The Portland daily press., 1879-07-21
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 81.
Magazine Notices.

The Midsummer Holiday august Scribner
always notable number of this magazlne)
this year contains some unusually attractive ana
readable material. The opening paper, Whist
Ter in Painting and Etching, is especially strik-
ing, and is the first adequate presentation that
has been made in this country, OF the work OF
this unique and much-discussed artist. The
paintings selected for reproduction are Mr..
Whistlers portrait of himself the portrait of
his mother Ghe Arrangement in Black and
Cray; the Symphony in White, No. Ill; the
White Girl and At the Piano, The Etchings
represented mot by process, but in wood en-
gravingsy are VauxhalI Bridge; Riault, the
Engraver; Joe; Thames. Warehouses, end Lit
tie Wrapping. The writer of the accompanying
paper is Mr.. w. B. Brownwell. The next pa
per is the concluding talk ON Summer Ento-
mology by Mr. Edward A. Samuels, illustrated
by Mr.. Henry Marshs celebrated engravings
of field and forest insect insects. Mr.. r. III.
Stoddards paper on John Greenleaf Whittier
is an able critical study of the poets growth,
and is illustrated with drawings of Mr.. Whit
tiers birthplace, the Old Schoohouse, the
Amesbury and Danvers residences, etc. a
POipA"i VI uO BOOl, W I'LL W J'O' @@eNSNA'
engraved by Mr.. Cole is printed as a frontis-
piece Mr.. A. c. Redwood contributes an un-
partisan paper on The Cook of the Confederate
Army. Two illustrated travel papers are A
Peep into Antwerp and Holland, with engrav-
ings of picturesque pen sketches by Henry S.
Chase IAN artist new to Scribner) and Over the
Narrowest Marrow Gauge, by w. H. Bishop
being an. interesting account of the railway
fromPort Madoc, Wales, to Festiniog, a track
of two feet width, and the forerun-
ner of American experiments in narrow-gauge.
Other warm weather literature is, Our Arch
cry Club by F. r. Stockton, author of Rudder
Grange; Out of the World, by Mr., Charles
Dudley Warner,-a fresh and charming de-
scription of visit to the Shakers; The Man
with Hobby, story of Kansas political
campaign, by Mr.. Henry King; Lalage-a
striking imaginative tale by Elinor Putnam;
Inside the Castle (Schloss Eltz), by Mr.. Geo.
E. Waring, jr.; Lincoln's Imagination, includ-
ing some new and readable material, by Noah
Brooks; and The Cascarone Ball, a lively de-
scriptive paper by Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote.
Haworth's approaches in this number its re-
markable and unexpected crisis. The opening
chapters of Mr.. Henry James's new story, Con-
fidence, take hold upon the readers interest
with fresh grasp, and present pictures of
American life in Europe, the truthfulness or
charm of which it would be equally idle to de-
ny. The poetry includes a long ballad of Pu-
ritan Massachusetts,, by DIR. j. G. Holland, en-
titled Jacob Hurd's Child; two unpublished
poems by the late Bayard Taylor; Nelly, by IT.
win Russell, and others by Mrs. Mary Mapes
Dodge, Mrs. Celia Thaxtcr, Miss Emma Laza-
rus and Miss Dora Read Goodale In Topics
of the Time DIR. Holland discusses Scientific
Foolishness and Marriage as a Test. In Com
munications he prints good-tempered reply
by Southerner to a recent editorial on South
ern civilization, and in an Introductory note
disclaims the spirit of partisanship which has
been ascribed to him. Home and Society con-
tains some interesting "reminiscences of New
York Fashions in 1S14-30 and a paper on Lawn
Tennis