The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-31
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The January st. Nicholas contains
very charming Indian fairy story by Rud-
yard Kpling. When young readers get
we'll into the swing of this vigorous bit
of narration, they will understand for
themselves what it is that has made this
young Englishman's name a candidate
for not only high place, but for one OF
the topmost places of literature. st.
Nicholas, during this Worlds Fair year,
means to let foreigners (and natives, tool
know something of our great American
cities. and Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son appears at the head of the process
sion of authors, proudly bearing BAN
ner wherein appears emblazoned Dos
TOM In light, but thorough way,
Col. Higgins on passes in review the more
salient and characteristic points that
make Boston the steady, unwobbling,
well-set Hub that she is. Attractive
pictures add much to the value OF the
sketch. Other papers are to be pub
lished, in early numbers, upon the prom
inent municipalities that every day more
and more are settiug the tune for the
rest Of the nation.
In the January Popular Science Month
ly DR.. Andrew D. White completes his
account of the stubbonly contested ad-
vance, From Magic to Chemistry and
Physics, in the Warfare of Science
Colonel A. B. Ellis contributes to the
same number paper on Marriage and
Kinship among the Ancient Israelites.
Some Vegetable Malformations, such as
roses and pears with branches growing
| through them, etc., are described, with
illustrations, by Prof. Byron D. Halsted.
The story of AN independent invention of
the lightning-rod, by a Bohemian con-
temporary of Franklin, is told by Joseph
j. Kral. DIR. Charles W. Pilgrim, writ
ing on Genius and Suicide, shows that a
mind which is abnormally developed on
any side is in much danger of becoming
| unbalanced. DIR. Alexander Macalistel
reviews the recent progress of anthro-
| pology under the title The Study of Man.
| The Early Extirpation of Tumors is ad.
vocated by DR.. J. w. S. Gouley, whose
experience has shown him that great
numbers of innocent tumors take on q
| cancerous character in time. The Evolu-
| ton of Civilization and the Arts is traced
and explained by M. Gustave LIE Bon.
The movements of A Captive Comet
one which collided with Jupiter in 1886
are described by Charles Lane Poor,
Miss E. F. Andrews contributes a lively
discussion of the question Will the Com
| ing Woman lose her Hair? There is q
statement of the Problems of Anthro-
pology, by Rudolf Virchow. In the Ro'
tation of the Farm, the so-called aban
doning of farms is explained by Appleton
Morgan as tendency of the country
population toward the city, which is
| likely to be counteracted by a growing
tendency of city jewellers toward the
country.
Harper's Magazine for January opens
with an interesting account by Julian
Ralph of steamboat voyage down the
Mississippi-The Old Way to Dixie
copiously illustrated by W. T. Smedley
This is the first of a series of papers or
the present condition and recent develop
ment of some portions of the South which
Mr.. Ralph will contribute to the Maya
zine during the year. Theodore Child's
valuable series of Partisan papers and
| sketches are continued in an article OF
| Proletarian Paris, wherein he describes
some Of the features of life among thu