The Portland daily press., 1890-07-09
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

In the Forum for July Professor Tyndall
tells in his bright way of the Formative In
fuences that gave shape and direction to his
life. James F. Murdoch has the courage to
write, sign and print another Short Study of
Hamlet Walter NJ. Ferris points ont anew
the Obstacles to Civil Service Reform, and
offers suggestions as to their removal Ly-
man Abbott sketches the Wages System
from the wage-earner's point of view. Ed
ward Y. Mason discusses the Veto Power:
Walter G. MANN, the Art of Gerrymander-
ing; Prof. David p. Todd. Modern Eclipse
Problems; A. r. Carman, PerpIexities that
Canada would Bring; Noah Brooks, the
Newspaper of the Future; and Commander
+. M. Barber, Gunpowder and Its Success
sors; and the number closes with brief but
interesting paper on The Newer West, by
Richard j. Hinton.
The July st. Nicholas has several remind
ers of Revolutionary days and the GLORIOUS
Fourth" In The Baby Prisoner of War
Margaret Forster Owen relates the capture
and return OF grandniece of Washington.
The story is amusing and we'll told Julia
Z. X. DOR tells in verse of The Amorer's
Errand. apreliminary to the storming Of Fort
Ticonderoga; Laura E. Richards and Jane
Ellis Joy contribute amusing verse about
the Fourth, and M. M. d., in the Jack-in. the
Pulpit. gives a side view of the same in
spring subject. The sports of summer are
prominent. Mrs. Pennell writes charmingly
of Cycling, Mr.. Pennell furnishing the illus
tratlons; +. w. Pangborn tells, How to Sail
Boat. and Edward Burgess, the distin-
guished designer of the great prize winners,
the Puritan, Mayfower, Volunteer, and
others hardly less famous, has made for st.
Nicholas readers complete working draw
ings of boys sailboat; Camps invaluable
baseball series is continued, and no ball
player can afford not to read these articles.
d. w. Henshaw contributes a study of the
commoner Americanhawks. A most natural
and amusing little story is that by 81. III.
Ewing, describing How Hugh Went to the
Party. which could not but be true in all
respects.
The most striking feature of the July Cen
fury is the long-expected debate on ''The
Single Tax, by Edward Atkinson and Henry
George. Mr.. Atkinson opens the discussion
In paper on A Single Tax Upon Land !;
Mr.. George replies in A Single Tax on Land
Values, and there is rejoinder by Mr.. At
kinson. Another article that marks this
number Of the Century is the beginning of
the Century's Prison Series, the first paper
being thrilling account of the life of A
Yankee in Andersonyille. by DR.. T. II.
Mann, accompanied by plan, and pictures
made from rare photographs. The first of
two papers on Provence describes and bril-
liantly illustrates an unhackneyed region of
the Old World; that part of France which is
like Italy, with its splendid Roman remains,
Its palace of the popes. and its associations
with Petrarch and Laura. Miss Praeton
who wrote the article, is the .tnown
translator of Mireio, by the q vanca,
". % = eNi-znr. Ed%;ss ,,us,esron in -
\ - .>. tells the story of Nathan
, che Patriot of 1876, and prints for
hrst time certain details obtained from
manuscripts recently acquired by the British
Museum and the Congressional Library
John Burroughs prints characteristic out
of-door paper entitled A Taste of Kentucky
| Bluegrass. Joseph Jefferson, in his charm
| ing autobiography, describes his early expe-
| riences In Peru and Panama; he also tells
| how he revived the play of Rip Van Wrinkle
| In London, with the literary assistance of
Dion Boucicault Mrs Amelia Gere Mason
| describes the Women of the French Salons
| of the Eighteenth Century. The fiction of
| the number consists of the second part of the
anonymous Anglomaniacs; the ninth part of
| Mrs. Bars Olivia story, The Reign of
Reason, by Viola Roseborough Ia young
Southern writer with rapidly growing rep
utatlon);. and complete novelette,, Little
Venice, by Grace DEMO Litchfield, with a
full-page illustration nv Mary Hallncl Foota