The Portland daily press., 1889-01-09
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Magazine of Art for January is fine num-
ber The frontispiece is spirited photogravure
from painting by r. Cation Woodville. called
Saving the guns at Mainward. The opening arti-
Gle from the pen of the well known art critic
Cosmo Monkhouse, gives a biographical and
critical sketch of the young English sculptor,
Alfred Gilbert, A. r. A.. portrait of whom shows
him to be handsome young man with regular
features and fine intellectual head. Art in the
Theatre Is the subject of the next paper, and we
are given some interesting and amusing iillustra-
tions from the work of some famous scene paint
ers: Salisbury Hall Is a description with pen
and pencil of one OF those charming and pctur-
esque old places found nowhere in such perfec ion
as in England. The second instalment of the
Liverpool Corporation Collection is as interesting
as the first, and shows that famous shipping cen
ire to be liberal patron of the fine arts VIM. G..
kossetti has another paper on the portraits of
his brother, Dante Gabriel, one by the poet him.
self at the age of 20, the others from photo
graphs. Expressions in Drapery is carefully
p pteSns ed paper By Annie Williams, for which
tons A full page engraving of Mr.. Homo
Thornycroft's statue Of Gen: Gordon in Trafalgar
Square, brings us to the notes. WIFI CHI are full as
usual and of widespread interest
The frontispieee of the January Century is
Coles engraving of the head of Christ by Giotto.
Besides this engraving there are, in the series of
Old Italian Masters, four others by Mr. Cole from
Giotto with articles by Mr.. Stillman and MIR.
Cole The long announced articles by Charles
Deksy ON Ireland begin in this number, the first
being entitled Pagan Ireland, with illustrations
OF the medieval castle at Clonmicnos, the Cross
at Monasterboice, the round tower at Ardmore,
etc. Mr.. Wilson, the photographer, continues his
series on the Holy Land in connection with the
International Sunday School Lessons The pres
ent nstalment, profusely Illustrated, is entitled
Round About Galilee. The Life of lincoln deals
with three commanding events, Pope's Virginia
Campaign, the battle of Antietam, and the an
nouncement Of Emancipation. The stories Of the
number are the continuation of MRS. Gather
woods Romance of Dollard, and of Mr.. Cables
Strange True Stories of Louisiana; also A Per-
vserted FRANCHISE, by A. g Gordon and An Old
Man from the Old Country, both illustrated by
kemble. The latter story is by George H. Jessop
author OF The Rise and Fall of the Irish Aigie in
t tiI D sSa Oen,ury An essay by Auchmuty
the subject OF American labor, entitled An Ameri-
can Apprentice system. It describes anew sys-
TEN Of apprenticeship, which the Colonel consfd-
ers suitable to American wants" and concerns
limo small degree the welfare of the nation.n Mr.
Frederic heml,nEion the artist writes and illus
KEENAN,, In an article entitled The Life of Adj
ministrative Exiles graphically presents some
astounding facts gathered by him in Siberia.
Poems are contributed by William W. Campbell.
Edith Thomas, Zoe Dana Underhill James Whit
comb Riley and Others.
In the January ST. Nicholas is published the
uISt VI Settles VI illusbIdttu DdiauS announced in
the Prospectus The Pygmy Fleet, is an anus
ing fanciful story in Sc, excellently told by Mr.
Tudor jerks. 1t is charmingly and lavishly illus
trated, or rather interpreted into pictures. by r.
B. Birch. There are more than twenty pages of
these beautiful drawings besides the frontispiece
The serial, The bells of St. Anne, by Mrs.
Catherwood, grows rapidly in interest; and Mrs
Burnett finishes Little Saint Elizabeth. The
paper on The Routine of the Republic, by Mr.
Alton discusses the office of President and the re-
lations between the Executive and Congress. A
continued story for little folk on novel plan is
called The Bunny Stories, and is written by Mr.
John II. Jewett, and eIcellently illustrated by
Culmer Barnes. Blanche Willis Howard con-
tributes breezy and invigorating
which Is Illustrated by Katha inc PYLE
James Whitcomb RELY sends sianza about
Naughty Claude; Emma A. Opper complains ia
verse OF the painful veracity OF My Uncle Peter;
Eduora S. Bumstead writes a Chrismas-tree pro.
loPue in rhyme, for which there are several pic
lures by A. b. Davies; Harriet Lewis Bradley de-
scrlbes visit to The Town OF the Pied Piper, and
there are Aztec Fragments Dy Francis, Menu by
Margaret johnson, Shinney on the ice, picture
by Lungren, another Housekeeping Song, and the
departments, including Prize Shakespearan
Puzzle in the Riddle-box.