The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-22
Magazine Notices.

The numbers of The Living Age for the
week ending June 18th aud 23d, respectively,
contain Wallace's Russia, Edinburgh Review:
The World of Fiction. Church Quarterly; Mrs.
Lucy Hutchinson and Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu, Victoria Magazine; The Kitchen
and the Cellar, Quarterly Review; The House
of Fortescue, Edinburgh Review; The Find in
the Land of Midan, Spectator; The Transvaal
Economist; A Circassian Scotchman, Leisure
Hour; Italian Servants versus English,
Examiner; The Income of the Established
Church, Spectator; Kidnapping a Sloth,
Leisure Hour; with instalments of George
MacDonald's Marquis of Lossie, of Pauline,
a remarkable new serial, and of VIM. Blacks
new story, and select poetry and miscellany.
A periodical of singular value and interest
to Maine people, and one whose merits have
not yet received that full recognition they de-
serve, is the Maine Geneaologist and Bioora
pher. This quarterly is devoted to the
gathering up and presentation of records per-
tanning to persc nal and family history. Lists
of names, inscriptions on grave-stones, town
and family records, journals, diaries, deeds,
and every form of writing or inscription which
perpe.uates the memory of generations which
have preceded US, come within its scope. 1t Is
especially designed to help those who wish to
write genealogies of their families, and the aid
and co. operation OF all such are earnestly So
licited. 1t IS desired that the department of
Notes and IQaeries be made prominent
feature Of the periodical. Here questions bear
ing upon the subject of genealogy can be asked
aud answered, and searohers can thereby mu-
tually aid each other. A work having these
objects in view should be largely supported, for
much of the material Of which historyiis made
is very perishable, and unless preserved in
some such form as this must soon disappear
altogether.
The number for June contains a paper on
the Kicker family, tracing the descendants of
the brothers George and Maturin Kicker who
came from England to Dover, N. H., in 1910;
notes on the Eddy Family, by COL j. A. Por-
ter: the continuation of the paper on the Cilley
Family: more of the Kittery Family Records;
Memoir of sMaior General john Blake, 1853
1912; obituary notes ION John Lothrop Motley
and Daniel Williams; and Ithe always enter
tanning Notes and Queries.
VIM B. Lapham, Augusta, Editor.
Vide Agake for July is fine number. The
stories are especially seasonable. Nora Perry
has Rhode Island seashore story entitled
Sally's, Clam-bake." But the boys, after one
look at the frontispiece drawn by John Hyde,
will turn eagerly to the rolleking Fourth of
July story it illustrates How the Boys Woke
Him, by Charles.Stuart Pratt, in which they
will get most satisfactory amount of fire.
works. There are also two Fourth" poems,
A Poser, by Rosa Graham. and the Indepen-
dence Adventures of Miltiades Peterkin Paul,
in which he blows up his grandmother instead
of the cat. The older boys will also enjoy s.
G. w. Beniamin's paper on managing Sail
Boats. Miss Farman, the editor, has story,
Nannie's Graduating Dress, which is COM
mended not only to the ''sweet girl graduates
themselves but to their mothers aud teachers.
What Bunch aud Joker saw in the Moon, by
Mrs. E. 7. Corbet, has several funny illustra-
tions. Mr.. Rounds Child Marion makes ac-
ouaintance in Rome with Princess Margherita
and the young Prince, sees funeral aud goes
home to bury pet butterfly in a candybox.
In Solomon's Seal Sophie May allows Emily to
ssboard round'