Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-10

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The Nav number Of The Cottage Hearth
10 rich in good stories ard excellent depart
menss. The ciosing chapters Of Erastus
Faulkner, which have feen looked forward
10 With interest, sppear in this number, fol-
lowed BY Under Suspicion, Tanned, A Trip
Through the Sewers Of Paris. On the Cana
dian Pacific, Records Of an Epitaph Hun
ter, The nast Part Of an Old Story, and
How Seth Caught Ne Salmon. Is cents
4 number. W. A. Wilde { Co., Boston.l
A brilliant paper ON the Worlds Fair
written by the well-known architect, Mr..
Henry Van Brunt, is a At opening for the
Atlantic Monthly for May. In this inter
esting number. too, Judge Cation. who was
employed in the first lawsuit recorded in
Cook county, Illinois, has. = descriptive
psper called IT'S Sixty Since in Chicago"
A three part story by Mary Cathsrine Lee
il begun in this number. Among the other
contributors are Capt. A. T. MAhan. Sir
Edward Ssrachey, Prof. Shaler, Prof.
James Joy Greenough. HOughton, Miitiin
4 Co., Boston.
The Review of Reviews for May will be
found as strikingly original and individual
in its character rs any previous issues OF
this enterprising periodical. 1t strikes out
into fresh field with Mr.. Stead's magniii-
cent character sketch Of Frederick Selous,
the great African traveller and hunter-the
greatest Nimrod, in fact, that this world has
ever produced. Perhaps the most thought
provoking. controversy raising feature OF
any of the American magazines Of the cur
rent month is Eugene Richter's Pictures Of
the Future"
Mrs. Henrotin, who stands next to Mrs.
Potter Palmer in Worlds Fair undertakings,
has written for the May number of the Re-
view of Reviews summary sketch Of the
participation of women in the forthcoming
Worlds Fair congresses. New York Is As
tor Place.
Belford's Monthly for May comes to US
in its improved garb and with illustrations
far ahead of anything it has published in
that line up to date. One of the best
features of this rejuvenate magazine, is
its Ramblings,s series Of spicy editorials on
subjects political, literary, social, Sc, &C.,
An intelligent monograph of Carlyle in the
role of lover, and another Of Napoleon as a
model husband, complete the serious por-
ton of the magazine. Fiction is excellent
ly represented by Angel Pass. a story Of
New Mexico pioneer life, by Anis, a Texan
society story, and by various humoristic
sketches. Poetry is represented by Eigar
Fawcett, Mrs. Linden w. Bates, and
others.
The May New England Magazine con-
tains a paper describing the relations OF
"Phillips Brooks and Harvard University,
written by Alexander Mckenzie, an old
friend of Brooks The article is accom-
panied with illustrations, which show the
familiar haunts of Brooks while at Cam
bridge paper on Milton as an Educa
tor" by Phillips Brooks is also in this num-
ber Among the other contributors to this
entertaining number are Arthur c. Grissom,
Celia Thaxter, Julia Nj. Lippmann, Will
liam Howe Dovnes and Walter Il. Richard
son.
The Engineering Magazine for May is a
choice number. Included in the list of con
| tents are The Cholera Prospect in 1895 by
DIR. ID. b. St. John Roosa; Ethics of Ar
chitectual Competitions by John NJ. Carrere
Cotton as Factor in Progress, illustrated,
by d. A. Tompkins; The Gravity System
of Rapid Transit BY Major Benjamin S.
Henning; The Care of Existing Highways
by W. 'E. McClintock.
A New York daily paper, taking up the
idea conveyed in Flammarion's exciting
novel, "onega: The Last Days of the
World, has interviewed number of the
leading men in all professions as to what
they would do if science were to predict to-
morrow that the end of the world would ar
rive within the next thirty days. The
answers are various and curious, and
heighten the interest which is felt in the
second part of Flammarion's great novel
which appears in the May Cosmopolitan
1t is a question which everyone will find
interesting to ask of himself: What would
YOU do if within six weeks the end of the
world were certain? Probably no move
which has ever appeared in an American
magazine has been more deliberately illus
trated by more distinguished artists. Mr..
Howells purpose in 1.-THE Traveller from
Altruria' is, month by month, becoming
more evident, and is now receiving wide
attention at the hands of the critics all over
the world