The Century Magazine exhibits much the same kind of weakness
as the English Illustrated. In this case it is the Civil War that
most readers will find too much for them. At the same time, the July instalment of the biography of Abraham Lincoln, by Messrs. Nicolay and Hay, is valuable for the light it throws on the rela- tions between Lincoln and M'Clellan. Mr. George Kennan's paper, "The Steppes of the Irtish," is important politically as well as geograpbie-olly ; and Mr. Edward L. Wilson's "Sinai and the Wilderness" is delightful, alike as regards letterpress and illus- trations. In a short letter, Mr. John Bigelow seems to prove that the late Mr. Arnold was in error in regarding as serious Benjamin Franklin's project for a new version of the Book of Job. It was only a jeu d'esprit, a satire on the Court of George III.
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