Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-02-02

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In the Hawaiian Monthly iof February Mr..
w. O. Smith IS represented by a carefully
prepared paper on Prison, and Prison Discip.
line. previously read before the Honolulu
Social Science Association Mrs. Wyman's
interesting serial. The Five Dollar Gold Piece
is continued Unfortunate Fnnkncss is the
title Of comic shor, story Wantcd-A Party
j.. The title Of ava arueIe which ough, to set
people to thinking. The verse is about as
good as tha, OF the las, number The editorials
are interesting.
The Atlantic contains the three serial storie
\ Roman Singer In War Time, and Ncvpo,t.
It's serial OF French travel, En- Province. by
Henry James, contains a charming pen picture
OF The Country Of Aries Incident to this are
glimpses Of King Rcnes Castle Of Aniou and
peep at Tanscon the town So sIiihlly
depicted in the Adventures OF Tartarin de
Tarascou- which American readers Of Daudet
viii remember was published by Estes 4
Laurict Of Boston some few years since and
had great vogue Mr. James writes "Tar.
tarin is a hunter of lions and eharmcr Of
women mnamired Don Quixote,
with much les, dignity, bu, with equal good
faith, and the story Of his exploits is a little
masterpiece Of the light comical. But his
book was so keen a satire on the city Of Tar
ascon that "The Taraconnais declined to take
the joke. and opened the vials of their wrath
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have been better employed, they doubtless
thought in showing up the indmities Of his
own family. | am bound to add, however,
that when passed through Tarascon they did
not appear to be in the least out OF humor
Nothing could have been brighter, softer, more
suggestive Of amiable Indifference than the
picture it presented to my mind" Henry
James is at his best in this sort Of work, and
invests every region about which he writes with
an atmosphere Of realism in which, fortunately,
there is no hint of badness. In the Contrfb.
uters' Club of this number is a graphically
told visit to Worh-the great man millincr Of
Paris, the bodest autocrat Of the century.
The frontispicce OF the February Century is
the head OF a man, by Rembrant, engraved by
T. Johnson, after photograph Of painting
in the Museum Of the Hermitage, ST. Peters
burg. 1t is admirably engraved whether it
be faithful to the original or not. Titus
Munson Coan gossps Delightfully."- OF Gustave
Courbet, artist and communist. He tells anew
the story of the pulling down of the Vendome
Column in 1871. Mr.. Coan, moreover, does
more than gossip he writes some excellent
criticism. How graphic for instance this bit ;
g He did not paint for the sake Of painting !;
neither for beautys sake, nor even for the sake
of the unbeautiful-like so many,of our young
realists, English and American, who are sated
with beauty, and so devote themselves TO our
| lady OF ugliness Courbet cared for neither (;
he was born story-teler and satirist, and
he painted to tell stories and to satirize. He
told stories OF all kinds with the brush As
/ pure art, his works have little value outside
| their color. But they have a sturdy material
verify. They are free from self-consciousness,
and they tell us much about the French
country life of our time" Some good illustra
tions accompany the paper The most valu-
able article in the number rs on the new
acknowledgement " Fighting Phil Sheridan, "
as his comrades in arms loved to call him. The
article is written by Adam Badeau, the bio
grapher Of Grant. Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett has a striking poem, called A Sha-
dow. General George b. Mcclellan contri-
butes a paper on The Princes OF the House
OF Orleans.
Mr. William Blacks Judith Shakespeare
is continued in the February Harpers'. Mr..
Z, A. Abbey has made delightful illustration
OF one OF its scenes, which appears as the
frontispiecc. The other illustrated articles
are, The Upper Thames, The Possibilities of a