The Portland daily press., 1892-04-28
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

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Philosophy is the subject that opens the
May Popular Science Monthly. The
writer, Mr.. ". II. Hudson, who was for
some years the philosophers private -sec-
rotary, traces the development of Spen-
GERS philosophic thought, and points out
the true relation between his work and
that of Darwin. A copiously illustrated
article on Cave Dwellings of Men is con-
tributed by Mr.. w. H. Larrabee. Mr..
David Dwight Wells illustrates Evolution
in Folk Lore by the notifications in an
African legend produced by changes in
the surroundings of the people who pre-
served it. Prof. Frederick Starr tells
what facilities there are for Anthropologi-
cal Work in Europe, giving the portraits
OF large number of the most noted
European anthropologists. In other de-
partments OF science are the Limitations
OF the Healing Art, by Dr. H. Hothnagel;
| some considerations as to Why we Should
Teach Geology, by Prof. A. S. Packard;
an illustrated paper on Dendrites, a Curl
Gus tree-like formation in rocks, by
Stanislas Mennier; and one of Grant
Desert Fruit, namely, the prickly pear.
The paper on Science and Fine Art, by
Emil Du Bois-Reymond, is concluded, as
is the one on Bad Air and Bad Health,
by Harold Wager aud Auberon Herbert.
| Harper's Magazine for May opens with
the first chapters of characteristic New
England novel, Jane Field, by Mary E.
Wilkins. The frontispiece and other
illustrations of the story are from draw
ings by W. T. Smedley. An important
| literary feature of the number is an arti-
Gle by Annie Thackeray Richie on Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, relating
many interesting personal "reminiscences
of the two eminent poets. Lieutenant
| Colonel Exner, an officer in the German
service, contributes a timely article on
The German Army of To-day, which is
effectively illustrated by I. de Thulstup.
Julian Ralph, continuing his valuable
series of papers on the great Northwest,
gives a strikingly interesting description
| of the Dakotas. The fourth of the de-
| servedly popular series of Danube papers
| From the Black Forest to the Black Sea,
| is written by f. D. Millet, and beauti-
| fully illustrated by Alfred Parsons and
Mr.. Millet. Anna B. Brackett writes
trenchant and valuable article on The
Private School for Girls; and Eugene
Lawrence contributes short historical
| paper on Amerigo Vespucei. The fiction
of the number embraces, besides Miss
Wilkins story, the third instalment Of
Mr.. Howells's novel, The World of
Chance; a humorous story, entitled The
Courtship Of Jessekiah Brown, by Ruth
McEnery Stuart, with an illustration by
| A. B. Frost; and another French-Cana-
dian dialect story Malouin, by William
McLennan illustrated by G. S. Reinhart.
There are poems by William Sharp, w.
d. Howells, Charles G. D. Roberts, John
B. Tabb, and W. P. Prebie, Jun.
Scribner's Magazine for May opens
with the second article in the series on
The Poor in Great Cities, in which Jacob
A. Riis, the author of How the Other
has gained him such wide recognition.
The next al ticle in this series is the Rev.
| William I. Elsing's account of Life in
/ New York Tenements as Seen bya City
OF the surroundings in which the children
of the poor are bred. Thomas Curtis
Clarke, the eminent engineer and builder
of the Poughkecpsie Bridge, writes, from
Of Rapid Transit in Citics-which is one
of the chief clements in the future bet
terment Of tho condition Of the poor, as
it is for the comfort and convenience Of
the commercial world. The brief pen
pictures OF Historic Moments are repre-
sented in this issue by an account of The
First News Message by Telegraph, sent
ON May 1, 1874, from Annapolis Junction
ton of Clay and FreIinghuysen by the
Baltimore Convention ON that day. Pic
fessor N. $. SAaler begins in this issue a
group of four articles on the Sea-shore
and Depths Of The Sea, which will be
fully Illustrated from the authors photo
graphs OF the NEST curious and signif-
cant phases Of sea beaches. icebergs, and
sea-dcptlls. Paul Lindau, the well-known
German author contributes to the Great
Streets series a most picturesque account
of Inter den Linden, the famous Berlin
street. Mr.. ". I. ApthoTp's concluding
article on Paris Theatres and Concerts is
light and amusing, reproducing the
theatre-going habits and customs of
modern Paris. The fiction of the num-
Der includes the third instalment of
Robert Grants very successful social
satire, TIE reflections Of Married Man;
chapter OF Stevenson's serial, The
Wrecher, which is the first fruits Of his
recent visit to Australia, picturing most
graphically life in and around Sydney
and a short story by a new writer, en-
titled France Adoree. There are poems
by the late Charles Henry Liidcrs and by
Benjamin Paul Blood.
The opening article Of the New Eng
land Magazine for May is Village Life IL
Old England. The author, Reuben G
Thwaites, and the artist, Louis A. Hol
man, spent last summer in England, ane