The Portland daily press., 1885-08-25
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Cassell's Family Magazine is well named for it
is family magazine indeed. In the current mum
Der there is unusual variety. Those with dash
OF sentiment in their composition will enjoy the
frontispiece drawn by Alice Havers, representing
two young lovers. The serial Diamond in the
Rough, is progressing and increases in interest
and there is an amount of fiction in the number
that must gladden. the heart of the young reader
and the old ones too. A paper by H. Saville
Clarke gives some curious instances of Mistaken
Identity; James c. Hadden writes of Sebastian
Bach; Lizzie Heritage gives some excellent re-
ceipts for cakes, from gridde cakes to fruit short
cake. There is an interesting continuation of Our
Autograph Book, in which we are shown the sig
natures of some famous literary ladies', Miss Jane
Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Mary Russell Nit
ford. The papers describing The 'Postmen of the
World are continued, and are very entertaining
reading. There is an excellent paper called The
Right Thing in the Right Place; and then we have
the regular monthly fashion letter of the well in
formed Paris correspondent and The Gatherer.
Henry James begins a new story, The Princess
Casamassima, in the September Atlantic and the
reader will find it totally unlike anything he has
previously written. Mrs. Oliphants serial is re-
markably interesting just now, and Mr.. Warner
and DR.. Holmes give entertaining installments of
On Horseback and The New Portfolio Mr.. How
ellis has a critical and biographical notice of the
italian Leopard, and Mr.. Scudder contributes
paper on Childhood in English Literature and Art
There is a thoughtful artice-Ancient and Mod
ern Greek-on the Greek question in colleges, by
William Cranston Lawton, and under the title of
Diplomatic Episode Rev. S. j. Barrows narrates
the attempted seizure of the island of Alto velo
by the United States government. Mondamin, a
prose paper, by Edith NJ. Thomas Mining for a
MaSt0uon q oar fuI of
The Poetic Element in the Medieval Drama,
three good poems, and reviews of several impor-
tant books together with the usual departments
close the number
Harpers Magazine for September is one of the
strongest and mostattractive numbers eyerissued
First of ALL General Horace Porter's Reminiscent
ces oflGen. Grant will command the readers at
tention. The article is accompanied by an entire
ly new and exceptionally good portrait engraved
by Kruell from photograph presented by Gen.
Grant to Mrs. Thomas Mast several wears ago
The number opens withIan effectively illustrated
article on Labrador-the first two papers of which
have been prepared by c. H. Farnham. An illus
trated paper on the English publishing house of
Murray is of especial interest to literary people
The story of the pioneer settlers of Marietta,
Ohio, told by Alfred Mathews, with ample pictc-
rial Illustration The art paper of the number is
an exceedingly interesting sketch of Antoine
Louis Barge, by Theodore Child, with sixteen su-
perb illustrations. r. +. Zogbaum the artist con-
tributes an animated sketch of a march Across
Country with a Cavalry Column. In serial fiction
the two best American noVeliStS-C Constance Feni-
more Woolson and W. d. Howells- are represent
ed by their very best work in East Angels and In
dian Summer Julian Hawthorne contributes a
short story, When Haf-Gods Go, the Gods Arrive.
and there is also a characteristic short story by
Mary E. Wilkins, entitled An Old Artlmetcian,
j. 5. Billings, M. d., contributes an article of
timely and vital interest on Sewage Disposal in
Cities In many ways the most important contri-
button to the number is Charles Dudley Warmers
Impressions of the South.
The Culver for September contains two serial
stories-Molle's Madens, by Louisa Grow, author
of For Conscience Sake, Whittier Drifting &C.;
The Fortunes of Duncuft, family story, by L. 7.
Meade, author of Scamp and I--also Her Children
by Adoption; A.Sketchi in Two Chapters by Sarson
G. D. lngham; Sunday Thoughts in Other Lands
v. Florence, by Rev. j. Stoughton, D. D.; The
Beloved Disciple, his Epstles 2, by Rev. Prof
Alex Roberts. d. D.; Rejoice, the Lord is King,
new music by Roland Rogers, Mus D., organist
of Bangor Cathedral, beside much other interest
ing reading matter of religious and secular char
acter
The Magazine of Art an Illustrated magazine.
published by Cassell & Company 739 & TAI
Broadway, New York. The following are the con
tents for September: Who is it? The Dart; Buck
fastleigh to New Bridge; Daniel Chodowiecki;
Poems and Pictures: on Calais Sands; The Ro-
nance of Art A Convent Room at Parma; Unyal-
ued Liberty; The Book of Rembrandt Old Lon
don Doorways; Drawing in Elementary Schools;
Current Art; Female Head-Gear; Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries; The Chronicle of Art:
American Art Industries; American Art Notes.