The Portland daily press., 1890-03-06
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MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The American Amateur Photographer for Feb.
ruary has for frontispiece, photograyeure O.
production Of Mr. J. E. Dumont's latest picture
Hello Mr.. A. PEBBLES Smith writes on Modified
Coliodion Emulsion, and Mr. F. G. Beachs paper
Camera Shutters, read before the New York CAM
era Club. is printed with numerous illustrations.
=; A H:sitnerington mas paper on Photography
is OF the Cincinnati Club illustrated with thee
portraits OF their rooms. The usual amount of in
teresting Society News, Correspondence, Queries
and Answers, etc., is also given.
The Magazine of Art for March would be a M T.
able number II for no other reason than for the
excellence Of its frontispiece. This is copy, by
photogravure process, of Charles jacques The
Return Of the Flock Moonlight. Another page
illustration is an engraving on wood OF A German
Lady, Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the
Duchess OF Kent. The opening article is on Cur
rent Art. and the subject is illustrated with
Ing pictures recently exhibited In London, among
them full page OF Frank ID. Millets latest paint
ing. Rock and Pigeon. M. H. Spiemann has an
interesting paper on Artists and Art Critics being
the eighth In the series Of Ghmpses Of Artist Life
Lesson I'm Ornament, by Lewis f. Day, tells by
pen and pencil what the vine can do in the way Of
decorative art. Ford MADDOX Brown writes of The
National Gallery.
The most striking pictures which have appeared
in the Joseph Jefferson Autobiography accom-
pany the present (March) instalment. The front
ispiece is fu-ength portrait of jefferson as DIR.
Pangoss, there being six large portraits in yaril
Gus character. Jefferson tells for the first time,
from his point of view, of the great success Of
Our American Cousin, in which he created the ia
nous character Of Asa Trenchard, and Mr. So
thern that OF Lord Dundreary. Three very timely
and important subjects are treated In The March
Century by specialists. The first is the subject Of
ing the workings of the local government of GIas-
gov, one OF the worlds model cities in this re-
spect. The subject OF Irrigation is treated in the
nrst OF series OF three articles by Professor
Powell, the Director of the United States GeOl0gi-
cal Survey. The third great subject is discussed
70 paper by Professor Fisher on The Nature and
Method OF Revelation-the concluding one in his
very timely series. This number Is also notable
ior the beginning OF the most authentic and orIgi-
nal account VT published OF the Prehistoric Re
mains in the Ohio Valley. In the ext number OF
The Century, Professor Putnam will describe the
famous Serpent Mound. the present paper being
an Introduction to the April article. Tie follow.
ing are the contributions in fiction: Mrs. Bars
Friend Olivia, the conclusion of MIR. Stockton's
Merry Chanter a story by James Lane Allen
called Posthumous Fame or a Legend of the
Beautiful; another by Richard Malcolm Johns on,
Illustrated by Kemble entitled The Self Protec
ton Of Mr.. Litueh. Raaah- -te-fast
Marehhatiks, by Miss Roseboro', with pictures by
George Wharton Edwards.
The March st. Nicholas begins with an excit-
Ing adventure, On a Mountain Trail, told by
Harry Perry Robinson. Two miners fight a pack
of ravenous wolves with dynamite, blowing the
DiusOo INV Whdt tuC UOyo Cdli -'SIultnoTe6nS." A
delightful storyis Jacks Cure, by Susan Curtis
Redfeld. W. A. Rogers has drawn the excellent
illustration to this story. Mrs. Preston tells Of
George and Nellie Custis, the children of Mount
Vernon, who seem to have been not so essentially
different from our own boys and girls. Alice
Maude Ewell depicts for us Virginian comedy
OF the old days when housewives were ducked for
gossiping. Another of Mr.. Elbridge s. Brooks's
young amateurs, and In Friends or Foes? they
Will find excellent dramatic effect, adapted to
elaborate or impromptu representation. There
are three natural history articles: Mrs. Sand
ham describes The Crows Military Drill prepare
tory to migration; Ernest E. Thompson protests
against that slanderous name. The Screen Owl;
and Z. M. Harding has timely sketch called
Mother Natures Babes in the Wood, wherein the
preservation and provisioning of the germs of
spring vegetation are described clearly scien-
tifcally and In the interesting way which, to say
the least, not all botanists attain.
Harper's Magazine for March displays a va
riety and an excellence that cannot be adequately
described in general statement. II 1t did not
contain practical article of public Importance,
descriptive article Of commercial significance, a
sketch of scientific interest, picturesque paper,
number Of striking stories, and valuable edito.
rial comments, it might be truthfully called Fine
Arts number; for Anne Thackeray Richie con-
tributes an essay upon the modern apostle of art,
John Ruskin, supplementing, by personal remi-
niscences, sympathetic poItraiture. and bio
graphical details, DR.. Waldstein's critical article
upon Ruskin In the February number of last year
Theodore Child offers critical and historical
note upon The Winged Victory of Samothrace,
illustrated by photograph of this masterpiece
and decorative designs, IN the Greek spirit, by
Luc Olivier MersOn; DIR. Wadstein publishes for
the firsl time, an account OF The Restored Head
Of Iris In the Parthenon Frieze; IL. Z. Krehbiel
offers few hints for the enjoyment OF musical
art, explaining How to Listen to Wagnet's MI.
sic; and III the editorial departments both
George William Curtis and William Dean How
ellis take up to pics Of interest in tie domain of
literary art, the former recalling "reminiscences of
The late Robert Browning. and the latter discuss
ing the alleged dearth of American authors. Re-
sides these contributions To the literature Of the
Fine Arts, appear the other contents already
limited at. Gen. Wesley Merritt U. s. A., con-
tinues the series of articles on modern armies
with The Army OF the United States, illustrated
by X. f. Zogbaum.