The Portland daily press., 1878-01-01
Magazine NOtiees

The January Scribner begins and ends with a
Christmas poem Mr.. Boyesen's opening bal
lad, Jarl Sigurd's Christmas Eve, is the means
OF re-introducing to the magazine the pencil
OF Mrs. Mary Halloek Foote, wh9 has made 8
large illustration for this poem and is hereafter
to contribute frequently. Another phase of
the holiday feeling is given in Irwin RusselPs
Christmas Night in the Quarters, which repro
dnces an old-time scene In the South, and con-
salns three separate dialect poems, with Illus
tratsons by Hopkins. Fox-Hunting in New
England may fairly be called Christmas topic
and Mr.. Rowland E. Robinson discusses it with
enthusiasm in an illustrated paper of fourteen
pages. An anonymous paper on DIR. Schlie-
mann at Mycen8, reviews in a judicial vein
the famous discoveries of that explorer, many
OF the objects, including some of the finest.
being shown 10 the engravings. John Bur
roughs returns to his favorite topic in Birds and
Boughs, for which Miss Bridges, who is so we'll
Known by her bird,pictures, has made several
drawings. DR.. Holland contributes a short
poem entitled A Glimpse of Youth, and Stedman
another on The Last Token, suggested by Max's
picture of the same name, which is here en-
graved. There are also poems by II. H, Sid
ney Lanier, Paul Fl. Hayne Mary E. Bradley
and others. The story of the number, by the
elusive 'Saxe Holm," relates to the Civil War
aud SCALED Joe Hale's Red Stockings. MANY
readers will turn at once to a paper of new
anecdotes of Pidgin English, by A. A. Hayes,
Jr, and to Ell. IS sketch of the marvellous en-
terprise OF American frontier life entitled A
New Anvil Chorus What the Presidents
have thought in regard to appointments is sum-
married. In L. NJ. Dorman's Century of Civil
Service. The Growth of Cities in the United
States is treated by B. @. Magic, Jr., who has a
word of warning for the South. The serials by
Miss Trafton and Edward Eggleston are con-
tinued, the latter with picture OF Twonnet
and Roxy telling fortunes, by Walter Shirlaw.
In bis department., DR.. Holland discusses West
Point and Educational Charities, Books and
Reading, Fitting for College, and Work for the
Machine The Old Cabinet has something
about Gossip and the U. s. Census, Law Points
in Novels, Reasons for not Voting for Re-
form Candidate, A Young Cambridge Student,
Midgets, etc. Home and Society contains sug-
gestions about Private Theatricals, etc. Cul-
ture and Progress has dozen book notices, and
The Worlds Work records variety of indus
trial improvements. Bric-a-Brio is given over
to Irwin RusselPs poem mentioned above
The Popular Science Monthly for January has
the following table of contents: The Growth of
the Steam Engine, III, by Prof. r. II. Thurs
ton; Health Matters in japan, by Prof E. s.
Morse; Illustrations of the Logic of Science, by
Q. s. Pierce; The Archer Fishes, by E. Savage;
Temperaments, by Ely Van de Warker; The
Ice Age, by L. P. Grataeap; Teachings of a
Day, Louisa S. Bsyington; History of the Dyn-
smical Theory of Heat, Ii, Porter Ponier;
Style, f. Il. Wright; Our Six Footed Rivals,
II; Sketch of Joseph LIE Conts; Correspon-
dence; Editorial Departments. Published by
D, Appleton & Co., New York. For sale in
this city by Loring, Short s. Harmon.