The Portland daily press., 1879-04-24
Magazine Notices.

St. Nicholas for May has . May-song 10 IL,
and coronation of course, but no May Queen.
1t Is sort of story number and has pearly
forty pictures. Besides the two serials, there
are, spider story. an elephant story. gun
powder story, . bear story, an astronomical
story, botanical story, mathema atical story,s
story of girl who couldn't, and more Of girls
who could, besides an astounding tale of boy
who made man and found him q very diff.
cult person to manage. A stirring account is
given Of how the Big Bear Of wanetola was
hunted and slain-the closing struggle bepg
shown In a striking picture by w. L. Sbep-
psrd. The Land of the Powder Plsyers-Mor-
occo-ani the wild sports on horseback and
afoot, of its dark skinned warriors. are de-
scribed by Ernest ..Ingersoll, with the aid Of
seven illustrations. Harriet Prescott Spof-
fords story of Tue Boy Astronomer concludes
by carrying him to the Observatory ard telling
what be there did and saw. Kate Gannett
Wells, In She Couldn't q narrative of sirl's-
life, warns all whom 1t may concern TO End
out what they cannot do, as we'll rs what they
can do. The pictures in these two stories are
by Reinhart and EytiDge. Mary Mspes Dodge
the editor, contributes . poem for May Day;
and Mrs. e. T. Corbett, in some comcal
verses entitled The Three Wise Couples, winds
up the adventures of the Three Wise Women
and the Three Wise Men, their absurd doiuss
being shown In two full-page pictures by L.
Hopkins. -.... .-..-as
The May Scribner opens with frontispiece
portrait of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, by the
artist Eaton and the engrsver Cole. An en-
tertainiug biographical sketch Of DR.. Holmes.
by f. FL. Underwood, Esq., is also given n
this number The opening paper is by Sofia
Bempisni on the New Museum 10 Rome,
which has become the center of the enthusiass
tic interest of New Italy, and which has rot
before had hearing 10 the mARsz; mes
Among the objects of art recently excavated,
and now 10 the museum are statues of Urapia,
of Commodus IS Hercules and as young Her.
cues, some exquisitely carved sarcophsgi. n
rhyton or fountain, q terra-cotta bas-reljef
representing the parting OF Theseus and Ari-
adne, bronze tbensa or Romau sacred csr.-
all of an unique and interesting character; of
these illustrations are given with the paper.
An unhackneyed account Of the varied and
peculiar phases of New York wharf.-the 10
given in A Day on the Docks, by Cbs,les Fl.
Fsruhsm, new writer. with noteworthy illus-
paper of biographical and critical character
on the two distinguished violinsts, w,lhelmj
and Remenyi, is contributed by J. R. g. Has.
sard, the weli-kuown musical critic, and Ia
accompanied by vigorous pen sketches of the
two vrtuosi By the artist, VIM NJ. Chase. A
paper on The Pastoral Bees, BY John Bur-
reughs, contains much original observation
conveyed in that writer's delightful style. Il
is illustrated by Mary Hallock FOote. The
first pf the series Of papers on Brszil, By Her
bert Il. Smith, already snncuuced by he NIB.
Ii hers of Scrib1er, is given in this number.
These papers ara the result o. the suthor's
three visit, to Brazil, two of them in he i'm
| mediate interest Of the mag azine, aud especial
| care has been taken to make the series
complete and accurate. The present paper is
devoted to Para, which the writer terms
The Metropolis of the Amszon. and for
which he predicts great commercial future.
The illustrations by Mr.. Champney show much
variety Of scene and incident. A practical dig
cussion of Village Lswr-Planting by the horti.
culturist, Samuel Parsons, Jr. shows what can
be done. by judicious treatment, with a village
lot 5Ox150 feet. In fiction the number contains
the seventh installment CT Mrs. Burnett's nov