The Portland daily press., 1876-02-26
Magazine Notices.

Wide-Aaoake for March is crowded with good
thingslfor us all, The two magazines, Wide
Aaoaks and ST. Nicholas, have accomplished an
excellent thing; they have brought us elder
ones into close sympathy with the children,
and made us boys and girls together. Every
body reads the children's magazines. Both the
boys and girls have their own special story,
How Miss Chatty Earned Living, by the edi-
tor, and Lost in the Woods, a maple.sugar
story, by J. II. Woodbury., for which Merrill
has drawn fine frontispiece, picture of a
busy sugar-camp. The geography class get a
paper, About Maps, full of curious facts, and
entertainingly written Ella Rodman Church
gives an interesting account of Life Among
the Ojibbeways, and Emma Burt has fanc-
full story, with fancifu1 picture, concerning
The Old Elm of Boston. The editors serial,
The Cooking Club has deepened into bit of
intense story, and the other serial Young Rick,
by Miss Eastman, is full of adventure. There
is Work for Little Fingers, by Daisy Eye
bright. There is also another piece of work
for little fingers proposed in Centennial Trees,
proposition that each boy and girl shall cele-
brate the centennial year by planting tree.
There are largeprint stories for the little ones,
music, puzzles, rides on the Magic Carpet, and
poems by Holme Maxwell, L. G.. Warner Ma
ry E. Atkinson and others. d. Lothrop & Co.,
Boston.
Ha1per'S Magazine for March contains the
second instalment of George Eliots new nov-
ell, Daniel Deronda. The second book is en-
titled Meeting Streams. This number of ,Har-
per is exceedingly rich in fiction. Besides the
serial stories by George Eliot and Julian Haw-
thorne, there are five short stories: Number
13, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Simpson of
Bussora, by james Payn; Almost Too Late,
by Charles De Kay; Wanted-A Soul, By Mrs.
Frank M 'Carthy; and The Crime of Abigail
Tempest, by Susan Archer Weiss. The last of
these Is founded on a.tradition respecting Gen
eral Washington, and is illustrated.
The most popular of the illustrated articles
in this number will be Porte Crayon's inimita-
BILE essay of The Baby, with twenty humorous
illustrations, and j. T. Trowbridge's poem,
Aunt Hannah. A more serious subject-Lu-
cretia Borgia-is treated by Professor Crane,
of Cornell, in the light of recent disclosures
in Gregorovius's biography. Professor Samuel
Lockwood contributes an article on The Micro
scope in style especially fascinating for young
readers. Edwin p Whipple concludes his
Centennial paper on American Literature.
A very interesting characterization of the
parties High, Low, and Broad) of the Church
of England, and of the most remarkable
preachers of that Church, (Magee, Dean Stan
ley, Canon Liddon, Dean Gouldburn, and the
late Bishop Wilberforce) is given by Charles
d. Deshler, in connection with Mr.. Arnold $
recent work, Our Bishops and Deans.
Gen. 7. M. Logan of Richmond, gives very
favorable review of the industrial future of the
new South; and his instructive article is very
happily supplemented by Mrs. Handy's des-
cription of Confederate Make-shifts during
the late war.
The Editors Easy Chair is in its pleasantest
vein this month. Nothing could be more de-
lightful than its musings over the musical con-
cer:s of by-gone days in New York. The Sci
entifc Record in Harper'S. is the only complete
monthly summary of scientific progress pub
lished The Drawer this month is full of anus
ing facetie, with two laughter-provoking illus
trations.
Numbers 1864 and 1866 of the Liyinq Aqe.
dated respectively Feb. 10Th and 26th. have the