The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-08-06
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whose red handed and outrageous practices
1t seeks to stop.
MAGAZINE NOTICES.
Readers of the first two instalments of AL
phonse Daudets Port Tarascon.will turn FIRST
to its continuation in the August number
of Harper's Magazine. Extracts from the
diary of Secretary Pascalon portray in a zeal
istic manner the life of the colonists in their
island home. Theodore Child contributes
paper describing an Americans Impressions
Of Berlin. Edward Everett Hale, in Ma
gellan and the Pacific, tells the old story of
the first circumnavigation of the globe, but
adds to 1t some facts hitherto not generally
known. Capt. Charles King, U. s. A., con.
tributes an interesting paper giving an ac-
count Of Clusters Last Battle. Octavia Hen
sci, in an article fully illustrated. from pho
tographs, tells the history of the famous
printing house of Plantin -Moretus. and de-
scribes visit to the museum In Antwerp,
where the literary and art treasures OF That
establishment are preserved. Ellen y. Bas-
tin has paper on the Geology OF chicago
and vicinity DR.. Francis Parkman in A
Convent at Rome relates his experience dur
ing brief stay many years ago in the con-
vent of the Passi0nists. Short stories are
contributed Dy h6DecCd ddTul0R Davis,
Thomas A. Janvier and Lima Redwood Fair
fax; and poems by Coates Kinney, Rennell
Rodd, John b. Tabb and Harriet Prescott
SpeffOrd.
The complete novel in Lippincotts Maya
zine is entitled What Gold Cannot Buy. and
is writted by the popular English author.
Mrs. Alexander. 1t Is good story told in
this authors best manner. Lawn Tennis
for Wopooy, tho fitlo nf On ortioIo xprifton hu
those famous lady players. Misses Bertha
L. Townsend and Margaret Lyman Ballard,
for years the champions of the United
States. Rudyard Klpling, whose name is
now on everyone's lips. contributes power
full story called At the End of the Passage.
Like the best of Mr.. Kipling's stories, 1t is
sketch of life In India, the life the author
knows best. An interesting biography of
Harriet Beecher Stowe is contributed by
Eleanor p. Allen. Frederick M. Bird in an
article entitled The Lapse of T0lst0i takes
this author severely to task for his latest
book, The Kreutzer Sonata. In an article on
Milk Legislation r. NJ. Elfreth presents the
best European legislative methods for pre-
our legislators certain provisions. Charles
Morris has an interesting sketch of The
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
Poems are contributed by Elizabeth Stod
dard, Margaret Vandegrift, Owen Wister,
| Charles H. Crandall and III. w. r.
1t Is because The Anglomaniacs presents a
novel aspect of New York life with uncom-
mon plth and wit that the third part, in the
August number Of the Century, will proba-
bly, be the article to which most readers will
Olivia, is continued. The short story of the
number, The Emancipation of Joseph Pelou-
bet, is by John Elliott Curran. The second
paper by DR.. T. H. Mann on his experiences
as A Yankee in Andersonville Is given. The
realistic pictures, from photographs, add to
the interest Of the narrative of life in the
prison pens at Andersonyille and Florence.
Another Article bearing briefly on the his
tory of the war. is Miss s. Elackwell's state
ment In Open Letters of The Case of Miss
Carroll. whose claims for services to the
Union are still unconsidered by Congress-
In the tenth part of The Autobiography of
Joseph Jefferson, the comedian writes of
John Br0ugham. Edwin Adams, Charles
Another illustrated feature that is pervaded
by an artistic personality is the fifth INSTALL
ment OF John La Farge's Letters from Japan.
Mrs. Amelia Gere Mas0n's fourth paper on
The Women Of the French Salons treats
Eighteenth century. John Muir con-
tributes an important paper on The
Treasures of the Yosemite, with maps and
Illustrations. Other illustrated features are
". J. Stillman's paper on the Italian Old
page engravings by Cole; The Pert:s aud
Romance Of Whaling by Gustave Kobbe
and the second part of Harriet W. Preston
Provencal Pilgrimage; President Eliot of
Harvard contributes The Forgotten Millions,
a study of the common American mode Of
life, as typifed by the permanent native pop
ulation of Mt. Desert The number contains
poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Harriet
Prescott Spofford, Frank Dempster Sherman
and others.
The Culver for August has for its special
feature the beginning of new serial called
The Other Son. Music in the Catacombs, by
j. f. Rowbottom, combines instruction with
interest. The next article, That Trouble
some Glass, will find readers in all Sunday.
school superintendent, most of whom can
relate similar experiences. A capital por-
trait of William Cullen Bryant accompanies
paper on the religious poetry of that dis
| tinguished American. The Cathedral Les
| son is sermon story which young as well as
oid people VIII ind entertaining. Sick
Room Comforts is the title of a practical pa
per by one who modestly signs herself "a
nurse" The serial, In the Second Place. is
concluded, and happily. There Is poetry
from the pen of that popular poet J. r
Eastwood and others not so we'll known.
st. Nicholas has acharming frontispiece for
August. 1t is an Illustration by Birch to the
serial story Lady Jane. The story itself is
delightful. Some of the summary features
are The White Mountain Coaching Parade
Of decorated tally-hos in competition for
prizes, described in sketchy way by Helen
Marshall North; A Lesson of the Sea, by W.
j. Henderson, simple bit of strong descrip-
tive writing; A Remarkable Boat Race,
wherein Walter Camp describes the Atalan-
ia Yale Race; The Sea Princess, a pretty
picture described in musical verse by the
artist Miss Katherine Pyle; Cupid and Grab.
an az. ODD little fancy Of the sea shore, daintily
Tue al s Dy Albertine Wheelan Randall
me Audaclous Kitten, one of Oliver Her
IOrd tests with pen and pencil. The serials
are Gontinued effectively, and the African
anu pase pail papers are of the usual inter
tinn adu thara BESIDES the features men,
Krarer. the first native of East Greeniand
| who has visited civilization. The skater is
| illustrated by two photographs. sHowinS
Miss krarer In native and civilized costnma
| The little ones will welcome Fableland SIC.
| ries by John ii. Jewett, the author Of the
Bunny Stories, and will enjoy the numerous
| 1iDgles and pictures which always makes ST.
| Nicolas seem trimming over with richness
and they " i'll also be interested in following
the fortunes of the Brownies in yacht race.
The August number of The Magazine of
Art has for It's frontispiece a pbotogravure
from the painting by Ford MADDOX Brown,
called The Last of England, and the opening
article is devoted to the consideration of the
work of this English art reformer by Lucy
MADDOX Rossetti. There are several wood
engrayings from Mr.. MADDOX Browns best
known pictures, which will serve to intro
duce him to the American public, to whom
he is at present little more than a name. In
this number of the magazine is begun what
promises to be most interesting series of
| papers on Illustrated Journalism in Eng
| land. Thackeray's connection with this
feature of journalism is interesting to his
admirers. A poem called The Wife, written
N N 4 A and hod