The Portland daily press., 1876-04-22
Magazine Notices.

famous rem Treaty Picture, by West; Penn
in Armor, at the age of twenty-five (from q
rare engraving on steeD; Admiral Penn (the
father of William), and the newly discovered
portrait of William Penn. copy OF which was
recently added to the National Museum. From
the forthcoming Bryant History of the United
States, an entertaining passage is published
concerning The True Pocahontas. The Col
lege Series is continued with paper on Bow
don College, containing "reminiscences o.. .Haw-
thorne, Longfellow, and other distinguished
men; among the pictures is a silhouette of
Longfelow, at about the age of nineteen. A
series OF papers, giving an account of recent
American and foreign experiments in Coopera-
tion is begun in this number; these articles
will be written by Mr.. Charles Barnard, author
of the paper on One Hundred Thousand
Homes, Among the other papers are Bret
Hsrte's and Edward Everett Hale's serials; an
illustrated sketch of John Gutenberg, by Theo-
dore L. De Vinne Zone of the printers OF the
magazine); The DeFoe Family 10 America;
Canadian story, BY Miss Howells; The We'd
ding at OgdepsFarm, by Col. Waring; Double
Crimes and One-sided Laws, by DR.. Holland;
and The. Old Cabinet papers. Bric-a-Brac con-
ter, of Virginia; Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival
Hymn; Fashions for Spring; The Beautiful
Home; Fashions for Spring; The Beautiful
Ballad of Waska Wee, ETC. Mr.. p T. Quinn's
paper on gardening and the general manage
ment of small places in the country, this month
gives timely directions about evergreens, pears,
grapes, and vegetables.
With its May number, 81. Nicholas begins a
new serial story, "The Cat and the Countess
translated from the French by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich and illustrated with silhouettes by
Hopkins. The first installment introduces the
principal characters in a series of striking incl
dents, and contains no less than thirty.sx
comical silhouette drawings.
As for miscellaneous attractions, the large
number of them forbids even the mention of
all but among the first are Mrs. Oliphant's
second paper on Windsor Castle. Susan Cool
rid ye's Talk with Girls on Ready for Europa:
and two poems, The Palace of Gondoforus by
Fl. Fl. aud Snow-Flakes by Mrs. Dodge. The
stories cf Clough's Top-knot and the Dottrers
Luck are excellent. Mrs. Abby Morton Daz
contributes May Day Play; Marion Harland
has another Little House Keepers Page, with
fine illustration; and the department for very
Little Folks is occupied with charming poem,
the Fate of a Gingerbread Man, with little
pictures by NJ. Woolf Jack-in-the-P Pulpit Is
brilliant as ever. The Little S:hool-ma am
awards several prizes, and Deacon Green offers
several more. The Lstter-Box and Riddle-Box
are crowded with good things.
The May Atlantic is an excellent number Of
that excellent periodical. Mr.. Howells brings
his Private Theatricals to a close in a manner
which il not satisfactory to some of his readers
must be allowed to be artistic by all. The last
glimpse of Mrs. Farrell is as an actress playing
Juliet in Boston theatre. Mrs. Kembls gos.
sips this month of Lady Byron and Mrs. Nor
ton. A Visit to Certain old Gentleman, by 7.
B. Aldrich describes the old gentleman of the
Vatican, Plus TX. Charles Hale contributes
readable and instructive article on The Khe-
dive and his Court Hezekiah Batter worth re-
views The Madness of George III; Rachel Rol-
lius in some letters from Washington hospi-
tai after the battle of the Wilderness furnishes
a striking picture OF the miseres and sacrifices
of the war. Boyesen, in The Literary Aspects
of the Romantic School discusses Teck at
length and Schlegel and Schleiermacher briefly
The poetry is contributed by Harriet Prescott
Spofford, Edgar Fawcett, @. FL. Woodmau, and
H. E. Sanford. In art the paintings of w. M.
Hunt are noticed, and in music John X.
Paine's new symphony is appreciatively men,
toned.
The contents of Bldcktcood for April, re-
printed by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,
Al Barclay Street, New York, are as follows:
The Dilemma-Part XII; Mountaineering In
the Himalaya; 1S95.-Chapters Tx; Mr..
Ashley's Life of Lord Palmerston: Browns
Peccadillo-An Idyll of the Temple; Norman
Macleod.
The Dilemma is disposed of abruptly, but
effectually. Mountaineering in the Hima-
laya is review of several books of travels
through the high lands of India.
Mr.. Ashbury's Life of Lord Palmerston is
the review Of two volumes which form con-
tinuation of Lord Dalling's work, and embrace
period of about nineteen years, beginning at
1876, and describing him as Home Secretary,
leader of his party, and Prime Minister.
Norman Macleod. This review of a memoir
is one of the most interesting aarticles in this
number. '.His talents, his influence, his posi- :
ton as real power in the country, were as
certain and as fully acknowledged as even his
friends could desire; respect and homage fol.
lowed him wherever he went; and that popu-
lar applause, which is never SO adulatory SO
effusive to any one who calls it forth as to g
great orator, was his with almost unbroken
certainty from the beginning to the end of his
career "a
The Record of the Year is the title of me-
magazine, the publication of which by CIV
Carleton & Co. was commenced with the Apru
number. The editor and originator of this new
candidate for popular favor is Mr.. Frank
Moore, whose labors in connection with "The
Rebellion Record" will be gratefully remem-
bered by all. The plan of this magazine Is
calculated to preserve dispassionate and sat-
isfactory account of current events in the order
| in which they occur in permanent and con-
venient form. 1t includes in its scope not
only the recording of accounts of public events,
but of such matters of general interest as have
occupied public attention-political, literary,
social, commercial, ETC., etc. There are hun
dreds of Jewels which appear in the daily news.
prpers, little gems in their way, which are de-
serving of a more permanent setting than
daily journal affords, and this the Record is in
tended to supply. 1t is intended also that each
number shall contain finely executed steel
engraved portrait of some prominent parsonage
with whose name the public at the time are
busy. Thus the May number contains fine
likeness of William B. Astor; one of Mark
Twain, the humorous writer, will appear in a
subsequent one Mr. Moore has done his work
in teligently and we'll thus far, and is to be con-
graduated on the success which the magazine
has achieved. Carleton s. Co. are also en-
titled to much credit for undertaking the pub
lieatiOu of magazine which is destined to be.
come necessity in every library and to all
writer's.
Books Received.
Ladies' Fancy Works Hints and Helps to
Home Taste and Recreations By Mrs. O. s. ,Iones