The Portland daily press., 1879-06-23

st. Nicholas for July has eight extra pages
and more than eighty illustrations It opens
with country story, Dru's Red Sea, illus
trated by Walter Shirlaw with picture.
Next comes Nid-Nodding, summer poem by
Lucy Larcom, followed by an illustrated ac-
count of cod-fishing from a small row-boat on
the Banks of Newfoundland. Farther on
comes Blown Away, thrilling story, with
spirited picture OF a railroad incident. Boys
and girls both will take interest in the paper
entitled How to Make Hammock, with its
ten plain diagrams, and clear descriptions of
the process Blossom-Boy of Toxic, an article
by Professor William Elliot Griffis, tells of the
curious ways of japanese children, and con-
tains thirty-two drawings by japanese artists
in their odd style. Mr.. NIoncure d. Conway
contributes a story--The Child and the Image
suggested by an actual occurrence and Illus
trated with two pictures by w. j. Hennessy.
The Fourth of July element finds expression in
a stirring Patriotic March, piano piece for
four little hands, composed by William X.
Bassford; in Rattle-te-Bang, verses with
huzzas and drum-bea in every line; and in
Hay-foot! Straw-foot an amusing picture Of
the drilling of an awkward squad Of recruits
Glories, by Sarah Winter Kellogg, with seven
of Addie Ledyard's pictures, nsrrates the
happy fun of two children in a game with
morning-glory blossoms. A Jolly Fellowship,
Frank Il. Stocktons serial story, takes its
heroes through an exciting diving episode, and
leaves them aboard q burning ship; and Eye
bright, the continued tale by Susan Coolidge,
brings its chief character to the threshold Of an
adventure in a sea-cave
Probably the most important feature of tie
July Scribner land one to be continued in the
Midsummer Holiday number) is the reprint of
the celebrated engravings, made several years
ago by Mr.. Henry Marsh, for Harris's Insects
Injurious to Vegetation, a volume issued by
the Massachusetts, State Board of Agriculture,
and necessarily at such expense as to put it
beyond the reach of the general public An
other illustrated paper in this number, The
American on the Stage, deals with theme
not before treated in the magazine, the differ
ent attempts to portray distincively American
characters. The author of this paper, Mr. j.
B. Matthews, traces the rise and decline of the
Stage Yankee, and other types in the imper-
sonations of Wignell, Hill, Hackett, Chanfrau,
Owens. Jefferson and others. This paper has
much variety both in text and IN the charac-
ter-drawings which accompany it. The raaas
| OF the writers of good short stories receive a
new accession in Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the
artist, whose first printed effort in this line sp-
pears in this number. Her story, Friend Bar
toms Concern, deals with the Quakers. For
new readers of Scribner, an additional interest
is lent to the concluding part of Madame BONA
parties Letters from Europe, by the publicG-
tion OF the stuart portraits ii iAe writer and
her husband, which were printed in seribner
some years ago, and which any one who ha.
read these letters win be glad to see. The
third paper of the Brazil series is devoted to
an Indian Village on the Amazons, which is