The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-22

acteristic anecdotes about the Senator AS for
Mr. Cooks household paper, with its tasteful
and pretty illustrations,-ths is one of the
most amusing and interesting papers in the
number. The suggestions as to furnishing,
etc, are given very modestly, and in manner
which sets the reader to thinking for himself;
and the way that the author overhauls some of
his engrayers will be found exceedingly enter
tanning, especially l should suppose, to the en-
grayers themselves. There is q generous in
stallment of Sevenoaks, and a very small in
stalment of The Mysterious Island, which the
editors seem to be boiling down to the very
last point. This story has been stopped by the
English Magazine that was publishing 1t; but
in its condensed condition in Scribner it seems
to interest the young people at least. MI.
Munger's article on MaXims presents views on
the subject which will be new to many read
ers. The most striking poetic feature Uf the
number is The Power of Prayer, a darkey dia-
lect poem by Sidney and Clifford Lanier.
DR.. Holland discusses Instruction from Out
side, The Shrinkage of Values, and The Music
of the Church. The Old Cabinet contains
Some Suggestions Concerning the Art OF Con-
yersation. The new department of The Worlds
Work is quite full.
st. Nicholas for June opens with one of the
most charming frontispieces that have yet ap-
peared in the magazine, illustrating fanciful
poem by Rachel Pomeroy, about little giant
girl, who is certainly unlike any other of her
race with whom we are acquainted.
Stories of adventure have by this time come
to be fixed fact with the boys who read st
Nicholas, and they will fully appreciate the in
teresting account of the manner in which
First Trout was caught the article telling
them just How to Camp Out at the Beach, and
a certain crisis in the story of The Young Sur
veyor. As for the girls, they will testify that
there is no lack of enjoyment for them when
they have read the chapters of Eight Cousins,
The Story for the Bird-defenders, Christin-
chen's Answer, and Among the Lilies,
Mrs. Diaz's Bad Luck of Bubby Cryaway,
the story of Ragamuffin Party, Mrs. Head
ache. and the beautifully illustrated poem of
The Little Girl who Wouldn't say Please, are
all of them very serious in one sense and very
funny in another, while children Of studious
turn will find something exactly to their mind
in the Life of Clothes-Moth and the descrip-
ton of The Druids and their Temples.
The poem of The Fays-beautiful in itself
is illustrated most exqusitely by Jessie Curtis,
who has no superior in the dainty and graceful
execution of drawings of this delicate order
The numbers of The Living Age for May 18th
and 22d. contain Instinct and Reason from the
Contemporary ReUieD; Livingstone Last Jour-
nals'' from the British Quarterly RevieD; The
Statue of Memnon, from the Quarterly Reoieao;
Fashions and Tricks of Speech, and The Abode
of Snow Part V, Blacbwood; The Bogeys of the
Day by the Earl of Pembroke; Literary Curios
tiles, from the Gentlenaan's Magazine; The
Suez Canal, Pail Mall Gazette; Dreams, The
Lancet; A Monastery among the Apennines,
and Royalists and Republicans, from the Sat
arday ReUieao; Germany and Austria, and the
Mental Effect Of Pecuniary pressure, from The
Spectator; With installments of "Miss Angel
by Miss Thackeray;" Fated to be Free" by
Jean IngeIow; 1.-THE Marriage Of MORA Fer
gus" and the usual choice poetry and mis-