The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-06-06
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The New England Magazine for June is full of
things OF special interest to New Englanders but
as usual 1t contains much that is of equal interest
to other people. OF the four illustrated articles
one is devoted to Columbia College and one to the
Early Home of Henry w. Grady. The article is
by Mr.. Crawford, the Athens journalist, who has
just been called to place on the Atlanta Consti-
tuition, Mr.. Grady's paper. Still more fully illus
trated is the article on Columbia College, by Prof
Van Amringe. A portrait of President Low forms
the fr0ntspiece of The number, and there are por-
traits of President Barnard, Professor Dwight.
Francis Lieber, Professor Burgess, and much
more that Is interesting. A very charming illus
trated article is that by. Mr.. Hudson on the Home
of Ludia Maria Child. Mr.. Charles III. Payne's
article on the Great Dorr War is accompanied by
portrait Of the famous Rhode Island Democrat
new serial story IS begun in this number of the
New England. 1t Is romance of the colonial
times, entitled A Woman Of Shawmut, and opens
most pr0misingly.
Lippincott's Magazine for June Is particularly
good number. The complete novel lie contributed
by Mary E. Stickney, and is entitled Circumstan-
tial Evidence. 1t is story of the misunderstand-
ings, jeaousies and final reconciliation of young
couple, and is very bright and entertaining. Rob
ert Kennaway Douglas has an interesting article
upon The Origin of Chinese Culture and Civiliza-
ton. paper upon George Henry Boxer is con-
fributed by the eminent critic r. ii. Stoddard
Stoddard and Doher were Intimate friends, and
the paper is not only valuable as a just and fair
critical estimate OF Philadelphia's poet but also
because it contains interesting personal reminis-
cences and quotations from letters of Boxer to
Stoddard. Robert Bnrns Wilson contributes a
Fiction for the People is the title of entertain
ing artitle by Arthur Gaddard, an author who is
fiction Jeanette L. Glider Contributes an amusr
ing character sketch entitled Joy, and another
clever woman, Agnes Repplier, has an essay on
Reality In fiction. The first installment of an en-
PERTAINING series called Round Robin Talks ap-
pears in this number. Poems are contributed by
Frank Dempster Sherman and Florence Earle
Coates.
The frontispiece of the Magazine of Art fol-
June is photogravure of Hubert Herkomer's
famous painting, The Chapter of the Charter
house. 1t is very much in the manner of Mr..
Herkomers Last Muster, which is in his bes,
manner. M. III. Spielmann opens the number
with paper on Current Art which is filled with
interesting studies by well-known artists This is
followed by paper on Satsuma Ware and Its
limitations, by Masayuki Kataoka, fully Illus
trated Then comes the first of series of papers
on the National Gallery of Ireland, giving repro
auctions of some OF the best pictures. A paper
that cannot fail to attract the attention is Rhone
Sketches, by Joseph Pennell. Mr.. Penneu has
used his pencil as freely as his pen and his pages
are sown with clever sketches The Literary Re-
mains Of Albert Durer, with Illustrations, is val
liable paper, but the one with more contempora-
ry literary interest is the second of w. M. Ros-
setti's series on Portraits of Robert Browning.
There are six portraits of Mr.. Browning, from
l847 to 1883, and they will be highly priced by
his many admirers.
The American public is Lappy in having the
first laugh over Alphonse Daudet's new Tartarin
story In Harper's for June. translation usually
appears either simultaneously WITH or subse-
quently to- the publication of the original work
but In the case of Port Tarascon; The Last Ad-
ventures OF the Illustrious Tatarin the transla.
tion by Henry James, beginning as a serial in the
June Number of Harper's Magazine, VIII be pub
lisbed complete before the French public can
share in enjoying the immense drolleries of the
original Another distinguished Frenchman, the
Viconte Eugene Melcheir de Vogue, member OF
the French Academy and author of the vivid pa.
pers on Russian life in this Magazine last wear.
contributes to the same Number an account OF
what ne saw during trip Through the Caucasus
The short stories are by the bright new American
writers, George A. Hibbard and Matt Grim and
the clever artist and author f. Hopkinson Smith,
Among the other contents are: The Enemy's Dis
lance, by Park Benjamin, Ph.D., explaining Lieu
tenant Bradley A. FiSkes important invention for
range-fnding at sea by electricity The American
WIN portraits of leading actors of the past and
present; Furst Bismarck, by George MoritZ Wahl
Win plate portrait of the ex-Chancellor: The
est Governed City in the World, striking pa-
upon municipal polity by Julian Ralph; The
Dung Whistplayer's Novitiate, by Professor f.
Goodrich with diagrams, illustrating some
practice hands for beginners, and Chapbook He
r0es, picturesque article on Claude Diiyal Jack
sheppard, and Dick Turpin. by Howard fyle.
with illustrations uraWn by Tie author; Three
Angie w. Wray. '