Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-05-01

~. Nicholas Tor May comes to us with It's
pages full of attractive reading. This num-
ber opens with new serial '.Toinettes ;
Philip by the same author as Lady Jane.
All who have read the latter will be ready
10 welcome "Toinettes Philip" Several
pretty poems and short stories go to make
up an unusually interesting number
80 00 year, single number 21cts, Of
newsdealars)
"A Railway Party in Politics is the title
Of an article by Harry p. Robinson, editor
Of the Railway Age, that will appear in the
North American Review for May. Among
the articles that win appear in the depart,
Der will he ''Ancicnt and Modern Dentistry y
by DIR. +. H. Raymond "ls Land Held
out of Use?" by William B. Cooper; "Sipg-
Pos Chart" by Edward p. Jackson; and
Death as Factor in Progress, by DIR.
Woods Hutchinson.
1t is a good idea which the editors Of
Current Literature announce in the Nav
number. They propose issuing every month
during the period of the Worlds Fair. d
special edition devoted to the myriad oi
good things published in wspspers and
magazines in relation TO the Exhibition
These special numbers will he published on
the first of each month, aud will be bound
in specially designed cover. Libera
prizes are offered for original descriptive
articles. Current Lit. Pub Co., 81 La.
fayettc r., N. "
No. 254S Of Littells Living Age com.
pleied the l96th Quarterly Volume, and the
18Th year of the continuous publication OF
this excellent magazine. The volume
covers the months of January, February
and March, and its table Of contents shows
il to contain 81 articles, beside miscellany
and poetry. II is impossible to find else
where so much that is valuable at so small
Il cost. For only $500 year the readers
of the Living Age have the cream of the
whole British periodical press served them
and that with freshness and fulness
owing to its frequency of issue. not other
wise obtainahle. (Littell & Co, 81 Bed
ford ST., Boston,
The Californian for May completes tn.
third volume Of this popular magazine, and
is well up to the standard in variety and
excellence. Charles Frederick Holder.
account of tracking a mountain lion through
the Sierra Madre eanons is of absorbing in
tritst iof spuItsuitH, as heli as IOr tnt
lover of nature who will delight in the del
ioate touches of light and shade that meet
the eye on every page. One of the most
comprehensive and readable accounts OF
the Columbian Exposition that has yet ap
peared is by }. j. Featiiel1 and is illustrate,
by some remarkably fne pen and ink
sketches. The short stories this month are
by Flora Haiues Loughead, who has an in
ternaiional reputation, and William II. Car
penter, and the poems are by A. /. Town
send, George Martin, Jean La Rue Buruet,
,snd others.
The May Eclectic shows a carefully Sc
leeted variety of articles from the hest for
eign magazines. The number opens with
John Adding;on Symonds valuable essay
on 'sThe New Spirit" considering the Re.
formation in its various social, religious and
artistic aspects. The translation of Goethe.
poem, The Gods OF Greece which woke
so much controversy in the poeticsl world
is by Sir Theodore Martin, WHO by many is
regarded as Eugiands future laureate The
issue contains also two briefer poems and a
short story of merit. One must not omit to
mention Archdeacon Farrsr's clever deduc-
tion from 1.-The Statuary in Westminster
Abbey of the changing theological and so
cisl standpoints of different generations
+. r. Pelton. IA Eighth street, n. Y:
S. per year. single number IS cents.
The idyIlic and historic Bronx VALLEY,
syinpathetically described by one Of it's res
idents, Or. Peter MacQaeen, and illustra.
tel with score of charming views, eccp-
pies with vernal seasonabiliiy the front
place in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
for May. Another timely paper, bearing
as it does upon the question of q national
quarantine for the United States, is the
graphic sketch of Caribbean Quarantine =
experience, by Henry Arthur Herber. of
Muekroes. An exciting narrative of the
ascent of Mount Etna is accompanied by
numerous views of the great Sieilian
volcano, and its recent eruption. Among
the ether illustrated articles are ''The
Worlds Fair Fisheries Exhibit" by Charles
Bradford HUDSON; an entertaing account of
Chinese cuisine and restaurant life in Mott
street. New York city, by that vivacicus
journalist, Don Seitx; Persian POTTERY. g
by James Bassett. the eminent Oris ntsli,t :;
and '.Carniverous Plants by Colonel Mic
olas Pike. The department of fiction in-
cludes an exquisite story by Paul Bonrse,.
the author of ''Cesmnpolis.~ entitled Dom
Grifii.~
Carlyic's Love for Hts Sister,
When Thomas CARLYLE died, ia issI, he
left to Mrs. ilanning property sufficient 10