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T. A. BURKE, Editor.
MACON , GA., MAT 28, 1870.
Book Notices.
are indebted to Messrs,
Charles Scribner & Cos., New
York, for two additional vol
nines of their Illustrated Lt-
hr ary of Wonclers :
Wonders of the Human
Body. From the French of A. Le Pi
leur, M. D. Illustrated by forty-five
engravings, by Leveille. The object of
this volume is to simplify the study of
anatomy and physiology, and to render
it not only comprehensible but interest
ing to the general reader. While suffi
ciently minute in anatomical and physi
ological details to satisfy those who de
sire to go deeper into such studies than
many may deem necessary, this work is
nevertheless written so that it may form
part of the domestic library. Mothers
and daughters may read it without be
ing repelled or shocked ; and the young
will find their interest sustained by in
cidental digressions to more attractive
matters. Such are the pages devoted
to phrenology and to music, which ac
company the anatomical description of
the skull and of the organs of the voice,
and the chapter on artistic expression
which closes the book. The engra
vings, of which there are forty-five, are
simple and accurate.
Wonders of Italian Art. By Louis
Yiardot. Illustrated with twenty-eight
engravings.
We are glad to see a work on Italian
art in popular form, and at a price
which will bring it within the reach of
the masses. The present volume is a
popular exposition and history of the
various schools of Italian art, with
sketches of the most eminent masters
of each school, and illustrations of their
masterpieces. The engravings are nu
merous and very beautiful, and are
themselves worth double the price of
the book.
From J. N. Stearns, publishing agent
of the National Temperance Society
and Publication House, New York, we
have received Jug-or-not , by Mrs. J.
McNair Wright, author of “Almost a
Nun,” “ Priest and Nun,” “ John and
the Demijohn,” etc. 12 mo., 350 pp.
Price, $1 25.
A powerfully written Temperance
story, intended to show that the habit
ual drinker of intoxicating liquors not
only lays up for himself an old age of
disease and wretchedness, but transmits
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
the curse to his children. Some of the
pictures may be overdrawn, but there
is so much that is true and real about
the book that we commend it to the se
rious consideration of every moderate
drinker in the land.
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tOLUME three of the Weekly
will close with the numbers for
next month —June. A great
many subscriptions close at
the same time. We shall try
to notify all whose terms of
subscription expire with the volume,
but we beg that those who know the
fact will renew in good time. All sub
scriptions are discontinued when the
time paid for expires. This rule is in
variable, and is absolutely essential to
the existence of a well-condueted news
paper. Now, little friends, when you
are notified that your subscription is
about to expire, sit right down and re
new it at once. Don't wait until the
publishers strike your name off their
books, and then get angry with them for
doing what they have always said they
would do. It gives them a great deal
of trouble to have to erase your name
and then enter it again.
We intend to give you a better paper
the next year than we have ever done,
and we not only hope to retain every
one of our old subscribers, but to get a
great many new ones. Read our pros
pectus on this page, and see what we
promise. You know we always fulfil
our promises.
The New Eclectic.
New Orleans Picayune —
■TBY) good authority—says the May
number of this ably conducted
monthly will compare favora
bly in general literary inter
est with the most popular of
Northern or English magazines. The
selected papers are few, we are pleased
to see, much the larger space being
given to original communications. This
is an assured and gratifying evidence of
the growing and deserved success of
the Eclectic. Among the contributors
to this number are W. Gilmore Simms,
W. Hand Browne, Mrs. Preston, and
other Southern writers.
Mrs. Preston contributes an appre
ciative paper on Mary Russell Mitford.
Mr. Browne meanders, after a scholarly
way, through the “Earthly Paradise,”
and Dr. Simms discourses in stately and
graphic verse of “The Lions of My
cenae.”
The New Eclectic is published at Bal
timore, by Messrs. Turnbull & Murdoch.
Terms, $4 a year.
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The Picture Story.
Avery large number of stories have
been sent to us, in competition for the
prize offered in our paper of March 2G,
but we have not yet had time to give
them all a fair examination. We hope
to be able to announce the result next
week.
The Hen and the Puppy.
fERE is a paragraph, clipped
from an exchange, which we
know will make some of our
f little people laugh :
At. the seat of the Earl of
Chichester, (Eng.,) a curious
sight w r as recently to be seen. A hen
had been in the habit of laying her
eggs in a dog kennel. She wanted to
sit, and was shut up. Meantime six
puppies were born, in the kennel.
