Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-16
MAY MAGAZINES,
Harper's MAGAZINE.

Edwin A. Abbey's new drawings for
Shakespeare King John are repro
duced in tint in the brilliant May num-
Der of Harper's Magazine. They are
accompanied by Il critical article by
Joseph Knight. Hamilton Wright
Mabie contributes an estimate of Ralph
Waldo Emerson in the light of recent
history-his place in the thought and
development of today. People wonder
why girls prefer working in factories
to working in kitchens as cooks and
solutions. Mrs. John Van Worst, ex-
plains the reason very clearly in an
article entitled The Woman of the
People" The servant girl, in the opin-
ion of her fellows, has sold her liberty
The remarkable. uses of photography
in astronomy are the subject Oh. an ar
ticle by Professor G.. w. Ritchey, in
.structor in practical astronomy and
superintendent of Instrument cOnstruc-
ton in. the Yerkes Observatory ,at
Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Justus Miles
Forman Margaret Deland. Octave
Thanet, van Tassel Sutphen, Arthur
Cotton, James Branch Cabell, Meta
syrett, Philip Nerrill MigheIs, and
Anne. O'Hagan contribute the fiction.
GIarper e Brothers, New York;.
. Wonan's Home companios1.1... u:
May opens with a charming short
story Of boy. life, "Snatched from the
Sacrifice" by Forrest Crissey. Three
other short stories are also noted anu
the installment of Eden Phillpotts
strong serial, 'The Farm of, the Dag
gel" is of great dramatic interest,"
There is a charming page of prize pho
tographs of mothers and children, and
there are features on "SuGcessfil
Women Ranch Owners" "IIeroes Who
Fight Fire" and adventures of the
Crown Jewels of France" There are
poems by Frank Dempster Sherman.
Madison Cawein and John Kendricl:
Bangs. Fashions dressmaking, cook
cry, home health exercises and fancy
work are all treated of in the depart
ments. CThe Crowcll Publishing Com
pany, Springfield, Ohio.
New England Magazine.
Thickness of subject seems to be
the keynote of the May number of the
New England Magazine which opens
with two admirably illustrated articles
on the forthcoming celebration of the
hundredth anniversary, May 25th. of
iImerson's birth. Flies and Flowers
is the second in the series of outdoor
nature articles by Clarence Moores
Weed while Clifton johnson, the crea-
tor OF a new school of Photographic il
lustration, turns to n new subject for
him in the New England Primer"
With reproductions of many amusing
and interesting features of that early
school book. Prof. Lawrence Il. Evans
throws new light on the Negotiation
of the Louisiana Purchase" while still
another centennial. that of Bradford
Academy, is celebrated in Jubilee
sketch by one of the trustees. Miss
Mabel Hill of Lowell. Much fiction of
merit is also presented. (America Co.
3 Park So, Boston,.
Lippincott's Magazine
keeps up its reputation for publishing
a strong, bright novel each month by
presenting in the May number one of
even more than usual interest by
George Gibbs. This is called THE
Love of Monsieur" and is d most fas-
cinatin% tale. Among the short stories
there is one by Seumas MacManus.
called "Caitlin Dhu." Ella Middleton
Tybout has Il delightful darby parable
sketch. "Ananias of Poketown." The
Sorrow of Setter" by Cy W.rrnan.
is a pathetic tale of a hunting dogs
old age. wildly set forth. Clifford
Towards lively little story called The
Winning of Margaret NIervin." Other
contributors of fiction 10 this number
are Montgomery b. Corse. Jerome Case
Bull and Francis Lynde. a lovely ma
ture sketch suited to the month is by
Dr. Charles c. Abbott, entitled 81 30
A-Maying." Five poems of the
Spring, by Bliss Carman, sympathetic
and charming, lea.. the list of verse in
the May number. and are followed by
contributions by Francis Howard VIII
liams, Helen NJ. Richardson, Mildred I.
Mcneil. Frank Walcott HUT. Alovsi.s
Coll, Frank H. Sweet, Carrie Blake
Morgan. Marvin Dana, and Charles
Hanson Towne. g. B. Lippincott Co.
Philadelphia, Pa.)
The Household.
The Memorial Day season has notl
been lost sight of in the interesting |
May number of the Household. There
is charming Memorial day story. by I
Flora Haines Longhead, entitled 1.-THE
Ship that Made Port" and Frank Wal !
colt Hunt has a fine poetic tribute to .
our soldier dead. OF an unusual Memo
rial day sort is the article by HeZekial
Butterworth, entitled In the Pilgrim