The Portland daily press., 1886-07-09
MAGAZINE NOTICES.


every way a remarkable number. 1t opens with
brilliant instalment OF MIR. Warmers summer
serial Their Pilgrimage, made still more delight
full by Mr.. C. s. Remnants Illustrations In DR..
Richard Wheatly's paper on the New York Pro-
duce Exchange, we have one Of those strong, con-
else, yet comprehensive, articles which are a
characteristic feature of Harper's magazine.
She Stops to Conquer with the exception of the
Epilogue, which which will appear in the August
number, is concluded, with three fullpage Illus
trations by Edwin A. Abbey. For the most part
the illustrated articles of this number take us
out-of-doors. This is notably the case with War
ners story; Blackmore's charming novel, Spring
haven; Mr.. William Hamilton Gibson's Singing
Wings beautifully Illustrated from the authors
drawing's; and Mr.. Henry 2. Wellss Salmon
Fishing. Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller's curious
sketch, A Night Monkey in the House. illustrated
by j. c. Beard is an indoors study, but a remark
able chapter in Natural History. The glorious
Fourth" is fifty concentrated in Mr.. Ballard
Smiths pape., The GuDpowder for Bunker Hill,
effectively illustrated by Howard Pyle The
frontlspiece to the number is an entirely new por-
trait OF Nathaniel Hawthorne, the story OF which
is told in the Editors Easy Chair. In this num-
Der is begun Dr.. Richard I. Elys series of Social
Studies. L. p. Roe contributes the fifth of his
series of papers The Home Acre Bonnie Maman
is a very novel and Stiking short story by Grace
King, new Southern writer OF great promise. A
clever short story, entitled Dirt Pies, is contrib
uted by the author OF GeAlinl.
The July number of st. Nicholas is not lacking
in patriotism, and opens with interesting
sketch of Lafayette and his two visits to America,
which is in a way supplementary to Horace Scud-
der's George Washington. this months chapters
of which deal with the Conway Cabal, Valley
Forge, and Monmouth, in which Lafayette took a
prominent part. An account of very high and
remarkable fag-raising is contributed by Dan
Beard, in Captain Jacks Fourth Of July Kite.'
The leading feature of the number, however is
undoubtedly the first installment of Rose Latti-
more Alling's short serial, Mans Revolt. Ripley
Hitchcock has a timely article on Fly Fishing for
Trout. in which he shows how boys and girls can
become proficient in this attractive sport Among
other prominent features of the magazine are the
entertaining chapters Of Little Lord Fauntlery
with startling development; an exciting Install
ment OF j. T. Trowbridge's Maine coast story,
The Kep Gatherers; some more notes on Won
ders OF the Alphabet, and Ready-for- Business
article on bodybuilding as an employment for
American boys. Palmer Cox tells about the
Brownies in the Menagerie; and other poems.
verses, stories, Sketches, and illustrations are
contributed by Mary Hallock Foote, Alfred Bren-
nan, Frank Dempster Sherman John H. Coryell,
+. Ii. Lungren, Grace DEMO Litchfield, Malcolm
Douglas, Rev. Charles r. Talbot and others.
In the July Century the illustrated papers are a
double article on Cross-Country Riding in Ameri-
ca, by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot
Lodge Home Pigeons, a finely illustrated accoun-
rier-pigeons A Day in Surrey with William Nor
ris; the English poet artist and socialist, by Miss
Emma Lazarus and Mrs. Schuyler van Rensse-
laer's third page on American Country Dwellings.
AS usual the War papers are profusely illustrat-
ed, the first of them being conclusion to the
Antietam articles of the previous number and, I'M
der the title the Wake of Battle, giving a wonl-
ans recollections of Confederate hospital work at
Shepherdstown during Antietam week. Three
other papers deal anecdotally with the capture of
New Orleans. Captain Beverley Kennon, who
commanded the Confederate steamer, the Gov
ernor Moore, gives thrilling description of the
fighting and loss of his ship; Commander Albert
Kautz, then lieutenant on the Hartford, de-
scribes, Incidents of the Occupation of New Or
leans, and Marion A. Baker, then the mayors pri-
vate secretary, treats the same subject from a
Confederate point of view. In Memoranda on the
Civil War, p. ID. Haywood, at the request of the
editor, gives brief account Of his experience
afloat and ashore. General William +. Smith
writes of General George III. Thomas at Chatta-
nooga, in answer to General Grants article in the
Century for last November; and I'll. Taylor con-
tributes stirring poem, entitled The Man with
the Musket. France and Indo-China, by Angus
tine Heard deals with the causes and fruits of the
recent French war in Asia; and Rev. Leighton
Parks, in A Bozu of the Monte Sect describes a
visit to monastery of one of the Buddhist sects
of Japan. The Labor Question is ably treated
from the point of view of Western manufacturer,
by Edward L. Day; while Theodore /. De Winnie,
who prints the Century and st. NicholuS gives his
views on the question of Cooperation There is
also letter the industrial question by William
Morris. Mr.. Howells contributes the sixth in
stallment of his new novel, The Minister'S Charge.
No article in the July number of the Atlantic
will attract more attention than the AutOcrats
engaging description of his first visit to Europe.
more than fifty years ago. DR.. Holmes has writ
ten nothing for a long time more charming in quail
ity more thoroughly characteristic. Philip Gill
bert Hamerton gives the first paper OF his series,
French and English. George Frederic Parsonss
vigorous, clearly reasoned and extremely sensible
paper on The Labor Question is timely contri-
button. John Fiske has another noteworthy arti-
Gle relating to the time of confusion and almost
bankruptcy succeeding the Revolutionary War.
The Princess CaSamassima grows absorbngly in
tereSting. There are inStallmentS of CraddOck'S
In the Clouds, aud Bishops The Golden Justice,
and good short story, Sibyl the Savage, by Mrs.
Champney. There are, of course, some excellent
literary articles, the most noticeable being Miss
Preston's admirable paper on Ouida.
The contents of the Princeton Review for July
are as follows: Recollections of Carlyle, with
Notes Concerning His "reminiscences" by
Charles Eliot Norton; The Decay of Art, by W.
j. Stillman; The Sunday Question, by Henry G..
Potter; The Clergy and the Labor Question, by
Henry W. Farnum; The Origin of Life, by Fl. w.
Conn; "reminiscences of Helen Jackson, by Louis
Frances Courtenay Baylor; An Episode, by Flora
l: Shaw The Criticisms, Notes and Reviews are,
The Home Rule Rebuff Education Bills Before
Congress, Bancrofts Plea for the Constitution,
McCosh's Psychology, John Bunyan and His Times,
and the Book Notices.