The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-18
Magazine Notices.

In Hdlper's Magazine for September there
are for lovers of natural scenery the admira-
bly, well illustrated papers on Prince Edward
Island AID Mount Shasta-the latter being a
description by John Muir of snow storm on
the top of the mountain, especially interesting
to scientific readers while it is full of striking
incident and effective pictures covering every
phase of Mount Shasta scenery The scientific
reader has also DR.. John W. Drapef's interest,"
ing paper on thermometers, with nineteen IL
lustrations. For those interested in art there
is Mrs. Helen s. Conant's well-considered and
entertaining paper on the Domestic and Art
istic Life of Titan, with seventeen effective
engrav,ngs.
Especially timely are the three papers devoted
to commercial and industrial interests. The first
of these, entitled TIE Ladipg of Ship, is q
beautifully illustrated article, not only explain
ing every process suggested by the title, Lut
also investing the subject with the poetic asso
Citations inseparably connected with the great
est commercial mart on this continent. Ed
ward Howland's thoughtful paper, entitled A
Railroad Study, will commend itself to every
reader as appropriate to the present crisis
bringing prominently in view the often forgot
ten interests of the stockholders and agricul-
tural producers in connection with the railroads
10 brief paper entitled American Workmen
from European Point of View, the Rev.
Leonard W. Bacon presents some facts as sur
prising as they are gratifying.
All readers who are interested in our educa-
tional progress will find two very suggestive
and instructive papers in this number. One,
contributed by Horace E. Scudder, is entitled
A Group of Classical Schools, and is Illus
trated. 1t examines in detail the work which
has been and is being done at Phillips Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Exc
ter Academy, in New Hampshire, and the Ad.
ans Academy, at Quincy, Massachusetts An
other educational paper, by Miss Anna O.
Brackett, discusses the comparative efficiency
of large ard small schools.
The historical paper of the number is de-
voted to General Stark, and the Battle Of Ben
nington, and is effectively illustrated. Two
articles of especially literary interest are con-
ributed: Tom Moore in America, by Benson j.
LOSING, and Waits from Motleg's Pen, by
Park Benjamin, Jr. The latter contains q
hitherto.unpublished letter, of very remark
able character, written by Motley just after
Folks election to the Presidency.
The numbers of the Living Age for the weeks
ending August 11th and 18th, respectively, have
the following valuable contents: Morality in
Politics, by the Duke of Argyll, Contemporary
Review; Life and Times of Thomas Beckett,
by Jas. Anthony Froude, Part III Nineteenth
Century; Dresden China and its Manufacture
at Nielsen, Saxony, Blackwood; Virgil as
Link between the Ancient and the Modern
World, Contemporary; The Peak in Darien;
The Riddle of Death, by Francis Power Cobbe,
New Quarterly; The First Lord Abinger and
the Bar, Quarterly; The Dukes Piper, Story
of the Wesi Highlands, Chambers's Journal;
A Princess Moonlight Fitting, Temple Bar;
Ancient Modes of Embalming the Dead, Sun
day at Rome; Distances of the Stars, Popular
Science Review; Famous English Printers
Globe; Unsuspected Ways of Earning Livli,
hood, Chambers's Journal, etc. with an INSTALL
ment of Pauline, from advance sheets, and the
conclusion of the Little Old Man of the Batig-
nolles, Chapter from a Detectives Memoirs.
translated for ths Living age from the French
of Emile Gaboriau, and the usual choice poet