The Portland daily press., 1878-05-24
Magazine Notices.

Lie NUMBERS OF the Living Age for the wesks
ending May 18Th and 25.h respectively, have
the following noteworthy contents: Lscky's
History of England in the Eighteenth Century,
Quarterly Review; From the Qairinal to the
Vatican, Macmillan; Mcleod of Dare, by Will
liam Black, parts VIII. and TX, from ad-
vance sheets; Popular Buddhism according to
the Chinese Canon, Westminster Rsyiew: The
Poetry of Doubt-Arnold and Clough, Church
Quarterly; Second Sight, story by Rudolph
Lindau, translated for the Living Age; Thomas
Arnold, ID. D., by Canon Farrar, Macmillan:
The Comet story by Marie Orm, Argosy; The
China-Clsy Industry of Cornwall and Devon,
by j. 81. Collins, f. G. s., Secretary of the ROYAL
Institution Of Cornwall and Devon, Popular
Science Review; The Apollo Belyedere. New
Quarterly; Flowers of Anglo Indian Literature.
st. James's Magazine; Canosss, Cornhill: Ths
Luxury of Reading Old Novels, Spectator.
Courtesy at Home, Saturday Review; The
Chnese Reeonquest OF Eastern Turkestsn
spectator; and the usual select poetry and
miscellany.
A notable feature in the June Scribner is the
resumption by w. j. Linton Of the recent con.
troversy In the New York papers over the ques-
ton whether an engraver should bs called an
artist. Mr.. Liuton's position as probably the
most celebrated Of living wood engravers, gives
especial weight to what he has to say. Those
who are accustomed to think an euzrayer's
work merely the cutting of so many lines Of \
certain length near or far together, will find
much information 10 this esssV respecting the
peculiar difficulties with which he has to con-
tend Mr Russell Sturgis q connoisssur in
engravings and etchings. writes concerning the
work of George Cruikshsnk, with over twenty
illustrations of his various styles aud subjects.
selected from Mr.. Sturgis's llrge Cruikshank
collectios. Ths services of Mr.. Marsh and
Mr.. Cole are enlisted to engrave Mr.. Riordon's
drawings which accompany DR.. Brewers Sec
ond paper on Bird Architecture, which is de-
voted to the weaver-birds, including an account
of an oriole with two wives. That Same Old
"Ooon," by Frank r. Stockton, plays several
characters. being a story of Virginia life-a
study in two kinds of dialect, and practical
treatise on coon and 'possum hunting; The
Story of Lesken, by Miss Anna Echberg, finds
its hero in o musician of Wallack's Theatre
and its scene in Holland, and is illustrated in
silhouette by Howard Pyle. Misery's Pear
Tree, translation of a Flemish legend BY DR..
W. Nichols, has two sketches by Charles r.
McKim, the architect. Tue Eleventh Hour,
story BY Emma Lazarus, and the two serials,
Roxy, and His Inheritance, complete the fic.
tion of the number. Other papers are: A Nav
American Industry, by Charles Barnard, des-
criptive of fruit evaporating, A White Day
and Red Fox, by john Burroughs; and Lying
as Fine Art, by W. L. Kingsley of the New
Englander, who examines the claims of Rev.
Samuel Peters as an artist, basing them upon
his History of Connecticut from which curious
extracts are givenj According to Mr.. Kingsley
Peters is the chief authority for the msconcep-
ton of the so-called blue laws Of Connecticut
Mrs. Piatt, Edward King, CArolire A. Mason.
Maurice f. EIan and others contribute the
poetry of the number.
In the departments Dr. Holland discusses
the Significance of Bayard Tayloss Appoint
ment, Crime in its own Element, and the Art
Of Speaking.
st. Nicholas for June opens with a striking
frontisplece, drawn by j. E. Kelly, depicting
the brave deed of girl in saving blind man
from being run over. The first story in the
number is short one by Sarah Winter Ksl.
logg illustrated by Sol Ey.inge. 1t is called
One Saturday, and tells OF the pranks and
jokes and mishaps of eight lively boys and
girls on picnic By themselves. Next comes
funny account of the adventures of Mrs. Peter
Piper's Pickles, with laughter-movng illustra-
tions by f. S. Church. A feature of the num-
Der is the opening of the new serial story for
boys, Dab Kinzer, by William o. Stoddarj.
There are four chapters, with two pictures By
81. +. FArney. Mss Alcott's ssrial, Uader the
Lilacs, has long aud very interesting INSTALL
ment treating of bareback rides aud other
moving incidents.
Mr. G. Q. Haskins tells in a pleasant way
the story of the boyhood of Mexican emperor,
under the title, Master Montezlms, aud with
the aid of nine illustrations copied from curious
old Mexican hieroglyphicS Holland, with its
"fre-womeu., canals, wind mills aud other
characteristics, comes in FOR share of atten-
tiou in NJ A. Elward's short illustrated story,
The Little Red CInal-bolt. A clearly written
paper, with illustrations, instruets boys and
girls how to make working telephones for
and explains E lisoa's speaking
phonograpb. Studious youDgsters will find in
The third article of ths series, Crumbs from
Older Reading, pleasant introduction to
Thomas Carlyle, from the pen of Julia e. Sar-
gent
The five poems of the number include A
by Celia fhaxter, aud How Willy
Wolly went a-Fshing, by s g. S.one, the
after illustrated with three capital silhousttes
by Howard Pyle.