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fellow, Is writer Of considerable pow
er. 1t is to be regretted that she has
not written more for publication. In
the new edition of "Evangeline," issued
for school use by Houghton, Miff1in &
Co. Boston) In their Riverside Liter
ature Series, may be found an interest
ing sketch by her, entitled "Longfellow
in Home Life" This edition contains
also forty page sketch of Longfellow
by Horace E. Scudder; an excellent
portrait of Longfellow, which shows
him seated in his chair; pictures of his
birthplace at Portland, his dwelling at
Cambridge, and his Cambridge study;
with q very carefully prepared map
showing the places referred to in the
poem.
Besides the fnvariable accompani-
ment of four pieces of Instrumental and
vocal music, always superior in this
excellent magazine, "Ev'ry Month" for
January (New York; contains three Of
the best stories that a magazine could
Icssibly select for publication. Gilbert
Parker's "Mathurin' is a. prose gem;
and "A Try for a Kingdom" by Percy
Andreae, is powerful enough in dra-
The third, Mr. Wilkinson, Trader" by
J. Rose Soly, is a waggish sort of a
narrative full of the drollest kind of
humor, and certain to please every one.
In this number also w. Louis Sonn-
tag, Jr, whose Christmas With Cap
tain Kid" was a feature of the Decem-
ber number. has a drawing illustrative
of the New Year, with poem accom-
paniment by Julian Manley. Separate
pageS are devoted to William Gillette,
the dramatiSt- actor; Ella Condie Lamb,
the painter, and to eight American
newspaper women The writer whose
editorials are regularly subscribed the
Prophet attains to his usual vigor and
brilliancy in touching upon the philoso-
phyof current events. New York: How
ley, Haviland & Co.
The first (January) number of 1.-THE
NJ oTth' in literature, art and life, has
made Its appearance. 1t is an illustrat-
ed journal of cultivation" containing
poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and
Bliss Carrnan, prose articles by Frank
r. Stockton, DR.. w. j. Rolfe, Gerald
Stanley Lee, author of '"Tha Shadow
Christ" Locke Richardson, and por-
traits of Rudyard Kipling, Felix Gras,
Walter Pater, Richard Harding Davis,
= Ian Maclaren reading THE Critic" the
present Lord Tennyson, the explorer
Nansen, Leo XIII, Professor Dowden,
Coventry Patrnore, J. G. Lockhart, j.
K. Huysrnains, Mary Cowden- Clarke,
Mabel Osgood Wright, Miss Quincy,
Helen Keller and others and criticisms
of art, music and the drama The first
thirty pages or SO are occupied by THE
Lounger's'' pungent paragraps. The
cover Is printed in red and black, on
buff paper. 1t might be thought that
the field of magazine literature was al
ready filed, but, both In form and mat
ter, the newcomer gives every evidence
OF ability TO make room for itself-the
more SO as its one hundred pages OF
text and illustrations are offered at the
nominal price of ten cents copy or 81
a year. 1t is edited by Joseph B. GIL
der and Jeannette L. Glider, and pub
lished by the Critic Company, 2SI
Fourth avenue, New York.
In "McClure's Magazine" for January
CNew York; are reproduced all the
known portraits of Benjamin Franklin.
There are fifteen of them, covering
period of thirty-one years. Presented all
together, as they are here. with excel
lent notes giving the history of each
Picture, they have high interest and
value Charles Henry Hart, the editor
of the series, more than proves MS
competency, and the groups of life por-
traits of Washington, Hamilton ana
other great Americans are promised in
succeeding numbers Of the magazine.
Hamlin Garland's paper on Grant as
cadet at West Point, with its various
illustrative documents and pictures,
and the anecdotes and recollecttonS OF
Grant by Longstreet, Frost, Franklin
and other of his contemporaries at
West Point, evolves the composed, ca
pable, disciplined lieutenant from the
rustic Ohio schoolboy in a very hfenke
and entertaining way. The hcflon OF
the number has the usual Mcclure
vigor and freshness, and there are Two
most romantic stories that are not nc
ton One is Ida Rose McCabe's MS
tory of the celebrated Martha WASH
ington" case, which is also the history
of a man OF business and social prom
ir.ence in the West who was tried Tor
assisting in the burning of the steam
boat Martha Washington, in order 10
secure a large sum of insurance, was
convicted of forgery, served as the
CHEF lieutenant of Walker in the MICA
rag1fa expedition, and now, under
strange name, is one of the rich and IN
fluential men of the Pacific Slope. The
other Is Captain Musgrave Davis ac-
count of his subjugation of tough
Bowery regiment.
In the series OF Contemporary Es-
sayists" now appearing from the press
Of the Messrs. Harper & Brothers
Gkough they have not yet formally 50
stvled It'd, the third volume viii be from
the pen of Charles Dudley Warner. the
fourth by Colonel Thomas Wentworth
IIigginson, and the fifth, curiously
enough. by Mark Twain Mark Twain
as an essayist at first rather excites
feeling of wonder; but running over
some of his more serious work it will
,aadily aprear that he is not only an
eesavist. but a very good one, too. Any
how. his book viii speak for itself and
for him. The sixth volume will be from
tho pen of Professor Harry Thurston
pack The two already published In
mic series are Brander Matthews
.Asnects Of Fiction" and Mr. Howell $
.Iponressions and Opinions, Chronicle
"a Comment" in THE Bookman-"
.orhe Bookman" for January cboaa'
,,.ad E. Co. New York; has, with
many choice illustrations, these lead
ing features: Chronicle ana ooih-
,,,ant-American, English, Misceiiane-
o,,s": "A Ballard of Coward, by
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