Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-18

Dudley Warner. IL - usual the most inter-
csting feature of the issue. The initial
number of Harper's for 1894 10 c. itsinly
most creditabls one, and mot only full OF
good things in itself, but Of promise Of the
goo things to cone during the rem ainder
Of the year.
The Atlantic Monthly presents an attrac-
tive table of contents. "Ten Letters From
Coleridge to Sou,hey" is IN article Of nm
Usual interest. Mary Hartweli Catherwood
contributes q most entertaining story under
the caption ..Wolfe's Core" Chapters XIV
and Nv of His Vanished Star by Charles
Egbert Craddock fully sustain the interest
OF that strong story. An interesting
article on the letters Of James Rus
sell Lowell, Phillips Brooks and Asa
Gray, is an entertaining feature OF the issue.
A fine comparative criticism of the work OF
Sarah Orne Jewett, as exhibited In hef
earliest snd latest books. is feature OF the
number that will not fail TO be appreciated
by the many admirers Of this gifted Maine
writer. The book reviews are up to the
usual high standard and 1.-The Contributors
Club brings US the usual full qiots OF
god things. The Atlantic Monthly. Bos-
ton: 1IoughtOn, Miifiia & Company
The January issue Of the Century Msg,-
zine is trimming over with good things
Mark Twain gives us four more chapters of
his amusing story, "Pndd' head Wilson.
Ex-senator Dawes has fine character
sketch ON Garfield and Conkling. Brander
Matthews writes v it'll his usual elegance and
grapl ic skill of Andrew Lang. Charlotte
Fiske Bates has a charming little poem,
entitled, Loves Rivals" Ex-Presi-
dent Harrison contributes some in
terestlng views on Military Iostruc-
ton in Schools and Colleges Laura
f. Richards, the gifted Gardner writer, con-
tributes touching poem entitled the Com
Wet Woman of Port Blair" Other contri-
| buttons by eminent authors, including a
| fine, interesting and instructive article on
the .Bible and the Assyrian Monuments
combine to make up o number of absorbing
interest and one that may well have place
| by every home fireside.
The frontiepiece of the January number
of the New Eoglsnd Magazine is very
| life-like picture of Edwin Lasseter Bynper.
! 1t accompanies an excellent sketch of the
subject from the gifted pen of Edward
Everett Hale. Hon. Hamilton Andrews
| Hill has an article of more than ordinary
interest on the Boston and Liverpool
Packet Lines, Sail and S.eam." Clarence
r. Blake writes of Springfield, Mass. ard
| Dorothy Prescott contributes char ming
short story under the title. "Modern Vsnge-
ancs." Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber con-
tributes charming bit of personal reminis-
cence under the caption Experiences Dur
ing Many Years" Joseph Henry Crooker
has character sketch of Matthew Arnold
that is we'll worth careful study. The
departments of the issue are up to the usual
high standing. Warren F. Kellogg, .
Park Square, Boston,
Godey's i, always interesting. The Lead
ing article for January is a novel by Frank
lin W. Lee, entitled ''Mam'selle Psg .nini,"
which takes up 60 of its pages. 1t is charm
iuglv told has an unique plot, and is superb
| " illustrated. 1t is followed by shorter
story of much interest, entitled. monsieur
| Vigots Diamonds" Anything about Ole
Bull is always of interest, and fresh in
cident in the life of the famous musician is
charmingly told by Herbert WILDER Greene.
A most delightful parlor con edy is contrib
uted by Conyers c. Converse. The home
department of the magazine is up to the
usual high standing, and the fashions will
| be full of interest to all lady readers. (New
! York, 2l Park Row.
The most notable feature of the January
number of Harper's is a story by George
du Maurier, the author of one of the most
successful of recent novels, as well as the
most distinguished of living csricaturists.
The new story is called "Trilby," after its
principal female character, model in
Paris studios, and the scene is laid in the
Latin Quarter, whose life of forty years ago
il described as the tale progresses. Three
English AIT students are the backbone of
the story, and their life and adventures
constitute its chief interest. "Trilby" is
said by persons who have read it to he a
worthy successor to "P, ter Ibbetfon." 1t is
illustrated from many drawings by Mr..
DuMaurier.