The Portland daily press., 1891-02-06
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Harper's Magazine for February excels in
variety and value of its illustrated articles.
The frontispiece is a portrait of Edwin Booth
engraved from Sargent's painting at the
Players CLUB. New York City. A novel and
entertaining feature of the number is the
collection of twelve original drawings (now
published for the first time) by w. M. Thack-
cray, illustrating the Heroic Adventures of
Nj. Boudin, with comment by Anne Thack-
cray Richie. Two important papers APP
pear on Finland, ACCOMPANIED by twenty
four Illustrations from photographs and from
photographs and from sketches by Albert
Edelfet and F. E. Lummis Charles Dudley
Warner contributes an article entitled The
Heart of the Desert, which contains twelve
Illustrations of scenery in the valley of the
Yosemite, the great desert of New Mexico,
and the Grand Canon of the Colorado. A
voyage in southern ATTITUDES through Smyth's
Channel and the Strait of Magellan is the
sub1sct OF an entertaining paper by Thee.
dore Child, accompanied by fifteen illustra-
tiOns. The Rev. John +. Hurst contributes
paper on English Writers in India, with
four Illustrations from old prints and draw
lngs by Charles Graham and @. Mente. l..
r. Chittenden writes an interesting chapter
of "reminiscences entitled The Faith of Presi-
dent Lincoln. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson
contributes paper on Personal Intelligence
Fifty Years Ago. The fiction includes the
second pact OF Charles Egbert Craddock's In
stories by Edward Everett Hale and Geral-
dine Bonner. Poems are contributed by
William Dean Howells, Christopher r
Cranch, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Louise
Imogen Quincy.
The vigorous, intellectual, and practical
character Of the Popular Science Monthly is
well shown in the contents of the February
issue. In the opening article, entitled From
Babel to Comparative Philology, DIR. An
drew d. White tells how science has COM
PEELED the gradual abandonment of the belief
that Hebrew was the first language of man.
Mr.. William IF. Durfee's Iron-smeItiDg by
Modern Methods follows. This is the third
of the great illustrated series of industrial
papers now running in the Monthly. and
shows striking contrast between the pro-
cedure of 1S40.and that Of to-day. Greeting
by Gesture is the subject OF an interesting
article by Colonel Garrick Mallery, describ-
ing modes Of salutatlon practiced in all parts
of the world. Prof. Huxley's paper on the
Aryan Question and Prehistoric Man, giving
the testimony of geology aud archaeology as
to the origin of the Caucasian race, is con-
cluded in this number. There is transla.
| ti0n Of an article by M. Georges Demeny ON
Precision In Physical Training. telling how
the best results can be obtained from mus
cular exercise. An illustrated account of re-
cent Progress In Agricultural Science Is CON
tributed by DR.. Manly Miles. It describes
experiments throwing light upon the nutri.
ton Of plants. The important part that Stow
q q N IN 0nn nrp1uT x.E
under the title The Storage Of Cold, by Mr.,
Charles Morris. Education Is represented
by an accoun { of C0edncation in Swiss uni
yersities, by Flora Bridges. What Shetland
Ponies are and what they are not can be
learned from breezy description here given.
Mr.. Warren1G. Benton tells the nature Of a
religion-Chinese Buddhism-which mum
bers many millions of adherents more than
Christianity has,
What could be more appropriate for the
| opening in an art magazine than an Illus
trated paper on The Portraits of John Rus
kin, which ushers In the February number
of The Magazine of Art? Here we have the
famous art critic from the tender age of
three and half years to his vigorous prime
| (his older age will be represented In the
March number. The frontispiece of the
number is a photograyure reproduction of
| Sir j. E. Millais's portrait of Ruskin
painted at just about the time when his
writings were attracting their first attention.
All art students will be interested in The
Proper Mode and Study of Drawing. by w.
Holman Hunt, illustrated by the writer
Another interesting paper describes Mr..
Brocklebank's Collection at Childwall Hall,
including many valuable illustrations.
among Them one full page after Miilais,
called The VOLTS Den. Belvoir Castle and
| It's History is carefully written account. by
+. Stephenson, of one of the most interesting
Of England's stately homes" Harry Fur.
Miss contributes paper on The Illustrating
| of Rocks from the Humorous Artists Point
OF View: Drawings by the author illus
the popular English painter, is the subject OF
an article from the pen of Frederick Wed
more, which is illustrated with reproduc
tions Of Mr.. Hunts most characteristic
| work. r. !
The first place In the Forum for February
Is given to Senator John G. Carlisle, who
laments The Vanishing Surplus. AS Mr.
| Carlisle is one of the leaders of the party
whose stock in trade has been the denuncia-
ton of the surplus as dangerous and un-
necessary accumulation, his lamentations
over the reduction of the aforesaid danger.
Gus accumulation will be read with interest
The series of articles upon Formative Infu.
ences is continued by an interesting and
profitable article by Professor Gildersleeve,
of Johns Hopkins University. Professor
Gildersleeye describes his own intellectual
development from youth to manhood amid
the influences of stern Southern home. A:
the Chinese See Us. by President w. A. P
Martin will give to the reader some new
ideas about the Chinese. President Martin
shows that those people, unprogressiye al
seems to us. envy us very little our ciyiliza.
ton. They acknowledge that we are far
ahead of them In mechanical inventions, but
consider us deficient In philosophy, in fila
piety, In methods of government, etc. Pref
Rodney WEIGH, who has already said many
true things about agriculture In this country
now presents study of The Farmer,
Changed Condition. Other articles are The
Next Step In Education, by President c. K
Adams; Was the Emin Expedition Piratical
by E. L. Godkin; The Physical Basis OF
Mind, by DR.. Henry Maudsley; BowdlcrIzed
Biography, by Walter Levin; The -Four
Modes of Life, by Major j. w. Powell; Pc.
litical Progress In Japan, by DIR. W. e. Grit.
ifs; and The Government ana the Indians,
by Hiram Price.
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