The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-09-20
Magazine Notices.

The Atlantic Monthly for October has an ex-
cellent variety of serial and short stories, re
ems, essays, and criticism. Thomas Hardy's
story, Two ON Tower, advances five chapters,
and well maintains the interest which has
characterized the early chapters. Mr.. Bishop
gives two additional ohaLters in his House of
Merchant Prince, which is an unusually
faithful and somewhat pungent discussion of
New York society. Harriet W. Preston, who
is now in Europe, writes delightful article
entitled, Among the Sabine Hills. The eighth
article of the Studies in the South, is marked
by the same close and accurate observation,
and the same singular eandor which have
made the previous studies SO valuable, and
which has justly secured for them most re-
spectful attention both at the North and at the
South. Lieutenant Gushing concludes his in
teresting account of The Nation of the Will
lows, which is not the Zu1is but the Have su-
pal. Prof. W. T. Hewett contributes an arti-
Gle on University Administration. The short
story of the number is entitled And Mrs. Som
ersham, by Agnes Patton. The number is rich
in poetry by Mr.. Whittier, Miss Larcom, John
McCarty Peasants, T. w. Parsons, and Aro
Bates Mr.. Horace E. Scudder has very in
teresting article entitled An English Interpre-
ter, describing the decorations and paintings
made by Mr.. Frederick jam, Shields for Eat
on Hall Chapel, the private chapel of the Duke
of Westminster. The number contains some
reviews of important new books, and the usual
variety of the Contributors Club. -Houehtop
Mifflin & Co., Boston.
ia 0atcbor h..r oF ID
Monthly is one of great excellence. While all
its articles deserve to be well spoken of, sever
al Of them are unusually fitted to attract atten-
ton. The first place among this number must be
given the opening article, by Douglas Graham,
M. D., on Massage: its Mode Of Application
and Effects, the matter of which is both valua
bic and novel 1t is an account of combined
operation of rubbing and kneading the body,
Systematically and intelligently performed, as
an aid to the euIing of disease. Matthew Ar
nold's Lecture on Literature and Science in
which the first place is given to literature in
the scheme of education, while science is ad
mitted IS subordinate department of liteIs
ture, is the next article. A review of the pa
per in the editors table exposes the utter in
sufficiency of Mr.. Arnold's valuation of sci
ence Dr. Andrew Wilson's The Pet and tn .
Present of the Cutie Fishes is packed full of
information about these most curious and va
ried inhabitants of the deep. Motley on Eyo-
luton is reply of Mr.. Herbert Spencer to
some statements in the Rev. 7. MozIey's re-
Gently published "reminiscences, and is espec-
ially valuable because it contains clear and
succinct outline, at first hands, of the whole
scheme of the theory of evolution. Explosi ,ns
and Explosives, by Allen D. Brown, of the
United States Navy, furnishes accounts of gun
powder, dynamite, and gun-cotton, their
properties and the methods of max
ing and using them. The Utility of
Drunkenness is found by Mr.. w. Matthew
Williams, to consist in the fact that it promotes
the survival of the fttest'' men by furnishing
means, supposed to be agreeable to Them
eelves. of clearing the world of the ''unfttest'
In Delusions of Doubt, M. B. Bill describes a
curious mental disease which is sometimes
manifested in most remarkable ways. The
Annual Address of Professor G. j. Brush, re-
firing President of the American Association,
is next given. The subject is, The Progress of
American Mineralogy, and the address pre-
sents an honorable record of the work of our
laborers in that branch of science. In Indus
trial Education in the Public Sche Dis, Profess
sor Straight projects scheme under which pu
pills should be tuned out prepared to do hon.
est, thorough work as a matter of course. DR..
Felix Oswald lends the unique charm of his
keen humor to the discussion of Physiognomic
Curiosities. The Formation of Saline Mineral
Wafarc NV fai+ So
in clerical geology. A Partnership of Animal
and Plant Life, by X. Brandt, offers solution
to biological problem that has caused much
perplexity. The Portrait and Sketch are of
Professor Rudolf Virchow, Psychologist, anthro-
pologist. and advocate of popular rights. New
York; D. Appleton & Co.