The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-19
Magazine Notices.

The September number of The Record Of the
Year. is now ready, finishing the first half
yearly volume and containing a complete
analytical index Of great value. This maga-
zine appears tc be rapidly gaining in popu-
larity as its merits become more generally
known. 1t certainly is of great interest and
value to all readers. G. W. Carleton, New
York.
The September number of Scribner contains
three complete old-fashioned stories, viz: The
Ghostly Rental, by Henry James, Jr.; The
Voyage OF the America, dialect story of Q
shipwreck with the doubtful fascin alton of be-
ing true), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; and
Princess Use, charming fairy story from the
German, with dainty illustrations by Fred
ericks. Other illustrated papers are: the third
instaIlment of Col. Warnings account of his
picturesque boat-ride down the Mosel, called
the Bride of the Rhine, and this month dealing
with the vineyards and folk-lifs OF this little
visited region; paper on Insanity, BY Charles
ID. Robinson, with some curious illustrations OF
the brain during the progress of the malady;
Prof. William North Rice's paper on Wesleyan
University; Something about Birds by Ernest
Ingsrsoll; and the second instalment of Fanny
Hodgson Burnetts promising serial story Of
mining life. That Lass O. Lowrie's, which suc-
ceeds Mr.. Harte's Gabriel Conroy. Donald g.
Mitchell writes of the picturesque aspects of
the Fair; and DR.. Blauvelt has discussion
of Protestant Vaticanism. California House,
keepers and Chinese Servants gives the results
of the experience of the author, Mrs. Sarah Z.
Henshaw and that of many others, in the EN-.
ployment of China-boys. This paper will be
followed by one in October from another hand
which will deal with another phase of this
vexed question.
In Topics of the Time DR.. Holland gives in
formation of the Harvard Examination for
Women, and has good word for Village I'm.
provement Societies; The Old Cabinet discusses
The Literary Feller and the Politician, and
quotes from the Quarterly's review of Tsnuy-
sons volume of 1883; Home and Society has
Practical Hints about the Exhibition, Mr..
Quinn's Rural Topics, dealing with September
work on the farm, some more Paris Fashions,
and talk about Girls Names. The other de-
partments are well kept up, Bric-a-brac being
being especially entertaining this month.
81. Nicholas for September has, among Its
most interesting articles, a delightful little
story by Eliza Wood called The Land of the
| Grigs; a common-sense Talk With Girls, by
Olive Thorne, on Taste for Reading; and q
funny poem by Laura E. Richards, entitled
John Bottlejohn.
How the Children Cruised In the Water.
Witch. by E. w. Olney, The Races at Shark
Bay, by Rebecca Harding Davis, ard Rosy. by
Mary L. B. Branch, are all admirable stories.
A Children's Party contains some practical
hints on very good way to be benevolent; and
the number abounds in poems of which Bessie
Hills My Ship on the Ocean, and Carrie
Thompson's Two of Them are dainty bits Of
verse. Then, too, there are several excellent
| pictures scattered through the pages. such as
| A September Evening aud By the Brookside,
and the very comical sketches Of Little Johnny
and the Mosquito and Whitewashing the
| Baby.