The Portland daily press., 1875-09-25
Magazine Notices

The number bearing date Sept. 25-h, CON-,
pietes volume one hundred aud twenty six of
LHLeEs LirdaJ Aqe. This and the preceding
weekly number contain Natural Religion, from
Macmillan's Magazine; On Auimal Instinct, in
its Relation to the Mind Of Man, by the Duke
of Argyll, Contemporary Review; The Royal
School of ArtNeed,ework, All the Year Round;
The Influence of Arctic Cold on Man, London
Medical Record; The Inheritance OF the Great
Mogul, by Rutherford Alcock, Contemporary
Review; The Days of Henry Qua re- Temple
Bar; Self Government in Russia, by H. Suth-
erland Edwards, Macmillan; F'rona, Temple
Bar; The Rising Of the Herzegovina, Econo-
mist; Her Dearest Foe, Temple Bar; Drawing.
Room Music. Saturday Review; the conclusion
of Nan" Summer Scene, and of "Fated to
be Free" by Jean 1ngelow; together with the
usual choice poetry and miscellany.
Blackpoods Edinburgh Magazine for Sepiem-
ber, 1875, republished by the Leonard Scott
publishing Co., Al Barclay Street, contains as
follows The Dilemma. Part v. with plans of
the Mustaphad Residency. In My Study Chair.
Northwest Pembrokeshire In a Studio;
Conversation No. III. Tennyson's Queen Mary.
Horatian Lyrics Lessons from the Recent
Summer Man9uveres.
This number is largely devoted to poetry.
Tenuyson's Queen Mary comes in for long
review. with many quotations, and dssserta-
tion on the "Elesies," occupying over twenty
pages, gives examples from numerous poets.
There is space left, however, for some of the
prosiest kind of prose, and we turn from the
| "Study Chair" whose occupant has been Civ
ing us history of all his old school books, and
| drop into Mallett's studio and rest while he
| ard Bolton discuss Rafael and Michael Angelo,
| Shakespeare and Bacon and the arrangements
atd guests for select supper they propose to
| give.
| During the last four years England has, in
| imitation of Germany, instituted a system of
| Autumn Maneuvers, amimic campaign for the
| instruction of officers and men in the art of
war The concluding article in this Magazine
is description of these operations.
| The October atlantic offers in unusual va
riety the elements of interest which it has
always been the aim of this publication to
supply. Fiction heads the list in tenth chap
| ter of Roderick Hudson. Hiram Rich follows
with some dreamily delicate sopgs grouped un-
der the title of Leaves on the Tide; and these
are succeeded by an essay by T. s. Perry on
the poet Clough. IT is clear, earnest and eager
in its high estimate Of its subject. Colonel g.
E Waring, Jr., gives some practical instruc-
tion in Sanitary Drainage, with the help Of
several illustrative figures; and witty writer
whose name does not appear, gives us some
extre M, ly telling satire in feigned account of
The Curious Republic of Gondour. A paper
more direct in its bearing on politics is Albert
Webster's spirited outline sketch of Southern
Home Politics. Mrs. Kemble goes on with
her entertaining Gossip, and there are several
! polished poems by Edgar Fawcett, Mrs. Piatt
aud others. Emily Ford tells with much
simple power story of the British press-gang,
The OF, ao der Tree; and in the way of history
there is an article on General John De Kalb,
by Professor G. w. Greene, as well as an ex-
tremely interesting sketch of Old-Time Orien-
tai Trade, by w. L. Fawcette, who shows how
many interests the Eastern question has in :
volved. Notices of literature and art, with a
review of recent Boston and Chicago School
Reports close the number.