The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-06
MAGAZINE NOTICES,

The May number of the Forum has good num-
Der OF articles by well known men of affairs. Ex-
Speaker Carlisle writing of Republican Promise
and performance, asSails the Republican Party
Tor what II has not done, but for what he CON
c c tnat II VIII do He thinks that its tariff re
preparations will amount to altogether too much
Time VIII SHOW how good prophet Mr.. Carlisle
is. Canada through English Eyes sets forth some
views OF Prof. Goodwin Smith on the position and
destiny OF Canada. Although bitter conserya
tive in some of his notions, Prof. Smith does not
great hopes of its success The great SECTIONAL
issue is discussed by Roger A. Pryor of New
York, who was Confederate general hut has
been Tor many years prominent at the New York
bar. Mr.. Pryor takes issue with Albion w
Torrgees assertions that the last amendments to
me constitution are not effective. Elk Senator
Silver, tcpc of interest at this time Jury Yer
diets by Majority Vote, is criticism of our jury
system by Sigmund Jester, very able Austro
American citizen who was one of the counsel for
the Chicago Anarchists. Lieutenant Bradley A.
Fiske, one OF the United States Nays electrical
experts writes of the Naval Battles of the Future
which is to be something very different from the
naval battles OF the past. Kansas Farmer, c.
Mood DAVIS, has something to say on topic Of
will be Prosperous Other contributions are
Governments by Rumseers, by Rev. DR.. Howard
Bible Instruction In Colleges by Rev. Benz. W.
Bacon; and Literary Criticism, by Archdeacon f.
w. Farrar
In the North American Review for MAY Sneaker
Reed has the first place with an article on Re.
forms Needed in the House, in which he answers
some criticisms of Mr.. Carlisle on the new rules
and calls attention to certain other particulars in
which the business of the House labors under
great impediments. This article will be interest.
ing beth TO the paramentarian and to the citizen
VINO wishes TO know Just the difficulties which
stand in the way of an expeditions transaction of
public business: Soap Bubbles of Socialism, by
Simon NewcoDb, is a hard-headed discussion OF
modern features The Silver Question, which is
SO troubling Congress at the present time, is dis
cussed by Hon. Roger @. Mills, who has given
much study to the problem as it appears to the
farming communities of the southwest. Andrew
Lang and Max ORell contributes an entertaining
symposium on the Typical American. Max
O'Rell does not think there is any typical Ameri.
can, but believes that curiosity is typical Amer-
can trait. Archdeacon Farrar breaks a lance
with Robert Ingersoll en- the subject which the
latter has make his great specially. General A.
". Greedy discusses The Mississippi Floods,
State Senator Fassett, who is conducting the very
productive investigations into the method of Tam
many, tells why cities are badly governed. The
tinues, Sir Richard j. Cartwright and Thomas q.
Sherman continuing it in this number.
Although new conner in the field of literature
the Arera seems to have tapped an abundant
store of valuable and instructive reading for its
patrons. The leading article for the May number
is entitled The Rev. Phillips Brooks. and this is
sufficient description of the article which relates
TO man in whom all the thinkers of the nation
are interested. Rev. Thomas Alexander Hyde,
an admirer of the great preacher. is the author.
Another article of interest, especially at the pres
ent time, is Another View of the Rum Problem by
Dr. Henry A. Hartt, who does not believe In pro-
hlDltl0D, nor yet in free run, but in system of
laws that would treat drunkenness as crime,
punishable like embezzlement and other crimes.
Prof. N. s. Shaler, in an article entitled Rock
Cases. speaks of the Revolution made in the in
dustral arts by the discovery of natural gas, and
deduces the conclusion from this that the time is
coming when coal will not be used in bulk at all
but will be converted into gas at shipping points
and theace transmitted to manufacturing cities
bp pipe lines. Believers in Spiritualism win find
comfort in Doematism of Science. written by Rev
DR.. r.. Heber Newton. Other articles are God in
the Government, by Canon W. ID. Fremantle; The
CoSmic Sphere OF Woman, by Prof. Jos. Rodes
buchanan; the Divorce Problem, by Rabbi Solo
mon SCHNEIDER; Godin's' Social Palace, by Lau-
renee Gronlund; Characteristics of the American
Drama, by Prof Alfred Hennequin; Ungava
Continued, by W. ii. II. Murray A picture of
|. Rev. Phillips Blocks is the frontspiece of this
number.
Admirers of the famous picture, The Angelus,
should not fail to read Barbzon and Jean Fran
co.'s Millet, by T. H. Bartlett which begins in the
May number of ScribnerS and continues through
the June number. 1t is a most delightful account
OF the life of the great painter in the rural village
OF Barbizon, OF his struggles with poverty, and of
bis friends and ways of life. The sketch is copi-
Ously Illustrated with views of streets houses and
landscape now famous for their association with
Millet. A likeness of Miet is frOntlspiece of the
May number of the magazine. In the series of
articles which may be termed useful" this num-
Der presents a study of the advantages of the
building and loan associations as they are known
in Maine, in an article entitled Cooperative
Home Winning Every one of small means who
contemplates the ownership of small home of
his own should read this article before he de-
cides upon his method of acquiring his property.
Gimpses of Napoleon in 1904. by Clarence Dem
ing, presents some interesting descriptions of
scenes in the life of the Emperor in that year by
an American gentleman of wealth, who was trav-
elling in Europe that year. Francis Lynde Stet-
son continues his treatise The Rights of the
Citizen, telling him what belongs to him as us er
of the public streets. The Theatres of Japan, by
I. j. Nakagawa, is most interesting study of the
drama and its methods in Japan. The descrip-
interesting. In poetry and fiction this number
will be found quite up to the standard heretofore
maintained.