The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-26
MAGAZINE Notices.

the long expected article on The Tile Club
Atioat, recording its summer excursion in a
canal-boat from New York to Lake Champlain.
There are thirty-nine illustrations by men,
bers of the club, chiefly rejecting the spirit of
jollity which has made this association of less
than twenty members conspicuously popular
among artists and literary men. The second
part of Eugene Schuyler's historical serial,
Peter the Great, begins with description of
the People and Government of Russia down to
the time Of the abolishment of Precedence,
states the grievances Of the National Guard Of
that time, and contains stirring account of
the memorable riot of the Strelsi or soldiery,
in the early part of Peters reign. The Illus
trations are entirely from Russian sources. In
this part they number eighteen, and employ
the services of Charlemagne (painter to the
present Court Dmitrieff, Francis Lathrop and
others. Mr.. Richard Whiteing contributes
paper on Cham" the late French caricaturist,
to which there are twenty illustrations, chiefly
from CHAINS original sketches in the Assem-
blee Rationale Comique, Charivari, and else
where. and include caricatures of Lamartine,
Louis Blanc, Leroux, Lamennais, Montalem-
bert, Felix Pyat, Hugo and Girardin. A por-
trait of Cham is given, and copy of Monnier's
artistic creation of Joseph Prudhomme, which
was the forerunner of CHAINS hits at the
French bourgeois. Mr.. E. p. Roe's- Success
with Small Fruits treats this month, in his
usual practical way, of Raspberres for Home
and Market, and is illustrated with striking
drawings of berries, etc., by Gibson, Kappes,
Riordan and Taber The second part of Mrs.
Burnett's Louisiana introduces a character
who is likely to be favorite with her
readers, 'Louisianny's" father, Rogers. The
Grandssimes pronounced in three syllables)
reaches its fifth part, with more of
the interesting Creole life Of New Orleans.
Two Views of Napoleon is an unsigned review
of the memoirs of Prince Metternich and Of
Nine. de Remusat, in which the writer gives
reasons for thinking that the latter book was
"doctored." Over Sunday at New Sharon is
picturesque description of Kansas cattle
town by Henry King, one of the most promis-
ing of the newer writer's. The frontier mans
opinion of the Indian, in Mr.. Kings paper,
may be read in connection with the following
paper, by III. H." on The Wards of the
United States Government Extracts from
the Journal of Henry j. Raymond deal with
the conduct of the war in 1862 and the subject
of French Intervention, and include impress
sions of Chase, Stanton, Seward and other
public men. There is another paper by Bur-
roughs entitled Notes of a Walker, under
which title this author contemplates publish
ing at intervals minor observations and memo
randa about outdoor life. The poetry is by
Ella Dietz, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Anne
T.vp off ID r TatI,r
and M. 7. Ell. The Departments are fresh and
varied in subject In Topics of the Time DR..
Holland announces the willingness of Scribner
q Co. topurchase pictures for out-of-town buy
ers-an enterprise undertaken chiefly in the
interest of American artists whom the "revival
of business" does not yet seem to have affected.
The Revision Of the Scriptures, and Indus
trial Education are also discussed. Home and
Society breaks a lance or two with City Shop
ping for Country Friends and The Plague of
Formal Calls, and the papers on The General
Principles of Cookery come to close with the
consideration of frying and broiling Among
the books noticed is Mr.. Linton's Hints on
Wood Engraving There is also an account of
the School Experiment in Quincy, Mass,
which seems to be growing in favor. The
Worlds Work is given up to an account of the
novel arrangement and ventilation of the
Madison Square Theatre, with two drawings
by Francis Lathrop. Bric-a-Brac contains
four unpublished poems by the late Irwin Rus
sell, and under Poetical Amenities some met
rical correspondence which took place last
summer between Mr.. Austin Dobson and Mr..
E. G. Stedman.
The popular Science Monthly for March is
rich in the variety of its contributions, but is
strong in the direction of education.
In this field it is doing most important pub
lie work, its educational papers being ADLER
and more advanced in their treatment of prin-
ciples than those contained in journals profess
sonally devoted to the subject. The first ar
ticie in the March number is a brilliant dis
cussion, by DIR. William James, of the Associ-
atioI OF Ideas DIR. James is Professor of
at Harvard, and takes up his men,
tai problem from physiological standpoint.
1t gives new view of an old subject, and will
be read with pleasure by everybody. DolInvns
in Japan, by Professor Morse, is an instructive
popular lesson in archaeology. 1t gives an in
teresting account of these ancient and curious
stone structures, and their supposed uses, with
many original illustrations. A fresh and tell
ing paper is that on The Study of Political
Economy, by Henry George, author of the new
work on Progress and Poverty. Its author is a
writer of uncommon power and originality.
Professor Leidy, of Philadelphia has a pun
gent little disquisition on museums and their
uses, under the the title of Wards Natural
Science Establishment Those who accuse
The Popular Science Monthly of ventilating
are reminded that the ablest as
saults upon that doctrine appear in its pages
An article entitled the force behind Nature,
by DR.. Carpenter, in the March number is an
example of it. Theological readers of the
Monthly will be interested. New Views of
Animal Transformations, by Edmond Perrier
is an article that will take hold of all biolo-
gists. Perrier is young French Academician
who was resolute anti-Darwinian; but he be-
gan series of researches ON protoplasm,
which converted him to evolution and which
threw new light on the composition and
building up of the organic series. 1t is trans
lated from the French by Miss E. A. YOU
mans, and profusely illustrated. The Duty of
Enjoyment is practical lesson from the New
Ethics. Intemperance in Study, by DIR. luke
enforces impressiyely, and from large observa-
ton, the perils of study under pressure. 1t is
a weighty and most important paper. VIC.
Conant contributes timely article on Water
as Fuel, which now there is rational pros
pect that water will supersede coal as a source
of heat, will be read with avidity. The Early
Free Schools Of America; Prehistoric Ruins in
Southern Colorado; The Convent of the Cspu-
chins; Athletics in Schools; The Matamata;
Frost Phenomena in Southern Russia; and
biographical Sketch of Carl Ritter, complete
the list of this admirable number of The Popu-
lar Science Monthly. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
Ferdinand de Lesseps.
The Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps, who,
with his family, has arrived in New York,
was born at Versailles, November 10, 1906,
younger son of Count Matthew de Lesseps, of
Bayonne, and his wife, born Mile. de Grevlg-
ne, Spanish lady, and a cousin of the family
of the Count of Montijo, the father of the En-
press Eugenie. His father was sent out as a
French representative to Egypt, in advance of
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