The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-20
Magazine Notices.

Harpers Magazine for November is an UNI
usually attractive and varied number. All
but two of its contributions are illustrated.
Mr.. Benjamin completes his review of Ameri-
can Art with an instructive paper on our early
painters, illustrated with beautiful engravings
of pictures by John Smybert, Benjamin West,
John Singleton Copley, G. W. Peale, John
Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart, G. Stuart Newton,
Thomas Sully, f. G.. Malone, Washington
Allston, and S. 3. Morse. The leading paper,
by w. III. Riding, is devoted to a subject of
curious interest-the old National Pike be-
tween the East and West across the Allegha-
mics. The author, with his eloquent descrip-
ton, assisted by Pyle's excellent illustrations,
reproduces in vivid colors the lively pageantry
of this great highway, which little more than
generation ago was the scene Of traffic that
''seems like frieze with an endless procession
of figures" "There were sometimes" says
the writer, sixteen gayly painted coaches
each way q day; the cattle and sheep were
never out of sight; the canvass-coyered wagons
were drawn by six or twelve horses with
bows of bells over their collars; the families
of statesmen and merchants went by in pri-
were transformations, a few had splendid equip
ages and employed outriders'. An equally
novel subject, and of greater present interest.
is Mr. A. A. Hayess, Jr. 8 article On the Cat
tie Ranches of Colorado, which is very enter
tanning reading, while it contains full infor-
nation as to the methods and risks Of CATTLE
raising. The illustrations by Mr.. Rogers are
capital. The article and pictures recall these
numbers of Harper which contained accounts
of j. Ross Brownies famous adventures in the
West. The engravings which illustrate Mr.. j.
C. Boards PAPER, The Mimicry of
Nature, are beautiful. The drawings
are by the author and the article
is concerned with some of the inter-
esting phenomena of natural history.
Prof H. w. Elliott's paper, The Sparrow War,
finely illustrated will be read with gusto by
every American farmer. Mrs. Georgiana S.
Hull contributes a story, a Legend of Al
Hclow-Eve, which is illustrated by three-pic-
lures by Pyle. An anonymous story Of travel,
A Night on the Tetc Noire, is full of humorous
situations, Enthusiastically illustrated by
Fredercks. Two more of Abbey's striking il
lustrations of Herrick's poetry Upon Julia's
Clothes and the Cobbler's Catch add to the va
riety of the number. The new serial novels,
White Wings, by William Black, and
Mary Anerley, by R. D. Blackmore, are
continued, and there is an instalment of Miss
Mulock's Young Mrs. Jardine. The Novem-
Der Number closes the fifty-ninth volume, and
the publishers offer to send to new annual sub
scribers beginning with the December Num-
Der, 1879, the four previous containing the
early chaptes of White Wings and Mary An
erley.
The numbers Of The Living Age for the
weeks ending October 18th and 18th respective
ly contain the following articles: The Life of
the Prince Consort, Westminster; The Future
of China, Contemporary; A Cagliostro of the
Second Century, by j. A. Froude; and The
God of Israel a History, Nineteenth Century;
Bishop Atterbury, Cornhill; Two Men of Let
ters, Fortnightly; In Cologne Cathedral, The
Benefactors of Humanity, and Diaries, Specta-
tor; Discovery of the Northeast Passage,
Daily Telegraph; Love Of Scenery, Saturday
Review: Somebody Else, Truth with contin-
uation of Miss Keary's Doubling Heart, install
ments of Letters of a German Gentlewoman of
the XVIII Century, and Godfrey's White
Queen, and the usual poetical selections. AS
new volume, printed from new type, begins
with the first number in October, this is a
good time to subscribe. The opening chapters
of a story by Mrs. Oliphant, he who Will Not
when He May, printed from advance sheets
will appear in the course of the volume.