Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-13

Lppincott for this month contains y COM
plete story, The Troublesome Lady" by
Patience Stapleton, author of that delight
fui sketch Trailing Yew." Among the
contributors to this number are Julian Haw
thorne, Edgar Fawcett, Gilbert Parker ,0w en-
Wistar, Mary Isabella Forsyth, Maurice
Francis Egan, &. Il. Todd and other well
known writer's. 1t is an excellent number.
r.. b Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia.
Price % cents.
The prosperity of Blue and Gray, which
has been noteworthy even in this country
of great successes in journalism, has been
signalized by the publishers in their July
number A new dress of type, extra fine
paper, and matter of SURPRISING interest, as
well as numerous excellent illustrations,
mark the beginning of the second volume.
Among the more prominent features in the
contents for July are symposiums on the
battle of Gettysburg, and Vicksburg by
well known survivors on both sides.
The Review of Reviews for July appro-
priately calls attention to our entrance on q
new age-the age of electricity--in its three
interesting articles on the newest marvels
and the even more incredible things to be
expected. The great electrical exhibit at
the Worlds Fair is described by Mr.. j. X.
Cravath. This paper is followed by two
more under the title 1.-TWO Giants of the
Electric Age" Mr.. c. d. Lanier tells of
the personality and sketches the picturesque
career of Thomas A. Edison. The inter
view with Mr.. Edison presents fully the
great inventors views of the further tri-
umphs in electrical science that are about
to come to US. striking and picturesque
contrast to the Edison article is Mr.. j.
Munro's character sketch on Sir William
Thomas, Lord Kelvin. Mr.. Munroe tells
how Lord Kelvin made the Atlantic cable
possible and how he invented the best mari
ner's compass.
The New Petersons Magazine for July
has even more than usual interest. "From
the Atlantic to the Pacifc,"a very enter
tanning illustrated article by Joseph
7. Reed, makes one of the attrac-
tons of the July New Pet
erson. California Women in the Worlds
Fair" by Minnie V. Gaden, gives q series
Of we'll written biographies accompanied by
portraits "old Nalenciennes China" is a
most delightful article, with appropriate
by Robert G.. V. Meyers, is in that gifted
"Nitft bt>t Nttb mum N'thatt w
gins brilliant noyelet entitled Cesar"
Octave Thsnet contributes a delighted
sketch styled "A Noiseless Revolution"
and concludes her shelf Full of Western
Books" begun in the June number. lou
roy Jim's Partner" "Ariana and the God. =
AT the Sign of the Star" and Mennonite
BY Minot ]. Savage are among the other
contents. The Peterson Magazine Co.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Readers of Harper's Magazine will surely
not miss the July number which includes
among its special features Italian Gar
dens," by Charles A. Plat; French Cana
tlians in New England" by Henry Loomis
Nelson; side Lights on the German Sd
der. by Poultney Bigelow Three English
Race Meetings.. by Richard Harding Davis
Algerian Riders, by Col. +. A. Dodge. L.
s. A.; '.thicsro's Gentle Side by Julian
Ralph; The Function of Slang, by Bran
der Matthews; Wilhsm Blacks novel The
Handsome Humes, is continued by gen.
erous instalmont which leads the reader in
TO rural England, and there are strong chap
tiers of Miss Constance Fenimore Wool
sons American Story Horace Chase" "Si-
lenca, story of Colonial Massachusetts,,
by Miss Mary f wilkins, adds strength to
the fiction of the number. which includes
A FestalN Irgin." n humorous tale by Will
Carleton. Harper & Brothers, New York
City.