The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-02
MAGAZINE NOTICES.


Besides the serials, which are now
coming close to the grand transformation
scene in the fifth act, st. Nicholas has
large number of valuable papers to offer
in the September number. The number
opens with careful study of A King
without Throne, by Tudor jerks. The
life of the son of the great Napoleon is
here retold from the point of view Of a
childs interest, and Ogden's excellent
pictures make the account a very vivid
and pathetic story. Maurice Thompson
has poetical tribute to the great field
naturalist, Alexander Wilson, and there
is an interesting story of the sea by d. B.
Waggener, a clever, practical article
upon how to keep a community of ants
for purposes of study, and record by L.
E. Stofiel of the curious custom of allow
ing boy to ride upon the walking beam
of the Mississippi steamboats, in order to
draw custom for the boats. We may also
mention, as particulars worth reading,
A Kitten by Post, Mans Collecting, and
especially the bright article by Elbridge
S. Brooks, The Last Conquistador, with
Ogden's illustrations. No one will over
look Meredith Nugent's Troublesome
Model, Laura E. Richards verses Mr..
Somebody, nor John Richards funny
Mazeppa.
The September issue of Lippincott's is
a Pacific number. Every article it it
deals with topics of our western coast
chiefly California-or has been prepared
by native or resident of that favored
region. The complete novel, The Dooms-
woman, is by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton.
It is vigorous tale Of the grass era of
Spanish occupation, and depicts with
vivid brilliancy the manners, amuse-
ments, passions and intrigues of those
hidalgos and donnas who ruled the land
before it's cession. The novel is fully
illustrated. Hubert Howe Bancroft, the
distinguished historian of the Pacific
coast, furnishes most interesting ac-
count of California Eras. Next in i'm
portance is sketch CT the history of
California Journalism, by the veteran
editor, M. III. de Young. Portraits of
these gentlemen accompany their arti-
cles. W. G. Morrow describes The
Topography of California and Helen F.
| Lowe gives us literally illustrated ac-
count of A Famous Pebble Beach, that
of Pescadero. William S. Walsh dis
cusses Mrs. Atherten's Novels in the
form of dialogue between Wing and
Tory. The department AS 1t Seems,
| talks about A New Country, The Gospel
of Migration. Literature Of the Pacific,
and kindred topics. There are short
stories by Joaquin Miller, and Emma B.
Kaufman; and poems by Ina FL. Cool
| birth, Madge Morris, Martha 7. Tyler,
| Flora Macdonald Shearer, Charles War
rem Stoddard, and Nelly Booth Simmons.
Good Housekeeping for September has
as an illustrated frontispiece a poem on
Golden Rod, by the publisher of the mag
azine, Clark W. Bryan. Two serial arti-
cles are begun, Womna's Work at the
| Columbian Exposition, and Touching
the Toilet. In addition there are con
limitations of the series entitled Many
Meals for Many Millions, The Expert
| Waitress, Herbs and Simples, The House.
hold Laundry and The Food of the Peo-
Pile. These, however, form but part of
the generous table of contents, which
embraces stories, poetry and miscellane-
Gus articles, as we'll as those which relate
more directly to the work of woman in
the household. 1t is a good number of
an admirable publication.
The September Century is particularly
interesting for its fiction. A new writer
| (from the South) comes upon the scene,
John Fox, Jr., who publishes the first
instalment of a two-part story entitled A
Mountain Europa, with illustrations by
Kemble. Another new writer of fiction
Grace Wilbur Conant, appears in this
number with humorous story, Phyl-
lida's Mourning. That delightful hui
morist, Richard Malcolm Johnston, au-
thor of Dukesborough Tales, has short
story entitled A Bachelors Counsellings,
with pictures by Kemble. Still another
short story is by George Wharton Ed
wards, the artist, entitled Strange to Say,
in his quaint illustrated series OF Thumb
Nail Sketches. Mary Hallock Foote's
| The Chosen Valley, with pictures by the
author, and Henry B. Fuller's Chate-
| laine of La Trinite are continued. The
Century's musical papers are supple
mented by an article by the well known
critic, Henry E. krehbiel, on the Bohe-
milan composer, Antonin Dvorak, accom-
panied by frontispiece portrait Two
papers of American travel on unhack-
neyed subjects distinguish this number
! One of them is the first of two papers by
the young explorer, E. j. Glave, giving
an account of pioneer tour of his, with
packhorses, in Alaska. The other is a
description of the little known Grand
Falls of Labrador, by Henry G. Bryant,
a member of recent adventurous expe-
dition to that place. Along withRthese
l out door articles should be mentioned