The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-27
Magazine Notices.

OF the eighty cuts in Scribner for April
twenty-three are devoted to the illustration
life and sport Among the Thousand Islands.
The text, all of the original sketches.
and most of the wood drawings are by
Howard Pyle, who has already written and
drawn for the Scribner publications Mr.. Geo
b. Prescott, Electrician Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, writes of The Telephone
and the Phonograph, with explanatory cuts.
The revival of Macrame Lace calls forth a
little paper by Clarence Cook. This months
contribution to the occasional papers on Amer
ican sports is personal narrative Of Deer
hunting on the Au Sable (Michigan), by w. M.
Laffan, who, like Mr.. Pyle, has drawn his own
illustrations. American industry OF recent
growth is described by julius Wilcox, in an
illustrated paper-How Lead Pencils are Made.
This installment of Mr.. Eggleston's Roxy has
novel drawing by Mr.. Shirlaw, the Pres
ident of the new Society of American Artists.
OF the unillustrated material there are two
short stories; one of the West-Two Saints of
the Foothills, by Bret Harte, and one of the
South-King David, by Constance f. Woolson.
For people interested in the present Queen of
Spain, or in convent school life at Paris, there
arc lCbtcKo 1EOm hu autriChu bCQOOluAt5 Oh
Mercedes entitled A Queen at School In her
second paper in advocacy of Twenty-six Hours
Day, Mary Blake discusses the reason women
should cultivate habits of reading and study
and the difficulties to be overcome. Miss Traf-
toms serial, His Inheritance, changes scene to
Massachusetts,. G. B. Warning discusses the
relations of the Mosaic Creation and Modern
Science, maintaining that there is no import
ant discrepancy between the two. The poetry
is by Maurice f. EgaD, Annie r. Amman, Mary
Ainge De We're, and others. Topics Of the
Times contains discussions by Dr. Holland, en-
titled Acting under excitement, Once more the
Tramp, and Falling from High Places. A new
| department for Communications is added-ths
letters this month being from Noah Brooks,
| with additional Lincoln anecdotes; and from
George Rowland who defends the Erie Canal
| from recent attack in the Monthly. The Old
| Cabinet has brief essays on Art, Literature and
| the Drama. Home and Society has some time
| ly Horticultural Suggestions from Mr.. Quinn,
aud chat about the French spoken by those
who do not speak French.
The stories of foreign life form leading
| feature of 81. Nicholas for April. There is
| first, Sara Keables Hunts account Of How
| Kitty was Lost in Turkish Bazaar in Egypt,
illustrated by frontispiece; then follows Old
Nicolai, a tale of Russian peasant life, with q
picture of snow storm on the Steppes; next
comes Puck Parker, by Lizzie w. Champney,
with two illustrations By Mr.. j. Wells Champ
ney, story of a little boys escape from belea-
guered Paris in a. balloon with his father and
mother; and, after these, The Three Horse
shoes, by David Ker, tale of how Maurice de-
SAKE, Marshal of France under Loais XIV,
fonnd Dutch blacksmith as strong as himself.
Easter in Germany, with nine illustrations,
deals with German country customs Of the
Easter time; and A Visit to a London Dog
| Show is description, with several pictures, of
an exhibition Of canine pets of all sorts In
| Alexandra Palace, London. The installment
of Drifted into Port, the serial story for boys,
has striking picture by Sol Eytings, the
monthly portion Of Under the Lilacs, Miss
| Alcotts story, tells about some funny and de-
| lghtful Sunday experiences 'of Ben and his
frieads, and displays a fine illussration by
Mary Hallock Foote. In lively short paper,
entitled The Professor, Mr.. Clarence Cook re-
lates how smart boy astonished his brother
and sister and the nurse with some curious
| scientific experiments