The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-04-29
The Magazines.


fulpage Illustrations. besides smaller ones on al
most every page. The frontispiece is a study of a
head, fac smile in color from the original by Sir
Thomas Lawrence in the British Museum. The
other page pictures are The Petition from the orig
inal BY Jossein de JoDg; The Deben above Wood
bridge. by Lance Speed; The Head of Orpheus,
from the painting by Gustaye Moreau, in the Lux
embourg gallery; and David, by the same artist
East Suffolk Memories, charming descriptive
sketch by Mr.. Sidney Colvin, Illustrated by Mr..
Lance Speed, opens the number and is followed by
AUST and appreciative biographical sketch of that
much discussed French painter Gustave Moreau. by
Claude Phillips. The Art of Periclean Athens is
dealt of by L. R. Farnell, while Richard Heath con-
hnues his amusing studies of the Fashions in
Waists. +. Mabel Robinson in her series of papers
on The Romance of Art tells us of Vasari the pla-
giarist OF Michael Angelo, while A. Mary F. Robin
son cuts Profiles from the French Renaissance. To
many readers Mr.. Austin Dobson's paper on Peg
Wellington will prove the most attractive in the
number. The poetry of the number is furnished by
Edmund Gosse and illustrated by Mary L. Cow.
st. Nicholas for May opens with an amusing and
characteristic story by Frank r. Stockton, entitled
The tricycle. of the Future with strkngly descrip-
tive illustrations by e. B. Bensel timely paper
on the New Orleans Exposition, from the stand
point OF a boy and girl who have lately visited it.
will interest their compeers; the Illustrations are
BY W. II. Goater. Mrs. S. NJ. B. Piatts sweet Irish
poem. In Primrose Time, reminds us that spring has
come again in earnest, and those who wish to take
advantage OF the fact in practical way can turn to
the Work and Play department. and follow the in
structions there given how to make House of
String. Il. P. Roe, in his farm serial Driven Back
to Eden, tells of the tasks and pleasures of spring
time; while Lieut.. Schwatka, in Children of the
Cold shows how, even in the land where winter lin.
gers in the lap of autumn the boys and girls are not
without their games and amusements. j, T. Trow-
bridges story, His One Fault, and Among the Law
makers have entertaining installments, and com.
prehensiye sketch of Handel forms the second of
the From Bach to Wagner series. Marion satter-
lees clever little sketch, Myself Another will be
OF especial interest to many young readers.
The serials in the Atlantic Monthly are all of unu-
susl interest just now The public has Just discov
cred that "Charles Egbert Craddock' the author of
that mastery novel The Prophet of the Great Smo-
ky Mountains, is delicate little woman named
Mary N. Murfree; hence the concluding chapters
will be read eagerly and critically Mrs ELEPHANTS
Story and Miss Jewetts keep up that even interest
for which their authors famous, and DIR.
Holmes's New Portfolio is bright and chatty as
ever. The poetry and snort articles are excellent
For special reasons, in the May Century, more
space than usual is devoted to the War Series. and
sixteen pages are added to the regular number 100
in order that other subjects of public Importance
should not be sighted. OF superior interest is Gen
eral Adam Badeau's anecdotal paper on General
Grant as q soldier. General Mcclellan contributes a
graphic account of The Peninsular Campaign. and
makes special reference to his official and person.
al relations with Secretary Stanton and President
Lincoln. OF peculiar interest is General Joseph E.
Johnston's Manassas to Seven Pines, which is re-
ply to Jefferson Davs's criticisms lin The Rise and
Fall OF the Southern Confederacy) on his military
operations in Virginia. 1t details the battles of Bull
Run and Seven Pines. General Imboden relates
fresh anecdotes of General Stonewall jackson and
other prominent actors in the battle; and, in CON
clusion, he throws new light on the Confederate
failure to pursue the Federal army to Washington
The fourth chapter Of Recollec,ions of Private
describes the movements which saved the Union
army from total defeat at Seven Pines. In Open
Letters an account is given, by John Leyburn. of
An Interview with General Robert E. Lee, in which
the latter discussed questions, and expressed
satisfaction over the abolition of slavery Lieuten-
ant-Commander @. F. Goodrich, in the same der art
ment OF the magazine, discusses the question of
Our National Defenses. The rescue of Greedy at
Cape Sabine is the subject of noteworthy paper by
Eusign Charles n. Harlow, of the rescue-ship
Thetis. Other illustrated features of the NAV
number are the first of series of two humorously
Illustrated papers on The New Orleans Exposition
by Eugene V. Smalley; the first of a series of pa
pers on Typical Dogs. by writer's having special
knowledge. Of fiction the May number contains a
brief story by Mrs. Helen jackson (H H.. entitled
The Princes Little Sweetheart the seventh part of
Mr.. Howellss novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, and
the fourth part of Henry James's serial, The Bos-
tonians. The poems of the number are by Edmund
Gosse. @. p. Cranch, Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates,
John Vance Cheney; and in Bric-a-Brac by j. A.
Macon, Mrs. Alice W. Rollins. Stanley Wood and
others.
There is May freshness in Harper's Magazine in
the variety of the literary and pictorial matter.
The sketches Of A Witch Hazel Copse, by William
Hamilton Gibson, are very successful in represent
ing the true spirit of the season. Scenes at home
and abroad give the impulse to several articles fully
Illustrated; Espanola and its Environs, a glimpse
Of New Mexico. by Birge Harrison; Through London
by Canal by DIR. B. e. Martin, and A Wild Goose
Chase, BY F. d. Milet. The old legal conflict be-
tween the heirs of Anneke Jams and the Trinity
Church estate is described by j. W, Gerard in An
neke Jams Bogardus and Her Farm, paper which
gives opportunity for pictures of old Dutch life in
New York. historical paper on Jersey Cattle in
America contains pictures of famous yielders OF
butter. The department of fiction is the strongest
In Its Serials though the short stories are entertain
ing. The verse treats OF spring. Mr.. Charles Dud
ley Warner sees the humorous 81 lie of the English
Deceased Wife's Sister BILL and the Easy Chair is
graceful and urbane