A Century of Ambition and Attempts to Publish
A tale of a poor youth who scraps a manuscript and learns to write badly to attract a newspaper editor. The editor eventually accepts a crude piece, leading the youth to adopt bad writing as a path to success. The Century’s February issue features Emerson, Longfellow, Mrs. Burnett, Howells, Stockton, and a frontispiece of George W. Cable with diverse cultural content and reviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emny W. Longfellow
Dean Stanley
Edward Adkinson
Emerson
Moravian Bethlehem and 19th Century Arts and Letters
Readable fragments describe Moravian settlement at Bethlehem with illustrations by Higbs and contributors Bunner, Thomas, Sax ton, Wordin. It notes discussions on Phe Proposed National Library Building a Webster memory tribute and themes from Topics of the Time and The Disappearance of the Schoolmaster. The World’s Work covers inventions and processes while Eric a Brac highlights handwriting improvement and a literary success note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Higbs
Pannell
Stedman
Bunner
Maurice “Thompson
Archery Fame
Edith M. Thomas
Met
Roger Wordin
A. B. Saxton
National Library
W.G .Wilkingon
Webster
Lis
Phe
Ireland
George Eliot
Emerson
Boston
Cook
Eric-a-Brac
Maskwell
Aha
Letorg
Wide Awake February issue features stories and poems
The February Wide Awake opens with seasonal greetings and a Third Prize Frontispiece The King is Dead Long Live the King by Robert Lewis. It includes short stories by James B. Marshall and others, illustrated poems, serials, music, and essays with six full‑page drawings. Published by D. Lothrop & Co of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San
Humber
Valentine
Robert Lewis
M. B. Pratt
James B. Marshall
A. D. T. Whitney
Mary Palmer
Daley
F. H. Lungren
The
Hudson
Neva
rClub
Ours
Young
Follks
Y Will
Shelley
Louis C. Elson
Jacob Abbott
Abbott
Mary J. Safford
Harris
Balton's Illustrated Magazine February issue featured The Olenche Hand
The February Balton's Illustrated Magazine offers a lively society romance The Olenche Hand set on the Hudson in 1880 with travel pieces poetry and domestic tales. It promotes subscriptions and clubs while noting Hereford cattle interest and the Breeders Live-Stock Journal Chrome feature with a life like cattle portrait issued by Thomas & Talbot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balton
Hudson River
Ballou
Jennie
Valentine
Hyden
Nova Scotia
Ruthven
Thomas & Talbot
Sidnley Street
Boston
Maia
Streeders Lips-Stock Journal
England
Slevefords
Beale among officers statesman and traveler in Washington
General Edward Beale famed for naval battles and diplomacy is described as a tall brisk man of sixty with strong health. The piece traces his Mexican War heroism, missions to California, Vienna ambassadorship, and wide estate holdings in California and Pennsylvania along with a Washington mansion on Lafayette Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ral Beale Reid
Wasitgton
General Beale
United States
Navy
Grant
Beale
Ooce
Pennsylvania
Commodore Truxtun
Samuel Edwards
Delaware
Truxtun
California
United States Navy
San Diego
Edward F. Beale
San Pasquale
Navy Department
Kearney
Beals
Mexico
Vienna
Washington
Lafayette Square
Commodore Stephen Decatur
Capiti
Kearn
Ile
Chester
Ash Hill
Hajs
Atlantic Magazine February opening features Whittier and Jewett
The February Atlantic opens with Bay of Seven Islands by Whittier and includes two more chapters of Lothrop’s An echo of Passion and the serial The House of a Merchant Prince by W H Bishop. It highlights Moonshiners study, Jewett’s Jonis Husband, and essays on Webster, White, and crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Mr. Whittier
Bay of Seven Islands
Mr. Lothrop
W. H. Bishop
Detmold
South
Sarah Orne Jewett
New England
Joni
George Parsons Lathrop
Owen Wister
K. G
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Boston
Lippincott's Magazine February issue overview
The February issue opens with an illustrated Gulf Coast article by Barton D. Jones. It includes Felix I. Oswald on Animal Poets, The Capture of Derne by Charles Burr Todd, several essays and stories including Grantn Luck by Mary Vitta Smith, fiction by various authors, poems by Terry Cooke Perry and Hildreth, plus an advertisement for Kendall’s Spavin Cure and a dealer’s note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lippincott’s
Lippincott's
Gulf Coast
Barton D. Jones
Secretary of the Interior
Felix I. Oswald
Derne
Charles Burr Todd
Tripoli
William Taton
Rome
Helen Campbell
Grant’n Luck
Mary Vitta’ Smith
Panama
Ibony
M. A
Collins
Bummer
Lazarus
Margaret Hosmer
Stephen Guthriel
Tose Terry Cooke
Carlotta Perry
Charles Li. Hildreth
A Word for Doubters
A letter from Joan Doxyie of Monroy Michigan dated June 26 1881 praises Safa Kidney and Liver Cure for a severe kidney complaint and invites skeptics to be convinced. The ad also promotes Kendall s spavin Cure for horses with a sample advertisement note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroy, Mich
H.W. Warner & Co
Joan Doxyie
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Teo Pladly
Gaid
Henry Verrett
G. W. Edwards
Jady Ann
Sargene
Frank T. Mygrill
Morland
Tey Aly
William C. Stoddarh
Mary Majed Dodge
Donald
Dorothy
Frank T. Merrill
Edward Egglaston
George D. Brush
Dr. Eggleston
London
George
Ncanes
Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan
Henry M. Kieffer
Hoy
Ja&t
Wat
Allen
Tedwood
Polk
Charles Barnard
St. Nicholas Agassiz Association
Tranchett & Garter
12Th Street
Chicago
Kendall
Jt Atanda
Wittsash
Tresport Journal
Stephenson CO
Freemport Journal
Iter Ocean
Fix
Inter Ocean
Freeport Journal
the Journal
Freeport, Il
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