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

poor and in the manufacturing dlstrlcts
of the French capital. This article is
appropriately illustrated from drawings
by p Renouard. In an article entitled
Why we Left Russia, Poultney Bigelow
relates the story of the brief but eventful
visit of himself and Frederic Remington
to the Cars dominions last summer. A
particularly interesting literary feature
of the number is paper on Tennyson py
Annie Fields, relating some personal
"reminiscences of the late poetlaureate,
with brief critical comment upon certain
Of his most famous poems. Edward r.
Waite contributes comprehensive ana
important article on Pensions: the Law
and it's Administration, reviewing the
history and practical working OF the
pension system in the United States.
This number of the Magazine is parricu-
larly strong in fiction. The Editor
Study, by Charles Dudley Warner, en-
braces discussions on variety OF timely
topics, both social and literary, and is
illustrated by Clifford Carleton. The
Editors Draw is opened with snort
story by Thomas Nelson Page, and CON
tains the usual rich variety OF anecdote,
wit, and humor.
The piquant title of Mark Twain's new
sketch in the January Century, The
81, 100000 Bank-Note, is borne out by
the not less piquant motive of the story,
which is wager between two London
ers that man with nothing but 81 ,OO0-
900 bank-note could not live thirty days
and keep out of jail. The story records
IL. Of ho m W
tried the experiment. Other stories are
the third of Miss Grace Kings Louisi-
ana Balcony Stories, entitled La Grande
Demoiselle, in which the author sets
forth an interesting type of New Orleans
society, and story of official life in
Washington, entitled The Reward of the
Unrighteous, by George Grantham Balm,
attractively illustrated by Wenzell- Add
to these the second part of Mr.. Bales
tiers Western novel, Benefits Forgot,
| the third part of Mrs. Burton Harrison's
! New York society story Sweet Bells Out
of Tune, and it will be seen that the
| fiction of this number has much variety
of scene and style. In subjects OF public
interest are Washington Gladden's
sketch of the Cosmopolis City Club, the
first part showing why and how the club
was organized; further passages from
the correspondence Of General and SEN
tor Sherman, dealing in an untechnical
way with gloomy years of the war; and a
| group of contributions relating to The
| ,nY,t al
essay with that title by Talcott Williams
of the Philadelphia Press, letters by
well known educators, -Commissioner
w. T. Harris and Miss Angelina Brooks
"a contribution from a teacher III New
York free kindergarten, an editorial,
! The kindergarten not Fad, and poem
by Richard Watson Glider, The Child
Garden. The recent spread of the kin
dergarten as an auxiliary to the pub
lie schools gives additional interest
to this group of papers. This number
of the Century is strong in papers OF out
of-the-way adventure or travel, told from
personal experience. Of these there are
three: ID the concluding paper OF Mrs,
| PennelIs diverting account OF the ad-
ventures of herself and Mr.. Pencil
among the Austrian gypsies, pictur-
esquely illustrated by that artist; l2la
| paper OF PERSONAL obluleS u lutidu llilo,
by Miss Alice Cletcher setting forth,
from experience during her life among
the Omahas, the Politics and Pipe
| Dancing of that tribe, to which paper
| MI. Castaigne contributes some striking
and carefully studied picture of Indian
| life; and 81 two papers on The Great
Wall of China by N. B. Dennys and
Romyn Hitchcock, giving graphic pic
lures in text and illustration of won
| derful construction of which every
schoolboy has heard something, but OF
which the public knows very little in
detail. In the series of Notable Women
there is a sketch, with a portrait, OF
Dorothea Dix by Mary S. Robinson
Among the poets of the number are
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Louise Imoger
Quincy. Louise Chandler Moulton and
Charles w. Colman.