The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-22
Magazine Notices.

The Atlantic Monthly for February has an
unusual variety. Serial and short stories,
posms, travel-sketches. criticisms, reminis-
ceaces es,-indeed, almost every kind of article
suitable for a popular magazine Is included.
Lovers of fiction will grsatlyenjoy the chapters
of Ir. HowelPs Lady of the AroOstook. one of
the most engaging stories Mr.. Howslls has
ever written; and M. FL. A. Huntington CON-
tributes Sword and Awl, short story of the
civil war; The legion admirers of Bayard
Taylor will read with desp interest Mr.. Stod-
dard's "reminiscences. Publc-3pirted men and
women will find The Career of Capitalist q
most instructive audintsresting paper, bristling
with hints to both capitalists and employees.
The political articls on Limited Sovereignty in
the United States is one to be read and thought
over by good citizens. Mrs. Stow, under The
Modern Martyrdom of of st. Perpetua, satrizes
some of the demands of present fashion and
custom. Mark Twan's account of The Recent
Great French Duel, shows this delightful
humorist at his best, and should serve the
writer's purpose in moderating the assertions of
those people who stubbornly maintain "that
the French duel is the most health-giviug of
recrestions because of the opeu-Air exercise IT,
affords" and that "Ffench duelists and socia-
list-hated monsrchs are the only people who
are immortal" Richard Grant White writes of
London Streets; Clarence Cook describes and
critlcises The New Catholic Cathedral in New
York: W. W. Story contributes very engag-
ing account of A Roman Holiday Twenty
Years Ago. The pleasant journeyings so
graphically described were off the highway Of
common travel, and so have a peculiar interest
William f. Apthorp discusses Musicians and
MusIc-Lovers; an anonymous but skillful hand
cri,icises Mr.. James's Europeans and some
other recent novels; aud bssides the varied Con-
tributors' Club and full chapter of Recent
Literature, the number contains poems by Al
bert Laighton, Lucy Llrcom, Mrs. Piatt, and
others. On the whole. very good number of
a monthly from which we have a right to ex-
| pect the best magazine literature that Ameri-
| ca can produce. -....
| Wide Awake for February opens with a
| piquaus fronts piece, Kiss Me- Katie, drawn
| for Col. Haynes poem of that title, By Mary
A. Lathbury, who is also illustrating Mrs.
| Catherwood's chsery serial, The Dogberry
| Banch. Mrs. Lucy Blinn follows with pa
thetlc valentine story, Aunt Rath's Valentine"
| Some Children's Books in Old Times, BY Sarah
| Loring Bailey, is an entertaining account Of
some old primers, accompanied by several
| very quaint illustrations. R5v. L L. Bsmsn
las stirring story which needs no picture', of
! A Pioneer Wide Awake Mrs Clara DJty
Bates has a breezy poem, The Winds Mis-
| take" with a foe drawing by Miss
| Humphrey, who also illustrates the story
of The Rsd Birds Secret, by a South
| ern writer, Tarpley Starr. The second pa.
| per in S. w. Bsnismin's attractive serles,
our American Artists. describes the prosperous
career of A. f. Bellows, aud, besides portrait
and studio view, gives US an exquisitely en-
eraved copy of one of the painters delicious
New England Landscapes. The chapters of
| Royal Lowrie's Last Year at ST. Olave's in this
number are sufficiently exciting to appease the
most exactiug of school-boys, while they do not
picture too strongly the injustice sometimes
practised by big boys at school toward the
| smaller fellows. Mrs. Lille, in her English
| Literature paper, tells a host of curious
things about Pope and about Lady Mary
| Wortley Montague. The new story, Don
| Quixote, Jr, who is our old friend Miltiades
Peterkin Paul in armor, begins delight
fully, and there is a paper about Sevres
china, and one about My Pets and sew
eral po- ms and then at the last there is grand
sixteen-pigs supplement, ali about Dogs, with
AZ interesting Natural II stocy tteaIise by
Ernest IngersOll, followed By several good orig
| insl Dog stories, all true. Ella Farman.
Editor d. Lothrop s. Co., Publishers, Bcs-
] ton.