The Portland daily press., 1892-05-02
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

St. Nicholas for May has table of con-
tents presenting thirty-nine distinct dish
es, each of excellent flavor and well
served, but none too highly seasoned for
the healthful palate of youth. Of the
longer stories, The Conspirators, by
Emma S. Chester, is an excellent piece of
work. Prehistoric Photography, by
Tudor jerks, shows that even in the
good old times the amateur had his
troubles when he tried to make pictures.
In The Disputed Skinny Match, James
L. Ford raises a question over which
boys debating societies can spend many
profitable evening of discussion. E.
Vinton Blake, an old-time favorite of St.
Nicholas readers, tells how Rangoon
Carried Weight, an exciting race between
frontiersman's horse, double loaded,
and company of Mexican soldiers. The
number is literally besprinkled with
bright bits of verse. Virginia Wood
ward Cloud writes most POLITICALLY of
Fairy-land; Anna M. Pratt recounts
humorously A Notifying Mistake
little fun for the believers in mnemonic
systems; Gertrude Morton paints boy s
ideal in Tommy's School; Charles H.
Crandall has lyrical melody, My Trou-
badour; Amos r. Wells describes most
chameleon-like Elizabeth; and J. Ed
mund V. Cooke, new Democritus, adj
vises all to Laugh Little Bit
The vast range of topics treated in
Good Housekeeping is shown by casual
glance at the May number, which opens
with frontispiece of Grandmother S
Kitchen. Then comes paper by Miss
Parloa on the cooking of veal, story OF
The Angel of Elbow Bend, the care of
dining room and pantry, by ''the expert
waitress" how to serve a simple lunch
in two courses for small party, some
thing about corn bread as a Southern az
| ticle of diet, an extended paper on the
servant problem, the washing of bedding
and laces, the preparation and serving OF
food for invalids, the mending of stock
through fine and extensive table OF
contents. A magazine of this eosmopoli-
tan character will find a welcome in any
| home.
The May Century is remarkable for the
beginning of a new volume and of three
new serials, namely,-the life of Colum.
bus, by the distinguished Spanish orator
and statesman Emilio CASTELAR,, who, in
his first paper, considers the age in which
Columbus lived; The Chosen Valley, a
novel of Western life in the irrigation
fields. by Mary Hallock Foote, illustrated
by the author; and the architect Var
Brunt's semi-official and fully illustrated
papers ON Architecture at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition, from which the
reader will obtain fresh idea of the
magnifcence of the housing of the Elk
hibition at Chicago. In the way of shor
stories, there are two very interesting
ones, namely,-one by Wolcott Balestier
posthumousiy printed, called Captain
my Captain! a story of the town which
is the rival of Topaz in The Naulahka
and the other A Gray Jacket, by Thoma
Nelson Page. Of a particularly timel,
character is the article on Coast and In
land Yachting, by Frederic W. Pangborn
with a number of illustrations. TIL
opening paper of the number is one o
Renaissance by the painter Healy, VIII,
is residing in Paris, on Thomas Couture
one of the striking figures in moderl
French art. To speak of the serials
Hamlin Garland's Western story, Oh
Pap's Flaxen, is concluded, and furthe
instalments are given of DR.. Weir Mitch
ells characteristics, and The Naulahka
by Kipling and Balestier.