The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-06-16
Magazine Notices.

Three features prominently distinguish Hdr.
pers for July-the quality and excellence of
its fiction; its light, summery character; and
the remarkable timeliness of SO large portion
of its contents
The Fifth Book of George Eliot's Daniel
Deronda, given entire in this Number, is en-
titled "Mordecai;" but before the hero of the
work is again brought into association with
this remarkable Hero we have two interesting
chapters devoted to the renewal of his acquaint-
ance with Gwendolen after her marriage. Ac-
cording to promise. we have also in this Num-
Der the first part of A Women-hater, an anony.
nous serial story published simultaneously in
Blackwood and Harper. Garth, ard Mrs.
Dinah NJ. Craik's The Laurel Bush are con-
tinued.
For fiction Of a lighter character we have
Carroll Owens love tale, entitled Clarence;
Mrs L. w Champney's humorous narrative of
the adventures of Polly Pharaoh, with two
illustrations By Mr.. Champney; and J. I.
Trowbridge's The Ballad OF Arabela, with
seven illustrations by Hoppin.
The Centennial suggestions of the year and
the month are, of course, titly remembered, but
not in such q manner as to overwhelm the
reader with heavy history. Paul Fl. Hayne
contributes a ballad entitled Macdonald's Raid
las narrated many years after by q veteran Of
"Marion's Brigade") with tive brilliant illus.
trations by E. A. Abbey. Ellis Gray presents
q brief personal sketch of Samuel Adams and
his times, with such details of the Boston
people and their manners hundred years ago
as may serve for setting to the portrait Of the
Last of the Puritans. Her paper is fully illus
trated including both Copley>s and Johnson's
portraits. John Esten Cooke contributes an
article on the Wiiter of the Declaration, confin-
ing it to the limits of personal and familiar
sketch of Thomas Jefferson, giving especial at
tention to his college days and the romantic
circumstances attending his marriage.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Poet and the
Poem tells beautiful story In verse, apropos
of the Quakers Alms-house in Philadelphia
and Longfellow's Evangeline.
In two of the articles in this number the
Magazine outdoes even the alert newspaper in
enterprise. In one we have an elaborate and
beautifully illustrated description of DR.. Samuel
Osgood, of the Bryant Vase, soon to be presen-
ted to the venerable poet, and representing the
highest point of advance in our workmanship
III sllNcAs 1uO OtuCN ID COMPREHENSIVE duu
entertaining paper on Nominating the Presi-
dent, being historical resume of our early eau
cuses and of the National Conventions which,
after 1920, supplanted the'caucus.
Charles Lanman's illustrated article on Block
Island contains full account of the romantic
history of the wreck of the Palatine in 1850.
Mr.. Hollys third article on Modern -Dwellins,
is devoted to furniture and is beautifully illus
trated. Besides the poems already mentioned
by Trowbridge, Hayne, and Miss Phelps. there
are others contributed by T. B. Aldrich and
Constance Fenimore Woolson. The Editors
Easy Chair gossips pleasantly of the Stage
coach Revival, Autograph hunting, and other
timely topics. The other editorial DEPART
ments are fully supplied with interesting mat
ter.
The RECORD OF THE YEAR, for July, is re-
ceived from G. w. Carleton & Co. publishers,
New York. Containing, among two hundred
other articles, the following points of special
interest: Steel Portrait of A. T. Stewart, his
Career, Death, Will and Succession; Queen
Victoria's New Title; DR.. John Halls April
Philosophers (Fools); The True Americana
characteristic Poem; Washington a Marshal OF
France; Jean Ingelow's Fancy; New Horse
Car Poetry, for April Dom Pedro's Character
istics; A Whist Party in the Ark; Three Capt.
tailsts-Astor, Stewart, Vanderbilt; Mark
Twain at a Horse Auction. First Female Lob
byist at Washington; The Girl of seville-A
Spanish Poem; Royalty in the United States
Artemus Wards Character aud Peculiarities;
Monthly Record of Congress, etc.