The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-07-08
The Magazines.

The June number of Scri5ner opens with q
long and finely illustrated article on the South
Carolina problem, one of the Great South series
The author depicts wildly the deplorable cOndi
ton Of things in that unfortunate State, where
tie negroes being in the majority still rule, exer
cising on Ignorant tyrannical power which renders
the centralized State government frightfnl in
cubus and depressing power which no country
can long endure. 1t is an article well worth
reading. Edmund Clarence Stedman takes up
Tennyson in his list of Victorian poets and gives
US q charming little review sprinkled with quota
tons from that illustrious poet The serial stories
Of Katherine Earle and Adina are continued, and
Elizabeth Akers Allen paints for us Picture
"a thoughtful and beautiful poem suggested by
a lovely portrait. Au Sable Chasmn is the
gate Of the Adirondacks and the Illustrations OF
the wild and magnificent rock scenery in that re-
gion make US almost fearful that we shall never
be able to enter that gate but the author gives US
clue. A sketch and portrait follows of Thomas
Bailey Aldrich one of the few American writers
who charms US both in prose and verse. Mum
Der five of Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne,
that mystical madcap writer carries us again into
wonderful unknown worlds. Decoration" q
poem by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, calls US
away from the decorated graves of our country's
heroes to one, in his sight, more worthy of a
wreath of lilies-the grave of woman, the
bravest of the brave" which
"Bears no roses wears no wreath
Yet no heart more high and warm,
Ever dared the battle-storm"
In this nineteenth century, the age of hurry"
it is exceedingly gratifying to busy and thought
full minds to find magazines like the Eclectic and
the ODerlmd Monthly. with their leaves all cut
from their publishers hands the other style, with
uncut leaves, involving paper cutters, pen-knives
or failing those, q pen handle, pin or even a
finger with its resulting raggedness, loss of time,
and in some cases lmprecatory adjectives, are sad
ly behind the age. We cannot say as much for
these two periodicals in the arrangement of their
table of contents, in which they fall behind
Sc-iJner, the Atlantic and some English maya
zines, which save trouble by having their contents
on the outside first page of the cover But this
however important is not literature which is our
subject today. The June Overland is not par.
tlcularly remarkable except in one article and
that is worth as much as all the rest we mean
" A Simple Life" by Walter NJ Fisher, which in
behalf of intelligent, simple, inexpensive and
beautiful home life, runs fierce and honorable
tilt at the ostentation and sham which exists in
society, and the cowardice which leads men and
women to seem what they are not and to pay
high for the seeming, and all for the shallow, So
cial opinions of those they do not care for
The May Eclectic has a rich collection of selec-
tons every one of which it is something of mis-
fortune not to read. Its critique on Alexander
Dumas Fills" and the review of Victor Hugo's
new romance Quatrevingt-treize" being promi-
lent in interest, among others.