Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-24

Inc Amateur DAM, anu "A century
of Opera" The sheet music in this num-
her includes "Fata Morgan" "Pretty
Nellie Dolan, Brilliant Galop," and
"A Prayer for our Country" (Oliver
Ditson Company, Boston, Mass.)
The Art Amateur.
The current number of this valuable
periodical is typical of June. Roses are
everywhere and the number is certainly
one of the most attractive Cf the month.
The color plates, American Beauty
Roses" and Butterflies, " arc exceptional
ly fine and the supplement designs are at
tractive and varied. The articles of note
include "The Sculpture Exhibition,
drawing for Illustration, Landscape
Painting Hints for Summer Study"
Sketching from Nature, - 'Palettes for
Painting Roses" and Water Colors for
Mineral Painting" (Montague Marks,
80 Union Square, New York;
The Harvard Graduates Magazine.
With the present number this excellent
magazine completes Its third volume.
Several important changes in the man
agement of the magazine are announced
which will, no doubt, add materially to its
success. Among the leading articles are
FRANCIS Parkman's Autobiography,
Where Harvard Students Come From, P"
"Shall We Have a University Club"
Higher Education in Railway Manage
ment," 1.-The Pi Eta Society,"" Illus
trated, "From Graduates Window"
Admission from other Colleges" and
'Savage's Portrait of Washington. F"
Harvard Graduates Magazine Associa-
ton, 6 Beacon street, Boston, Mass.)
The Journal OF Medicine and Science
by Stanley p Warren, M. d., Portland
Rev. r. B. Matthews Newcastle, and E.
A. Pond, M. D., Portland. In the depart
ment Abstracts and Comments" large
number Of topics of interest to the medi-
Cal profession are discussed. The editor
makes "A Plea for Cheaper Medical
Books" (Journal of Medicine and Sci
ence Company, Portland, Maine.)
The Cosmopolitan.
Bathing at the Continental Sea Shore
Resorts" forms the subject of the open
ing article in the Cosmopolitan for June
and Is described in an interesting manner
by ]. Howe Adams. The illustrations &C.
companying 1t are unusually attractive
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, the we'll known
writer, contributes valuable paper on
1.-The Chautauqua Movement. All in
terested in this worthy organization will
read this comprehensive article with
| pleasure. 1t Is finely illustrated. Other
notable articles are "The Pleasant Occupa-
ton of Tending Bees, - THE Paris Sa-
Ions of '95, An Indian Story of the
Sierra Madre," whist in America, I"
and How Successful Plays are Built. -
The fiction is excellent. (The Cosmopoli-
tan, New York;
The present issue of Poet ore Is a
double number, June and July. 1t opens
with "Alladine and Palomfdes, prose
play by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by
the editors. Lindsay Todd Damon con-
tributes an Anglo-Saxon war story en-
titled 1.-The Devil Inspires the Monk. !"
Joshua Kendall writes on "Theocritus
Father of Pastoral Poetry Greek
Traits In Walt W hitman' is the subject of
a valuable paper from the pen Of Emily
G. MoDck. Several other excellent ar
ticles complete most valuable number.
poet Lore Compan.', 1876 Summer Street,
Boston, Mass.)
Donahoe's Magazine.
The June Donahoe's is all excellent
number. David Mitchell contributes a
valuable and Practical analysis of Build
ing and Loan AssociatioDs;" Cremation
in the Past, by S. Barring Gould, tells
the history OF the incineration of the dead
among various peoples; "Ruskin as a