The Portland daily press., 1878-07-22
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 2s.
Magazine Notices.

81 Nicholas for August-the Midsummer
Holiday number-opsns with long poem by
d. L. Trowbridge, versified from story by
MAUD Christiani, and entitled King Cheese.
Ii deals with a curious incident of the Paris
Exhibition of 1867, and is illustrated with a
comical frontispiece, and several smaller pic
lures by Hopkins. The number is Summery
from cover to cover, and has the pleasant flavor
OF vacation both in tone and subjects. Sarah
Winter Kellogg provides summer fishing
story, Rods for Five, which has full-page pic
ture OF a leafy trout stream; and from Lucy
Larcom there is poem entitled Happy Fields
OF Summer, with suitable illustration; while
Frank r. Stockton furnishes a fairy tale of
gnomes, bear and little girl, under the title
The Emergency Mistress. There is short
illustrated paper about the Digger Wasps, and
a brief but timely article with sensible hints
about How to Travel.
In accordance with plan of the editor,
formed year ago, the Midsummer Holiday
number of Scribner's Monthly opens with
portrait Of William Cullen Bryant, engraved
by Cole from crayon drawing by Wyatt Ea-
ton, for which the poet gave repeated sittings
during the past spring. The paper on Mr..
Bryant's life aud homes. which it was also
planned to have with the portrait. is by Rev.
III. N. Powers, and was written before the
formers illness. The illustrations are about
twenty in number and chiefly represent points
of interest at or near the Cummington and
Roslyn residences. DR.. Holland also writes
editorially of Mr.. Bryant, and The Old Cabinet
contains an estimate of his standing as poet,
and reprint of the curious original version of
Thanatopss.
There are also 10 this number four illustrated
articles, as follows: A Seaport in the Pacific,
by Mary Hallock Foose, whose picturesque
drawings for her own text are thought to be
among her most charming work; To South
Africa for Diamonds! an interesting record of
personal experience by DR.. William j. Morton,
with drawings, including a large view of the
great Kimberly mine by Moran Sharp Eyes,
field paper by John Burroughs, with bird
Illustrations by Mrs. Fanny Eliot Clifford, who
makes her debut as a magazine artist in this
number; and Glimpses of New England Farm
Life. by Rowland z. Robinson, introducing
draughtsmeu new to Scribner's in Messrs L.
O. Tiffany, R. S. Clifford, Henry Farrar, Jer-
Wis McEntee and Wiuslow Homer, besides Mr.,
Shirlaw and Mr.. Kelly.
Falconberg, Mr.. Boyesen's new novel of
Norwegian and American life in the North
west, begirs in this number. The scene after
the first chapter or two will lie wholly in Amer
ics. The motif of the story is to be found in
the peculiar influences that favor or oppose the
assimilation of the Norwegian immigrant to
the duties and privileges of American citizen
ship.
OF the other stories, Longstaffs Marriage,
by Henry James, Jr., deals with Anglo-Amer-
lean life at Nice and Rome, and Our Tavern,
by Frank R. Stockton, relates summer
escapade on this side of the Atlantic The
tenth installment of Eggleston's Roxy has
drawing by Mr.. Shirlaw, as usual.
OF the four long poems in the number, two
appear without cuts: Off Scarborough, Sep
tember, 1873, by Bret Harte and Meridian,
Mr.. Stedman's Yale poem, here printed in full
for the first time;-and two with cuts; Mr.. J.
7. Trowbridge's Old Robin having three draw
ings by Will a. Low, and DR.. Hollands bal
lad, The Puritan Guest, having three by Mrs.
Mary Hallock Foote. There are also shorter
poems by G. P. Cranch. Henry Eckford, An
drew B. Saxton and Mrs. E. M. Rooth.