The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-05
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The numbers of Littelrs Living Age for the
weeks ending July 9th and August Sd contain
Sidney Earl Of Godolphin, Edinburgh; Mendel-
ssohn and his Music, London Quarterly; The Ru-
by Mines OF Burma. Asiatic Quarterly; A Few
More Words with the Hswaiians and Father Da
mien, Nineteenth Century; In the Balkans with
Prince Ferdinand. Fortnightly; DR.. johnson on
Modern Poetry, National; Recent Conversations
land and Her Literature In the Seventeenth Cen
tury Macmillan's; The Wife of Moliere, Gentle
mans; The Potatoes Place in History, Cornhill;
Samuel Rogers, Leisure Hour; with installments
OF Sir Charles Danyers, Dicky Dawkins: or The
Bookmaker OF the Outer Ring, and The Madness
OF Father Felipe and poetry.
The complete novel in Lippncotts for August,
An Invention Of the Enemy, is furnished by w.
Il. Babeock. The plot hinges upon the legal fight
between two inventors for the same patent, and
works up to q powerful denouement. Mr.. Bah
cock is himself patentlawyer OF note, and so is
able to give realistic picture OF the inner work
ngs Of a patent case. Mr.. George w. Childs pre-
sents the third installment Of his Interesting Rec
ullections. Charles Dickens Wnkie Collins, the
Duke OF buckingham, Dom Pedro, and many 9TH
xnoher acs 9saRar gS his nnpeer
James M. ScoyePs Recollections of Abraham
Lincoln. Mr; Scoyel had many personal inter-
views with Lincoln during rhe war period, and
tells many new anecdotes Illustrative Of the hui.
NOR and warm, fine nature Of the martyred Presi-
dent.
Wide Awake for August is an open. air number
full OF things to be done out Of DOORS geologizng
(by Prof. Frederick Starr, boating (by Miss
Quincy, and the making OF wild flower books 10y
Miss Harris)-itis pity that the bread making
which Mrs. White describes as the Boston public
school girls do 1t, could not be carried ON out Of
doors also. The number is largely written by
travellers and sight-seers. Mrs. General Fremont
describes her Camping near the Giant Trees In
early California days. Miss Risley Seward In
The Meadows at Trianon writes Of visit she
tonetts and her Court WITH Glimpse q Tbiers
and Labsulaye. Mrs. Humphrey IN Queen Mary's
Child Garden gives an account Of "a day she spent
last year on the fslet OF Incbmahome where Mary
queen OF Scots, abode for time when she was
little gill, Fishing in Tweed and Yarrow, with
merry, is a most readable fishing paper by Andrew
Lang. Then there Is touching meodious ballad
BY Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Of that saddest
Sweet Home Good insallments are given Of the
Two n serial SCI stories. FIVE Little Peppers Further
ne n y Gsass sb sidney and Syb Fairs Fair
The August st. Nicholas begins with one OF
Mary Hal'ock Foote'S inimitable drawings. 1t
contains an interesting article by DR.. Jastrow,
concerning the late Laura Brdgman, with por-
trait-a very good likeness. George Wharton Ed
wardss story, Little MeRan Light, will be found
to furnish pathos for the girl readers heroism for
the boys, and some bits OF character study for
their elders. Miss Howells already known by
her pleasing sketches, contributes bit Of verse
called Sweet Peas. DR.. Charles Robinson offers
70 matnomaticians some curious speculations as
TO the present value Of An Egyptian Girls Gold
necklace, II It'll value Is regarded as having In
creased at compound interest for over 5000 We ars
A good story to read, when the thermometer Is
nigh Is Midsummer Pirates, by Richard H. Davis,
with fine pictures by w. II: Drake, breezy story
tinctly marine flavor is A Mutlny on Gold Ship,
by Frances Stoughton Bailey with strong illustra-
Keys, by Charles f. Holder, is continued, and
there Is another OF the amusing annals Of the
Bunny Family The more solid pieces are we'll
Dance OF the Daisies, Miss Hutchins0ns Discoy-
cred, Mrs. Spofford's The Story of the Flower
and also poems, 1ingles or verses by Frank Demp-
ster Sherman, Q. B. Going, G. Mccormack Rogers
and Oliver Herford.