The Portland daily press., 1878-06-27
Magazine Notices.

The July Scribner opens with the third of
DR.. Brewers papers on Bid Architecture. in
cluding the nests of the Vieros, Titmice, yer.
din, Tallor-birds and others, soma of the most
interesting being represented in the drawings.
a rev Antiques is the title of an
anonymous paper on certain parts of
last years Loan Collection for the
Society of Decorative Art: the drawings
which are by Francis Lathrop, represents Mr..
j. Pierpont Morgan's Necklace in the Egyptian
Style, and other ornaments, antique spoons in
silver and gold, Danish and Norwegian mugs,
Italian bas'relef, etc. The Police of New
York. by Ernest Ingersoll, describes the
growth OF the force from the ''rattle-watch" OF
1868, consisting of eight men, to its present
strength, 25l7. The Structure OF Oxford is
described and discussed by Ausley Wilcox, an
American graduate Of the University, with
picturesque views of Magdalen Merton, Exc
ter, New, Brasenose and other colleges. Each
OF the serials has an illustration and Miss
Traftons His Inheritance comes. to its concu-
sion, giving way to Falconbsrg, Mr.. Boyesen's
novel OF Norwegian and American life in the
Northwest, which will begin in the Midsum.
mer Holiday number. The unillustrated ma
terial includes paper on the popular query, Is
it going to Rain? by John Burroughs. Pomona
takes the helm at Rudder Grange. by f. r.
Stockton, (the last of this series) contains some
suggestions looking toward vigorous ways of
dealing with tree agents and lightning-rod
men. Italy and the Pope, by Luigi Monti
makes clear the much misunderstood relations
between Victor Emanuel and the Pope, with
running sketch of the formation of the king
dom of Italy. George P. Lothrop has sketch
about the Two Purse Companions-otherwise
two college frirnds who agree that whoever
snail hrst be worth certain sum is to divide it
with the other. The poetry of the number is
by Maurice Thompson, Mrs. Dorr and others.
In the departments, DR.. Holland discusses
Culture and Christianity, Thin Living and
Thick Dying, and Too Much of it. The Old
Cabinet is about Simplicity. Home and Socie-
ty tells how to get pure milk by the French
Method, and has suggestions about Music and
Drawing at Home, aud How to make Haggis.
Culture and Progress is devoted to reviews Of
Henry James's last work, Bartlett's Ameri-
canisms, etc. The Worlds Work describes
new practical processes Bric-a-brac includes
the first pantoum "a form of verse adapted
try.
So. Nicholas for July opens with a story of
patriotic interest, by Charles Woodman, en-
titled The Girl who Saved the General; it is a
stirring account of the heroic act of young
girl during the bombariment of her fathers
plantation in the Revolutionary War; and is
illustrated by telling frontispiece by Mr.. 81.
f. Farney.
After this come several lively stories. The
Barbecue, by Sarah Winter Kellogg, with a
fine picture by Walter Shirlaw, Sneezs Dod-
sons First Independence Day, by Mrs. M. FL.
W. Jaquith, with a laughabls picture, and A
Boys Experience with Tor Marbles on very
warm day, its three illussrations being by Jessie
Curtis. Besides these attractions, there is a
profusely ILLUSTRATED story entitled Too Many
Birthdays; apA a funny poem, The Yankee
Boys that didn't number Ten, with ten comical
silhouetis illustrations by Hopkins. How the
Westaer is Foretold is clearly explained in an
arAcle by Mr.. James III. Flint; Professor w.
X. Brooks of Johns Hopkins University, in a
literally illustrated paper, discourses pleas.
antly about various Birds and their Families:
and The Story of Perseus, by Mary A. Robin
son, gives pleasant peep into the wonderland
of ancient mythology. The two serials-Dab
Kinzer, by William o. Stoddard, and Under
the Lilacs, by Louisa NJ. Alcott-with striking
pictures By Mary Hallock Foote and Sol
Eytinge, have long instarments in this num-
ber; and the poems of the issue are Rain, by
Edgar Fawcett; Forty, less One, by James
Richardson; and Meadow Talk, by Caroline
Lesle,-.he last two with capital illustrations.