The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-12
MAGAZINE NOTICES.


The Cosmopolitan for November comes
late this month but it is always accepta-
Bile. The November number is especially
noticeable for the illustrated articles on
Japan Revisited by Sir Edwin Arnold;
on The City of Hamburg, so recently
brought into prominence by the cholera
epidemic, written by Murat Halsted; the
story A Traveller from Altruria by VIM.
Dean Howells; The Art Schools of Paris
by Lucy Harper. illustrated by Ell.
Z. Greatorex; and A War Cores
pondent at the Fall of CONSTANT
nople, by Archibald Forbes the
famous war correspondent. Geo. W..
Gable has very interesting and thought
full paper on Education for the Common
People in the South that should com
mand much attention. John Burroughs
Courtship To those interested in the
preservation of our forests E. E. Hale
has a valuable article, illustrated, on
Epping Forest. Brander Matthews
furnishes an article entitled Two
Sides of the South that merit care
full perusal Robert Howe Fletcher
furnishes a military story, illustrated, en-
titled The Drummer of Co. Z. Any
thing about Mr.. Gladstone is interesting
and Mr.. w. n Rideing furnishes a
sketch of the great statesman at Hawar-
den. A fine portrait of Gladstone is the
frontispiece to the November number of
the magazine. There are several pleas
ing poems and Boyensen's story Social
Struggles is continued.
Although the Review of Reviews does
not attempt to sell copies by means of
sensations it's Thickness in the treat
ment of live topics is really sensational
in the best sense of the word; and, with
this understanding of what is meant, the
Review of Reviews may fairly be called a
decidedly sensational magazine every
month. The number for November has
as it's most striking sensation an article
entitled Ought Mrs. Maybrick to Be
Tortured to Death? The American pub
lie has heard good deal about the cir
cumstances under which Mrs. Maybrick
was convicted in Liverpool, where she
il now slowly dying in prison. The
controversy over her case has risen al
most to the dignity of all official inter
national question. Mr.. Stead, the Eng
lish editor of the Review of Reviews,
has now undertaken to investigate the
matter. and comes out with q strong ar
ticle, taking the American side of the
case. He shows that Mrs. Maybrick was
condemned on insufficient evidence, and
that her treatment is scandal upon the
name of English justice. Mrs. May
brick is a young American woman,
highly connected in this country, and
her cause has been stoutly championed
by MIR. Blaine and all the leading people
at Washington.
San Van Beers opens the Magazine Of
Art for November, or rather Mr.. M. a.
Speilmann opens the number with an APP
preciative paper on that clever artist.
The second and last paper on copyright
in works of art is given and suggestions
are made for new bill. The third pa
per on the Dixon Request at Bethnal
Green, by Walter Shaw-Sparrow, is fiji ed
with reproductions of the more famous
of the paintings. A full page is given to
an engraving of Her Friends, somewhat
impressionistic painting by R. PrineU,
which excited marked attention in the
last salon. The second paper on Bur
mese Art and Burmese Artists is given.
Following this is a poem by Cosmo
Monkouse, illustrated by G. Ricketts,.
Then we come to a most interesting
paper on French Feeling in Partisan Pic
lures, by Benarnd Hamilton, M. A.
In the Forum for November will be
found two articles by the most promi-
nent Englisd writer's upon this subject:
Sir Thomas H. Farrar, for many years
Secretary of the Rnglish Board of Trade,
who explains the several English views
of the Mckinley tariff and its effect upou
British exports; and Lord Masnam,
President of the Fair Trade Club, and the
largest textile manufacturer in Great
B itain, g yes the reasons why the pres
emit policy of Englnad should be changed
to protective policy, arguing that Eng
land has not profted by free trade. OF
semi-political nature is group of two
papers on Our Failure in Municipal Gov
ernment-one by Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, the English political leader, who
compares the cost of the municipal gov
eminent of Birmingham, England, with
the cost of t e municipal government of
Boston. These two cities are about the
same size, but Boston's government costs
about five times as much as Birnling
HAMS. The other article is by Mr.
Charles Francis Adams, who writes Of
the lessons from the m nicipal expert
ence of the historic town of Quincy,
Massachusetts.