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Newspaper

Freeport Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 08, 1878

Page

8

Atlantic Monthly Six Part Issue Teems With Essays and Fiction

The Atlantic Monthly opens with Part Six of a Bishop's Detmold and includes Thoreau extracts on May Days. Frances Aldrich and others discuss Florence travel, a Craddock short story The Dancing Party at Harrison Cove, and Mark Twain humor. Features cover poetry, reviews, and science topics with contributors such as Howells, Trowbridge, and Langdon.

Atlantic Monthly HH. D. Thoreau Florence Henry T. B. Aldrich Charles Dudley Adironicks Mark Twain C. E. Craddock Harrianscove ID. Howells J.T. Trowbridge Igat Fawcett Horatio C. Burchard H. H. Boyesen B. F. Taylor Laura A. Feuling Avis Rant White Hely Dickens E. P Whipple Webster Frothingham Gerris Smith Page Thoreau Chauncey Wright Gat Harvard College Furnivall Mr. Lounsbury Chaucer

Wide Awake May 1878 features child friendly tales and poetry

May Wide Awake presents stories and poems for children including Classic of Baby-land with illustrations by Miss Rathbury and Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, humorous pieces like Bobby's Shirts, and serials True Blue and A General Misunderstanding. It also highlights Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes as the poet's home series. The issue advertises Rubber Boots and other departments, priced at 20 cents per number or $2 per year. The Popular Science Monthly for May opens with The Radiometer by J. P. Cooke Jr., plus essays on deceased saints, ceremonial gifts, sound production, and early steam engine discussions.

Clara Doty Bates Miss Iathbury Opkins M.b.c.slade Bobby Annie A. Preston Louise Stockton Boston Oliver Wendell Holmes Arthur Gilman Bea- Con Street Galileo Daisy Aluslin Ella Farman D. L. Lothrop &Co. Publishers Popular Science Monthly J. P. Cooke, Jr Cambridge Cooke Carl Vogt Leverrier Becquerel Regnault Bernard Herbert Spencer George M. Shaw George M. Leard Thurston Dnsy Alure Mr. N

Pleasing juvenile issue with Mary Foote art and varied tales

The issue opens with a Hudson River fisher folk graphic by Mary Hallock Foote and the Mandy story. It reintroduces the Peterkins in moving troubles, with Sol Eytinge illustrations. Irwin Russell includes Sam and his birthday antics. Old Soup features an Indian elephant and a Cossack tale with David Ker. It also offers poems by Lucy Larcom and Celia Thaxter, Wait by Dora Read Goodale, and humorous rhymes. An illustrated article on the Philadelphia Mint and May Day customs by Olive Thorne rounds out the content, with Howard Pyle drawing. The issue promises lively reading for children during the school term.

Hudson River Mary Hallock Foote Mandy Peterkins Lucretia P. Hale Mr. Irwin Russell Sam Sol Eytinge India J. E. Kelly David Ker Lucy Larcom Celia Thaxter Wait Dora Goodale Church Hopkins Philadelphia Paris Olive Thorne Howard Pyle Merrie England

Lippincott's Magazine May Issue Highlights Roumania and Rail Feat

May issue offers an illustrated Roumania piece by Edward King seen as timely by a leading New York journal. Also, A Mountain Holiday recounts the Rio Grande Railroad ascent, praised as a major US engineering feat with steep gradients. The number includes literary sketches, reviews, and portraits, noting steady improvement and rich illustrations.

Lippincott’s Roumania Edward King New York Europe Rio Grande Rocky Mountains United States H. A. Huntington G. H. Putnam Old York Mary Dean Frank Furness Charlotte Adams Gustave Courbet R. H. Davis Lucy Hooper Paris Theodolinde Henry James, Jr Parisian Hephzibah Guinness S. Weir Mitchell Old Ugly Wm. R. Baker Sedan Anna C. Green

Appletons May Issue On Rapid Transit In New York

The May Appletons Journal features an illustrated piece on rapid transit in New York with views of elevated roads nearing completion and Gilbert road construction. It includes engravings and a pictorial history of proposed transit plans, attracting nationwide reader interest in elevated urban rail. It also presents unpublished Poe correspondence collected by J H Ingram from original sources.

Appleton Journal For May New York Gilbert Road Edgar A. Poe J. H. Ingram

English Biographer Reveals Poet's Hidden Letters Part

The article reviews late career letters by the poet focusing on three notable women linked to his life. Julian Hawthorne provides a novelette fragment Mrs Gainsbroughs Diamonds, Dr Guernsey describes Miesa’s conversion, Lucy Hooper reports on Parisian art for the Exposition, Flora Perry contributes a love story, and a piece on Real and Ideal Houses complements editorial and book sections.

Julian Hawthorne Mrs. Gainsbrough Dr. Guernsey Miesa Stanley Lucy Hooper Paris Flora Perry

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