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The September Magazines

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Day
24
Month
August
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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üur magazine exchanges come to our table, ior September, claiming notice as follows : Harper has, interesting in text and profusely and beautifully illustrated : The Lading of a Ship, by Ernest Ingersoll ; The Domestic life of Titian, by Helen S. Conant ; General Starks and the Battle of Bennington, by W. W. Herrick ; Snow-Storm ou Mount Shasta, by John Muir ; Prince Edward Island, by S. (J. W. Benjamin ; A tíroup of Claasical Schools, by Horaca E. Scudder ; and Popular Exposition of Some öcientiftc Experimenta, by Prof. J. W. Draper. There are four more chaptera,- xliv-xlvii - of Erema, or, My Father'a Sin, by E. D. Blackmore, and for completed stories, Ma'msolle, by Miss E. A. Mooney ; Shadows. by Mrs. E. T. Corbett, illustrated ; and A Visit to a Country House, and What Came of it, by Annie T. Howells. In sketches or essays there are : Tom Moore in America, Large Schools versus Sinall, American Workmen front a European Point of View, Waifs from Motley's Pen (some of his early poems), and a Railroad Study, by Edward Howland. There are several poems and the editor's tables are full of good things, Harper & Brothers, New York. The Eclectic has a fine portrait of the celebrated musical composer, Richard Wagner, accompaiiied by a biogrophical aud critical paper, by H. B. Haweis, an admirer of tha Waguerian music-drama. Among the other papers, seJected with admirable taste trom the leading foreign periodicals, are: Drifting Light Waves, by B. A. Proctor ; Round tho World in a Yacht, by Thomas Brassey, M. P., part I ; Germán Schools, by Walter C. Perry ; Life aud Times of Thomas Becket, by James Anthony Froude ; Pictures in Holland, on aud off Canvas, by Lady Verney ; Notes on tha Geographical Distribution of Animáis, by W. F. Kirby, Naturalist; Young Musgrave, chaps. xix-xxi, by Mis. ühphant ; Modern Diplomacy, uumerous lesser papers, poema, Literary, Art and Science notes. E. E. Pelton, 25 Bond street, New York. In the Atlantic Montldy we have : The Queen of Sheba, by Thomas B. Aldrich, in which the Queeu turus up in Europe ; Box, a poem, by Kcigar Fawcett ; ïietitious Lives of Chaucer, by T. B. Lounabury ; Consular Service and Society in Egypt, by Charles Hale, who speaks frota the card ; A Study of De Stendhal, by Eugene Benson ; The Silver Bridge (poem), by Elizabeth Akers Allen ; A Counterfeit Presentment, part second of W. D. Howell's amusing and delightiul comedy, which is to be put on the stage ; Crude and Curiou8 Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition, by Edward H. Kuight- this time plows, and such plows ; The Temptation of Gabriel (poem), by Catheriue J. Schiller ; Waverley Oaks, by G. P. Lathrop ; Dickeus' Great Expeditions, by E. P. Whipple ; The Child of the State, by S. A. L. E. M., a Reform School (?) story ; Are Titles and Debts Property ? by David A. Wells, in which the taxation question is discussed ; The Contributois' Club, and Literary Notices. H. O. Houghton & Co., Boston. Scribner's Monthly has in ïllustrated papers ; The Inimigraut's Progresa, -f rom the village iun to Castle Garden,- by William H. Kideing ; the Fan, by Maurice Mauris ; The Land of the Arabian Nights, by William Ferry Fogg; Old Streeta and Houses of England ; and, An Island of the Sea, by Julia B. Dodge. There are three more chapters of Hollaud's story, Nicholas Minturn,- xxv-xxill, in whioh Beuson fails; and three chaptera - iv-TI of His Iuheritance, by Adelaide Trafton ; also two complete stories, Hooking Watermellons, by Bdward Bellamy, and Lodusky, by Franeis Hodgson Burnett. Among the other papers are: Wells and cisterna as a Souree of Water-Supply, with eight diagrams, by J. W. Pinkham ; A Eussian Funeral, by Eugene Schuyler ; Microsoopioal Coral, with thirteen engrayings from drawings ou the wood, by the author, Sophie B. Herrick ; Hiuts on the use and care of the Eyes, by Dr. S. M. Burnett ; and College Iustruclion, by Charles T. Thwing. There are poema, by D. S. Foster, the Cricket; by Clarence Cook, a portrait; by Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt, Into the World and Out ; by Mary Ainge DeVere, The False Oracle ; by Klizabeth C. Kiimey, The ■ Mirage of the Desert ; and by R. H. Stoddard, At Merry Mount. Tne editorial departmeiits are specially god. Scribner & Co., New York. Among the mauy good things in St. Ntcholas, altogether M too numerous to mention " as the auotioueer is sure to say in his bilis, we have : Youug Folks' Fan la Central Park, by Charles Barnard ; örone Astray, first chapter of a story by George McDonald ; Drummer Fritz and his Exploita, by Iïoward Pile ; The Fair-Hinded Men who Walkeii to Douahan, byJoelStacy; An American Circus in Brittany, by William M. F. Eouud ; The Stars for September, by Iiichard A. Procter ; How I went a Drumming, by Frank E. Stocking ; His Owu Moster, ohaps. xxxv-xxxvii, by J. T. Trowbridge; Petei's ïtabbit Hunt, by Paul Fort ; School Luncheous, by " The Little Schoolma'am," For Very Little Folka, and Jack-in-the-Pulpit. The pictures are numeróos and capital. Fortúnate is the boy or girl (old or young) who gets the mouthly numbers of St. Nicholas. Scribner & Co., New York. The Oatholic World, being the closing uuraber of volume xxv, has : Among the Trauslators, Alba's Dream- concluded, Italy (a poem), The Seven Valleys of the Lavedau, Job and Egypt, Milhcent, The Madonna-aud-Child a Test-Symbol, College Educatiou, The Dancing Procession ot Ecternach, The Pau-Presbyteriaus, Translation from Horace, and New Publications. tb a year. Catholic rublication Society, 9 Barclay Street, New York. The Nuncry has every page either in handsome picture or attractive text. No school book eau begin with ït as an instructor oí' the wee ones. John L. Shorey, Boston, Mass.

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