The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-03-10
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Harper's Magazine for March is prolific in good
things, artistic ana practical. The Art work is
unsurpassed. The gem OF the number is a sonnet
of Wordsworth's, illustrated by Albert Parsons
In Sight of the Town Of Cockemouth. The initial
article is devoted TO description of Spanish Art
and Artists in these days. Mr.. Edward Bowen
Prescott writes 1t. and gives interesting sketches
of the leading modern painters in that kingdom.
A Visit to a Colonial Estate describes what Fred
erick S. Dadiel recently saw on a plantation
called Romancoke owned by the Lees of Yir-
ginia. The fiction consists of William Blacks
In Far Lochaber-the third nstalment; Miss Lii
lies In the Red Room, which is capital study of
human nature in its most interesting phases; and
Mere Pocbette, a touching story by Sara ome
Jewett. c. H. Farnham's Canadian VOyageurs on
the Saguenay describes the wild life of the French
waterlDen who rove the woods from the ST. Law
renee to Hudson Bay. especially those 10 be
found along the Saguenay. Charles Dudley War
ner's first paper in his series on the Great West
contains vigorous, full and entertaining account
of the country we know as the Northwest. A
Little Swiss Sojourn is the final paper under title
by w. ID. Howells. Miss Anna Laurens Dawes's
(the daughter of Senator Dawes paper An I'm
known Nation, describes the progress made tow
ards civilization Ia the lndian Territory. The
Empress Eugene and the Court of the Tnilleries
Anna L. Bicknell describes the court life Of the
lady known as The ex-Empress. IT presents Eu-
genie in different light from that in which she is
usually beheld, and contains many new details OF
her lfe
The frontispIece of the March scnbner's en-
titled Butcher ENDORSED at Ligny is one of the
Illustrations of the first article, which is on the
Campaign of Waterloo. The author, John d.
Ropes. finds excuse for reviewing this much dis
cussed field from the fact that national and per-
sonal feeling have usually aueneed the descrip-
tons of the battle. Part l., which is given in
March, carries the operations along TO Blucher's
retreat after the first days fighting at Ligny.
There is another instalment of Memberships
Letters to Moscheles illustrated with autographs
and scenes of the great musicians life. The ro-
nance entitled Natural Selection comes to
somewhat whimsical end with Part III. First
Haryests, by f. j. Stnson, is carried on through
three more interesting chapters. For new stories,
Stevenson. another, The Day Of the Cyclone. by
Octave Thenet, both complete in this number,
and The Mike, by Fannie de Grift Stevenson.
For new prose articles there are two of great in
terest, A Shelf of Old Books, and the Electric
Motor and its Application. The former Is a very
entertaining talk by MIS- Field on NE private
latter by Franklin Leonard Pope, is an instruc-
tive account of the development of the electric
motor. The poetryis by Bessie Chandler. 9. 7.
Cranch, Thomas Nelson Page and Charles Edwin
Markham.
The March Century contains several features of
romantic interest. First in unjqueness, perhaps,
is Mr.. Remnants continuation OF his revelations in
regard to the Russian state prlsos the details of
which are remarkable for interest and bear every
evidence of authenticity. An interesting incident
related by Mr.. Kenn;4n is the celebration in the
House of Detention at st. Petersburg of the Cen
tennial Fourth of July. narrative paper of
thrilling detail is Captain Frank L. Morans ac-
count of the planning, mishaps, and finally sue
cessful execution of Colonel Roses Tunnel at
Libby Prison, the narrator having been one Of the
party who escaped. The article Is Illustrated.
In "The Home Ranch,' Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt
gives a continuation of his graphic papers on the
daily life of ranchman. Mrs. van Rensselaer's
paper In the English Cathedral" series is devoted
to Salisbury. Different aspects of the cathedral,
the cloisters and the closes, are presented in the
sketches by Mr.. Pennell. Mr.. Albert Morris
Bagby writes of 'Some Pupils of Liszt," with
Friedhem, Alexander Siloti, Alfred Reisenauer,
and Frauein Adele, aus der Ohe OF all OF whom,
as well as of List himself there are portraits.
paper of out-of-the-yTay biography is contributed
BY Mr. John Bgelow, in his "Franklins Home
and Host in France" the host being M. Donation
lie Ray de Chaumont. The unpublished letters
from Franklin, Adams, and others hello to COM
comprises the conclusion of Mr.. Cables "Au
Large" and thus of his trilogy Of novelties, the
other two beieg "Carancron and "Grande Pointe; !"
also Edward Egglestons novel 'The Graysons,"
in which Abraham Lincoln appears as charac-
ter; and a short story by Miss Helen Gray Cone,
tory deals with THE Call to Arms" the story of
Sumter being retold authoritatively. the narrative
being as before, with the aid of unpublished
material.