The Portland daily press., 1893-06-02
MAGAZINE NOTICES.
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oO1lOiol . MdSdZlu0 lOI June opens
with the second article in the series on
Mems Occupations, which is to be fea-
ture of the coming months, including
amongit contributors .W.D. Howelis.
w. Clark Russell, Julian Ralph and John
Crew. The article in the present issue
is Life in Logging Camp, by Arthur
Hill, president of one of the great Michi-
gan lumber companies. Among out of
door papers (which will be feature of
the coming months) Ernest E. Thomp-
sons contribution to this number. en-
titled The Birds that We See, is note
worthy. Mr.. Thompson is a skilful ar
fist as well as an ornithologist, and his
text is fully illustrated from his own
drawings, which are very admirable rep
reservations of our common birds. In a
similar line of natural history is a brief
paper by Sidney Dickinson, entitled The
Haunt of the Platypus, which describes
one of the strangeSt animals that is
Pounds in Australia, with two illustra-
tons after sketches made from life. The
fiction in this issue is abundant and UNI
usually attractive. 1t includes the first
instalment of Robert Grants Opinions of
a Philosopher. a sequel to his clever sat
ire, The Reflections of aMarried Man.
which has proved such success as a
serial and in book form. This install
ment is illustrated by w. T. Smedley.
There are also short stories by T. r. Sui
livan and William Henry Bishop, and the
concluding chapters of Mrs Burnett s
cnrio1 Tho Ono + +l,o
which will be issued in book form. The
number includes poems by III. C, Bun
ner, Edith M. Thomas, E. S. Martin and
others.
An Artists Summer Vacation is the
title of the opening article in Harper's
Magazine for June. The writer is John
Gilmer Speed, and the artist whose hard
working holiday is described is William
M. Chase, president of the Society of
American Artists. The illustrations of
the article are from paintings by Mr..
Chase, and photographs of his studio
home on Long Island. The second and
concluding article by Thomas A. Janvier
on The Evolution of New York, also ap
pears in the June Harper's with two
maps and four illustrations by Howard
Pyle. An insight into the everyday life
of royalty is given in an illustrated paper
on The Empress of Austria, by One of
the Ladies of Her Court. In Wyoming
Another Pennsylvania, Julian Ralph
continues his popular contributions to
the current history of the new States.
vlvisection and Brain Surgery, by W.
W. Keen, M. D., summarizes the results
OF all experiments in the heroic treat
ment of the human brain. The number
is rich in fiction. Mr.. A. Conan Doyle's
story The Refugees, reaches it's conclu-
sion in thrilling climax which EQUALS
in interest any of the other situations in
this stirring romance. The Handsome
Humes, new novel by William Black
opens entertainingly, and the June in
stalment of Miss Woolson's Horace Chase
is punctuated with an exciting episode.
Pogit Way, by Grace Livingston Furniss
is story of New England life of unusual
insight and humor, and Mr.. w. T.
Smedley has embeliished it with eleven
charming character illustrations. New
France Under British Rule, by Henry
LOOMS Nelson, is description of the
habitant of Quebec who loves France and
obeys Great Britain.