The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
Magazine Naticps

LitteNs Living Age for the week ending Dec
11th has timely and interesting article on
Bosnia, Herzegovina, etc., from the Victoria
Magazine The Curate in Charge, new serial
by Mrs. Oliphant, which promises to be one of
her very best stories; Richeleu, by the author
OF Mirabeau, Temple Bar; Her Dearest Foe,
by the author of The Wooing OF; John Knox
and his Relations to Women, Macmillan; Vim.
taging in Tuscany, Macmillan; The History of
Twins as Criterion of the Relative Power of
Nature and Nurture, by Francis Galton, f. r.
s., Fraser; The Sea and the Sahara Pail Mall
Gazette; and the usual choice poetry and mis-
cellany. Recent weekly numbers have con-
tanned important articles on Michael Angelo,
Sacrifcial Medicine, Natural Religion German
Home Life, The Dutch and their Dead Cities,
Geographical Expeditions, Memories of Saint
Simon, The Place of Geography in Physical
Science Recent Discoveries in Photography;
William Borlase, st. Aubyn and Pope, etc., etc.
With fifty-two numbers, of sixty-four large
pages each, (aggregating over 5000 pages a year,
the subscription price SS is low; OF still better,
for $1O.5O any one of the American 81 month
lies or weeklies is sent with The Living Age
for year, both postpaid The present is a
good time to subscribe, as those, remitting now
for the year 1876, will receive the intervening
numbers of The Living Age gratis. Littell s.
Gay, Boston, are the publishers
The London Quarterly Reyie,g for October,
has been republished by the Leonard Scott
Publishing Co., Al Barclay Street, N. Y The
contents are as follows.
Article 1. Memoirs of st. Simon. The
author of these volumes (nineteen in ally was
the son of the Due de Saint-Simon peer of
France, who had formerly been page to Louis
XII. The memoirs, similar in character to
the Greville Memoirs, extend over a period of
twenty-eight years, beginning in 1851, and are
filed with anecdotes of the court and times of
Louis XIV. Article II. The title Trout and
Trout fishing, will recommend the second ar
ticle to all fishermen. Article III. William
Borlase, ST. Aubyn, and Pope contains an in
teresting account of life at Bath in the days of
Beau Nash; also of Pope's grotto at Twicken-
ham. Article ~. A terrible picture of the
extent to which intemperance exists in Eng
land is given under the head of Drink: the
Vice and the Disease. Legislation on the SUBJ
ject is called for, so that the beer.shops and
public houses that tempt the poor may be SUP
pressed, and asylums provided for the cure
of dipsomanics.
Article V. Icelandic Illustrations of Eng.
lish. From this review two general conclu-
sions are gathered: "First as to the early
period of the English language, we may say
that the Icelandic offers a new instrument for
the critical study of the Anglo-Saxon re-
mains. Secondly, as TO modern English, we
see reasons to think that it has been partly
shaped by Danish influences, which have been
slowly working their way forward, while they
have been long eclipsed or suppressed by the
more prominent and advantageous position of
French and classic models" Article VI. The
Maules of Panmure is the review of history
of the families of the Barons ard Earls of Pan.
mure, compiled by the Hon. Harry Maule. in
1888. Article VII. Russian Proverbs. Arti-
Gle VIII. The Census of England and Wales.
Article TX. The Conservative Government
takes brief survey of the proceedings of the
past session.