The Portland daily press., 1889-03-11
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

In Casseps Family Magazine for March the
Family Doctor treats of coughs and colds, which
are very apt to prevail at this season of the year.
The Rev. s. Barring Gould writes of the Elixir of
Youth; while j. W. S. describes All Night at a
junction, which gives us an excellent idea of the
life OF the man who works the switches from the
signal tower. Housekeepers will be interested
In Our New House and its Furnishings, also in the
Housewifery. One who has suffered from SIAM
mering and Suffering gives himself as warning
70 parents who do not have their children broken
the only time that anything can be done.
In Lippincott's for March the novelette,, Bella
Demdnie, by Selma Dolaro, (who died about a
month ago. is story of Life in Russia with the
Nihilists, and has some very strong points and
dramatic situations. John Sartan in whose mag
azine The Bells originally appeared, gives US
some "reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe. John
Habberton concludes his Six Days in the Life Of
an Ex-Teacher by an Unexpected Happening.
Charlotte Adams continues telling How Sue
which she began the story. e. Davies English
gives sensible article on The Apotheosis OF
Travel. Wilson h. Welsh contributes poem,
Resignation. and Elliott Cowes another, Know
Thyself. The Hundred Questions folio" with
Monthly Gossip and Book Talk; and the Every
Day Record. An In Mem0ram of Selma DolarO.
by L. Heron Allen, is also contained In this num-
Der.
The numbers of Littelps Living Age for the
weeks ending February 23rd and March End con
tain The Early life of Lord Beaconsfeld, Quarter.
ly; The Bismarck Dynasty, Contemporary; Music
in Early Scotland, Scottish; Mr.. Bryce's American
Commonwealth, by Frederick Harrison Nine
teenth Century; Thomas Campbell, Temple Bar;
Paris One Hundred Years Ago, and The Future
Actors in the French Revolution, in 1889, Sup
plement Litteraire du Figaro; Neither Stowey,
Macmillan; Studies of Elementary School Life,
nyfetionis cornh 1 TrVai ncdsnts and
The Reign of Darkness, Spectator; The Slaugh-
ter Of Our Songsters, Pail Mall; Shanghai, from q
to India in 1889 and 1889, Chambers; with A
Chronicle of Two Months, The Fowl in the Pot,
Sentry Go! and poetry
In the March Century the most timely essay is
that on the Rules of the House of Representa-
tiyes, by the Republican leader, Hon. Thomas b.
Reed of Maine. Mr.. Reed explains how the rules
OF the House have been framed with the view of
rendering legislation difficult, and he makes i'm
portant suggestions of changes which it is natura
to SUPP ose he and his political associates who will
control the next House of Representatives, may
endeayor TO bring about. Another timely essay is
DIR. Edward Eggleston's review Of James Bryce's
already famous work on The:American Common
wealth, under the title Of A Full-Length Portrait
OF the United States. In the same category of
special tmeliness should be mentioned a curious
article on The Use of Oil to Still the Waves, by
Lieutenant W. II. Beehler, of the ONCE of Naval
Intelligence, United States Navy Department.
The present insiallment OF the Lite of Lincoln is
entitled The Edict of Freedom and completes the
story of Emancipation. In fiction there is begun
threepart story by Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote
entitled, The Last Assembly Ball; A Pseudo-Ro-
nance of the Far West. Mr.. Edwards, the author
OF Two Runaways, in The Rival Souls tells a
story In a new yeD and without dialect; and MIR.
Jessop, III The Correspondence of Mr.. Miles
Grogan. gives study Of the progress of New
York politician from a liquor saloon to residence
in Montreal. The History of Alix de Marainville
Is another Strange True Stoly, edited by Mr..
Cable In the same number Of the Century Mrs.
van Renssela and Mr.. Pennell present the his
tory and appearance of old York Cathedral Just
at the time when the plans of a cathedral for Neic
York are being decided upon; in the series of
Old Italian Masters, Mr.. Stillman writes about
Gaddo and Taddeo Gaddi In Charles de Kay's
Illustrated Irish Series, Christian Ireland is the
subject for this month. The fifth Of Mrs. M airy
Hallock Foote'S picture Of the Far West is en-
titled The Choice of Reuben and Cad Dutch
Painters at Home is illustrated and described by
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Chase. Gustav K0bbe writes
of Amateus Theatricals, and Mr.. Charles Barnard
tells of.Something Electricity is Doing.