The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-08
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Litttelfs Living Age. The numbers of ! he
Living Age for the weeks ending September goth
and October 9Th contain Chaucer and the Italian
Renaissance, Nineteenth Century; MY Treasure,
Blackwoods Magazine; A Winter in Syria. Con-
temporary Review; John Ward, Preacher. by
Archdeacon Farrar, Longman's Magazine; Mr..
Forster and ireland, Blackwood; The Services of
Catholic Missionaries in the East to Natural
Science, Nature; Admiral Coligny. Quarterly
Review; The Glorhed Spinster, Macmillan's
Magazine and The Spectator; Military Genius. by
Lord Wolseley, FOrtnightly Review: Recollec-
lions Of M; Forster, National Review; An Artist
on Tour, 81 James Gazette; The Central-Asian
Railway, spectator; Shakespeare and Modern
"isms," st. James Gazette; Cornish Customs of
To-day, welcome; the conclusion of "Nat." and
October list. e"''
In 81. Nicholas for October Two Little Confed,
crates ends, and there is third instalment of
Lhttie Ike Templin, telling Of his sojourn In a
Wen Helen Gray Cone describes a go-as you
please race between The Civilized King and the
Semi-barbarous Giant, and how il was won by the
latter; Jessie 9. Glasier sends little missionary
FROM House to House, and recounts her expert
ences In this new Pilgrims Progress; William o.
Stoddard recounts a story of woodland expert
ence wherein three Boy Bears succeed In catch
ing themselves in a beartrap; Thomas A jan
vier entertains us with the amusing circumstances
man; Mary w. Porter confers the rare privilege
of resding the autobiography of The Great Man of
the Family long before the greatness has begun;
Emily IL. Leland, In How Little Boy Camprd
Out, has chr0nicled the brave but brief adventure
OF a boy in his own back yard. OF descriptive
Louie Lyndon, and Floating home, by Edmund
Wilson, both full of that loving Interpretation Of
animal life which IS chldhood's own; and Tea, by
Il. III. Libby, brief article givingall the facts
which any one need care to know about tea and
It's history.
The October Century closes the seth volume
and 18th year of that periodical. The frontis-
piece OF the number is portrait of the late Emma
Lazarus, the Jewish poet OF New York and in the
body of the magazine appears a sympathetic
study Of the genius and personality OF this most
interesting woman. The opening illustrated arti-
Gle OF the number is paper by Richard Jefferies
on An English Deer Park. with illustrations by
Alfred Parsons and Bryan Hook. Theodore
Roosevelt closes his Ranch verses with an anec-
dotal paper on Frontier Types, the text being ex-
banded by number of Remington's studies Of
Western character and incidents. Another illus
trated article is on American Machine Cannon
and Dynamite Guns. But to most readers the
most interesting and important Illustrated article
OF the number will doubtless be George Kennan's
description of The Tomsk Forwarding Prison. in
his series on the Siberian Exile System The in
paign, and is full and authoritative statement of
Lincolns reasons for interference in the conduct
of the war, in the early days of the Mcclellan re-
gime. The fact that Lincoln took up the study of
war scientifically is here brought out. Another
paper having war subject is Walt Whitman's
memoranda, made at the time, of Army Hospitals
and Cases, giving scenes among the wounded
soldiers in Whitman's individual and vivid prose
style. All readers who are interested either in
the regular army or the militia will be especially
attracted by a timely series of papers in this
tenn, by General A. v. Kautz, Colonel J. M. Rice,
General G.. w. Wingate, and Major L. c. Brust
In these papers are discussed these subjects:
What the United States Army should be, Military
Education and the Volunteer Militia, and Our
National Guard. Mr.. Janvier's brief serial, A
Mexican Campaign, is concluded in this number;
and there are two short stories. A Strike, by
Maud Howe, and An Idyl OF Sinkin' Mountin,b
by ii. S. Edwards, author of Two Runaways
Other papers are on The New Political Genera
ton, Christianity the Conservat0r of American
Civilization, and Songs OF the Western Meadow
Lark.