The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-30
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MAGAZINES
Fun, fancy and facts are mixed to-
gether in the usual pleasant proportion
for the readers of st. Nicholas in the
October number. Elbridge s. Brooks
historical romance, "A Boy of the First
Empire" which has been a feature of
the magazine for the past year, is
brought to an end. The first chapters
are printed of a two-part story, Yam
oud," by Henry Willard French A story
of the good old-fashioned sort is Hans
the Otherwise" by John Bennett There
is a sketch of j. G.. Brown, the child
painter, by John j. a. Beckett, accompa-
MED by some of the artists most IA
nous pictures of street waits. Prof.
Brander Matthews gives a sympathetic
and critical sketch of James Russell
Lowell. Theodore Roosevelt describes
''Albemaries by Lieut. Cushing, one of Of
the most stirring and heroic achieve
ments of the civil war The Manatee,
interesting animals of the American CON
tnent form the subject of Naturalist
Hornadays paper this month. How
the Godmother Failed" by Guy Wetmore
Carryl, rs a fairy tale brought thorough
ly up to date The Pirates Little joke
is explained by Rudolph F. Bunner, and
others contribute short and timely JIM
giles. The Century Company, New York.
With the October number The Cen
fury closes it's twenty-ffth year and it's
fiftieth volume, but, Notwithstanding this
rather venerable age among magazines,
its contents show youthful vigor and a
particular timeliness. Henry Van Dyke
furnishes a study of THE Influence of
Keats" on English Rnd sAmeFieaa poetry.
There are also several Tributes to e. j
Glave, the young explorer who died a
few months ago IN Africa, where he was
conducting an investigation of the slave
trade in the interests Of this magazine
Robert Howard Russell contributes a
paper on Glave's career, quoting Stan
ley's tribute to him, and Richard Wat
son Glider makes his untimely death the
subject of a sonnet. Prof. Cesare Lom-
broso has an essay on "Nordau's 'Degen-
Grafton; Its Value and Its Errors, in
which he takes exception to many OF
a second and concluding paper by Miss
Anna L. Bicknell on Life in the Tuil-
cries Under the Second Empire" full Of
lively anecdotes of Eugene and the Ia
dies of her court The fiction Of the num-
Der is contributed by George A. Hibbard,
Ruth McEnery Stuart, and George Whar-
ton Edwards. The Century Company,
Union Square, New YORK.
Much of Robert Louis Stevenson's best
work appeared for the first time in Scrib-
ner's Magazine, the only periodical to
which he was an habitual contributor
during the last ten years; and it is there
fore peculiarly appropriate that the first
account of his home-life at Vailima,
written by a member of his household
his stepson and co-worker, Lloyd Os-
bourne-should appear in Scribner's
pages. Mr. Osbourne's account, in the
october number, of the home which Stew
enson created, of his extraordinary infiu-
ence throughout Samoa, and the interest
ing household of Samoan servants and de-
Dendents which he built up around him,
is most picturesque and entertaining.
Another paper of unusual personal inter
est is George w. Smaney's estimate of
Mr. Huxley. President Andrews history
in this installment deals with many of the
exciting episodes of the admins tration of
President Arthur-among them Kearney
and the sand-lotters, the James despera-