Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-16
AUGUST MAGAZINES.
Atlantic Monthly.

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| Atlantic Monthly.
The last of Frank Bolles's papers, Eau
gust Birds in Cape Breton" has the place
of honor in the August Atlantic, at the right
hand of the hostess, SO to speak, for it fol.
lows Immediately upon the installment OF
Mrs. Delands "Philip and his Wife, at
the opening of the number. In the third
place stands Susan Goolidge's 1.-THE Girl
hood of an Autocrat," the story of the IA
NOUS Empress Catherine of Russia. But the
order of precedence does not fix the relative
merits of the contributions to the magazine,
for towards the end 10 significant paper,
"The College Graduate and Public Life"
by Theodore Roosevelt. The life with
which he deals is that Of politics, q practical
phase of which is discussed in Mr.. A. II.
Washburn's paper, "Some Evils of our
| Consular Service" Something is told of
the great work of Cardinal Lavigerie in
Northern Africa by William Sharp. By
way of contrast there is a paper on "Pro-
fessional Horsemen," by H. C. Merwin.
| Sidney Laniers letters come to an end, and
the rest of the number is filled out with
short articles and stories, giving in all q
more than usual diversity of attractive
reading. [Houghton, Mifiin & Co, Bos-
ton.
| LittelPs Living Age.
| 1t is difficult to realize in examining a
single weekly issue of Littell's Living
Age. SO unpretending does it appear in its
modest drab covers, that this magazine
equals if not surpasses all others in the
actual amount of matter given to its readers
\ every year, as we'll de in the quality and
| permanent value of its articles. Yet this is
the case. So varied are its contents that
Eall readers will find abundant entertainment
| and instruction in its pages. No department
of literature is neglected. The following
are few only of the many interesting and
valuable papers which have appeared in its
July issues lord Wolseley's MARI
borough" by Gen. Sir Archibald Alison, G C.
B.. 1.-The Proposed Nile Reservoir" by ]. P.
Mahaffy and Frank Dillon; 'In the River
Pei-ho, by VIM. Laird Cloves; ''The Queen
and Lord Palmerston, by Reginald B Brett !;
1.-The Problem of Constantinople," by
Frederick Harrison; Marlborough" by
Andrew Lang; ga French Ambassador at
the Court of Catherine H." by Mrs. darcy
Collyer; "Some Great Churches of France"
by Walter Pater; "Handel Man and Musi-
ciap," by Frederick J. Crowest; and 1.-The
Art of Dying" by,I. A. Taylor. Fiction
is well represented by an instalment in each
| number of an extremely interesting serial,
translated from the French. 1.-The Dean of
Killerine," and by some short stories. Each
issue also contains page of choice poetry.
| Littell & Co., Boston, Mass.
Art Amateur.
The illustrations in The Art Amateur for
August are very suggestive of the GOODNESS
which views of the water gratefully pro-
duce in the sultry heat of the dog days.
They include a reproduction in color of
Edward Moran's "Lightship," full page
black-and whites of Lionel Walden's "Toil-
ers of the Sea-" Haquette's against the
Tide" and Bellinger's 1.-THE Open Sea-"
and some capital pencil and pen drawings
| by Theodore r. Davis !; in addition to which
there are sketches of water-lilies, and the
fourth of Mr.. Volkmar's fsh-series of
plates fer china painters. The pictures,
however, are by no means all marines;
there is grouping of Butterflies Zone of
the color plates), portrait of Kos
suth (frontispiece) land various in
teriors, specimens of carved work,
embroideries, etc. In the text
Mr.. d wis supplies some "Notes
from an Ocean Studio" the late Theodore
| Child's al ticles on The National Gallery are
continued, there are seasonable hints to
Young m arine painters, "reminiscences of
Edward Moran, etc. ETC while the recently
established departments of The Illustrator
and Ex-Libris are more than amply main
tanned, the older ones are not permitted to
suffer, and the painter on canvas, china or
textiles, the drsughtsman, the, wood-caryer,
the worker in embroidery, and the hosts of
others engaged in the multiform varieties
of art-work have each something of practi-
cal help given them in their several special
| ties. The Note-B ss usual il spicy and
papgeut in its comments on the art-intt r
ests of the month Montague Marks, Pub
isher, 90 Union Square, New York. 81
Review of Reviews. yssat'. "a
Three of the original articles in the Au-
gust Review of Reviews are devoted to
Canadian topics. A sketch of the Hon. Will
frid Laurier, the leader of the Canadian
Liberal party, is contributed by Mr..
William b. Wallace; "Canada's Political
Conditions are described by the Hon. J.
W. Longley, attorney general of Nova
Scotia, v bile the editor Of the magazine,
DR.. Albert Shaw, writes on Toronto as q
Municipal Object Lesson" Each of these
articles is full of information about affairs
beyond our Northern border. This number
also contains a very fair and dispassionate
discussion of labor troubles and their
possible remedies from the pen
of the New Zealand Minister of La
Dor, the Hon. W. P. Reeves and
a timely article by Professor Henry C.
Adams on 1.-The Rsilway Situation"
Among the important topics editorially
treated in 1.-THE Progress of the World"
department are the recent railroad strike
md it's results, the assassination of Presi-
dent Carnot, the new President of France,
the doiogs of the German Emperor, the
veto of the British Peers, the British bud
get and the elections, and the personalities
of the late Lord Chief Justice Coleridge
and his successor, Sir Charles Russell.
The full-page portraits of these last will
especially interest American lawyers. Re-
view of Reviews Co., 10 Aston Place, New
York.