Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-07

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lsrs was paid. EK-Pfesideas Harrison.
Marx Twain and William Dean Howells
are the three whose work commands such
price.
The September number has more than
one hundred illustrations, giving the chief
points Of interest in the Columbian Exposi-
,;on. and the Fair 10 treated BY more than
dozen authors, including the famous Eng
Iish novelist. Waiter Besanf; the Midway
Piaisznee, by Julian Hawthorne; Electric
isy, by Murzs Haistead; The Liberal Arts
Building, BY kunz, the famous gem expert
Of Tiffany & Company; the Department Of
Mines, BY the chief Of that department.,
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A fessure Of this number is stofy BY
Mark Twain, entitled, SIS He Living or 10
He Dead"
The Atlantic for September contains
Hfs Vanished Star. v, vi. Charles Eg-
bert Crxddock; Edwin Booth, Henry A.
Slip on the Ortler, Charles Stewart Dsvi-
son; A Kitten, Agnes Reppiieri Wildcat
Bsnking in the Teens, j. 3. McNsster; A
Russian Summer Resort, Isabel z. Hap
good; Love and Marriage, Sir Edward
S'rsciiey; Two Quafrains, Appealed, Edith
~ Thomas. Whisper, John B. Tabb; On
tue St. Augustine Road, Bradford Tofrey;
Sibblinss and Browsings, Fanny ID. Bergen;
The Isolation OF Life on Prairie Farms,
F., V, Smalley; The Moral Revival IN
France, Aline Gorren; The Technical
School and the University, Francis A.
Walker; Studies in the Correspondence Of
Pe,ra.eh. III. Harriet Waters Preston and
Louise Dodge Some Late Italian Books,
Some Recent American Verse, Comment
on New Books, The Contributor Club.
The New Peterson for September is in
many respects the very best number yet Of
that excellent magazine. Among the IL
Illustrated articles of special mention, are
New England Nooks,' by Mary G. I'm
sted. Memories of Augsburg" by Miss
Stroup, and "Old English Iron.Wo
A very novel story IN plot and treatment,
What Did Not Happen by Rebecca
Harding Davis, '.As The Tide Drifted,' by
James K. Reeve, is q capital tale. "A
Typhoon of Utility" by Sewsil Read, is
far better story than her first effort. which
attracted 80 much attention in . leading
magazine last year. "A Seaside Circe,'
by Howard 5eely, 10 novelet complete in
one number as breezy and fresh As the
season and surroundings ii depicts. Terms,
two dollars a year Address The Peterson
Magazine Company, 1l2-ll4 South Third
street, Philadelphia.
Iiarper's for September is even more than
usually entertaining. Among its special
features are: General Election in Eng
land, by Richard Harding Davis; Edward
Emerson Barnard. (of Lick Observatory
by S. w. Burnham; An Albert Durer Town.
(Rocamadour) by Elizabeth Robins Pennell /;
Letters Of James Russell Lowell,b by Charles
Eliot Norton; Texas, by ex-senator Samuel
Bell Msxey Down Love Lane, by Thomas
A. Jsnvier; Riders of Egypt, by Col. T. A.
Dodge, U. 8. A.; The Diplomacy and Law
Of the lsthmisn Canals, by Sidney Web
ster; A Gentleman of the Royal Guard,
(Dulbut) by William McLennan. William
Blacks The Handsome Humes and Miss
Woolson's Horace Chase are continued.
The fiction of the number also includes two
short stories, Gabriel and the Lost Millions
of Perote, by Maurice Kingsley, and The
Generals Sword, by Robert c. V. Meyers.
The number contains two poems, When
Phyllis Laughs, by John Hay, for which
Mr.. Smedley has made the full-page illus
tration that serves as q fronhspiece, and
September, by Archibald Lampman.
The September number of the North
American Review will be found equal to
any Of those which have preceded it both in
the variety and timeliness Of its contents
and in the celebrity and authoritative char
acter of its contributors. Its table Of con-
tents is: The Political Situation, by Ex-
Speaker Reed; England and France in
siam: I. An English View, the Hon.
George N. Curzon, M. P; ii. A French
View, Madame Adam; Polar Probabilities
of 1894, Gen. A. W. Greedy; The House of
Lords and the Home Rule Bill, the Right
Hon. the Earl Of Donoughmore The
Wealth Of New York;, by the mayor of
New York; Christian Faith and Scientific
Freedom, The Rev. J. A. Zahm; Playwrit-
ing From an Actors Point of View, W. H.
Crane Counting Room and Cradle, Marion
Harland; The Lesson of Heredity, DR..
Henry Smith Williams. The Silver Prob
lem: I. A Word TO Wage Farmers. by
Andrew Carnegie; II. The Present Crisis
by the Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart,
NJ. p. Notes and Comments The South
Carolina Liquor Law, the mayor of Aiken,
s. c.. The Briggs Controversy, From a
Catholic Standpoint, the Rev. l.. A. Nolin,
LII. D.; Needed Prison Reforms, +. C..
Edred.
The Review of Reviews for September is
a number of fine variety and timeliness. 1t
eptomizes and synchronizes the whole
planet for the month of August, 1898. 1t
discusses the monetary crisis, the silver de-
bate, the tariff outlook, the Behring Sea de-
cision, the French attack on Siam, the pro-
gress of the Home Rule bill, the politics of
the European continent, various matters at
Chicago and the Worlds Fair and q hun
dred other timely subjects, the whole num-
Der being profusely illustrated with por-
traits and pictures. A sketch of Engineer
Ferris and his great wheel is \ singularly
readable and attractive article, and Mr..
Stead contributes most noteworthy char
acter sketch of Lady Henry Somerset
There is an illustrated review Of the fasci-
mating story of Joan of Arc, the inspired
Maid of Orleans and group Of papers on
the silver question by professors in the Uni
versity Of Chicago. The Leading Articles
of the Month" are notably well selected.
while the Record of Current Events"
gives one summary day by day of the re-
markable course of the recent monetary
crisis, and the cartoon reproductions in the
s3cnrrept Histnrv in Caricstuye' arc nm