The Portland daily press., 1892-02-29
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The complete novel in Lippincott $
Magazine for March, A Soldiers Secret,
is by Captain Charles King, who alohe
among living Americans has the secreUo
the military tale. His last story has a
very recent theme,-the Sioux war Oh
1890,-and will be found equal to any OF
his previous work. In the jour
nalist Series, Mr.. A. E. WaTous
handles The Newspaper-Man as
confidant ably and but too brleTy.
His contention, that editors and report
ers have singular gift Of keeping secfets
which it would be money in their pock-
cts to publish, will surprise readers not
of the profession, and he supports it oy
some curious and striking incidents.
In the Athletic Series, the mysteries
of Horsemanship and Polo are revealed
by an accredited authority, MI. Foxhail
Keene. Under the heading One Hundred
Miles an Hour, MI. Chas. r. Deacon, or
the Reading Railroad, discusses the facts
and possibilities of railroad speed, and
rejects the popular notion that a faster
rate necessarily means increased danger.
There is a short story by Miss NJ. g. NC
Clelland, and brief sketch by Lillian A.
North. The poetry of the number is b1y
Anne Reeve Aldrich, S. Decatur Smith,
Jr., Prof Clinton Scollard, Ruth john
ston, and Nora G. Franklin.
The New England Magazine for March
opens with a pleasant paper, Recollec-
tions of Louisa May Alcott, by Mrs. Ma
ria S. Porter NJ. Lamont Brown fur
nishes fine wood engraving of Miss Al
colt in her twenties as a frontispiece, and
the article is finely illustrated by May
Alcott Neriker, the sister of Miss Alcott,
10. H. Hatfield, and Louis A. Holman.
Walton Ricketson, the sculptor, furnish
es copy of bust he has just made for
the Concord Library. An article that
will be read with considerable curiosity
is Harvard Clubs and Club Life, by Will
liam Dana Orcutt. 1t gives the history
of all the different college societies, and
an account of their peculiar customs and
social aims and rites. 1t is well illus
trated. Captain Charles King, the novel
ist writes glowing description Of his
western home, Milwaukee,. He manages
to incorporate some fine word pictures
into his account of Milwaukee's COM
mercial progression and prosperity.
Winfield S. Nevins continues his Stories
of Salem Witchcraft. Isaac Bassett.
Choate contributes an interesting paper
on America in Early English Literature.
Henry Cleveland Wood writing of Negro
Camp Melodies, preserves many OF these
old-folk songs now being forgotten.
Walter Blackburn Harte, in gossip on
Literary Advisers, tells the truth about
this class Of literary frauds, who prosper
upon the vanity OF incapable scribblers.
Henrietta S. Manner contributes a pleas
ant article on Bryant's New England
Home, which is well illustrated. Mr..
Edwin d. Mead considers the Chilian
question from a common sense point OF
view. Zitel1a Cooke contributes a brace
of sonnets, Schuman and Schubert. Mi
Ia Clarke Parsons and Mary ]. Garland
furnish two stories, and the names of
Clinton Scollard, Bessie Chandler, and
Philip Bourke Marston are among the
poets who contribute to the number.
The Popular Science Monthly for
March has varied and attractive table
of contents. First comes the fifteenth of
DR.. Andrew d. Whites New Chapters in
the Warfare of Science, dealing with AS
tronomy. The denunciation which both
Protestant and Catholic theologians
heaped upon the scientific teachings of
Copernicus and Galileo are set forth in
this article with abundant and exact
references to the writer's quoted. In the
series on American Industries there is a
fully illustrated paper on The Organ, by
Daniel Spillane, describing some of the
largest instruments in the United States,
and telling what advances American or
gan-builders have made in their art
Another illustrated article is a very read
able account of Domestic Animals in
India, by John Lockwood Kipling. Car
roll D. Wright contributes an instructive
paperon Social Statistics of Cities, in his
Lessons from the Census. The latest i'm
portant discovery in zoology, that of the
with illustrations, by DR.. E. Trouessart.
This animal furnishes connecting link
between the ornithorhynchus and
pouched animals like the opossum and
kangaroo, There is a very spirited Au-
photographed Sketch of Justus Won
Liebig, which contains valuable obser-
yations on methods of teaching science.
An account of The Cotton Industry in
Brazil and its prospects is given by John
C. Branner. There is an able and popu
lar discourse on the natural history of
babies by DR.. Louis Robinson, under the
title Darwinism in the Nursery.
Scribners Magazine for March contains
many noteworthy contributions. The
opening pages have the widely announced
last poem written by the late James
Russell Lowell, entitled On Bust of
General Grant, which is in the vein of
MI. Lowell's highest patriotism, ranking
with the famous Commemoration Ode.
1t includes facsimile of one of the
stanzas, showing the authors interlinea-
tions. Those interested in artistic sub
iects will find two articles appealing par
L. L. I.o.,, 4ar4 ind or,d