When the hen was let loose she pro
ceeded to the kennel and took charge of
the pups as a mother would do with her
chickens. She covered them with her
wings, and scratched about to learn
them to feed. She called them, and
the puppies would follow, and when any
one offered to take them she showed
fight.
Mary’s Wish.
»W Ido wish I were Maud
Johnson?”
“ Why would you like to
be Maud Johnson ?” asked
sister Fanny.
“ Because Maud lives in such a beauti
ful house, and wears silk dresses, and
rides in a handsome carriage, and
does not have to go to school, but has
a teacher for herself alone.”
“ Would you be willing to leave papa
and mamma, Robby and I, for these
things ?”
“No, but —I can’t help wishing I
were Maud.”
“ Did you know that Maud was lame,”
asked mamma, “ and that she is often
sick, and sometimes very lonesome, for
she has no brother or sister to play
with ?”
“ Oh ! no ; I did not know she was
lame. I have never seen her walk.
Sometimes she sits at the window when
we pass to school, and we often see her
on our way home, riding in her carriage.
Sarah Pierce told me that her father
gave her all the money she wanted, and
that she could do just as she pleased
with it. I thought it would be nice to
have all these things. But if I should
have to be lame, and to live without any
brother or sister, I would rather be my
self.”
“ God knows what is best for us,”
said mamma, “ and he has given us
each work to do which no one else can
do for us. So it is foolish to wish to
change] places with any one else. We
are where God placed us, and that we
may be sure is the best place for us.
Let us live to please him, and then we
shall always be contented and happy.”
American Messenger.
Bnarke’s Weekly
For Boys and Girls.
FOURTH TEAR!
This favorite weekly for the Boys and Girls
of the South announces the following as
among the noticeable features of the coming
volume, which begins in July :
t. A NEW STONY, by the author of “ Jack
Dobell” and “Big Foot Wallace,” entitled
“The Young Explorers, or Boy-Life in
Texas,”
2. A BEAUTIFUL STORY by Paul 11. Havre,
Esq., the eminent Southern author: “ The
Life of a Robin Redbreast, as Told by Him
self.
$. A CHARMING VIRGINIA STORY: “The
Hermitage Children,” by Mrs. Maria Pen
dleton Kennedy.
4, A STORY OF VIRGINIA LIFE, from the
children’s favorite. Rev. Thomas Ward
White, (Philip Barrett.)
5. PAPERS ON INVENTION AND ART: How
Newspapers and Books are made; How
Paper Weights and False Pearls are manu
factured; The Art of Photography, etc.
8. STORIES OF HUNTERS AND HUNTING in
Europe, Asia, Africa and America,
7. LETTERS EVERYWHERE . A series of
Stories and Poems for the Little Ones. By
the author of “The Dove, and other Sto
ries,” etc.
8. A NEW SERIES OF BIOGRAPHIES OF AN
CIENT PERBONS, for Young Folks. By
Rev. T. B. Russf.ll, A. M.
0. ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS FROM THE LIFE
OF LITTLE TOTTY. By Mrs. Mary E. Mc-
Kixne. #
10. ORIGINAL POETRY. By Dr. F. 0. Tick
nor, author of “Little Giffin,” etc.; Mrs.
Mary Ware, of Alabama; Mrs. Mary E.
McKinnk, of Florida; Sidney Herbert, of
Alabama, and others.
Tho listof writers for BURKE’S WEEKLY
includes the names of Rev. F. R. Goulding,
author of “ Y”oung Marooners.” Mrs. Theo
dosia Ford, John C. Duval, PaulH.Hayne,
Rev. Thomas Ward White. (Philip Barrett,)
Dr. Frank 0. Ticknor, Mrs. Mary E. McKin
nie, Mrs. Jane T. 11. Cross, Mrs. S. E. reck,
Rev. T. B. Russell, A. M., Rev. G. 11. Wells,
Miss Mary J. Upshur, Mrs. 11. S. Barclay,
Sidney Herbert, and many others.
The WEEKLY will be, as heretofore,
ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED,
and in every respect the equal of any juven
ile publication in the United States.
In addition to the regular weekly edition,
the numbers for each month are bound in a
handsome cover and sent out in
MONTHLY PARTS.
Subscribers who prefer it monthly can have
it in this form without extra charge.
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Specimen copies sent without charge on ap
plication to the publishers.
J. W. BURKE & CO.,
Macon, Ga.