The Portland daily press., 1892-10-03
MAGAZINE NOTICES.


This beautiful resort was for many years
The favorite haunt of the poet Whittier,
and Miss Larcom, who was an intimate
friend of Whittier, describes his hooks and
their associations with his poetry with
truly poetic touch, and reverent in
sight into nature. Arthur Wentworth
Eaton, who is well known for his lyrics
and as authority upon Nova Scotia
history and affairs, describes The Acad-
ian Province-by-the-Sea, and its legends
and traditions, with great deal OF
charm and freshness. Columbus and
His Friends, is the subject of valuable
historical essay, by Isaac Bassett Choate,
which will find many interested readers
at this season of celebration. Everett 5.
Hubbards poem The Three Ships, which
holds the place of honor in the number,
is an entertaining supplement to Mr..
Choate's paper. Hon. J.. G. Power
writes on The Whereabouts of Vinland,
and contrives to make this well-worn
topic interesting. The revolution Ven
ezuela gives timeliness to the article on
The Republic of Venezuela, by Don
Nicanor Bolet-Paraza, the Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the United States. Don Bolet-Paraza
gives an account of his country's pro-
gress industrially, educationally, socially
and commercially, and his political ut
terances will have significance at this
time. Walter Blackburn Harte con
tributes the first paper of series on The
Philosophical Basis of Fiction.}
The October number OF Scribners
Magazine begins group of articles on
The Worlds Fair at Chicago, with a
picturesque description by Fl. c. Bunner
of The Making of the White City. A
series of illustrations by w. T. Smedley
illustrates this striking transformation.
Franklin MacVeagh, one of the best
known merchants of Chicago, will write
On Chicago's Part in the Fair (November
number) and Frank D. Millet, who has
been associated with so many Worlds
Fair projects, will write of The Decora-
ton of the Worlds Fair. Among the
ments' Series, is description in this
issue, by Daniel Denison Slade, NJ. D., of
The First Capital Operation under the
Influence of Ether. DR.. Slade is one of
the few survivors of the group of physi-
clans and students who gathered in the
Massachusetts General Hospital, on No
vember 7, 1916, to see the first test made
of DR.. Morton's great discovery which
was to revolutionize surgery. DR.. SHADES
recollections are so clear that the details
of the historic scene are made perfectly
ortiz in
the number have a very practical educa-
tional value. Edmund r. Spearman de-
scribes The School for Street Arabs,
known as the D'Alembert School, which
is situated near Paris, and has done so
much for the solution of the great prob
lem of making something out of the boys
whose only home and school have been
the city streets. The fiction of the num-
Der includes another Story of Western
Town, by Octave Thanet, entitled Tommy
and Thomas, which describes the rise of
a Western politician illustrated by A. B.
FROST; Bliss Perry, the author of The
Broughton House, begins and amusing
story Of life at Mount Desert, entitled
Salem Kittredge, Theologue.
The October number of Harper sMaga-
zine very appropriately opens with an az
ticle entitled The Baptismal Font of
America, by Frank FL. Mason, in which
full account is given of the manner in
which the Western Continent received its
name. The article is accompanied by
fourteen illustrations, including a fac
smile of the page in the Cosmographia
Introductio in which the America name
is first mentioned Another article apro-
pos of the 400th anniversary of the dis
covery of the New World is a scholarly
essay on Columbus, by Professor DR.. S.
Ruge, of Dresden, reviewing the facts
which the latest researches have brought
to light concerning the character and
achievements of the discoverer. Theo-
dore Child contributes an interesting
paper on Paris along the Seine, which is
handsomely and profusely illustrated.
Laurence Hutton's unique and very en-
PERTAINING description OF his Collection
of Death Masks is continued, with seven
teen illustrations. FL. G. Bunner writes
an appreciative sketch of the well-known
artist A. B. Frost, in which he incident
ally reviews the wonderful progress
which has been made in the art of book
illustration during the last twenty-five
years. R. Cation Woodville, the dis
finguished English artist, gives a stirring
account of his experiences at Tiger
Hunting in Mysore, which is illustrated
with number Of striking pictures drawn
by himself. President Charles F. Thwing
of the. Western Reserve University, con-
tributes valuable and comprehensive
article on Education in the West The
fifth paper in James Russell Lowelfs Sc
ries on the Old English Dramatists has
for its subject the double stars of our
poetical armament, Beaumont and
Fletcher.
@There is an autumnal flavor about the
October number of Good Housekeeping
quite in keeping with the lowering tenn
perature, the frightening evenings and
the ripening year. In addition to Miss
Parloa's admirable papers on Many Meals
for Many Millions, there are continual
tons of several series, notably those on
The Expert Waitress, The Food of the
People, The Household Laundry, and
Little Talks with Little Women. An ex-
citing short story is by Mary Clark Hun
tington, entitled Popsey, the Heroine of
Roaring Gulch. In the way of evening