The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-09
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Taking up the November Popular
Science Monthly, one is struck by the
many phases Of actual human life in dis
tinction from the ideal life of fiction and
poetry, which this magazine reveals
Sara Jeanette Duncan opens the cur
rent number with asstudy of the mixed
race of India, in the delightful vein of
her well-known book, A Social Depart
ure DR.. Wesley Mills treats of The
Natural or Scientific Method in Educa-
ton, basing his essay upon what has
been discovered asYto the way in which
the brain receives and records Impress
ions, and illustratingi it with diagrams of
special areas in the brain. There is an
article by DR.. 7. Lauder-Brunton on a
novel subject. Posture and it's Indica-
lions, to which still more novelty is
given by its odd illustrations. What
things are being most earnestly studied
in the field of mental science are pointed
out by Prof. Joseph Jastrow in paper
on The Problems of Comparative Psy-
chology. The question whether it will
ever, be possible to put together by
chemical processes creature having life
is discussed by M. Armand Sabatier,
under the title The Synthesis of Living
Beings. Some Economical Trees, that
have sent roots into deeayed parts of
their own trunks, are described by Fred
erick lie Roy Sargent, with illustrations.
The calculations made by Jacques Inaudi
The Latest Arithmetical Prodigy, are de-
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markable Reasoning Animals are put on
record by Allen Pringle Miss Alice
Carter writes of Color lin Flowering
Plants: there is valuable practical
paper on Modern Nervousness and its
Cure, by DR.. Bilsinger; an account of the
First German Paper-maker, with pictures
of his mill, is given by Eduard Crosse;
and J. B. Mann answers the question are
Business Profits too Large? by showing
that capital and skill do not get such
wonderful earnings as many working
men imagine.
The Culver for November is at hand
and as usual invites us to turn it's pages
by showing most interesting table of
contents. To catch the eye of the young
people of the family the number opens
with story, Winifred's Engagement,
by Ethel L. Salmon, which begins with a
girl nearly killing man and ends by her
marrying him.. Following this is a theo-
logical essay called The Mighty Con-
founded by the Weak. Befriending
Child Cripples, is an interesting sketch
BY G. Holden Pike, which contains some
hints that our philanthropists may read
with profit. The serial, A Lincolnshire
Lass, comes to an end in this number
and so does Luna Gordon's Stewardship.
The November Century is the frs t
number of the forty-ffth volume and of
the twenty-third year of this magazine,
which, while preserving the general
characteristics which have given it vogue
is striking out freshly into new paths.
The frontispieee is the portrait of an
American of whom his countrymen have
reason to be proud historian
Francis Parkman,-and the completion
of Mr. Parkman's series of historical mar
ratives on the French power in North
America is further accentuated by two
short articles by Mr.. Lowell ian unfin-
ished sketch) and by DIR. Edward Eggles-
ton, both OF whom lay stress upon the
inheritance of this work. Articles which
strike into the midst of current discus
sions a Plain Words to Workingmen,
by one of them, Fred Woodrow; Does
the Bible Contain, Scientific Errors? by