The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-04-24
Magazine Notices

The May Century presents the third OF the
five covers designed by Mr.. Vedder. The gen.
eral effect is animated, and the composition OF
the page is well arranged. The emphasis thus
laid upon the outside has its counterpart IN tie
table of contents. Here, and also accompany
ing their several contributions ian innovation
which, despite its drawbacks, seems to be
called for, and is to be permanently we find the
names of Thomas Carlyle, James Russell Low
ell, John G. SAKE, E. c. Stedman, w. D. How
ellis, Mrs. f. FL. Burnett, Miss Constance f.
Woolson, "Uncle Remus," Richard Grant
White. Emma Lazarus, Archibald Forbes, Fl.
G. Bunner Edward Everett Hale, Lang and
Gosse, the English poets, and Tooker and Sax
ton, two promising writers among the younger
poets Of this country. The opening paper is
entitled 1.-THE Canadian Mecca" the subject
being the Catholic pilgrimages to the VILLAGE of
St. Anne de Beaupre, on the st. Lawrence,
and its alleged miracle-working spring. This
is fully and interestingly illustrated by Henry
Sandman. The article is a picturesque one'
and is wrttenby DIR. W. George Beers Mrs.
Mitchell's Sculpture paper is on The Hellenic
Age, and the relations at that time of Greek
life and art are treated in popular way. The
afLlClO cOutdluS u uuuluCf VI bpdutllU1 tUSidN-
ings of the period under consideration, and the
series is likely to be of permanent value in
both text and cuts. Mr.. Richard Grant
Whites chatty papers on Opera in New York
are also likely to get between book
The present one discusses, among others. Bosio,
Alboni, Frezzolini, Salvi, and Sontag, OF all Of
whom there are portraits, the one of Mile Son.
tag being delicate engraving Of refined face
and figure. A critical paper is devoted to the
art Of George Inness, the Elder and six re-
markable engrayings, by Cole, Kingsley, Juen-
Cling, and Davis, serve to show the character
of his landscapes Carlyle in Ifeland from
the recently discovered MS, is interesting and
valuable for the light it sheds upon Carlyle in
1s49, as well as upon the ireland of that year.
Miss Emma Lazarus's reply to Nine Ragozin's
attack upon the Jews in the last number has
special significance as coming from Jewess,
and throws another kind OF light on the anti
Semetic movement in Russia. Mr.. Lowell's
contribution is a poem Enlargement, and he
is himself the subject of discriminating criti-
cal paper by Mr.. Stedman, who pronounces
him 'a poet who is our most brilliant and
learned critic, and who has given us our best
in dialectic verse, and the noble heroic ode
that America has produced,--eaeh and all
ranking with the first of their kind in English
literature of the modern time.'' The portrait
of Mr.. Lowell engraved by Kruell, and print
ed as frontispiece)i is from photograph tax
en- several years ago, which gives the more
rugged side of his character. 1t is rare that
any number Of magazine has four writers of
fiction of the total strength and interest Of Mrs.
Burnett, Miss Woolson, Mr.. Howells and Mr..
Stockton. The Transferred Ghost, by the last
named, is strictly original in idea, and noticea-
BILE for the GOODNESS with which the author
takes the ghost into the story as one of the
characters. In the departments, Topics of the
Time treats of One Parson in Politics, Jews
and Jew Baiters, and Putting Away the Path
les, New Reasons for Peace, etc. Morley's Cob
den receives an extended notice in Literature
Arthur Penn gives some Notes on Reading in
Home Society, and the Worlds Work is, as u.s.
ual, devoted to present inventions In Brio-a-
Brac, Uncle Remus sings two of his inimitable
Plantation Songs, and Walter Hayden tells
something of folklore among the Obijibaway
Indians, etc.