The Portland daily press., 1885-08-03
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Midsummer Holiday number of the Centu-
ry with an account by Henry Eckford, of life at
Camp Grindstone,p the summer meeting place
for games and races of the American Canoe Asso-
citation, in the Thousand Islands. 1t is profusely
illustrated by w. A. Rogers. w. ID. Howells writes
of his walks through Siena illustrated from Pen
nells etchings and pen-and-ink sketches some OF
them of full-page size. A portrait of William
Lloyd Garrison, engraved by T. johnson from a
life-size photograph in the possession of the Gar
rison family, is the frontispiece OF the number;
there is also an interesting group portrait of Gar
rison, Wendell Phillips and George Thompson,
His son, Wendell Phillips Garrison describes the
origin of the great anti-slavery advocate. and his
SON Francis Jackson Garrison recounts his boy
hood. These papers are introduced by Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, who characterizes the agi-
tation which preceded the Civil War and gives
his views of Gamisons personal qualities Ken
yon Cox furnishes a number of charming deeora-
tons and initials to Ernest Whitney's poem, The
Glory of the Year. The papers on Typical Dogs
this month include The Water Spaniel The Collie,
The Fox-TeTier, and The Scotch Deerhound
The fiction of the number embraces A Story with
a Hero, by James I. Mckay, the concluding part
Of Silas Lapham, by W. d. Howells, and the sew
enth. part OF The Bostonians, by Henry James.
paper On bookkeeping Present and Future
Is contributed by George lies. OF timely nature
also is Henry Kings suggestive paper with map
on The Indian Territory-wllat it is, and what ii
should be. The August contribution to the Cen
fury War Series, besides Mrs Burton Harrison's
recollections Of A Virginia Girl in the First Year
of the War, which has story interest also in its
picture OF Southern ways, and its amusing anec.
dotes of civilian life in camp contains papers by
itz ,r,t.a
Of the Seven Days Battles-and another chapter
from the Recollections of Private, both being
illustrated
st. Nicholas for August is a great out-of-dool
number. The first story, illustrated by a fronts
piece picture by r. B. Birch, is entitled, Little
Dame Fortune. Helen Gray Gone goes will
us into the woods and sings about String o.
Birds Eggs; Mrs Frank NJ. Gregory up among
the Catskills explains how some children there re
versed the seasons and went Coasting in August
Laura E. Richards takes us for A Pleasant Wall
in the fields and Grace f. Pennypacl1er poetcally
lnterprets to us What the Flowers Said TheI
Mary Halock FooteigiVes us a Whit of salt air il
A Constitutional on the Beach,, where we cal
watch the flight of The Great Blue Heron witt
Celia ThaXter make A Water-museum under The
direction OF G. E. Claiming, or go in bathing witt
The Brownies at the Seaside. The installments
OF the serials too. all take us into the open air
E. T. Roe, in Driven Back to Eden, a-harvestins
on the Hudson; VIM. M. Baker, in Sheep or Sill
yer? at one jump from grazing in Texas to pros
pecting in Colorado; and,J. T. Trowbridge, in Hi.
One Fault stops us in the midst of a pleasan
drive to let Frank c. Stockton for change O.
seene transport us in his Personally Conducted
party TO Little Pisa and Great Rome After tina
we can rink in imagination by looking at Jessi
Curtis Shepherds roller skating pictures cool OF
with Lieut.. Schwatka and The Children of TIL,
| Cold, and hear about Beethoven from Agath;
Tunis. Then, if we are Ready for Business, w
can still stay out-ofdoors and learn to be House
builder. Last of all, Jack-n-theP Pulpit win tell
who won the Fifteen Owners Wanted prizes