Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-04
The study of Poetry,

The new year brings to our table two new
magazines which will be given most hearty
welcome BY all students of literature and
especially by those who delight in the muse
and find solace in the higher forms of poetic
expression of which the number seems tc
be constantly enlarging.
Poet-Lore is the title of an artistically
published and admirably edited little maya
zine devoted to the works Of Shakespeare
Browning and ths comparative study of lit
erature. Its editors are two ladies', Mis-.
Charlotte Porter and Miss Helen A. Clarke
both of whom are known as most enthusiast
tic Shakesperean students. The magazine
consists of essays, papers and discussions
coming within its range, with interesting
minor depa rtmen,s on Societies, the Study
the Stage, the Library. News and
Notes. The leading article in
the January number is by that eminent arch
aeologist, DR.. ID. G.. Brinton, entitled
"Facettes of Love: from Browning" and
one of the best in the February number is a
far too brief and imperfect sketch Of the
world renowned Shakespearan scholar the
late J. o. Halliwell-Phillipps. 1t is interest
ing to note that much of the best work APP
pearing in the pages of Poet-Lore is done by
ladies', and is always fresh, interesting and
valuable. Its reading will be stimulus to
members of literary societies and circles for
which 1t may be regarded as a special medi-
um for the interchange of thought and opin-
ion. By the way, the questions in the first
number Introductory to study of Shakes
peare may all be answered by consulting
The England of Shakespeare" by f. Goad-
by, published few years ago in little sc
cent volume by Cassell & Co., New York.
Poet Lore1is published monthly by the j. b.
Lippincotr Co, Philadelphia, at 81 so per
year
The Magazine of Poetry, is an illustrated
quarterly, the first number of which EN-
braces l25 large, double column pages, EN-
bellished with thirteen portraits, one plate
and one page of Ms. in fac smile. The
general plan of the work seems to be that OF
publishing biographical and critical
sketch of the author treated with
from two to six pages of selections
from his works. There are also depart
ments of remarkable juvenile poems, single
poems, prize quotations, current poems, notes
photography, etc. Among the writers repre-
scented in the opening number are Richard
Watson Glider, Walt Whitman, Anna kath'
crime Green, John Boyle O'Reilly, Jean
Ingelow, Henry Abby, Sarah X. Bolton and
otutEs-tut tOthi hhhhD'i
being t@enty- three. Chatterton, Pope, Poe,
Kirke White. Shelly. Bryant, Abraham
Cowley and Dora Goodale are represented
in the section of juvenile poems-all the
selections being as remarkable as familiar
With the exception of the frontispece
which is in steel, the portraits are process
plates, but generally satisfactory, that OF
Anna Green, author of the famous "Levan.
worth Case" being now for the first time
published. The work will form a repository
Of poetical and Geographic lore which will be
esteemed by all students of literature. We
learn that the first number has already
passed to a second addition. and that the
April issue will comprise portrait of
Matthew Arnold, which is said to be one OF
the most satisfactory ever published. The
typographical appearance is highly com
mendabie. Wells Moulton editor
and publisher, Buffalo, n. Y, at $500 a
year, 80 cents a number.