The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-10
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MACAZI NE NOTICES.

The CULVER for February is very good num-
Der. With the Crew of the Shaftesbury as the
title of the opening article, which describes the
life on board the training ship which now lies in
The Thames. An installment of the serial Worthy
to be Loved is followed by paper on The Mus.
cal Material of the Early Psalters, with interest
ing fac-similes of some of the old pages. The
Light of Christian Example is discussed by the
hey. 4. A. Campbell, Her Majesty's domestic
chaplain while In Scotland. Stumpy: A Christ
mas story in three chapters follows, and then
comes paper by the Rev. Hugh Macmillan on
h hhe image which Fell Down from Jupiter. A
DIVIDED Duty Is q short story with tulLpage
illustration, and then we are given The Lady
Help: From New Point of View, and a common
sense point OF view it is, too.
To be on intimate terms with one of the great
dead and one of the great living is the rare priv
iege vouchsafed by Harper's Magazine for Feb
ruary. George Parsons Lathrop contributes
Talks with Edison, affordiDg a vivid perception
of show an inventor invents,' and preserving the
kernels of many Interesting conversations about
MI Edison's early life and his progress toward
invention. James Hogg gives TO the public, for
the first time, his "reminiscences of his intimate
friend De Quincy. Mark Twain gives examples
from the awful record of A Majestic Literary Fos-
81. Lafcadio Hearn, the author of Chita, con-
cludes his new story, Youma, which is sympa-
theucally illustrated by Howard Pyle. The other
n VI eiO nupei SOuSioto Vi Two SHORT SlOTleSs
A Patonic Affair, by Hjamar III. Boyesen, and
The Twenty-ninth of February, by Brander
Matthews. Among the other contents are the
following deliberately Illustrated articles: Ben
yenuto Cellini, by Mrs Elizabeth Wormeley
Latlmer; the second and concluding paper on
Samaica New and Old, written and illustra ed by
Howard Pyle; The Lake Dwellers, by s. Il NJ.
Byers; and The New York Banks by Richard
Wheatley. This number is also notable for seven
poems, one of which is by the Canadian poet, A.
Lampman, whose work now compels recognition
in England and this country.
The frontispieee of the Magazine ofArt for Feb
ruary is beautiful etching by James Dobie, from
the famous painting by Z. j. Poynter, r. A.
| called A Roman Boat Race. The piece dee rSist-
dnce of the number, from literary standpoint. is
Mr.. Swlnburnes poem, Loeb Torridon, which,
with Its Illustrations, covers four pages of the
magazine. Following the poem is a paper on The
Art of Dry Point, by Mortimer Menpes, illustrated
| by the author All readers of the journal of
Marie BaShkirtseff i'll be interested in the paper
| OF Pers onal "reminiscences of Jules Bastien-L LIE
page. by the Prince Boiidar Karageorgewich
| first, because Bastien-Iepage is SO intimately
| associated with the last days of the Young
artist, and second, because Prince Bojdar figures
so frequently In the pages of her journal. There
are two portraits of Bastien-Lepage by himself,
and one from Robins statute accompanying this
very interesting article There is full-page re-
production of Sir Thomas Lawrence's picture of
The Countess Cover and her daughter, the Lady
the Corporation Gallery of Glasgow an article on
Artists In the New National Portrait Gallery. a
paper on Old Blue and White Nankeen China
WIN Illustrations printed in blue ink.