The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-08-06
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The August number of Scribner's Maya
zine is entitled "Fiction Number" 1t has
always been the policy of this wide-a wake
magazine to recognise the approach of the
seashore, tennis suit and hammock season
with lighter reading than is afforded for the
more studious winter months. This summer
the August number is made the fiction num-
Der. Fiction is not all that it contains, how
| ever. The series of articles on the great
streets of the world is continued with rather
a dull essay on Piccadilly. Londsn. What
ever Piccadilly may be this article on it does
not seem to he up to the others of the series
In interest. There is still another article Of
series to bind the August number to its
predecessors, that on Parliamentary Days in
Japan, wherein is continued the description
OF the workings of the new liberal institu-
lions of the interesting island kingdom of
Japan. Besides these two articles the num-
Der Is entirely devoted to fiction and poetry.
A continued story that breathes the balmy
airs OF the South Sea Islands begins, from
the pen-it is unnecessary to say it-of Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson. But he is not alone in
this story. as Lloyd Osborne is his collabora-
tian story. the Anatomist of the Heart,
which does not end In very satisfactory
way according to the old fashioned ideas Of
the conventional endings OF stories relating
to the heart. Intellectual Fire, by Annie
Eliot, Is a seashore story. with much about
nshermen, wrecks. ETC., and cannot fail to be
In place at this time. At the Ranch of
the Holy Cross, A. A. Hayes, takes the read
or from the seashore to the mountain regions
OF the West, while Thomas Nelson Page, In
MS story entitled Elsket takes the reader to
Norway with Its flords, etc. The poetry is
by Mrs. James T. Fields, Louise Chandler
MoClton, and Archibald Gordon.
The August Forum gives Its first place to
the important and interesting question of
the relations Of Russia to the Jews. First
there is an article by DIR. r. II. Geffcken, on
the weakness Of Russian finances, with
which the great Jewish banking houses have
OF course had considerable to do. The second
article OF the symposium is by a Russian
Hebrew barrister. 1. A. Hourwitch, who
writes OF the severity and extent of the perse-
cution. Baron de Hirsch treats of methods
and places OF refuge An analogous subject,
immigration and Degradation, is discussed
by President Francis A. Walker. The very
obscure Chillian trouble Is enlightened some
what by an article by Ricardo L. TrumbulI,
the agent of the Chiiian congressional gov
eminent. 1t would not be expected that Mr..
Trumbnil would write an impartial state
ment Of the grounds Of the conflict, and he
has not probably tried to. MS article is
probably q good statement Of the case Of his
clients. Ex-Governor l.. A. Sheldon dis
cusses the Profits of the Fruit Culture Of
California. Edward P. Clark discusses the
| question, Does Public Life give Long Ca
reers? coming to the conclusion that upon
the whole it gives much longer ones now
| than 1t did years ago In this country, and
that the tendency Is towards Ipermanency of
| tenure whether in the administrative or
elective branches Of the 90 sernment. Those
interested in Arctic explorations will find
two articles by two eminent explorers, Gen.
Greedy, land Nasen, the explorer of Green
land. President Williams Of the Chemical
National Bank of New York City discusses
the cause of THE gold expectations. Other
articles are The Greatiead Underground
Electric Railway, by Simon Sterne, and
Literature In the Market Place by George E.
Woodbury..
The August ssArena is rather woman's
number, for conspicuous features of it are
portraits of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Amelia B. Edwards. with characteristic ar
ticles from the pen of each. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton writes on where lasting progress
must begin, and Amelia B. Edwards on My
Home Life. Five other women also con-
tribute. Mime. Blaze de Bury on the unity Of
Germany; Helen Campbell on the working
Women of today; Sarah A. Underwood on
Psychic Experience; Prof. Mary l.. Dickin-
son on individuality in Education; and
Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky on Decade
OF Retrogression. Other articles are Should
the Nation own the Railways, by G. Wood
Davis; the Tyranny of Nationalism. by Rev.
Minot j. Savage; and Old Hickory's Ball by
VIII Allen DrumgoOle.