The Portland daily press., 1890-04-05
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Cosmopolitan for April retains its enter.
prise and general attractiveness. This number
is especially noticeable for Miss Elizabeth Bis
lands admirable article on her Flying Trip
Around the World a la Nellie Bly,. Miss Bisland
is a very pleasing writer and knows how to place
before other people what she Sees Poultney
BlgeloW's Flying Forces Of Germany is another
capital military paper. Prof Allan Marouand
gives an excellent paper on Princeton College
M: hlcordlo Nobili gives another view of the edu-
caeiona problem. There are also other features
well to the front, noticeaby the fitness and Beauty
OF its Illustrations
The Forum for April presents the thought of an
unusually large number of prominent thinkers.
The late ex-President Barnard, of Columbia
college. under the title The Degradation of Our
Politics, has left an article which discusses what
he-considered the decay of public duty and the
substitution for it the idea of personal reward as
the prime motive in political activity. President
Dwight of Yale, discusses the education in bow
hood. He upsets some old notions on this subject.
Goldwin's Smiths red-hot assault on Woman,s
Suffrage is replied to by Francis Minor, who dis
cusses Woman's Political Status. No Theology
and New Theology, by Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott
will interest students OF the changes in theology
thought. Charles Dudley Warner has the temerity
to attack the old problem, Newspapers and the
Public Why the Farmer is Not Prosperous, by
G. Wood Davis. an educated Kansas farmer.
gives what is probably the real explanation of the
depression In agriculture, he agrees with Statis-
tician Dodge, OF the department of agriculture
that 1t Is over production which is making hard
times for the farmer. Other articles ara Hyp-
notism and Crime, by DR.. j. M. Charcot, Peculiar
Changes in Human Nat nre by Francis Power
Cobb. The Rights of Public Property, by DR.
William Barry, and Truth and Fraud In Spirit
ualism, by Richard HodsdOn.
1t is the great characteristic of the North
American Review in these days that it always
presents with each number some article or arti-
cles bearing up subject of popular interest and
written by some acknowledged authority. The
reader OF the proceedings in the recent McCalla
Conrt Martial will turn now with great interest to
the article on discipline in the American navy, by
Admiral Porter. The McCalla case is not men,
toned, but the article is written with that event
In view. Same idea of the difficult problem that
confronts captain who would preserve discipline
Is ahorded by one case which Admiral Porter
cites. When the Trenton left the Pacific coast
for Samoa, where she was wrecked she had out
of four hundred souls on board only eighty who
could speak the English language. Yet the
system OF discipline was such that few months
later TINS crew stood by and cheered the Amer-
can flag at the moment when they were drifting
on the deadly reef. Since the retirement Of
Prince Bismark we have heard much in this
country about the young Emperors policy in deal
ing with the Socialist SO at present it is very con-
review. MIR. Oswald Ottendorfer's article on
Socialism in Germany. Ex-Governor Lowry, of
Mississippi has written of the needs of the South.
he speaks of her enonomic and geographical
POSITIONS In the union rather than on political
questions Master Workman Powdery discusses
the the plea for eight hours. Bishop Whipple of
minnesota, has very interesting article entitled
N Lie Among the Indians. He believes that
there are many good indians. The famous
Madame Adam writes of society in Paris. The
iarl1 discussion, which seems to be on its last
legs now, is continued by Congressman W. G. P.
breckenridge, of Kentucky. Notes and comments
are an OF them interesting or valuable. some OF