The Portland daily press., 1878-11-09
Magazine Notices.

pIUSpcCtUs65 VI tuOSo eAC6ilout puUliCA-
tions, Scribner's Monthly and st. Nicholas are
decidedly attractive. Mrs. Frances Hodgeson
BurGett's new novel is announced as the lead
ing serial of Scribner for 1889 1t is the long
est story Mrs. Barnett has written, and will bs
more profusely illustrated than any serial which
has yet appearedin that magazine. 1t is note
worthy that Mac cMillan & Co. have purchased
this story 10 advance, and will publish it in
their London magazine before printing in book
form. Those who have read "Haworth's" in
manuscr ipt are of the opinion that it carries oa
the promise of "That Lass O. Lowrie's." Mr..
Boyesen's Faconberg will run through part
of the year: to be followed by serial from
new writer, Mr.. George w. Gable of New Or
leans. Mr.. Gable is the author of the Creole
sketches, published in Scribnei's Monthly,
Bellies Dsmoiselles Plantation, lite Poulette,
Madame Delicieuse, SC. His novel will ex-
hiblt the state of society in Creole louisiana
about the years 1903 As, the time of the Ces-
sion, and period bearing a remarkable like
ness to the present Reconstruction period. The
story is intended to show the good and bad OF
the peculiar civilization of this part of the
world, and will doubtless give key to the un-
derstauding of the condition of things in Louisi-
ana of to-day. The series of portraits of Amsr
lean poets (bsgun in August with Bryant)
will be continued during the coming year.
The magazine having recently Published a
series of papers descriptive of the leading Col
leges and Universities in America, is now hay
ing prepared several articles on the leading
Universities of Europe. They will bs written
By an American College Professor,-Mr. II. III.
Boyesen, Of Cornell (author of Falconbsrg,
etc., Among the illustrated papers in prepa-
ration are Studies in the Sierras, by John Muir,
the California naturalist. The series of eight
or more papers now to appear will sketch the
California Passes, Lakes, Meadows, Wind
Storms and Forests, including the first descrip-
ton ever given of the coniferous trees of the
Sierras. Mr.. Herbsrt III. Smith, of Cornell
University a companion Of the late Prof. Hartt,
| is now in Brazil, with Mr.. j. Wells Champney
| (the artist who accompanied Mr.. Edward King
| in his tour through "rhe Great Sout h''), pre-
pairing a series of papers on the present condi-
tion,-the cities, rivers and general resources
Of the great empire of South America. Illus
trsted contributions are also announced on
Canada, American Art and Artists, American
Archaeology, American Inventors, Lawn-plant-
| ing for Small Places &c., &c.; also, Essays by
Pref. Sumner, Horace White, and others on
the National Banking System, the Patent Sys-
| tenn, the New South, aud other matters of
national interest.
An enlargement of ST. Nicholas magazine Is
| in contemplation, and arrangements for Htera-
| ry and art contributions for the new volume
| the sixth, are complete. drawing from already
| favorte sources, as well as from promising new
| ones. Mr.. Frank r. Stockton's new serial for
boys. jolly fellowship, will run through the
twelve monthly parts, and will be illustrated
| by James E. Kelly. The scene of this story,
like that of the very successful one, What
Might Have Been Expected, published in St.
Nicholas, is laid in the South A fresh serial
by Susan Coolidge, entitled Eyebright, with
| plenty of pictures, will be commenced early in
| the volume. There will also be q continued
fairy tale called Rampty, Dudgets Tower, writ
ten by Julian Hawthorne and illustrated by
| Alfred Fredericks. About the other familiar
features of ST. Nicholas the editor preserves q
| eood-humored silence, content, perhaps to let
her five volumes already issued prophesy con-
corning the sixth.