The Portland daily press., 1880-07-02
Magazine Notices.

Perhaps the most important paper and, in
view of the fact that the subject has recently
been before the New York Legislature, lone of
the most timely articles in Scribner for July
is DR.. Albert j. Leffingwell's interesting, pop
ular and scientific consideration of the ques-
ton, Does Vivisection Pay? The author
gives evidence on both sides; admits the value,
to certain extent, of the practice of vivisec-
tion, but on the whole is not in favor of inds-
criminate and sometimes cruel dissection with
out the use Of anasthetlcs. Art in this number
is represented by the continuation of Mr.. Brow
nell's careful and discriminating critique on
The Younger Painters of America The works
of the painters who are here considered have
been reproduced, and some of the illustrations
are beautiful examples of the artists and ell
graver's skill. The travel article of the num-
Der is General McClellan's account of his trips
From Palermo to Syracuse fully illustrated by
Bolles, Riordan, Lathrop and others. Perhaps
under this head may also be classed Mr.. Bish-
ops To Coney Island, the most complete de-
scription of New York's breathing place, now
so exceedingly popular, that has yet appeared.
Somewhat of a travel nature also, is the &C
count of an excursion into The Heart of the
California Alps, by John Muir. Another arti-
Gle of western flavor is Ernest Ingersolls
interesting description of The Metropolis of
the Rocky Mountains Mr.. Ingersoll is thor
oughly familiar with the city of Denver, and
as is usual with him, has done his subject JUS
tice. Peter the Great contains a curious and
interesting account of the Russian Embassies
to Vienna and Paris, the troubles with the
Turks and Tartars, and the second Crimean
Expedition. Of Principal Grants paper on
Canada: The Great Northwest, it is sufficient
to say, that if anything, it is more interesting
than the two previous articles henry Sand
lam lends his aid with illustrations as before
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, himself Norwegi-
an by birth, contributes an article with por-
traiD on the poet and dramatist of his native
land, Biornstierne Bjornson. Another timely
article, now that the opium question is before
the public, is George Parsons Lathrop's The
Sorcery of Madioon, with the view of the inte-
rior of New York opium den by Francis La
throp. In the M. E. African is a light and
amusing sketch of negro life by Miss Hop
kins, and La Sonnambula, by Laura Win
throp johnson, will be enjoyable reading for
summers afternoon. The poetry of the num-
Der is BY Edmund w. Gosse, Clarence G.. Bu-
el, Cay A. Mason and E. Allen Low. In
Topics OF the Time, DR.. Holland treats of the
West Point Affair, The Apotheosis of Dirt,
and discusses Industrial Education Again.
There is communication on The Restoration
OF st. Marks and the English Protest, suggest
ing that it is in bad taste for nation which
destroys its own memorials of the past, to pre-
tend with other nations, to be the champion of
the ''old" Home and Society touches on.tke
servant-girl question, gives hints to travellers
On Arriving in London, and continues the
Letters to Young Mothers Culture and Pro-
gress is, as usual, devoted to reviews of recent
important books, and Worlds Work contains
accounts of the newest inventions.
The numbers of the Living Age for the weeks
ending June Goth and July Sd respectively,
contain the following articles: The English
Flower Garden, Quarterly; The Backwoods of
Ceylon, Fortnightly; On Ants, Contemporary;
Fiction-Fair and Foul: by John Ruskin.
Nineteenth Century; What Shakespeare
Learnt at School, Fraser; A Lost Poem by Ed
ward Spencer, Macmillan; A Princess of the
Seventeenth Century, Temple Bar; The Civil
Code of the Jews, and The Decay of Revenge,
Pail Mall; Curiosites of Omniverous Mankind,
Land and Water; The Dynasty of the Roman
offs, Traveller; Milk for Republican Babes,
Saturday Review; David Garrick Chambers
Journal; with instalments of Bush-Life in
Queensland, The Crookit Meg and Mrs. Pierre
pont, and the usual amount of poetry.