The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-10-08
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The October Forum is an unusually inter-
esting number. New England readers will
turn first to Hon. George S. Boutwell's an
swer to Mr.. Mills on The Decadence of New
England. China's Menace to the World, by
Thomas Magee, is also very interesting
for the novel information given about Chi
nesesagriculture and Chinese methods of
life. The Future OF Our Daughters, by Helen
Ekin Starrett, gives some interesting ideas
about the problem of self-support which con-
fronts so many young women in this coun-
try. Other articles are Social Problems and
the Church, by Bishop F. d. Huntington;
Formative Influences, by Frederick Harri-
son; The Working of the New Silver Act
by Prof. +. W. Taussig: First Steps Towards
Nationalism, by Edward Bellamy; The Idea
of Life After Death, by Prof. j. Peter Les
ley; Two Forces in Fiction, ty Mary D.
Cutting; The Zodiacal Light, by Prof. Ar
thur Williams Wright; and Climate and the
Gulf Stream, by Jacques W. Roadway.
Youth and Age is the subject of the 'front.'
ispiece in The Culver for October, and it
illustrates poem by that title written by J.
R. Eastwood. Men Who Have Stuck to
Their Posts is the opening article. and it has
for its illustration clergyman preaching to
a congregation of one. The Children's
Hymn, by j. R. Eastwood, will no doubt be
lisped by infant lips throughout the land.
With the Halt and the Manned is what its
title indicates. Luminous bodies Is the not
altogether descriptive title of sermon
preached by the Rev. j. r. Macduff. Joyce
HalliGay's Mistake is a story that young
girls will enjoy, and Little Sallie Lunn will
interest the children of the household. In
the series of Bright Examples, contributed
by. Professor Blake, Mrs. Augustus Hare is
this months subject
The Magazine of Art for October is good
number. The opening article on the Sculpt-
ure of the Year gives among Its reproduce
ions of the more important work Mr. j.
Donoghue's Sophocles Leading the Chorus
of Victory after the Battle of Salamis, which
was first exhibited in this country,
where 1t won the praise of all amateurs of
| art. Claude Phillips writes of The Modern
| Schools of Painting and Sculpture in France,
Perhaps the paper in this number which will
be the most generally read outside of art
circles is the second of those contributed by
Mr.. George du Maurier, on The. Illustrating
Of Books. The current paper is From the
Serious Artists Point of View. Mr.. du
Maurier shows in these articles that he is as
much master of the pen as of the pencil.
A full page is devoted to Sir Thomas Law
rences portrait of Lady. Acland and her
children.
Noticeable in this months st. Nicholas is
the article Through a Defective Camera
written by Mr. Black, the well-known anna
teur, and illustrated with characteristic bits
of child life. A real juvenile story is Betty's
By and By, in which Julie Lippmann tells
needless heroine's experiences in that great
rendezvous of procrastination. Mr.. Bensell's
quietly humorous drawing shows the youth
full postponers engaged in squaring their ac-
counts. Another story with sly moral ad-
ministered in a wellfavored medium is "The
Gwynnes' Little Donkey, by Kate Wood
bridge Michaelis. 1t is the sort of story that
assure to make young people think, and yet
not set them to worrying. AnOvelty is An
Old English FOlk-song, an application of
Wagner's principles of operate composition
to the awful crime of that little peddler,
a short illustrated life of Edward the Sixth
a tuothsome poem by James Whitcome Riley,
bright story by j. 0. Davidson. telling how
Yankee with rifle proved himself match
for CHILEAN torpedo boat; clever poem
designed to teach the hollOwness of kings
and queens grandeur, and many other bright
pictures, clever hits in verse, we'll sustained
departmental attractions, and all the Serials
Maine readers of Scribner's will turn first
In this months number to the article by
Rev. Newman Smyth, entitled The Lake
Country of New England. The author has
been spending some happy vacations making
canoe trips through the forests around
Moosehead Lake, Katahdin and the sources
of the. Penobscot. He has climbed Katahdin,
which he considers in many respects the
grandest mountain in New England, and has
described sunrise and sunset from its top.
The article will be read with interest by
every lover of the forest; and will bring
many more tourists to Maine another year.
Other articles in Scribner's that the general
reader will tind of great interest are, With
Gable Expedition, a description Of the proc
cess of laying ocean cables, by Herbert Laws
Webb; From Port to Port with the White
Squadron, a continuation of the articles on
the squadron of evolution, by Rufus Fair
child Zogbaum; the second Of N. S. Shaler's
papers on Nature and Man in America;
Sand Waves at HenlOpen and Hatteras, by |
John r. Spears; The Private School for |
Girls, by Mrs. Sylvanus Reed; and The City |
House in the West, a treatise upon urban |
architectural DEVELOPMENT in the great cities |
of the West, by John W. Root.