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


Literary Notices.
IN the July number of short stories, con
tanning seventeen tales, readers will find
carefully selected and entertaining coliec-
ton Of stories well suited to summer read
ing G.. NJ. Flandrau Of Harvard, wins the
5000 prize for the best story of college
tfe. Current Literature Publishing CO.,
52-54 Lafayette Place, New York.
Judging by the numbers 50 far issued, the
10Th volume Of Litteli's Living Age equals
10 the richness and variety Of its contents,
any Of its predecessors. Not one OF the
fifty-two weekly issues that go to make up
a years subscription but contains something
that the intelligent reader would not illing
y miss and which would be lost to the great
majority Of American readers if it were not
for this magazine, which CLEANS with so
wise u discrimination from the wide field OF
foreign literature. The subscription price
is IS a year. Single numbers may be had
by sending Is cents to Littell & Co., Pub
fishers, Boston, Mass.
The July number of Donahoe's Maya
zine 10 even brighter than usual and will be-
come even more popular than the preceding
numbers. is Wall Street Immoral il the
subject taken BY James W. Clarke. A. M.
Among the list of articles are Catholic
Lawyers and Divorce Causes" by T. Will
fred Coakley. There is a complete story
by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of
Americas greatest novelist entitled Rob
lnsons Hidden Life; beautiful illustra-
ted eritique Of the work of Sculptor Viii
liam Ordway Partridge. by Henry Austin;
Women who Have Made History" by
Mary Is. O'Sulhvan; Irish Signers of the
Declaration of Independence. by Capt.
John NJ. Tobin ''St. Johns Seminary" il
Illustrated, by Rev. I. G. McGoldrick.
IAN Afternoon with DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes" is the suggestive and fascinating
title of an article prepared by Edward
Everett Hale This article, which is partly
dialogue, partly interview and partly rem
iniscence, appears in McClure's Maya
zine for July. with illustrations from photo
graphs taken especially for the magazine,
foremost among them being portrait of
the author and subject of the article taken
in Dr. Holmes study SIS. Mcclure. Linn
tied, 1876 Broadway, New York City,
| All the leading features of Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly for July possess timely
and seasonabe interest, in addition to their
intrinsic attractiveuess. Conspicuous
amongst these are Vslerien Gribayedofs
| article upon " The Sailors of the Gar"
! illustrated with portraits, scenes ON board
the Dnttri Dohskoi, and pictures of the
other vessels of the Russian fleet at present
soiourning in American waters. Then
there in an intimate personal sketch of the
| Infsnts Eulalis. our royal Spanish visitor,
| by c. Stanton Sickles, with charming
portrait reproduced from her favorite photo
graph. H. J. Vance writes appreciatively
of 'Metropoliton Life in Summer" Belle
Hunt of Hay launching in Texas" and
| Robert Y. Toombs Of Gulf Coast Turpen-
| tine Orchards
| The table of contents of the July num-
Der of the Atlantic, holds out rich promise
that 10 fulfilled on reading. In the list we
note His Vanished Star, L., H.. Charles
Eghert Crsddock; Within the Heart,
George Parsons Lsthrop; In the Heart of
| the Summer. Edith NJ. Thomas; Admiral
| Lord Exmouth, 4. T. Mshsn: Passports,
Police, and Postoifice in Russia, Isabel +.
| tIspgood A General Election Right and
Wrong in Politics, Sir Edward Strachey;
Governor Morton and the Sons Of Liberty,
William Dudley Foulke; Petrasrch, CANA
liel Bradford, Jr.; Studies in the Cores
pondence of Petrarch. /, Harriet Waters
Preston aud Louise Dodge; Problems of
Presumptiye Proof, James w. Clarke; II
Public Libraries. why not Public Museums?
Edward s. Morse; DE Tocqueville's Mem
oirs.
Without making invidious comparisons.
1t is safe to say that the exhibit which
Messrs. Houghton, MifIiin & Co. have ar
ranged in the gallery in the northw estern
| corner of the department Of liberal arts in
the Manufacturers building at Chicago is in
all respects worthy of somewhat careful ex-
animation. The idea evidently is to repre-
sent such library as might be found in the
| house of a man of cultivation in any part of
the United States. The structure 10 classic
in style. Its door. with . severely elegant
pediment, its simple cornice, and small high
wiudows.give one the idea of little Roman
court. The printers mark Of the Riverside
Press lie displayed without shepherd sit
ting beside river, down which floats a lit
tie lamp of knowledge towards the rising
sun.
In the July number of The North Ameri-
can Review the dominant questions of the
hour are discussed. as usual, in the most
authoritative manner. The opening article
10 by Professor Briggs, whose recent trial
for heresy created such excitement in
| theological circles, and 10 entitled THE
Future of Presbyterianism in the United
States" The all-important question
'sShould the Chinese Be Excluded?' Is con
sidered from two different points of view,
| first by Col. Il. G. Ingersoll, who replies in
the negative, and, secondly. by Congress
man Geary, the author Of the Chinese
Exclusion Law. who answers in the affirm
ative. In "How Distrust Stops Trade
Edward Atkinson. the well known eeouo-
mist. points out the balefuI effects of the
| free coinage Of silver. The ex-direcsor of
the mint. Hon. Edward q. T.eecb, contrib
utee a valuable paper on Silver Leeisia-
ton and its Results" Judge Albion W.
Tourgee discusses The Antitrust Cam
paign !" the Countess of Aberdeen writes
on "ireland at the Worlds Fair" and Prof.
II. II. Boyesen sets forth the causes of
'.Norvays Political Crisis" A large num-
Der of other seasonable articles are inelu-
ied in this number.
The midsummer Cosmopolitan, the
| first at the new price Of IL l-s cents per
copy, though unchanged in size, excels any
other issue Of that magazine in the number
of its distinguished contributors, in the in
terest of it, eonfents and il its overfowing
illustrations by famous artists. Francois
Coppee. William Dean Howells, Camille
Flammarion, Andrew Lang. Frank Demp-
.ter Sherman, Ii. II. Boyesen, Charles
Dekey, Thomas A. Janvier, Colonel Till
man. Asnes Repplier, and Gilbert Park
er are few of the names which
appears on its title page. Three frontis-
pieces. all by famous artists, furnish an un-
usual feature, and among the artists, Who
contribute to the fl9 illustrations adjoining
it, pages, are Lanrens, Reinhart, Fem,
Toussains, Stevens, Saunief Filler. Meanlle
and Frapzen. The midsummer number 10
intended to set the pace for the magazine
Al it, new price IL IL cents = copy, or
81 80 year. The magazine remains IN
changed in size and each issue will be IN