The Portland daily press., 1880-04-24
Magazine Notices.

Scribner for May is full of interesting mate
rial on subjects of general or timely interest
In addition to the book notices, Literary Crit
icism is represented by Mr.. E. G. stedman's
study Of Edgar A. Poe, which touches with
keen insight into subject of never failing in
terest to Americans and will tend to revive
the general discussion of Poe. Accompanying
this paper, as frontispiece of the volume, is a
large and striking portrait of Poe, beautifully
engraved by Cole, from photograph on wood
of daguerreotype taken a year OF, two before
the death of the poet in 1849. This portrait, it
is believed, has never before been engraved
Art Criticism is represented by paper on
The Younger Painters of America, the first Of
three, by Mr.. VIM. C. Brownell. With his
are engravings of pictures by Weir, Shirlaw,
Ryder, Sergeant, Eakins, Chase, Shirlaw,
Swain, Clifford, Dielman, the younger Inness
and Church. The other papers! will fol-
low soon, and will include the most
vital work of the "new men," Mod
ern Progress is represented by the second
of Mr.. Theo l.. De Vinne's papers on the
Growth of Wood-cut Printing! most interest
ing exposition of Modern Methods by Ma
chimes, including an account of the process of
OVERLAPPING, to which much of the perfection of
machine-printing is due. History is repre-
sented by Schuylers Peter the Great. In this
line also is Principal Grants first paper of a
series ON The Dominion of Canada, devoted to
''the brave days of old" This important pa
per is remarkable for the writer's generous ap-
probation of the labor of the early Jesuits.
Both are fully illustrated. Outof-Door Life
is recorded in Burroughs's Notes of Walker,
in which he replies to criticisms on his recent
enumeration of some inaccuracies of American
poets in dealing with nature, and also in In
gersoll's Rocky Mountain Cookery, which
gives facts and figures of interest to the west
ward traveller and camper, besides readable in
cidents of adventure. Timely Topics are rep
resented by paper on Economic Defects in
Christian Missions, which will interest the
May missionary meetings. by a paper
on Congress and International Copyright,
by Mr.. E. L. Didier, recounting in popular
way the many efforts to accomplish this re-
form by legislation and by The New York
Seventh, apropos of the occupation of the new
armory. The text of this paper is BY Mr. G. G.
Buel, and the illustrations are numerous and
varied. Fiction is represented by Mrs. Bur-
nett's Louisiana, here concluded; by Mr..
Cables Grandissimes whose story of Bras
Coupe in the April installment has been COM
pared in dramatic strength to Victor Hugo and
Manzoni; and by Mrs. Rebecca Harding Da-
vis's short story walhalla." The poetry is by
Clarence Cook, Celia Thaxter, and Juliet G.
Marsh. The departments include papers by
DIR. Holland on Pettiness in Art, Information
al Copyright, and Common Sense and Rum;
Hints for the Yosemite Trip, with estimates Of
cost of ten days trip; Nerves in the House.
hold, the book reviews, some Bric-a-Brac, and
fresh department of Worlds Work, includ-
ing Western River Improvement, Centrifugal
Milk-tester, Transposing Piano, ETC., etc.
The numbers of the Living Age for the
weeks ending April 18th and Oath respectively,
contain the following articles: Hammerton's
Life of Turner, Edinburgh; Charles Waterton.
London Quarterly; Sham Admiration in Lit
erature, and Days in the Woods, Nineteenth
Century; The Marbles of Egina, Fortnightly;
Among French Friends in Burgundy, Fraser;
| The British Peerage Temple Bar; The Civil
| Code of the Jews, and Chinese Progress and
Russian Diplomacy in Central Asia, Pail Mall; /;
| Hindoo Powers of Memory, Athen@um; A
| Tidal Problem, Nature; with instalments of
Adam and Eve The Crookit Meg, and Verena
Fontaine's Rebellion, and the usual amount of
pOetry,