The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-20
The Magazines.
THE ATLANTIC.

Among the contents of the September At
lantic are the following: A Glimpse of Con-
temporary Art in Europe by W. ]. Hoppin
Two Weeks Sport on the Coulonge River,
by Geo. W. Pierce; Honest John Vane
Part Ill., by ]. w. DeForest; President
Jeferson's Chief Measures, by James Parton
The Best, poem by Louisa Bushnell; The
Rhyme of Sir Christopher, by H. W.
Longfellow; Ny Experience of Community
Life, by Robert Dale Owen; The Summers
Journey of Naturalist Part ILL.,, N. S.
Smaller. DR.. Holmes contributes poem we
have already published, and T. B. Aldrich
also has poem. Mr.. Hoppln's paper on
''Art'' is an able and instructive article. Mr..
Parton treats of Jefferson with Irare inter
est, and Mr.. Owen lets the light in upon his
Community Life" One of the most enter
tanning papers is "Two Weeks Sport on. the
Coulonge River" stream above Ottawa, in
Canada. We clip brief description of ''The
Amyot Family:''
There are five or six houses the fist five
miles, and tLen the wilderness, the rapids,
the sandy banks with their long memories OF
OOoAo duu WOiNCo anu mOOSe, dUu mere ana
there that which makes the hunters heart
beat and his nostrils quiver with excitement.
At Amyot's, the last house but two, we
stopped to talk French and buy potatoes The
father was tall, affable, and pOlyglot. One
little girl, twelve years old, bare-armed and
bare-legged, sat at a spinning machine of
their own contrivance. She had a simple,
unintellectual cast of face, pretty enough,
while, for bodily symmetry and grace, she was
fptrlx rl-aIIa r
der cover OF conversation with her father,
and the quick play and perfect poise of hand
and foot were wonderful TO behold. Every
attitude was grace itself. The great wheel
went like lightning, guided by the perfect
hand and arm. The spools whirled like mad
obedient to the foot which discovered shape
that Phidias might have copied An elder
sister stood by, correspondingly ugly, aged
fourteen. l asked if they had been to school.
"VouS n'drez jdnaGis etc a PecoleP' No an
swer. They do not understand you, You
must speak the jargon they are accustomed
to in these parts, which has for its founda-
ton the French of two hundred years ago.
and has ass;milated all the slang that has
been invented since. If you have patience to
repeat the question two or three times Won
will get an answer. "Fee la men (Philamene)
not so fastp' suddenly exclaims the mother,
with unheard-of severity and sharpness, for
the little one has broken the thread, Mother
Amyot is study-not less than five feet sew
en- inches in height, and four feet six inches
in circumference, nor much less than three
hundred pounds in weight, brawny, rather
fat, coarse beyond comparison, .furiously vol
uble and goOd-natured from her irrepressible
vitality, still in the prime of life, and mother
of eleven children.
HARPER.
This apniart apI ovoalIanf x1o ,,o ,;,a comes
with varied list of articles, as follows Cen
eral Sherman in Europe and the East (secoDd
paper), ten illustrations; The Night Song;
Ten Days with the Deaf and Dumb, seven IL
Illustrations: Pulpit Flowers; The Protestant
Cemeterv at Florence, four Illustrations; At
an old Grave: Leonora Christina in the Blue
Tower, two Illustrations; Colonsay and Oron-
saw. three Illustrations; John Stuart Mill.
with portrait; Patience; The Bones of our
Ancestors; My Neighbor's Garden; Hawaii
Nei Second paper), nineteen illustrations;
Only Singer; A Simpleton: A Story of the
Day; the Twelfth of August; Number Two;
The Republican Movement in Europe ninth
paper); Recollections of an Old Stager; That
Bull Pup; My Blindness and Albrecht Won
Graefe, and The Trotting Horse in America.
The editorial departments are well filled.
Mr.. Curtis is still absent, and DIR. Osgood
does his work. Mr.. Nordhoffs "Hawaip' is
again instructive and entertaining. CASTELAR,
continues his wonderful papers. Mr.. Mil
burn rehearses his experiences with oculists,
devoting the greater part of his paper to the
portraiture of Albrecht Won Graefe, OF whom