The Portland daily press., 1893-07-03
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The July number of ST. Nicholas
comes nto view flying at the
fore the patriotic little poem, The
Ships Colors, by Helen Gray Gone,
with frontispiece by W. H. Drake.
Likewise seasonable is an affecting and
powerful story by Harold Frederic, en-
titled The Eve of the Fourth, remem-
brance of wartime boyhood and war
time love story. Even during the glori-
GUS Fourth the "White City, looms
through the gunpowder, and gives
special interest to John F. Ballantyne's
appreciative crow over. the great inland
city that is crowding the Hub of the Uni
verse toward the tire of interierity. Mr..
Ballantynes article is careful review of
the progress of the great infant phenom-
enon among the cities, and an adequate
view Of its buildings, institutions, and
parks. For those young girls who are
looking forward to college, Miss Soper's
sketch of Festal Days at Girls Colleges
will tend to make still keener the long
ing to take part in the glorious ladylike
1arks here recounted. Another season
able story-and one of the very best short
stories of children that have been recent
ly published-is Marian Gehring's An
American Citizen. Though far away in
Switzerland, the little hero contrives to
keep the fire of patriotism burning with
unfinished flame, and, incidentally, to
bring about the conversion of a. British
subject to Republican principles.
The complete novel in the July num-
Der of Lippincott's is the Troublesome
Lady, by Patience Stapleton. It is
lively and interesting tale of ranch life
in the West, and is fully illustrated. The
fifth in the series of Lippincott's Nota-
Bile Stories. also illustrated, is The Re-
prieve of Capitalist Clyve, by Owen
Wister. Other illustrated articles are
On the Way, by Julian Hawthorne,
which deals with Washington as a start
ing point whence to visit the Exposition,
and Chicago Architecture, by Barr Ferree
Fanny Kemble at Lenox, by C. B. Todd,
gives an entertaining account of that
famous lady's life in Berkshire in former
years. Morgan S. Edmunds describes A
Wild Night on the Amazon, and Giovanni
P. Morasini tells What the United States
owes to Italy. Gilbert Parker, the au-
thor of the novel in the June issue. sup-
plies an account of the New Poetry and
Mr.. W. E. Henley. Edgar Fawcett dis
cusses Certain Points of Style in Writing
and Maurice Francis Egan gives An Old
Fashioned View of Fiction. Robert
Timsol and Frederic M. Bird set forth
the relative advantages of Point VS.. Truth
and Truth VS.. Point. M. Crofton, in Men
of the Day, handles Alexander Dumas
and Secretary Hoke Smith. The poetry
of the number is by Mary Isabella Forsyth
Clifford Lanier, Flavel Scott Mines and
Lloyd Mifflin.
Life in the open air is the theme of Har-
per's Magazine for July. The opening
article describes some historic gardens
of Italy, and its fourteen illustrations,
six of them full-page engravings, are
from photographs made for the article.
The scent of meadows and the breezes
of English uplands fill the chapters of
William Blacks The Handsome Humes,
which are contained in this number,
while in Three English Race Meetings.
by Richard Harding Davis, the reader
catches refreshing glimpses of famous
trio of national outdoor festivals. In