The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-17
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Scribner's Magazine for September has
notable list of contri butors, including
f. Marion Crawford, Thomas Nelson
Page, Carl Humholt, Octave Thanet,
Mrs. James T. Fields and Harriet Pres
colt Spofford. Marion Crawford writes
of Bar Harbor from the point of view of
one who has seen most of the summer
resorts Of the world, and has spent con-
siderable time at Bar Harbor viewing
it as an outsider. With his power of
description and his abundant experience
he writes with a vivacity and freshness
that is unusual in articles of this kind.
He has caught the very spirit of the
place picturesquely. and suggests its
q uaint features socially with very
amusing account of the evolution of
the present Bar Harbor from the old
fishing village. C.S. Reinhart, who has
made many sketching tours in that re-
gion, furnishes the illustration. This
group of articles will be concluded in
the October number with an article on
Lenox by George A. Hubbard, author
of The Governor.
The September Harper's is an outdoor
number. and opens with an illustrated
description of the national sport of
England, Riding to the Hounds, by
sCaspar W. Whitney. Recent events in
Asia give additional interest to Alfred
Parsons article on Early Summer in
Japan. Charles Dudley Warmers novel
The Golden House, now running in
Harpers, continue to increase IN inter
est. The September instalment gives
strong portrait of the pleasures of rich
New Workers contrasted with the
wretchedness of the very poor. There
are three strong short stories, A New
England Prophet, by Miss Wilkins is
filed with the gloom and fanaticism
of a group of Millerites awaiting the end
OF the world; The Tug of War, by W.
E. Norris, is a story of English men and
women in Greece; and The Generals
Bluff, by Owen Wister, is founded on a
stirring episode in the career of GEN
eral Crook. 1t will be a hundred years
Bryant was born, and somewhere be-
tween May and December occurs the
eigAty-third anniversary of the writing
of Thanatopsis, the first important poem
prod eed by an American, and the great
est poem ever written by boy of seven
teen The September Harper's contains
the history of Thanatopsis in The ORR
gin Of a Great Poem, by John W. Chad
wick. The article, includes two portraits
Of Bryant and picture of the house in
which the poem was written.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, will be the subject of very
comprehensive and interesting biographi-
cal study, by Edward P. Mitchell, Mr..
Dana'sschief associate on The Sun, in
McClure's Magazine for October. The
story of Mr.. Dana's connection with
the war as Assistant Secretary of War
under Lincoln and Stanton, will be told
with especial fullness. Views of his
office at The Sun and of his country
home OH Long Island, and a very inter
esting series of portraits of him, will
accompany the article.
Antietam- Sharpsburg is the title of
the richly illustrated paper which opens
the September Blue and Gray, and in
which Col. A. n. Nickerson IT, S.A re-
tired) makes some striking and forci ole
comments upon the generalship, on
either side, displayed in that great bat
tie of September II, 1862 Among the
more valuable illustrations is copy of
Captain James Hopes well known paint
ing, showing "Bloody Lane" after the
battle; this being one of the very few
battle pieces made from the actual
scene and not from subsequent descrip-
tion or artistic Imagination. Other An
tietam features are picture of the new
Mcclellan monument soon to be un-
yelled in Philadelphia. a portrait of
Mcclellan as cadet, and a poem by
Col. S. D. Richardson. Captain John
Il. Stevenson, US. NJ, continues his in
teresting Adventures of an American
Navy Officer Abroad, with fine engrav-
ings of Chinese scenes; a private soldier
tells of his experiences the Ranks I'm
der General Lyon in Missouri-186I: D.
| b. Conrad, M D.. late Fleet Surgeon G.
s. N, brilliantly describe the Capture
and Burning of the Gunboat Under.