The Portland daily press., 1891-01-09

Offering to subscribers. Is an unannounced
little fancif-rserial. Elites Visit to Cloud
land. by-rrances V. Austen, with just the
sort OF pictures that children like, and plenty
"a them. Andrew Lang continues his story
of the Golden Fleece; j. T. Trowbridge and
Noah Brooks vigorously carry on their
serials, aud Mrs. Samison's Lady Jane
promises the conclusion in the next number.
OF the more temporary attractions, there is
christmas story by Roswell Smith, Illus
trated by George InneSs, Jr.; poem by
Celia Thaxter; funny pictures by Bensell; a
short but complete article on Michael Angelo
by Alexander Black. illustrated by the
frontispiece-the statue of the artist by
Zocchi; Jingle with humorous illustrations
by Brenon, and other contributions, perhaps
not inferior in merit to some of those named.
The first instalment Of the selections from
Talleyrand's lOng-expected Memoirs is the
most striking feature of the January Centu-
ry. A sketch of Talleyrand by Minister
Whitelaw Reid prefaces This instalment.
The opening pages tell of Talleyand's
neglected childhood, and his entry into
Partisan society. Before plunging into the
Gold Discovery the California series pauses
at the Pioneer Spanish Families In Cali
fornia. of which MIR. Charles Fl. Shinn writes
with special reference to the vallejos, a sup
Elementary paper, by Mr.. .Johr T. Doyle,
giving an account of the contemporary life
In the Spanish Missions of Alta California
Both articles are illustrated from authentic
sources. Under the title A Romance of
Morgan's Rough Riders, contribution
is made to the group of articles on
the experiences of prisoners of war. In
the first of three chapters, General Basil W.
Duke, who was Morgan's right-hand brlga-
dier, describes General John Fl. Morgan's
famous raid into Indiana and Ohio; General
o. b. Wilcox contributes chapter on the
capture Of large part of the command; and
Captain Thomas FL. Hines, who planned the
escape, relates how Morgan and few of the
officers tunneled out of the Ohio State Peni-
tertiary, and, after thrilling adventures
reached the Confederate lines. The opening
article of the number Is c. w. Co eman's de-
Lower James. with number of picturesque
Illustrations by Harry Fem. Octave Thanet
tells true, timely, and thrilling story of An
Irish GentlewOman In the Famine Time of
1878 Mr.. Rockhill, the Tibetan traveller,
describes the Mongols of the Azure Lake.
Mr. Krehbiel, the musical critic of the New
York Tribune, has an article with music
on Chinese Music. Colonel Carter CT Carter
vile, by HOpkinson Smith, and James
Lane Aliens Sister DolorOsa are continued,
The complete stories are In Maiden Media.
tion BY George A. Hubbard, Nannie's Career
by Viola Roseb0ro', and At the Town Farm
by Miss Carpenter.
The January Forum opens with review
Of the colonization and division of Africa
down to date, and accompanied with map,
by Prof. Emile de Laveleye. This is rec
ord of the most gigantic work OF colonial
ti0n ever undertaken, and its influence on
the fntura of civiliz ation cannot vet ha rock
oned. Mr.. Thomas G. Sherman writes an
essay on The Coming Billionaire to show
that uuder the present system Of. federal tax
alton our present two hundred millionaires
would necessarily become bilionaires in
forty years; but he does not expect BIZ
lionaire at all, because he regards. the present
system of indirect taxation as doomed and the
early coming of direct federal taxation as in
evitable. President j. G. Price. of Livingston
College, N. e., himself colored man, dis
cusses the question whether the negroes seek
social equality with the whites. The bio
graphical essay this month is by President
Dwight of Yale. who points out the relative
advantages from his point of view Of the
commercial life and of the life of q teacher.
Eliza Lynn Linton, after showing the made
quacy of marriage in certain ways. argues
the necessity of maintaining IL as the very
preservation of society. The Rev. Charles
Dana b. ardman, of Philadelphia, writes of
Conservative Progress in church, in politics
and In society; W. S, Lilly discusses the ma
ture Of real liberty, which must be subject to
law; Edmund Gosse writes of the future of
poetry as one of the great arts; Mr.. Oberlin
Smith shows how the construction and SER
vice Of railways might be improved and even
revoiutionizrd; aud MI. John ID. Champlin,
Jr., writ s about the increasing American
habit of manufacturing ancestors.