Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-04-24

The MAY .ScrtSHeT opens with = frontis-
piece portrait Of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holme.
BY the artist Eaton and the engrsyer Cole. IL
/. thought 10 be, in some respects, the most ex-
eellent portrait Of the seTie. from these hands.
An entertaining biographical sketch Of Dr.
Holmes, by +. II. [ Underwood, Ed, is also
given in this number.
The opening paper Is by sofia BompiAni on
the New Museum in Rome" Among the OBJ
jects OF art recently excsyAied and now 10 the
museum are statues OF Uranis. Of Conmodus
A. Hercules and As young Hercules, come ex-
Quisitely carved ssrcophsgi. rhyton or foun-
tain, = terrs-cotta bass-relef representing the
parting Of Theseussud Ariadne. a bronze then.a
or Roman sacred car. all Of these Illustrations
sre given with the paper.
An unhsckneyed account OF the varied and
peculiar phases Of New York wharf.-the is
given in "A Day on the Docks" by Charles
II. f.rnham, new writer, with noteworthy
illustrations by Nanderhoof and Muhrmau.
The wharf industries, the hsrbor police, the
haunts and hidng-piaces Of the river thieves.
the markets, the gsrbage-dumps and contrac-
tore, the ferries, the shipping, street jam, and
other characteristic features OF New York, are
described with q sympathetic and graphic
power rare in magazine papers OF this class.
A paper Of q biographical and critical char
scter on the two distinguished yioinists, Will
helmj and Remenyi, Is contributed by j. X. G.,
Hassard, the welLknown musical critic, and 1,
accompanied by vigorous pen sketches OF the
two virtuosi by the artist, Vim. NJ Chase.
A paper on The Pastoral Bees" BY John
Burroughs, contains much original observa.
ton conveyed in that writer's delightful style.
1t IL illustrated by Mr.. Mary Hsllocs Foote
The first OF The series Of papers on Brazil by
Herbert ii. Smith. already announced BY the
publishers Of Scribner is given in this number
The present paper is devoted to Para, which
the writer terms THE Metropolis OF the ANA
zon,' and for which he predicts great com
mercisl future. The illustrations, BY Mr.
Champney, show mich variety OF scene and
incident.
A practical discussion of Village Lawn,
Planting" by the horticultural, Samuel Par
sons, Jr., shows what can be DONE BY judic-
ious treatment, with village lot j0xl50 feet.
In fiction the number contains the seventh
instsllment OF Mr.. Burnetts novel, ..Hs-
worth's." and also short and tragic STORY Of
the Latin quarter" b. the same author, des-
ing with artist life IN Paris. Another com
plete sketch by A. A. Hayes, Jr., entitled "A
Man without Enthusissns." The first part Of
Miss Adeline Tranon's two-part story, "A
Narrow Street" |, her. given.
Other papers are Three Days 10 Sussex
lby an anony mou. writer, y "a Pilgrimage TO
Vallombro.s.7 by Theodore Il. Bacon. and
sketch Of Richard Henry Dana, by James Grant
Wilson, including Dana's account Of the epi-
sode OF the acceptance Of ''Thanatopsis' for
the North American Review"
The poetry Of the number includes AT Odds
with Life" by David l.. Proud6t; The Four
Romans" ballad by Charles de Ksy; False
and True" recent sonnet by Or. Holland
1.-THE only one ever written by him; 1.-TWO
Sermons by Austin Dobson; and other
poems by Z. W. Parsons, Mrs. Piati, l.. Frank
Tooker, X. W. Glider, Marie Mason, II. n.
Powers and Lloyd Miffiin.
In Topics Of the Time DR.. Holland di.-
eusses "Vulgsrity 10 Fiction and on the Stage"
Saving a good word for the .'Pinafore.'J
"Churcb Ausic,' and "Art Criticism" H.
the department Of "Communicstions,n N. +.
Beach gives an account Of the periious secret
mission to Mexico, which was undertaken bv
his father, Moses Y. Beach, during the Mexi-
can War, and which led to the treaty OF Guada.
lupe Hidalgo. Mr.. Chlapowski makes some
corrections OF statements regarding himself In
the paper in the March number on his wife
(Modjeska,) dis.Iaiming the honor OF being an
exile from Poland: Home and Society" Is
devoted TO the third Of Mr.. Rideing's practical
papers on the Boys Of the Family. "-this
time for the inform alton OF the one who desires
TO become mechanical engineer-and to .Tne
Maternity Society," and "a Design for Fire.
place." with the novel suggestion Of the use
u Arsbgick lov ornamental tiles. The "Cul.