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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1879
Page
3
A poetic verse urges timely action and boldness to seize power as May brings enchantment and youth dreams of roster days ahead. It cautions Maiden Blue-Eyes against misplaced trust and notes the silver summons that can seal doors forever. February resembles Neribner in the aria of chance.
A midwinter Scribner poem passage speaks in reflective verse about life as a chalice filled by experiences from childhood to old age. It explores love, marriage, parental care, aging, and eventual death as the cup overflows.
A long excerpt of verse about unspoken chance and lost love contrasts with a review of the February Atlantic Monthly. It praises Howell's Lady of Aroos Took and mentions other contributors, works, and pages, noting poetry by Lucy Larcom and others and praising the issue as a strong monthly from American literature.
The February issue lists feature pieces and essays from varied authors including Ferdinand Fabre Horace Scudder Spencer Walpole A P Stanley John Brougham Lord Houghton W T Mallock W R Greg and Harry Quilter along with editor notes on topics such as refining the constitution art nude representation and new reading selections.
The February issue opens with a piquant frontispiece Kiss Me Katie by Mary A. Lathbury for Col Hayne's poem and includes Mrs Catherwood's Dogberry Bunch serial illustrations. It features Aunt Rath's Valentine by Lucy Blinn, a Children’s Books in Old Times piece by Sarah Loring Bailey, a Pioneer Wide Awake by Rev John I. Beman, and Wind's Mistake by Clara Doty Bates with Humphrey art. Also highlighted are Our American Artists on A F Bellows by S G W Benjamin and a portrait gallery with a Bellows studio view and an engraved copy.
A literary periodical offers Royal Lowrie’s Last Year at St Olave’s exciting school adventures, Mrs Lillie’s Pope notes, a Don Quixote Jr tale, a Serres china piece, My Pets, poems, and a twelve to sixteen page dog supplement with Ernest Ingersoll natural history and dog stories. Ella Farman, editor. D Lothrop & Co, Boston.
The Eclectic Magazine for February features a steel engraved portrait of the Marquis of Lorne, new Governor-General of Canada, alongside a long Table of Contents including Goldwin Smith’s Greatness of England and other essays and notices. The issue, with price details and subscription offers, is published by E R Wells & Co at 787 Broadway, New York.
The February Midwinter Scribner opens with J. W. Emerson in a Wyatt Eaton portrait, accompanied by a Homes and Haunts of Emerson essay by F. B. Sanford. Illustrations include Concord, Walden Pond, Old Manse, Emerson's home, and interiors. The issue features Tile Club at Play Easthampton excursion, Stedman on Aerial Navigation, Meech caricatures, John Muir on Glaciers Meadows, and installments from Mrs. Burnett Naworth’s and Boyesen Falconberg.
The issue lists Cure and Doom a short story and romance pieces by Bellamy and Thompson, plus papers by A A Sities Jr and Rev Edward Eggleston. It features poems by Stoddard and Bunner, and essays on the Chinese Question, insanity, royalty in Canada, and domestic hints. Also reviews Bayard Taylor, new appliances in World's Work, and Kosciuzko will in Albemarle County recorded.
The February St Nicholas features the first Eye bright installment illustrated by Frederick Dielman and continues Julian Hawthorne’s Rumpty Dudget’s Tower. It also includes Heimfall by Augusta Larned with notes, a Stone story by D S Jordan, Unnatural History by Hopkins, violin articles, Peterkin Family mishaps, seven short tales with illustrations, Domino Games by Arlo Bates, and a Domino puzzle in the Riddle Box.
Bailon’s Monthly Magazine for February showcases the Fiji Islands feature by the A Whaleman’s Adventures author, Earl Marble’s dialect poem Daddy Joe’s Sweetheart, plus ten or more stories and poems, humorous engravings, and a picture gallery. Thames & Talbot of Boston publish it at $1.50 yearly.
The February issue of The Nursery offers stories and features for children including The Mean Advantages and A Tlue Bear Story, with engaging pictures and poetry. Notable items include Jim Crow and What Green Thing Is This, plus songs like The Little Seamstress. A subscription is billed as the best gift for a child.
A February issue features a profile of Hungarian artist Munkacsy by John Ritait, noting his rise from poverty to prominence and American ownership of his works. It highlights Miltons Dictating to His Daughters, plus illustrations, and includes Felix L Oswald on Jorullo and Edward King on Hungarian and Austrian images. The issue also continues Women’s Husbands, Miss Olney’s Through Winding Ways, and several stories including The Colonel's Venture and Lat ter Days of the Blennerhassetts.
Part I in octavo book form from the novel Through Winding Ways will be presented free to all new subscribers for 1879. The offering covers the portion of the story that appeared in the Magazine before the January issue.
Scrinber Co announces that starting January 1 1879 any book seller or news dealer will supply November and December 1878 issues free to new subscribers. The first volume features a Boys serial by Frank R Stockton and a Girls serial by Susan Coolidge, with a rich Christmas Holiday Number including Whittier Warner Dodge Coolidge Hawthorne and others. Subscriptions cost 3.00 a year or 25 cents for a single Christmas issue post paid.
Frontispiece on Cupid Sharpening Arrows and St Valentine themes, the Kings Gift illustration, and full department content. Jennie June discusses Knowing and Doing, fashion reviews cover coiffures jewelry hats toilets and street costumes, with a Roscoe suit pattern. Littell's Living Age issues next provide MacDonalds Sir Gibbie and DeLaverye on Bismark plus various periodicals. Subscribers receive six numbers of 1878 for 1876 prepay.
Appletons' Journal highlights W H Mallock on Toleration and W R R Greg on Verify your Compass as light on the subject. A discovered Hessian diary from January 1778 to March 1779 in Baireuth, Germany, records daily events and contemporary news and rumors.
The suggestion that Edison may turn in and invent a calcium light capable of illuminating streets while leaving gates in shadow draws concerns about privacy and social reaction. Critics warn the idea could be unpopular if it fails to balance visibility with discretion.
In a humorous domestic sketch the Allington daughters attract attention as married life comes into focus. Materfamilias comments on the appeal of well brought up girls while the family quips about appearances and propriety. The Carew of the Grange is named in dialogue.
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