The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-09-29
The OctOber Mayazin \.

The contents OF the GALAXY, for October,
are rs follows: Furnishing Pundt,by Rich
ard Grant White; The Wethere Affair, by j.
W. De Forest; My Summer,by Louise Chand-
Ter Moulton; French Words and Phrases, by
Albert Rhodes; The Stage as it Was by Hen
ry W. Frost; Allessandro Di Cagliostro, BY
William R. Hooper; Pictured autumn
Leaves, by Mary B. Dodge; A Foolish Girl,
by N )ra Perry, Whence by Paul II. Hayne;
Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. Seward, by Gi,
WeIles; RABBI Simeon $ Parable, by Margar-
ct J. Preston; Chit Chat about Eiquet e. by
Lady Blanche Murphy; At Parting, by Edgar
Fawcett; An Apple of the Dead Sea, by NJ.
L. T. My Mountain, by Helen Barron Bost-
wick; A Hunt Wi h the Yankton Sioux, by
Theodore E. Leeds; Drift-Wood. by Philip
QIiIibet; Scientific Miscellany. Current Lit
eralure, Nebule, by the Editor.
Scribner Monthly tor October has the fol-
lowing contents: The Geysers OF California,
illustrated; The OH Van Rensselaer, Mansion
illustrated; Free Marriage; Paying Debts;
Race-Rearine, poem; Music, poem; Central
Park, H., illustrated; Turkish Proverbs; A
Song of the Soul, poem; An Episode of Fid-
dIetown, ILL.,; Hark poem; Arthur BoLn
castle. Chapters XIII XIV. (Conclud-
ed; DR.. Francis Lieber; A Day in the
French Assembly; Modern Skepticism, Ill;
eur George; A Spiritual Song, x, Topics of
the Time; The Old Cabinet: Home and SOcie-
ty; Culture and Progress; Nature and Sci.
ence; Etchirgs.
Old and New, like too many of our best
magazine, is oyeI-run with continued arti-
cles. "Country Sights and Sounds" by NJ.
FL. Huxley; ga Flower Room," by Marie
Rowland; "The Father of Zebadee's Chill
dren,' by G. Haven Putnam; and "Susan
Goes to the Derby" are pleasant reading
matter. 'Is Seeing Beleving?' by o. S.
Adams, is tale with "a curious magueic
lancy in it." THE Springfield Re. atta.'
by c. P E. Burgwyn, is illustrated with da-
grams and statistics full of interest to a GER
tain class of readers, and very du'l to others.
Harper's opens with an illustrated article
by Marie Howland on "a Ladv's Enter
PRISE" which tells us all about the Baroness
De Lina's poultry establishment at Belair,
in France. A third paper on General Sber-
man in Europe and the East and an ac-
count Of 1.-THE Hampton Normal and Agri-
cultural Institute" are both fully
Illustrated. '"The Lordship of Corfu-a
Legend of 1916" by Paul H. Hayne, and
Semper Fdels'', by Annie Ketchum, are
poetical legends. "Dat Taddeus'' is a ludi-
crous .ale of girls romance. The woman
question is taken up in 'Our Girls" ''The
Home of Paul aud Virginia is an illustrated
sketch of the scene of st. Pierre's story. I'm
Tobacco Factory" is fully illustrated. There
IS an interesting sketch Of De ective PInker-
ton," written by Gen. r. B. Marcy. The
tenth paper is added to Castelar's "Republi-
can Movement in Europe. In the "Recol-
e;tions of an Old Stager" we are told of GEN
eral Harrison, Postmaster-General Granger,
and Messrs. Calhoun and Clay. A sketch of
Chief-Justice Chase, by John s. Benson, is
given under the title of "The Judicial Record
Of the late ChiefJustice." The Editors
Easy Chair, contributed by the Rev. DIR.
Samuel Osgood, discusses the value OF asthe-
tic culture.
The contents Of the Atlantic Monthly are:
Mademoiselle Olympic Zabrski, A Piece of
Club Gossip; t. B Allrch. The old Sur
prise, poem Eunice E. Comstock. Thomas
Jefferson's Last Years; James Parton. Solo.
mon; Constance Fen more Woolson. Golden
Dell, poem; Paul II. Hayne. Gunnar, a
Morse Romance: III. Fl. Boyesen. The Amer
ican Pantheon, a poem; C. P. Cianch.
Honest John Vane, j. w. DeForest; Frances
Wri9ht, General Lafayette, ana Mary Woll-
>tonecr.ft Shelley, Robert Dale Owen; The
Germans in the West, j. j. Lalor; Daniel
Treadwell, Inventor. Morrill, Wyman; Some
Objections to the Sea, Charles Dawson Shan
y; Our Population in 1900, Francis A.
Walker; Literature, Art, Science. Music.