The Portland daily press., 1892-04-01
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Brother to the Sea, by Julian Ralph, Illus
trated by Remington and Graham; the
third chapter of the famous Danube
papers, From the Black Forest to the
Black Sea, written by F. D. Millet and
illustrated by MI. Millet and Alfred
Parsons; An Indian Fair in the Mexican
Hot Country, by Sylvester Baxter, with
numerous attractive and striking pictures
from drawings by Alice Barber Stephens
and The a last Days of Percy Bysshe
Shelley, by Guido Biagi, with illustra-
tions from photographs, and portraits of
the surviving witnesses of Shelley's Gre
nation. Other papers of peculiar i'm
| portance and timelinesS are, Western
Modes of City Management, an article OF
great value for its suggestiveness,. by
Julian Ralph; The Mystery OF Columbus,
startling exposition of facts from con-
temporary records, by Eugene Lawrence;
| and Some Talk about English Public
| Schools, by an English writer especially
| familiar with the educational institutions
of his country. An intensely interesting
chapter of geological history, The An
cient Lake Region of America, is con-
tributed by James Richardson. The
| fiction of the number includes the second
| chapter of Mr.. Howells's new novel, The
| World of Chance; characteristic short
story by Richard Harding Davis entitled
Eleanore Cuyler, illustrated by G.. d.
| Gibson; and another French-Canadian
sketch, La Cabane, by William McLen-
nan, illustrated by c. S. Reinhart.
Louise Imogen Quincy and Madison
Cawein contribute short poems.
The Famous Tortugas Bull-Fight by
| C. F. Holder, will delight all readers of
| St. Nicholas who have bit of boyhood
in them. The triumph of ''Jack," who
personated the bull, appeals strongly to
ones sympathy for the apparently weak
er party. Mr.. Drake's illustrations have
a directness and force that are admirably
| suited to their subject. A story of the
Swiss Glacier represents another Bit of
frozen fact. 1t is based upon the finding
of little boys body perfectly well pre-
served some sixty years after his fall into
a crevasse. The story is marvellous, but
seems well authenticated. Then there
are two papers devoted to the delights of
kite-fying, due in March. One tells OF
method of attaching a train Of Kites to
single string-a sort of limited express
for the upper air-while the other article
describes the making Of a big kite that
draws a wagon along country ROAD.
Those of a studious turn of mind may de-
vote a little careful reading to Rev.
George McArthur's clever paper Seven
Years without Birth =. an explana-
ton Of the why's and cfores of leap
year, with side rem IS upon Pope
Gregory. julius Caesar, Augustus and
such calendar tinkers. Other features
that call for at least reading by title''
are Katharine Pyle's Cobbler Magician. a
bit of nursery diablerie; The Curious
Case Of Ah-top, a pleasantly in verse,
with pictures by Mrs. Wheelan; A Shock
ing Affair, pictures from which amateur
photographers may see how excellent
effects may be secured from simple ma
terials mixed with Brains, STRIP
Our Common Roads, by Isaac B. Potter
is the subject of the opening illustrated
article in the April Century. Nothing
could more wildly depict the wrong way
to do it than some of the striking illus
trations of this paper, while the right
way is also fully pictured and described
The Mother and Birthplace of Washing
} ton is another timely subject treated by
Ella Bassett WashingtOn-timely because
the women of America are just now par
ticularly interested in commemorating
the mother of our first President by re-
storing her mutilated monument. Pro
fessor Holden, of Lick Observatory has a
popular paper on The Total Solar
Eciipses of 1889, very curiously illus
trated. A particularly out-of-the-way
experience is that described by Nh. Whit
nj ElSEInU
Pearls in Australia. The author was
himself diver, and tells some strange
things concerning that extraordinary
calling. In view of recent war posslblll-
ties and the revived attention to naval
matters, the article by William Elliot
Griffis on the battle of The Wyoming il
the Straits of ShimonoselSi has also q
present interest. Mr.. Edward Robinson
of the Boston Museum discusses the
question, Did the Greeks Paint then
Sculptures? and gives very valuable tes-
timony on this subject. This article is
carefully illustrated. Mr.. and Mrs. Pen
nell have an illustrated paper on The
Feast of the Marys in Provence, and ex
Postmaster General James discusses The
Ocean Postal Service. In MI. Stedman'
series on The Nature and Elements o.
Poetry. the author endeavors to answer
the fundamental question: What is Poe
try? characteristics, by DR.. Weir Mitch
d eli: OF Pap's Flaxen, by Hamlin Gar
g land: and THE Naulahka, by Rudyard
+ Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. are con
d tinued. The scenes in The Naulahk;
n are quite as original and striking as those
: which have appeared in Mr.. Kipling''
{. own stories The late Wolcott Balestiel
s is commemorated in a brief sketch b,
o Edmund Gosse and sonnet by J. Il
. Campbell. There are two illustrated
y short stories-John Heards Starving q
e Taskona, and Some Passages in the His
e tory of Letitia Roy. by a Canadian writ
~ ~ er, the pictures for the latter story beins
" bv Mrs. Mary Hallocil Foote. The
ii Three Ages Of Man, by Lorenzo Lotto
forms the frontispiece of the number il
the well known Old Masters series,