The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-02-28
The Magazines.

While the frontispiece Of the March number Of
the Magazine of Art may not appeal to as severe
critics as that in the February number, it will at
tract more admirers by the homely tale it tells.
Among the other articles in this fine number of the
magazine are The Madonna Ansidei, by Claude
Phillips, with two illustrations-R aphaeps famous
painting, which the British government talks of
buying for the unprecedented sum of $3.50 900;
The Artist in Corsica by E. T. Compton, with illus
trations by the author Nicolas Poussin by Richard
Heath; Portraiture in France, by r. A. M Ste
venson with illustrations after Daumier Gerard,
Lebrun, Largilliere Mignard and David q second
chapter on English Soulptured Stones, by Rev. G. f.
Browne, with nine examples; The Royal Institute;
with engravings; and poems and pictures; Tus-
can May-day, by Mary Robinson aad W. }. Hen
messy.
St. Nicholas for March opens with a frontispiece
picture of the Inauguration of President Garfield to
illustrate this months installment of Among the
Lawmakers. Another attractive SERIES entitled
The Children of the Cold, is started, to take the
place of Davy and the Goblin, who make their fare
well bow and end their believing VOYAGE in this
number. E. P. Roe, in the second chapter
Driven Back to Eden, tells the entertaining story of
how the little family of apartment jewellers jour-
neyed back to the garden-land and of their very
un-Eden-like reception. j. T. Trowbridge!s popular
serial, His One Fault. is continued. Among the
shorter stories are charming tale by Mrs. Julia
Schayer, called Lesel, Little Kline, bright story
sketch, by NJ @. Grifs, of childlife in Japan, and
clever story by Sophie SWEET, with the title, How
Santa Claus found the Poor-house and there are
other stories, sketches and poems by Louise Stock
ton, Celia Thaxter, Malcolm Douglas and others.
The March number of Harper's Magazine contains
4. &H,.,
East Angels. The illustrated articles are The
House of Orange. by Prof. W. 7. Hewitt; A Glimpse
of Some Washington Homes. by E. W. Lightner;
The Cape Ann Quarries, by Ellen Day Hale: In an
Old Virginia Town fredericksburg, by Frederick
Daniel; and The Tricks and Manners of Cat Bird,
by Olive Thorne Miller, the illustrations of which
are from drawings by William Hamilton Gibson.
The third part of the anonymous novel, At the Red
Glove; is illustrated by G. S. Renhart. John Fiske
contributes the third and last of his series of papers
on American Political Ideas entitled Manifest Des-
tiny. A paper by the Hon. John Bigelow on Jeffer-
sons Financial Diary contains a full account of
Jeferson's expenditures from 1871 to 1903. One
OF the most interesting papers in the number is DR..
a. L. Ranney's on the human brain. Mary E. Will
klnss stort story, Souvenir, is marvellous bit of
realism Other stories are contributed by Con-
stance Cary Harrison and the Rev. Canon Machray.
Among the poems, one entitled The Suecory by
new writer Margaret Deland-is especially notice
able.
Recent events lend special snterest to the open
ing paper in the March Century on The Land of
the False Prophet, by General R. E. Colston, for
merly OF the Egyptian General Staff, and leader of
two expeditions in the Soudan. Four profusely il
Illustrated articles comprised in the March con-
tribution to the series the American Civil War:
Colonel John Taylor Wood, the senior surviving
officer Of the Merrimac, describes the combat with
the Monitor as seen from within the Merrimac and
entities his paper The First Fight of Iron-Clads
This is followed by graphic account of what took
place in the Monitor Turret by the late commander
S. d. Greene, who commanded in the turret. Cen
eral Coston who, during the fight, was watching
the Merrimac from the Confederate works on
Sewal's Point describes the scene in brief paper
with the above title In the third part of the Rec
objections of a Private, Warren Lee Goss describes
the march up the Peninsular with Mcclellan.
Several subjects are treated in Memoranda of the
Civil War, notably the conduct OF General B. S.
Ewen at Bull Run. Messrs. James and Howeils
continue their respective serials. The astronomer
Langley concludes his papers ON The New Astron-
omy; Mr.. John Bigelow prints his Recollections of
Charles OConor, the famous lawyer; and Mr.
Stephen M. Allen his "reminiscences of Daniel
webster. Rev. o. B. rockingham has a striking
essay on The Worship of Shakespeare. Besides the