The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-25
Magazine Notices.

Tie element of timeliness which is found to
some extent. in every number of Scribner's
Moathly, particularly noticeable in the Jnne
ssuc, just published. The first paper to be
turned to by most readers will, perhaps, be
the second part of Col. Warnings Sanitary Con-
dition of New York, entitled The Remedy,
and recommending complete system of house
and street drainage, applicable to any house or
locality. Tho opening article is description
by r. W. Glider, of The Farragut Monument,
designed by Augustus St. Gaudens and about
to be erected in Union Square, New York. In
connection with this subject is An August
Morning with Farragut-a vivid account of
The great admiral's famous victory at Mobile,
BIZ Lieutenant J. c. Kinney, who was on
boaT'l the Hartford throughout the
fg'.t, and tolls the true story of
the lashing His account is confirmed
and supplemented in letter in the S ine num-
Der from Commander j. Crittenden Watson,
who was also an officer under Farragut. Other
papers which come under the head of season
able" are brief sketch of the late Earl of
Beaeonsfeld, accompanied by full-page por-
trait, engraved by Cole, together with an I'M
published sonnet written by Disraeli in 1899; a
brief biographical and critical sketch of the
artist Bastien Lepage, illustrated with por-
trait from has relief in bronze, by Augustus
ST Gaudens, and a full-page engraving by
Cole of the principal figure in Lepage's paint
ing, Joan OF Arc listening to the Voices.
which attracted so much attention
at the recent exhibition of the So
ciety of American Artists in New York;
scholarly review of the Revised New Tesla
ment, just published, by Prof. Fisher, of Yale;
The Westminster Play, description of one of
the annual Latin plays for which the Westmin-
lister school is noted. Some New Berries, in
Guiding late news from the fruit world, by E.
P. Roe, with three illustrations of nat
ural size; also, a paper on Practi-
cal Horticulture, by Peter Henderson, the
weli-known foriculturist with numerous IL
lustrations by Brennan and others. Lovers OF
light reading will find plenty to interest them
in this number. There is the opening install
ment of several pages of A Fearful RESPONSE
bility, by w. d. Howells the Fearful respen-
sibility" being an American girl); A Rainy
Day with Uncle Remus,-ive new fables told
in his inimitable style, by Joel Chandler Har-
ris; the second instalment of George w. Ca
ble's Madame Delphine, which is full of ac-
ton; Fritz, a bright history of pet bird:
Along the North Shore of Long Island, de-
scribing canoeing trip by Charles III. Farm
ham, with charming Illustrations by Wander
hoof and Lungren; description of lobster-fsh-
ing and lobster-canning, contributed by W.
III. Bishop, with illustrations by J. G. Beard
and Burns; travel article, by Miss Gordon
Cumming, giving account of visit to The
Largest Extinct Volcano in the world with an
illustration of the crater Among the poems
are Sic Semper Lberatoribus! ION the dead
Czar), by Emma Lazarus; Farragut by Charles
de Kay; Latitude Unknown, by FL. H.,
keenans Charge Charlottesville, May
1868, by George Parsons Lathrop, and Po-
ems from Scrap-book, by Edith M. Thomas,
the unusual quality of whose work has sug-
gested to the editor the reprinting of eight-of
her poems from newspapers