The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-04-06
MAGAZINE NOTICES

The Educational Review for April presents
the following list of leading article: Art Ed
ucation in the Public Schools, James Mac
alister; The Pedagogic Value of Zoology,
S. A. Forbes; Recollections of Round Hill
School. George E. Ellis; Adolf Disterweg,
Henry Canell; James's Principles of Psy-
cOlogy, j. Mark Baldwin. The department
of discussions of live educational topics is
very valuable, and the editorial paragraphs
have point and strength. The reviews of
current pedagogical publications cover a
wide range, and teachers will find them very
suggestive. In the Foreign Correspond ence
Is superior paper on Contemporary Educa-
tional Thought Sin Great Britain by DIR, j.
Fitch. Such q letter as this each month
success of the magazine. The Educational
Review which easily leads, in its line, is pub
iished at $500 year by Henry Holt & Co.,
New York.
The complete novel in Lippincott's Maya
zine for April is Maidens' Choosing, by
Ellen Olney Kirk. author of The Story of
Margaret Kent, and is well written and in
teresting story, though hardly equal to Mar
garet Kent. Among other interesting arti-
Giles are the second installment of Some Fa-
miliaE Letters by Horace Greedy, edited by
the Victorian Novel, by L. Robb; Brevity in
Fiction. by frederic NJ Bird; New Africa,
by Charles Morris; and Yarns About Dia-
monds. by David Graham Adee. The poetry
OF the number consists of three sonnets, The
Poet, The Musician, The Painter, by Yer
non PAUL, and A Song Of Changes, by E. G.
White.
One of the most important journalistic
achievements of the day is the publication In
for ariI Of rtfo 10
The Behring Sea Controversy. by the Hon.
E. j. Phelps, late United States Minister to
the Court of ST. James. General Lewal, ex-
Minister of War for France, writes an ex-
tremely picturesque and entertaining account
of the development of The French Army,
which is made still more attractive bya
series of illustrations drawn by Thulstrup.
I. Mitchell Prudden, M. D., in paper am
ply illustrated by FL. ID. Nichols, gives some
exceedingly Interesting Glimpses of the BAG
these microcosms have upon the life and
health of other organisms. The popular
series OF South-American papers, by Theo-
dore Child, is continued in a timely illus
trated ticle, entitled Argentine Provincial
Sketches. The fiction in this number in
eludes the continuation of the serials by
dy, ana Short stories by Margaret Crosby
and Angelina Teal.
The opening paper in the Magazine of Art
for April is In Memorlam of Charles S.
Keene. by M. II, Spielmann, accompanying
which is a characteristic portrait of Mr..
Keene by G. Reid. Then we come to a pa
per on Austria, Hungary, Russia, Italy, and
Spain, in the series of Modern Schools Of
Painting and Sculpture, by Claude Phillips.
OF course Munkacsy is represented, but it
is by a portrait of himself rather than pic
ture of the imagination. There is also Dor
trait Of Verdi, the composer. in high hat
with white comforter about his neck In
the Studies In Illustrated Journalism David
Anderson discusses the Rise of the Comic
Paper. and then we come to the first Of the
series Of papers on Lord Armstrong; Collec-
tion of Modern Pictures. A number of CAPT
tai reproductions from the most striking pic
lures IN this collection are given. The Flu
selrs Milton Gallery Is described by Alfred
Beaver. The frontispiece of the number is a
reproduction OF The Prodigal Son, by j. M.
swan, one OF the younger school of English
painters. Copious notes on the progress of
art in Europe and America bring the number
to close.
The April number of The Culver is as
usual filled with interesting matter as re.
CARDS both pen and pencil. The number
opens with The Rough Days of March, a
page from the book of mature, which is fol.
lowed by the opening chapters of new
serial, On Stronger Wings, by Edith Lister.
Then we have paper in the Sundays with
the Young series, In which the lesson of the
telescope is taught, The Fall of Jericho; or,
the Cody Walk of an Undivided People, is a
paper especially designed for Sunday read
ing. A short story entitled Dismissed teach
hHl1d ayad
Cordial for Care, by the Rev. G. Brooks a
Sprig OF Rosemary is a story in two parts
which Will attract many readers. Minnie's
Heroes is story that will be particularly
relished by the little girls in the family,
while the boys will care more for In the
Mission Boat. The serial Waiting to be
Claimed Is drawing to close and will be
concluded in the next number.
Herbert Spencer's views on socialism, pub
lished in the April Popular Science Monthly.
are sure to attract wide attention. His
essay is entitled From Freedom to Bondage.
and its aim is to save the working classes
from the governmental tyranny with which
they seem to be infatuated. Street-cleaning
In Large Cities is another timely subject
treated in this Issue. The article is by GEN
eral Emmons Clark. of New York, and con.
tains practical suggestions for properly per-
forming this important work. There is an
article by the Duke of Argyll, entitled Pro-
fessOr Huxley on the War-p path, which aims
to convict the professor of treating theologi-
cal questions inconsistency with his treat
ment of scientific subjects. What keeps the
Bicycler Upright will be explained In an
illustrated article by Charles B. Warning. A
Brief History of the Ohio River, describing
some wonderful geological changes, with
maps and cuts, Is contributed by Prof.
Joseph +. James. There is brief account
Of DR.. Schliemann, with portrait, In adj
dition to the regular Sketch and frontispiece
Portrait, the subject of the latter being Prof
Daniel G. Brinton, of Philadelphia. The
Ranger and the Fox, with six Illustrations;
meister, M. D.; Scientific Jottings in Egypt.
py Dr. II. G. Bolton and Whale-catching at
JON I0lnt barrow, by John Murdoch, are all