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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Art Interohange, of July 16, gives as itB extra supplement a bold and brilliant study of oranges, both fruit and blossom. Thia is an admirable example of the modern method of water color painting and is of incalculable benefit to the student It is published as a companion to a study of apples issued earlier in the year. Another extra supplement in black and white, entitled "The Watering Trough," is a very charming composition, showing the courtyaad of an inn. The principal figure is that of a lady alighting from a white horse. Serving maids in picturesque costumes, horses, dogs and attendants, make up a very pretty picture. The other illustration8 consist of a wharf scène, a charming floral design for vage decoration, sweet pea design for plate (one of the series), a bold design showing lions rampant, suitable for wood carving ; a dainty little figure sketch in Continental costume, for decorating menu cards ; outline design showing child's head, very suitable for general decorative work ; floral landscape designs, suitable for screens, tea service, plaques, vases and panels. The notable features of the August Wide Awake are the first of a series of sketches of Oíd Concord and a paper on Summer Sport?, both illnstrated. The village where the first battle of the Revolution was fought has been written and pictured and guide-booked until the subject is hackneyed; but nothing is fresher than unexpected news of a sleepy oíd relie. Margaret Sidney, the writer, live in "Wayside," the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne, next door to the Alcotts', a mile from Concord bridge, towards Lexington. What an inspiration ! But she slights the expectation of patiiotic eloquence, drives about in her easy phaeton, taking a friend long to hear the gossip of those who live in the air of a hundred years ago. And you who read are the friend in the phaeton. Summer Sports is by Elbridge S. Brooks (late of the St. Nicholas staff), who shines in vacation as well as in his more accustomed work. He gets into dozen pages practical clues to croquet, bowls, hare and hounds, canoeing, tennis, badminton, quoits, ball-in-the-hole, or nine holes, and stops with base bal!, with bare mention of boating, fishing, swimming, camping, tramping, bicycling, photography. Charles Bgbert Craddock goes on a coonhunt and trees a panther in the "Story of Keedon Bluffs " - her second young folks' story [both of them written for Wide Awake]. There are long stories by Catherweod, Davi, Champney, Hopkins : short ones by Mitchell, Hart; poems, sketches, skits, biographies, peeps at the Zoo. Wide Awake, $2.40 a year - a sample copy sent for five cents. D. Lothrop Company, Boston.

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Ann Arbor Register