Show Magazine of American History The opening article in tho August Magazine of American History is an interesting in-teresting and valuable study of the career of Roscoe Cockling from the L 1 pen offtheRev Isaac 8 Hartley JXD theeminentTJtics divine The text is 1 richly illustrated with pictures of Mr Conkllnga beautiful home in Utica I The second is a graphic and intensely I I reabable sketch About Philadelphia in I 1750 by the editor with anecdotes i brightening every page This is followed fol-lowed with Persona Recollections of I General Grant1 by Hon Charles K Tuckerman whose varied reminiscfocw of Lincoln Seward and other jmfclio men have appeared from jOAth to month in this periodical to the delight of all classes of readers The Conquest o Mayas is the loath and concluding con-cluding paper of 6ts Alice D Le Plongoons charming historical sketches of Yucatan Incidents of Border Life in pulp is a short but welltold etory of early hardships by E WJj Canning We have another chapter from the Englishmans Pocket Note Book in 1823 and a most stirring Account it is of his picturesque journey beyond Vera Cruz The Journal of Lieutenant Tjerck Beekman 1779 is a document of special value as the writer of it was with Sullivans expedition against the Six Nations of which the world has heard so much Then comes a chapter of Washingtonia George Augustine Washington Minor topics this month contains an unusual number num-ber of short readable articles Original Documents has a quaint old petition to I Lord Bellomont wnenbe was Governor of New York TheNore3 urnish curious curi-ous data and the editorial and other departments abound in riches as varied and entertaining as they art substantial and instructive Published at 743 Broadway New York |