Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-04
July MAGAZINES.
Godey's Magazine

for July appears In a cover by Lincoln,
and presents most attractive appearance
among the magazines of the month.
The table of contents as usual offers many
and varied articles. The reproduction of
the famous pictures of'the Battle of Get
tysburg" is appropriate for the anniver-
sary of this stirring event. Under the
caption of IAN American Drama Beau
mont Fletcher discusses the recent drama
tization of Mark Twain's story by Frank
Mayo, work of much Importance in the
progress of the American stage Other
leading articles are devoted to the history
of the Stars and Stripes, Smith College,
the recent exhibition of the National
Sculpture Society and the greatest Ameri
can composer, K. ID. Mcdowell (The
Cooley Company. Sod Lafayette Place,
New York; r
The Eclectic Magazine.
The current issue of The Eclectic opens
with fine essay For the Beauty of an
Ideal, concerning the relation of eyolu-
tionary principles with the best religious
thought. Other more serious articles are
1.-The Art of Justice" Professor Prest-
wichs Greater Antiquity of Man. and
DR.. Pearson's ''True and False Notions of
Prayer" Papers descriptive of foreign
travel ares A Visit to japanese Shrine"
g Burmese Women, and Recollections
of Visit to Samoa and the Home of the
Late Robert Louis Stevenson" One of the
most interesting numbers is the story OF
Sophie Kovalevsky,'' the gifted Russian
mathematician, whose life reads like ro-
nance. (E. X. Pelton, 144 Eighth ST.,
New York
Atlantic Monthly
for July contains the first of Dr. John
Fiske's promised historical papers. The
subject treated in this issue is ''The Eliza
bethan Sea Kings " Another series which
promises delightful reading describes
An Architects Vacation. Mr.. Ro-
bert S. Peabody, the we'll known Boston
architect is the author, and the first pa
per treats Of Rural England. Percival
Iowelps papers on Mars are continued,
the subject of the third being Canals "
Among other features are a scholarly ar
ticle by William Everett called ''Thc
Ship of State and the Stroke Of Fate :"
The Childhood and Youth of French
Macon and short story by Robert Bcv-
erly Hale, entitled A Philosopher with
an Eye for Beauty" (Houghton, Mifflln
& Company, Boston.)
The Engineering Magazine.
The issue of The Engineering Magazine
for July is special railroad number. 1t
contains eleven leading articles by djstin-
guished authorities, together with SUI
perb collection of illustrations, under the
general title Famous Scenery on Ameri-
can Railroads, and the important char
acter of the publication may be inferred
from the table Of contents: First Prin-
ciples in Railroad Management, BY
Benz. Reece; The Legislative Regula-
ton of Railways, by Albert Fink; Rail
road Properties as Investments, by
Henry Clews; F" Is an Electric Trunk-Line
Railroad Possible" by f. J. Sprague;
"A Modern Railroad Machine Shop" by
II. d. Gordon; Efforts Of Railroads on
Mining Enterprises, by L. A. Richard;
The Architecture Of Railroad Stations. 4"
by Bradford LGilbert Z" "A Glimpse Of the
Car Building Industry. - by John c. Wait
- Inventions OF the Railroad World" by
G. P. Mackie; "The Causes Of Railroad
Accidents, by Julien A. Hall. fThe En-
cheering Magazine Company, Times
Building, New York;
Current Literature.
Among the special features of the July
number OF Current Literature may be
mentioned a powerful dramatic reading
entitled "Giuditta's Secret - /" American
Women, Viewed Through French Eyes, ;,
by Madame Blanc; two pages of beautiful
poems ON My Ships at Sea-" showing
wide knowledge of verse and rare taste In
selection on the port of the compiler, Fan
ny Mack Lothrop;" Tom Foley's Re-
turn, an Irish story; AT Tennessee
Revival by Lillian Bell; "The Hazine
OF Valiant humorous story of Prince
ton; A Broken Friendship by Coleridge
a1d so the list runs on Besides its stories
and sketches, Current Literature has about
~ poems each month and its 80 regular
departments covering applied science;