The Portland daily press., 1879-02-20
CANADA is suffering from an attack OF the
soft mOney-lunacy.
Magazine Notices,


trsiioD foIms the frontisDiece Of the number.
Mr. Horace E Scudder relates story of The
Obstinate Westbercock, and its dealings with
an Unterried Colorado Beetle. For this story
Mr.. Alfred Knappes furnishes two pictures,
Julian Hawthorne's continued fairy
Rumpty-Dqdgets Tower, illustrated by Alfred
Fredericks, is completed in this number: and
the serials by Susan Coolidge and Frank r
Stockton have bright, fresh and fully illustrated
installments. Sarah Winter Kellogg briefly
recounts tale of The curious blessing in dis
guise which Western schsol boy Wanted !:
Kate Foote tells of some Pets from Psrsis.-
beautiful white cats; and Mary Bolles Branch
records the episofe of Nsnne's Little Muff.
Ao American Mafdi-GrAs describes the Carui.
walls of New Orleans and Memphis, and ia ac
companied BY numerous and striking pictures
OF their queer masks and grotesqus scenes. An
illustrated article on Oriental Bottles and
Wells gives an insight into the habits and eng
toms Of Arabia and the East There are brief
and simple art-paper, making plain the mean
OF the term Renaissance" and q description
OF experiments with the electric light and A
WoI dsrful Candle. OF the poems in the num-
Sky, which has two pictures; Palmer Cox gives
funpy dispute between The Wasp and The
Bee, with an illustration BY himself; Mrs. e
I. Corbett, with the aid of comcal sibouetts'
by Hopkins, describes the confusion causee
among astronomical persons by Dicks Suppsr
and I'D come verss s entitled Calling the Flowers,
Mary Mspes Dodge gives voice to the spripg
time feeling CT boys ard girls The large four
type pages given to the Very Little Folk, and
the space occupied by Jsck-in-the-Pulpit. the
Letttr.Box and the Riddle-Box, are crsmmed
full OF dainty prose pieces, rhymes, pictures,
stirring items, letters and puzzles.
One of the prominent features of the March
number Of Scribner is paper on The Old Mil
at Newport, by r. u. Hatfield, who claims
that 1t was built by Norwegian settlers about
the year 1000, and that it originally served the
purpose OF bsptsters. being the central Dor.
ton of a larger woodsu structure. The idea is
plausible one, and the plans ard illustrations
presented by The aathor, show Jog the close re-
semniance between the sold mill" and the re-
maIns of church buildings of ancient date in
Europe make out very strong case. Another
paper VIII ich will attract attention is that upor
~-oSJOO VIC hict VI o stEi6S Ot QTamaL Lic Ol
ogrsphes. 1t Is from the pen of Charles de
Kay, whose name is familiar to readers of
scribner. Three illustrations accom- pany the
article, the first of which, which showing Mod
Jeska as juliet. is incompsrably the best. A
College Camp at Lake George, by r. r. Bow.
ker, is an entertaining account of a summer
vsc.tion taken by a Company of Students aud
,s Illustrated by +. &. Church Other papers
are Buffalo Hnnt in Northern Mexico, BIZ
General Lew Wallace, illustrate by Inness,
Jrn Kelley and Bolles The Passes of the Ser
"a, BY John Muir; Lawn Planting for Small
Places, by Somuel Parsons; A Glance into Ib.
Sumner Alcove, Harvard Library, by Kate v.
Smith; The Late George Rspp and the Harmo-
nisfs, BY D. E. Nevin; and an art paper ebti-
tied De Gasubus, by Charles l. Eastlake. The
two serials are continued, and Edward Egsle-
ston has capital paper on Some Western
Schoolmasters. There are eight poems, four Of
which are tributes to BAyard Taylor.
The FEBRUARY number of the International
Review contains timely articles on arr, COM
merce, history. biography, science and litera-
ture, BY writers Of note in France, Grea.
Britain, Germany and America. Mr. Hsmer-
and American paintings at the Paris Exhibition
of 1878 He particularly describes and criti.
cises the paintings Of such English artists as
the Landseers, Millais, James Macbeth, WAITE,
Burne Jones, Walter Crane, Sir Frederic
Leighton, Mr.. Calderop, Mr. Wells, MI, Brett.
Vieat Cole, Mr.. Herkomer. 10 another article
he will notice American artists. Professor
Trowbrdge tells us what is TO become of our
Gas stock in the presence of electr city and
other disturbances j. Il Diss Debsr describes
from personal recollection the first commune
in Paris. The story is ore that can be read
with profit in the light Of passing events and
future prospects, Karl Bind, the great hu-
msnitsrisn, who would unite Europe into
states, like the United States Of America, con.
cudes his very interesting ard com plete &C.
count of the views Of Mazzini on Russia and
the East basel upon his own recollections.
Edwin Q. Taylor gives q noticeable proof Of
the progress of American industry and art in
the ncroschments on English and Continent.
al manufacturers by American silversmitbs.
His article, An American Wedge, is full
of the enthusiasm which marks the
progressive spirit. Mr. Barnett Smith rs.
views Robert Browning. and places him in
new and attractive light btfure students Of
Eugllsb literature. Pfofestor Henry Calder
wood, of the University cf Edinburgh, COL :
tributes to this number a very interesting siuty y
OF the Expression OF Emotious in the Human
CounteDance, which will doubtless be the frst
article readers Of the Revitw W will open TO, not
withstandlng its place at the end. TIE de-
partmeHt of coDtemporary literature Is full and
strong, covering wide range of thought and
illustrating the literary movement in England,
France and Germany. This number clcs-s
t series of the Review over which MIR. 81. B.
Barnes has presided as sole editor With
March, the new editors, Messrs Morse and
Lodge, will be associated with MIR. Barnes,
The Review, price 30 cents number, Sc. 90
year. will be sent to any address, on receip, of
price by the publishers, A. S. Barnes s. Co.,
New York.