The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-09-02
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The September Scribner's continues the
articles upon Ocean Travel with an account
OF the steamship lines of the world, BY
Ridgley Hunt, Of the United States Navy.
This article tells Of steamships and the
routes on all portions of the globe. Its illus
trations are very interesting, dealing with
such foreign scenes as the Rarbor Of Valpa-
raise in storm. The story entitled The
Wrecker, which is being produced as the
joint effort Of Robert Louis Stevenson and
Lloyd Osborne is continued through several
interesting chapters. Odd American homes
Is the result Of some ones original ideas.
For some time the magazines have had arti-
Giles giving specimens of American home ar
chitecture, these specimens being Of lordly
mansions of millionaires. Mr.. John r.
Spears has undertaken to introduce us to an
other kind Of American home arch itecture.
he has hunted out all the odd forms of homes
he could find, the dugout Of the southwest
ern pioneer, the sod house of the Kansas
farmer, the squaw mans house Of Indian
Territory, the blackfoot's tepee. the house Of
the lighthouse keeper on Delaware break
water, the Adirondack home In winter, etc.
With the illustrations and the descriptions
the article has great interest. An instruct
i've article of foreign travel is Mr.. James
Ricalton's description of the City Of the
Sacred Bo-tree. of Celyon. His interesting
descriptions are interspersed with numerous
pictures, one of them being an illustration OF
the Oldest historical tree In the world, 2,130
years old. Those who are interested more
In Adventures Among Books. by Andrew
Lang. The housewives will be delighted
with Alice Morse Earle's descriptions l0f the
Rewards of a China Hunter in New Eng
land. Some pictures Of rare and costly
relics found In old New England houses ac-
company this article. Readers Of Browning
Will OF course not want to miss Felix Mos
cheles's .Br0wning's Assolo. college men
Will want to read Josiah Royce's discussion
Of Present Ideals of American. University
Life. There Is not much fiction In this Sep
TENDER number. but Thomas Nelson Page
has story entitled Run to Seed; and Charles
Z. ID. Roberts has a short sketch called
Captain Joe and jamie. OF poetry there Is
not line.
Settember is the time when all the young
people come back to school from their. vaca-
tions The Forum for September recognizes
this fact in the first five OF its articles, which
are: What Boys school Should be, by Rev.
DIR. Henry A. Colt; Ideals of the New
American University, by President David s.
Jordan; Psychological Education In the
United States. by Prof. III. w. Tyler; The
Higher Education of Women, by Alice Free
man Palmer; and Physical Hindrances to
Teaching Girls, by Charlotte w. Potter. As
the season of political Excitement returns
again Hon Henry Cabot-Lodge comes forward
with a discussion Of the political issues of 1892
Hon. John w. Bookwalter explains at length
his novel scheme to relieve the farmers issc-
lation. Other articles are, authors COM
plants and Publishers Profits by George Fl.
Putnam; The Growth and Triumph of
Magnetism, by Henry T. Frink; The Gov
eminent and the Taxpayer by Edward At
kinson; The Recent Growth of Industrial
Capt. alzation, by j.: Selwyn TAFT; The Flu
| ture Of Electrical Railways, by Frank j.
Sprague; and Accident Insurance. by James
r. Pitcher