New ork; survey Of q
| Years Literary Production in the | Dited
| states, by Mr. Hamilton W Mabie, editor
Of The Christian Union and one OF the
, foremost Of our younger literary men
| thorough discussion of our military
training and military needs, under the
title of 'Is Our Military Training AIDE
, quatez" by Col Charles w. Larnod OF
{ but NtsJ L oiuI ~ iiiLdt s'duclDJ
| industrial Revolution by Country
Roads" by Col. a. A. Pope of Boston,
/ who has glvca much OF his time AS well
I as much money to the encouragement
| Of better road building; and the Sup
preston OF Lotteries by Taxation along
the lines propo ed by bill that has
/ been already introduced in Congress &
! explained by Mr. Horace White. Other
articles besides those named are given,
/ The number closes volume twelve OF tn s
able review, New York: Union
/ Square; $500 per year