The Portland daily press., 1892-06-07
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Century Co., is the subject of num-
Der of contributions to the June Cen
tury. There is a frontispiece portrait.
poem by Edmund Gosse, biographical
sketch by the Rev. DIR. GLADDEN., an edi-
torial in Topics of the Time, with brief
statements of MI. Smiths connection
with the Tract Society, the Congrega-
tional Club and Berea College, Ken
lucky. The leading illustrated article
of this number is by DR.. Albert Shaw.
In this paper he describes the rise of a
new Observation-Disclosures. The paper
is profusely illustrated by Joseph Pen
nell. A paper also of timely interest in
view of the approaching presidential
campaign is Joseph B. Bishops article
on Early Political Caricature in America,
which is illustrated by fac SMILES of
caricatllres which were famous in their
day. Mount Saint Elias Revisited is a
| description by Israel c. Russell. of the
United States Geological Survey. of his
| second attempt to reach the summit of
| that famous pinnacle. In the April num-
| Der of last year he described the expedi-
ton of the previous year. This second
expedition was perhaps more eventful.
In the article entitled Land of the Living
Cliff Dwellers Lieut. Frederick Schwatka
describes his first visit among the half
| civilized and wild branches of the Indi-
ans of chihuahua Senior Emilio Caste
| lars second article on Christopher Co
| lumbus describes the great explorer In
| Search of Patron. A striking feature
| of this number is the beginning of new
serial called The Chatelaine of La Trim
ity, by Henry B. Fuller, author of the
book so much praised by James Russell
Lowell and Prof. Norton, The Chevalier
of Pensieri-V ami. Mr. Fuller's first book
| dealt with Italian subjects in a novel and
charming manner. The scene of the
present one is laid in Switzerland.
Scribner's Magazine for June contains
| the series on The Poor in Great Cities
(which is attracting the widest attention.
with an article on Life in New York
Tenement Houses, as Seen by City
Missionary, by the Rev. William T. FL
sing, who for nine years has worked in
the tenement house district in close as
ISOLATION with all phases of that life.
Closely connected with this series is a
wonderfully sympathetic account of The
sDrury Lane Boys Club, London, by Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett who has not
contributed to any magazine before for
several years. Her account of the origin
and growth of the club, and the opening
Of the new reading room has all those
qualities of sympathy and appreciation
| with child life which have made her sto-
| ries among the most popular in the Ian
| guage. The Rev. David Swing, d. D.,
contributes to the Historic Moments Sc
ries A Memory of the Chicago Fire,
which is most graphic word picture of
| what he saw and felt on the night Of Oc-
tober 8, 1871, when nearly the whole city
was swept away. Of particular impor-
| lance to all great cities is Mr. Thomas
Curtis Clarke's suggestive article on the
| solution of the problem of Rapid Transit
| in Great Cities. Mr.. Clarke makes very
definite plans for Chicago, Boston and
| Newly ork, which he has evolved after
| close personal study of the question in
each of these cities. The plan which he
proposes for New York, suggesting a
new street, open air yiaduct, ETC., is one
| which he clearly shczEs will add to the
| beauty and commercial value of the city,
| as well as to the great convenience of
| passengers. An article of unusual pic
| turesqueness is A. f. Jaccaci's descrip-
| ton of An Ascent of Mount Etna. made
| by him in the late autumn after the usual
| season for such adventures. 1t is illus
| trated with his own drawings of scenes
along the route, and from the rim of the
great crater. Prof. N. S. Shaler contrib
utes a fully illustrated article on Sea
| Beaches.
The New England Magazine for June
opens with clever and comprehensive
article on Art in Chicago by Lucy B. Mon
roe, a well-known Chicago critic. The
article is finely illustrated with repro
auctions of old masters, and canvases by
contemporary Chicago artists. The Gov
eminent of Cities is an interesting review
OF this vexed question by Moorfeld
| Storey. Edwin A. Start contributes a
description of the work and life at the
Hampton Institute, Virginia; he also
gives sketch of the life of General Arm
strong, the founder of the institution.
Edward G.. Porter writes an entertaining
| account of the discovery of the Oregon,
| which has just been celebrated in Port
land, by the Boston ship Columbia.
Three of the leaders of the Christian En-
deavor Society, Rev. Francis E. Clark,
Amos R. Wells, and John Willis Baer,
describe the aims, and methods of this
| new Christian movement. The Outlook
and the Opportunity deals with the pos
sible future of the society and the work.
Henry Colling Welsh contributes pleas
mt gossipy paper on Three Letters from
Hancock to Dorothy O., which puts the
old patriot in an entirely new light. Her
bert M. Sylvester is very satisfactory in
his second paper in the Romance of Casco
Bay series. Walter Blackburn Harte
| contributes an essay ON Catholicity in
Literature in which he makes plea for
a consideration of the essential and
human instead of the merely local and
accidental in all literature.
Avery striking story in the st. Nicholas
for June is The Boy who Wouldn't be
stumped, by Bessie Chandler. Mr..
Charles F. Lummis continues his in
structive paper on the great Southwest
by notice of the First American Traveller
the Spanish adventurer who traversed
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