The Portland daily press., 1876-11-25
Magazine Notices


st. NichoteS for December, Is the Christmas
number this year, and is much larger than
usual, 1t contains nearly one hundred pages,
aud more than fifty illustrations. The frontis-
piece called the Heart Of Winter. is superb
engraving, representing some exquisite bits of
winter scenery and life. 1t is one of Thomas
Moran's finest drawings. William Cullen
Bryant contributes an article entitled The Boys
OF My Boyhood, and describing the amuse-
ments, studies, sports, occupations and social
life OF the young people of his early years.
Professor Richard A. Proctor, the eminent as
tronomer, is represented by an article entitled
A Clock in the Sky at Night, and giving clear
and simple directions for telling the time by
the position of certain stars
J. T. Trowbridge, the great favorite of Amer
lean boys, begins 10 this number his new serial
His Own Master. Lucy L,rcom is the author
of the fiue opening article entitled Poems
and Carols of Winter. 1t is illustrated BIZ sew
eral excellent cuts, aud it gives its young read
ers many admirable and ssasonable selections
from well known posts
The Christmas element Is made very proml-
| nent. Edward Eggleston contributes fine
Christmas Fairy-Show, aud there are several
| splendid Christmas stories in the number BY
| Susan Coolidge, Lucretia P. Hae, Rebecca
Harding Davis, Olive Thorne and others.
Still another striking feature is the descrip-
tion of the great stables OF the prominent lines
of New York street cars. The article is en-
| titled The Horse Hotel and describes the
building, the rooms and attendants
the management of the horses, the ar
rangements for feeding and caring for them,
and the various methods and means employed
in the huge establishment Its illustrations
are from sketches taken on the spot,
The numbers pictorial display also includes
beautiful pictures by Miss Hallock and AddIe
Ledyard, some funny illustrations by Church
and some very curious drawings by Siamese
| artist. .-
| Besides the Christmas poems he number
contains pretty poem by Celia Thaxter, and
a lively and amusing one by Mrs. Dodge.
| PotteTs american Monthly for December has
q very good table of contents. 1t aims to be
magazine of History, Literature, Science and
Art" History gets attention in this number
in such articles as these; The Last Survivor of
the Immortal Fifty Six; A Hundred Years
| Ago; The Turk in Europe; Washington's
Orderly Books; and the Fair Patriot Of the
Revolution. There are ten other very readable
articles in this number, besides the Notes and
Queries and the editorial department. Pub
lished in Philadelphia by John E. Potter s.
Co.
The Library Table is periodical devoted to
literary criticism and of recognized weight and
ability. Its contributors number many noted
names, among them o. B. Rockingham, z. G.
Stedman, Francis Gerry Fairfield, Noah Pur-
ter, Ray Palmer, Abby Sage Richardson, Leon
ard Bacon, Junius Henri Browne, and How
ard Hinton, All the important works sub
mitted to the periodical are placed in the hands
of some of these contributors, and to each
critical review the name of the writer is At
tached. Each issue contains a portrait of
some noted living author. The periodical 10
published monthly by Henry L. Hinton & Co.,
New York The November number contains
reviews of Daniel Deronda, by Abby Sage
Richardson; the Ethics of Spinozs, BY o. b.
rockingham; Eugene Lsurence's Historical
Studies by Samuel Osgood, the First Century
of the Republic, by +. G. Ireland; and other
recent books. With this number begins
carefully prepared monthly index to current
periodical literature, enabling the writer OF
student or reader for pleasure to select from
the bewildering array of periodicals, American
and Foreign, those that embrace articles on
the topics ia which he is most interested, be
they law, or medicine, or history, or fiction.
There is also given complete list of the new
books of the month. The periodical Is one to
be heartily commended.
The annual prospectus of LitteEs Living Age
is interesting reading The publication Is
justly one of the most popular Of American
periodicals. Its selections are choice and
varied, and it presents its readers with the
cream of the magazines. For a reasonable
annual subscription price it offers more than
5000 pages of reading.