The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-24
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Tuesday Morning, May "a 1870.
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N.Y. The recipes are in large, clear type. in-
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The Christmas Guest is a collection of stories
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THE MAGAZINES. ....
The June atlantic has a decidedly sprightly
look. 1t has good paper on Hazlitt by Mr..
Tuckerman; an attractive review of the cores
pondence of Napoleon l., just published by or
der of the French Government. by Mr.. James
Parton; story, the first of a series, by Mrs.
Beecher Stowe; the third installment of the
curious English Governess at the Samese
Court" narrative; a contribution from Mr.. P.
G. Hamertop, and one from Mr.. Eugene Ben
son on artistic subjects; an essay apropos of
the Richardson Mcfarland tragedy by Mr..
Henry James. Other miscellanies, some good
poetry, and various well-written book reviews,
make up capital number. The table of con.
tents is an inviting one, and the promise thus
conveyed without is not broken by the context
within.
The chief article in the June Pxt,ana is by
Mr.. David Dudley Field, on Proportioned
Representation. The facts and arguments are
forcible and clearly put, and should be ponder
ed over by all intelligent people. Other con-
tributions are by Professors Chadbourne and
Hopping, ]. B. Bittinger, Col. John Hay, r.
ii. Stoddard, Mrs. Ames, Mary L. Ritter and
others. f.tl..t. ...-E. O.
The June GALAXY has the following contents /:
Put Yourself in his Place, by Charles Reade
Fra Angelica, by Margaret j. Preston; To-
baccophagoi and Tobaccophagism, by John G..
Draper; Enola, by Howard Glyndon; Ameri-
can Men and Englshinen, by Justin McCar-
thy; Keeping the Cash, by j. T.. Mckay; Ten
Years in Rome Internal Economy of the
| Papal States, Ecclesiastical and Civil; Two
| Women, by Rebecca Harding Davis; Ad As
ira, by III. ID. Ganse; Senator Wilson and Ed
win M. Stanton, by j. S. Black; Hostages, by
III. H.: Early Incidents of the Rebellion-A
Chapter from Mr. Thurlow Weeds Autobiog-
raphy; The GALAXY Miscellany; Drft.wood,
by Philip Quilibet; Literature and Art; Men,
oranda, by Mark Twain; Nebule, by the Ed
| itor. The article frUm Mr. L 6. Black on Ed.
win M. Stanton-in the form of letter 10
Senator Wilson'S very severe. From JUS
tin McCartby's essay on Americans and En-
glishmen we quote what he says of the con-
vivial habits Of Americans:
lido not find American men in general con-
vivial personages. l do not find that eating
| and drinking are regarded as means OF social
| endowment here, in anything like the fashion
4 of the old country. The perpendicular sys-
| fem" of drinking which Dickens speaks of, is
| surely the most cherries and unsocial form of
| notat;on ksown to mortal beings Every one.
| hmorican and other, assures me that there is
! Great deal of drinking done in these North
| ern States Perhaps so; but as in this paper
! / am giving only my own impressions, right or
| wrong, for just what they are worth, L must
| say that, so far as my observation goes Amer
leans are the soberest race of meu under the
| sun. No Englishman who is not professed
| teetotaller ever dreams of dining without a
| glass of wine or ale. Mr.. Parton's question
about the probable potatons of the Coming
Man would in England seem almost as absurd