Show 5 LITERATURE YOUNG FOLKS HISTORY or AMERICA Edited by Hezekish butterworth Boston Bos-ton Estes fe wHurinl Salt Latce James Dwyer Mr Butter worth is the author of those celebrated books Zigzag Journeys in Europe Zigzag Journeys Jour-neys in Classic Lands and Zigzag Journeys in the Orient all of which are among the most popular as well as useful volumes that have been given to the youth of this country In the present work he follows his peculiarly entertaining style and while he has not strayed from the facts he makes the history pjssess all the entertainment and attractiveness of romance The history of this continent from before be-fore its discovery by Columbus down to the present time is given all the important events and incidents inci-dents being noted Besides much statistical and chronological information infor-mation is given The book is profusely pro-fusely illustrated and is absolutely one of the best volumes that can be placed in the hands of an American boy or girl FACTS AND Fieri > > s oy ZOOL or By Andiew Wi iron PhD23 illustrations J Fitzgerald 4 Jo publisher 143 Fourth Avenue Now York Price 15c This captivating work forms No 29 of the Hinnboldt Library of Popular Pop-ular Science THe book is full of the most curious and outofthe way information abut what maybe may-be termed the mythological element in zoologysuch fables as that of the seaserpeut the barnacle goose etc aud shows what foundation found-ation in fact underlies these odd beliefs liefs of our forefathers The author is one of the foremost naturalists of England and possesses in an eminent emi-nent degree the faculty of popular zing science HARPERS MAGAZINE Harpers Magazine for March is a Beautiful and exceptionally intei esting number The frontispiece Fallen Short from E A Abbeys drawing one of that artists quaintest quaint-est efforts is printadseparately on heavy paper There is also a full page illustration by Abbey of Her ricks poem Upon Clunn The opening article of the number Old New York Coffee Houses by John Austin Stevens describing the mercantile mer-cantile and public life of the metropolis metro-polis as associated with coffeehouses coffee-houses before the Revolution is accompanied ac-companied by graphic illustrations drawn by Pyle and Hosier W H Bishop concludes his Mexican series with a paper entitled Typical Journeyings and Country Life in Mexico with seventeen character i stic illustrations A biographical sketch ot Jaul Bert Gambettas minister of instruction with an account ac-count of his expose of Jesuitism is contributed by a former American minister to France Professor Simon Newcomb contributes a popular pop-ular article on small telescopes The Song of Rowland the earliest Christian epicis the subject of an interesting article by Maria E McKaye Luigi Monti contributes contri-butes an article upon the origin of Mother Gooses CockHorse Frank H Taylor in another illustrated strated articledescribes a pilgrimage to the Church of St Anne de Beau pre an American Lourdes on the St Lawrence and Charles K Baekus contributes a curious histo rica sketch of James Jess Strangs little kingdom which flourished a few years ago on Beaver Island off the northwestern shore of Michigan tV L Gage contributes personal sketches of the Mendelssohn family with eight portraits fiom Heusels drawings An interesting historical paper entitled VYashingtons Acceptance Ac-ceptance of the First Presidency is contributed by George Ticknor Curtis One of the most notable contributions to this number is Elizabeth Stuart Phelpss Last Words from George Eliot In ariel a-riel paper entitled The PawnShop Pawn-Shop Edward Howland makes some important suggestions as to the improvement of that institu tion Poems are contributed by Sarah 0 Jewett S S Conant 1V S Kennedy and Henry Bacon The editorial departments are filled with timely and entertaining matter New York Harper Bros Salt Lake James Dwyer POTTERS AMERICAN MONTHLY Potters American Monthly for February contains the following table contents Pictures of An dalusia by S P Scott with seven illustrations Story of the White Czar Journalism in Paris by George J Hagar with six illustrations illustra-tions Music an Art not an Accomplishment Ac-complishment by W S H The Death Penalty uy Charles T Jerome Je-rome Personal Reminiscences of Madame llI rat by a Friend and Relative Kith and Kin chapters xxxivxxxix bv the author of The First Violin A Suabian Romance I Ro-mance by Elise J Allen with two illustrations Freaks of a Somnambulist Somnam-bulist by G Mortimer Roe Sweet Wife a poem by Charlcs Kingsley Le Valet du Diable by Elinor Moore Hiestand A Winter Reverie a poem illustrated by Ella H Rozier Mr Cimabue Brown on the Defensive Beppos Escape Roger Villiams by W Fraser Rae Bewitched in Mid Ocean by J Maclaren Cobban Current Topics The Literary World The Art World Home and Society PotPourri Potters Monthly now contains 120 I pages each issue1440 octavo pages I per year more than any other magazine 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