The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-05-16
Magazine Notices.

Harper's Magazine for June begins the
fifty-ninth volume and the thirtieth year of
that periodical. To a new generation of read
ers it appears in new dress-in larger type,
and wider page. This is the third change
which has been made in the type of the Maya
zine-each being an Improvement The con-
tents of the June number are especially at
tractive. They bring about the reader the at
mosphere of summer days They are brigh
amusing and restful. There could hardly be
more enjoyable reading than Mr.. w R. ODon-
ovan gives us in his Rye and Round There
illustrated with Mr.. Abbey's charming draw
ings beautifully engraved. This opening ar
ticle is followed by graceful full-page picture
by Abby illustrating Herrick's lines Upon
Virgin Kissing Rose. Then by way of con-
trast, we are taken beyond the Red River of
the North into that mysterious land of magni-
ficent distances the territory of the Hudson
Bay Company and brought face to face with
thu fur traders, the half-breeds, the trappers,
and their picturesque life. From Nature we
turn again to pictures and scenes of greater
human interest in Olive Logan's Grand DAYS
of Hstrionics, illustrated with portraits of Anne
Oldfeld, David Garrick, Peg Wellington, Miss
Rich, (Hogarth's god-daughter,) John Kemble,
Mrs. Jordan, R. w. Elliston, Edmund Kean,
and Dowton--many of these being reproductions
of paintings by distinguished artists
Another descriptive paper, finely illustrated,
is by Howard. Pyle-the second of his Peninsu-
lar Canaan series, treating the Maryland coun-
ties on the Eastern shore. e. P. Whipple con-
tributes paper, entitled Recollections of Ag-
ASST; and going back to our early history John
Esten Cooke gives an interesting sketch of AL
exander Spotswood, of Virginia, the old Coloni-
al Governor, who fought the Burgesses, hanged
Blackboard, the pirate, and established the
order OF the knights of the Horseshoe. Phebe
Earle Gibbons "chiel' who has been in
France "takin notes, prints some of them in
very interesting paper, entitled The Citizen
OF Paris. In fiction, besides Miss Mulock's
novel, Young Mrs. Jardine, there are two short
stories-Black Point, by Constance Fenimore
Woolson, and "The Last of the Chang-Maos,
by A. A. Hayes, Jr. Two new serial novels
are promised, to begi in the August number
White Wings, Yachting Romance, by Will
liam Black, and Mary Annerley, by R. d.
Blackmore. Colonel Warning contributes brief
but practical and very important paper, with
six illustrations, entitled The Draining of a
Village. The editorial summaries SATISFACTORY
ly cover their respective fields, with timely
gossip, literary comment, scientific fact, and
lively humor.
The numbers of the Living Age for the weeks
ending May 10 and II, respectively, contain
the following articles: Memoirs and Charters
of the Lennox, Edinburgh Review; Cobbett,
Cornhill; Biography, Travel and Sport, Black
wood; Residual Phenomena, Frazer; Count
Leo Tolstyoy's Novels, Nineteenth Century;
Burma, Fortnightly; The Umbrella Bird,
Hatter's Gazette; Science and Faith, Sir A.
Panizzi, Henry James, Jr.'s Ideal of Ameri-
can Character, and Earthborn Meteorites,
Spectator; Uphill Work, and His
torical Casuistry, Saturday Review; with fur
Their chapters of Jean Ingelow's Sarah de
Berenger; Jerome Bongrand's Heresey, a
. Tale about Priests; aud among other poetry,
Tennyson's Defence of Lucknow.