Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-25

Even more important than Columbus
discovery is the fact that the general gov
ernmeDt has just discovered woman" says
Mrs. Potter Palm er, president of the board
of lady managers of the Worlds Fair,
whose portrait adorns the front page of
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for June.
The beautifully illustrated article on
'Woman's Work at the Worlds Fair" by
Isabel McDougall, which follows, is a
revelation in this regard, of which every
American has right to be proud. Another
timely feature, of extraordinary pictorial
interest, is J. s. Stuart-Glennie's descrip-
tive paper on 1.-The Ionian Islands, includ-
ing earthquake-stricken Zante. Other illus
| trated articles are +: "Ellerslie and its Guen-
| seys," description of ex-Vice President
Morton's model dairy farm on the Hudson
by Charles II. Crandell; ''In the Metro
,litan Museum of Art" by Mary Titcomb ::
How the Big Tree was Sent to Chicago, -
by Sara ID. Price; Bird Babyland,' by
Nelly Hart Woodwork and Rays from the
Search Light, together with half dozen
short stories of real merit, and the full COM
PIGMENT of. literary miscellany. Frank
Leslie Pub, Co. n. W
Current Literature is trimming over in
the June number with new features. The
Worlds Fair first of all furnishes no less
than forty-eight pages of selections and il
lustrations, which deal with all the interest
ing features of the undertaking. In setting
50 much space apart for this, it has
not been done at the expense of the maya
zine itself which has been considerably en-
larged. Current Literature Pub. Co., -
Lafayette Pl., N. "
with Tclstoi in the Russian Famine"
is the title of a remarkable paper to appear
IN the June Century, describing the exper-
fences of Mr.. Jonas Stadling, a Swede, who
assisted in the relief work at Count Toll
stoi's headquarters, during the winter of
lS91-92. The article is realistically and
effectively illustrated from photographs
taken by the author, who in a subsequent
number of the magazine will describe his
sojourn with Count Tolstois son in relief
| work in the eastern district of Samara.
| (The Century Co., Union So. N. "
The complete novel in the June number
of Lippincott's is The Translation of a
| Savage" by Gilbert Parker, author of
The Chief Factor" Pierre and his Peo-
| pie "Mrs. Falchion," etc. 1t has an I'M
! usual subject, and tells how an Englishman
of family and wealth married an Indian
girl of Hudson's Bay and look her home,
with results naturally mixed, but better than
| might have been expected. The fourth in
the series of Lippincotts Notable Stories
| The Philosophers. by Geraldine Bonner
deals with an extraordinary wedding, IN
which the men concerned were philos-
ophers indeed. 1t is illustrated. cam
hition," play in one act, by johanna
Stats, has a double love story. The poet
~ Of the number is unusually full, contain
ing lyrics by Graham x. Tomson. the late
Philip Boufke Marston, Lorimer Stoddard,
| Bliss Carman, and Harrison s. Morris, be
sides quatrains by Frank Demster Sherman,
Clinton Schollard. and Joel Benton. d.
y. Lippircott & Co, Philadelphia; % cts.
per number.)
The weather crop bulletin for the week
| ending May %, indicates marked back
war'ness of crops all over New England.
, The Caribou correspondent states that
grass was winter killed in spots, clover
quite badly. also that large acreage of
potatoes will be planted. From West
Levant the report is that many farmers are
I,siuu shoop from wh hot opyoors tn no n