The Portland daily press., 1879-01-23
CALHoUNIsM seems to have strong grip
IN the Democratic party still.
Magazine Notices.

Magazine Notices.
St.iNicholas for February contains the first
installment of Eyebright, Susan Coolidge's
new serial story, which will be illustrated
throughout by Frederick Dielman, and will
end with the current volume. FL. H., contrib
utes poem, The Shining Little House; and
Augusta Larned skillfully gives the boys and
girls peep into ancient Icelandic literature In
short poem entitled Heimdall, accompanied
by valuable explanatory notes. Julian Haw-
thorne's fairy tale-Rumpty- budgets Tower
still continues. The present installment is IL
lustrated with two pictures by Alfred Fred
ericks The number opens with A Story of
Stone, lively short article written by Pro-
fessor D. s. Jorden, of Wisconsin, on curious
scientific subject. Its contrast is found a few
pages op, in Mr. Hopkins funny drawings of
subjects in Unnatural History. Famous
violinists, and the make and history of the
violin, are treated of in two graphic, fully il
Illustrated articles, es,-Little Nicholas, aud how
he Became a Great Musician, and About
Violins Lucretia P. Hale tells how her funny
Peterkin Family bravely but blunderingly met
disasters that came to them through having
several "Modern Improvements in their new
house" There are seven fine short stories all
finely illustrated, some bright and full of ad-
venture, some pathetic and touching in the
extreme; and their subjects comprs,,-a hair.
breadth escape from Rhiuoceros in Sou h
Africa,-the rescue of an old man from snow
drift by two little boys,-ths confusion made in
Sunday-school by Polly Hersey's Pet,-a
curious Nest on Wheels,-a poor little factory
girl Of Manchester, Eugland,-Origin of the
jumping Jack k,-and little girls experience
in keeping a journal.
The February or Midwinter Scribner opens
with frontispiecs portrait fcom life of R. W.
Emerson.-.he fourth of the series of large por-
traits in this magazine drawn by Wyatt Eaton
and engraved by 7. Cole, the subjects of the
others being Lincolo, Bryant and Longfellow.
Accompanying the portrait is paper on the
Homes and HAunts OF Emerson, by f. B, San
born of Concord, embodying considerable ma
terial never before published. Among the il
lustrations are views of Concord, Walden Pond,
the Old Manse, and Emerson's present home,
all BY Homer Martin (who here appears for the
first time as an illustrator); and the poets IL
brary and Interiors of the Old Manse by Lath-
rop and Riordan. Twenty-Five pages are
awarded in this number to the long-promised
adventures of The Tile Club at Play, the occa-
sion of the paper bsing the excursion of the
club to Easthampton, L. l., which is described
in the text by W. M. Lsffsn and Edward Strs-
han, and in the pictures by the entire club, in
cluding Abbey, Rsinhart, Hopkinson Smith,
W.If D,rio f.rJ ,Hx.I
Qaartley, besides the two writers of the &C
count, and O'Donovan the sculptor, the four
engravings ftom whose modelings in clay form
one of the most unique features ia recent mag
azine illustration. A noteworthy example of
this sort of work is the portrait of John How
ard Payne as a boy, engraved By Henry Marsh.
The second of the Johnny Rsb Papers is
devoted to The Fortunes and Mlsfortunes
of Co. "C''-being the narrative of actual
experience in the Confederate army. A
half-humorous, half-serious paper On Aerial
Navigation, by the poet Stedman, contains q
review of the history of the subject and many
practical suggestions toward the working out
of the problem, the writer venturing the SAN
Suine prophecy that the world is on the eve of
its successful solution. Mr.. Stsdmau repro
duces in calculation of his theories number OF
his own designs for motors. made many years
ago. Tie article and the Inventions have al
ready received the commsndaton of most
eminent engineer and expert. Russell Sturgis,
the New York connoisseur, and ths author of
the paper on Cruikshank in the July Scribner,
writes of another English caricaturist, John
Leech, and a variety of his best drawings (from
Punch and elsewhere) are reproduced in Illus
tration. The fourth of John Muir's studies in
the Sierras is printed this month, dealing with
the Glacier meadows, little-known feature of
the range which Mr.. Muir's fresh style invests
with unusual charm. In fiction, the number
contains the fourth installment of Mrs. Bur-
nett's Haworth's, with illustrations; the sew
enth of Mr. Boyesen's Falconberg, which will
end in April; Potts Painless Cure, an ingen-
ious short story by Edward Bsllamy; aud The
Doom of Claudius and Cynthia, curious ex-
pertinent in romance, by Maurice Thomson.
Other papers are: A Symposium on the Chi
nese Question. by A. A. Hayes, ir, who has
collated the opinions of distinguished represen-
tative men, including All Lee, Hon. Phelm
McFinnegap, Mons. Alphonse de la Fonsaine,
Herr Isaac Rosenthal and others: a second
paper Of new anecdotes of parsons, by Rev.
Edward Eggleston, entitled To the Clergy, and
an essay on The Relations of Insanity to Mod
ern Civilization, by 81. P. Stesrns, of the Hart
ford Retreat for the Insane. The poetry of the
number has great variety, embracing Mr.. R.
q. Stoddard's epicedium on Bryant (The Dead
Master) and poems by T. W. Parsons, L. Frank
Tuoker, Charles De Kay, Joel Benton, Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop, Andrew B. Ssxton. R. W.
Glider and II. G. Bunner (verS de societe)