The Portland daily press., 1878-09-27
Magazine Notices,

LUG OoVoDer uuuDer OF St. NacA0tQS opens
with very interesting story, The Violia Vii.
lage, which carries US away to the mountains
OF Tryol, and tells the varied adventures of a
bright young goat-boy of that region. The two
serials, Under the Lilacs, and Dab Kinzer, are
brought to happy close, and there are several
good short stories. The long-promised paper
on Parlor Magic is given in this number, and
the boys who wish to get up lively evening en-
tertainments will be glad to see it. 1t contains
plain and simple directions for the performance
OF many curious experiments. The French AL
phabet, with twenty-six original pictures, also
appears, and among the other useful papers is
oue entitled How to Keep Journal Cutting
the Pie, humorous poem by Rossiter johnson,
will amuse the older boys and girls, while Hap.
py Little Froggy will make everybody laugh.
A Tale of Many Tails and Prince Concubita are
lively sketches. with pictures Of novel design;
and there are several very funny cuts scattered
through the number.
The October Scribner opens with twenty
page paper on The Art Schools of New York,
by W. @. Brownell, the art-editor of the New
York World. Among the illustrations are
specimens of drawings from the cast and from
life by pupils of the three schools viz. those of
The National Academy of Design, taught by
L. e. Wilmarth; the Art Students League,
taught by Walter Shirlaw; and The Cooper
Union, taught by Wyatt Eaton and Swain Gif.
ford the design of both text and pictures be-
ing to reflect, as far as possible, the different
methods OF the three schools. A Company of
Actors, by j. Brauder Matthews, is an account
of the leading theater of che world, The Com
edie Franoaise, with much anecdote and per-
sonal gossip, and with cuts of Croizette, Sarah
Bernhardt, Delaney, Got, Coquelin Airs, and
others. Trip with Lincoln, Chase and Stan
ton, in 1862, is described by Gen. Egbsrt L.
Vlele, who gives some new stories of the Presl-
dent and tells amid what stupidity the capture
OF Norfolk was effected. Artemus Ward at
Cleveland, by O. G.. Ruthrauff, shows the
kindly as we'll as the eccentric side of the hu.
morist. A laughable sketch of A Ward and
his Crate Show, and a view of him at work
(both by George Hoyt in 1859, and his portrait
and autograph are given with this paper. Leo
Marinus, the Soaking, by Henry W. Elliott,
is an account of the sea-liou of Alaska. How
Uncle Gabe Saved the Levee is story Of the
Mississippi River by VIM. L. Murfree Jr.,
with an illustration by Allan G. Redwood.
Miss Calderson's German, a society story by
w. III. Bishop, has drawings by the author.
The serials are Illustrated: Boyeson's Falcon
berg" by Mr.. Dielman, who (the author says),
has cleverly caught the Morse pbysiognomy;
and Roxy (Which comes to conclusion In this
number), BY Mr.. Shirlaw. The uni;lustrated
material comprises second posthumous paper
by Robert Dale Owen, on Texas and the Treaty
of Guadalupe Iidalgo, which is chiefly in de-
fense of the part of the United States in the
Mexican war and a history of the ex.raordin.
ary illegal negotiations of the treaty by which
the war was ended; paper on Neophono-
graphy, by the inventor of the system, James
Robinson, shorthand writer of long expert
ence; sketch of College Journalism in Amer
lea, by Charles f. Thwing, and an essay on So
cialism, by Prof. w. G. Sumner, of Yale COL
lege, who considers the historic origin and the
aims, falIacies aud methods of the new move
ment. The poetry is contributed by Bret
Harte, James 7. Mckay, Minnie Fry, Susan
M. Spalding, Andrew B. Saxton, Henry s.
Cornwell and Dora Read Goodale.
The numbers of L,tteWs Living Age for the
weeks ending Sept. 2lst and 2Sth, have the fol
lowing valuable and interesting contents: Cath
crime of Russia, Quarterly Review; McLsod
of Dare, by William Black, from advance
sheets;l Among the Burmese, Fraser; Flnlay's
History of the Servitude of Greece, Edinburgh
Review; Within the Precincts, by Mrs. Oil
phant, from advance sheets; Age of the Sun
and Earth, Cornhill; Russian Court-Lfe in
the Eighteenth Century,-Elzab tn Petrowna
LA Clemente," Temple Bar; Rose Cherrill,
an Exile's Love-Story, Cornhill; What is Nor
phology? by Prof. w. X. Parker. f. r. s I,
Nation; Dark and Fair, Saturday Review; TO-
gether with choice poetry and miscellany.