The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-07
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oPO1lo WlOA "A OldlOSuC oCUW cell IbHh
R. Stockton and Edith NJ. Thomas. 1t is
written in one of Miss Thomas's happiest
moods, and is as bright as one of Sydney
Smiths epigrams. Incurable, Ghett
Tragedy, by that witty, thoughtful Lon
don author, /. Zangwill, is one of he most
pathetic of short stories. Once begun
this story will be read to the bitter end.
The Human Documents and Biographical
Notes in this number Of McClure's Mag
azine every reader will look for and lin
ger over. Conan Doyle is pictured here,
a. boy and man five times; here we see
II. Il. Peary, G. E., U. S. N, the Arctic
explorer, at five different ages; Camille
F'lammarion, the French astronomer and
writer, at three interesting periods of
his meteoric career; and f. Hopkinson
Smith at the age of seventeen, twenty
five, forty-five and today. Then E. Jay
Edwards, the well known New York
correspondent, places before us an almost
exhaustive study of President Cleveland.
No more searching and finished analysis
of Grover Clevelad has appeared in. re-
cent years. In the next article, Arthur
Warren, for years European correspond
emit OF American papers, takes US through
PATHS magnificent Craig-y-Nos in Wales
and presents Patti in a most enchanting
way. Once Aboard the Lugger is short
story worthy of the genius of Robert
Louis Stevenson. 1t is by So author
OF The Splendid Sur. The heroine Of
this perfect, original tale of half cen
fury ago is a second Christie tombstone.
Four Hundred Degrees Below Zero is
an interview which Henry J. W. Dam,
writer favorably. known to Americans
and Londoners as one in the front rank
of journalism, had with Professor James
Dewar in the latter's laboratory, which
laboratory was once used by SIR Humph-
rey Davy and Michael Faraday. The
Hypnotic Experiments of Doctor Luys of
the Charity Hospital in Paris, are sure
to appeal to everyone interested in hypno-
tism. 1t is written by r. II. Sherard, on
the spot, which is a guarantee of it's
worth. The illustrations are of the most
curious interest. They are from photo
graphs of patients in action, under hyp-
motto influence.
The November Forum contains long
list of valuable articles by noted writers
on important topics. Prof. H. Won Hoist,
the eminent constitutional historian, in
discussing The Decline of the Senate,
offers a slashing criticism of present SEN
ate methods in an article entitled Shall
the Senate Rule the Republic? The Sen
ate in the Light OF Historyssis the head
ing given to searching analysis of the
character and capacity of present fsena-
tors as compared with the Senate Of Web
ster, Clay and Calhoun. Paul Bourget,
the distinguished French novelist, writes
charmingly about The New Moral Drift
in French Literature-claiming high
rank for Emile lola. Gen. Adam Ba-
deau, formerly military secretary to Gen
eral Grant, in Hamilton Fish: The Old
School and the New, explains for the
first time Motley's dismissal as Minister
to England and the quarrel between
Summer and Grant. Southern Sentiment
and Mob Law is again discussed this
month by the venerable Chief Justice
Bleckley, OF Georgia, in Negro Outrage
an Excuse for Lynching, and by Walter
H. Page, edi or of the Forum, who calls
mob law The Lasd Holt of the Southern
Bully, and tries to indicate an effective
remedy. Is Christianity Losing Ground?
notes topic of wide and absorbing in
terest, effectively discussed from differ
ent standpoints by DR.. G. A. Briggs in The
Alienation of Church and People, by
Prof. Felix Adler, who writes on Modern
Scepticism and Ethical Culture, and
DR.. Paul Carus, of Chicago, who considers
The Dawn of New Religious Era, in
connection with the recent Parliament of
Religions.
A new volume of the Century starts in
November with an extraordinary table
of contents, including the names of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell
Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, Colonel
John Hay, George KEENAN,, Mary Hal
lock Foote, Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer,,
Edith M. Thomas, Charles Egbert Grad
dock and many others. AS to the con-
tents themselves, these include nothing
more absorbing than the second or con-
Guiding part of the diary of the Ad-
miraPs Secretary describing Napoleon's
voyage to st. Helena. Emerson's name
is attached to recently discovered un-
published poem written to Lowell on his
fortieth birthday, which furnishes a
most fortunate preface to the last and
final series of Lowells essays to appear
in the Century during the coming year,
and the first one of which is printed in
November. A two-part story by Charles
Egbert CraddocK entitled The Casting
Vote, begins in this number, and there
dfc COIuplcttu SUOfIeS ny hlcQdrQ NAL
colin Johnston, Mary HalIock Foote and
A. W. Drake, the latter being entitled
The Yellow Globe-the first Of series
of strange Midnight Stories. Another
short story is by Mrs. Anna Eichberg
King; it is called The Factions of Kitwyk
and is one of a series of humorous
sketches of Dutch life, illustrated by
George Wharton Edwards. John Hender-
son, Artist. by George KEENAN,, the ST.
berian traveller is literal transcript
from life, and a very remarkable one,
with some photographed details of
the famous traveller incidentally intro
duced. The Artist Adventure Series is
begun in this number by the painter,
Walter Shirlaw; it relates an extraordi-
nary incident of Western life which was
witnessed by the artist; it is here illus
trated as well as described by him. The
Lighter Vein department is unusually
varied and strikingly illustrated, and in
GUIDES full-page drawing of negro life
by sHelmick, which is one of the most
careful studies of character of this sort
that the Century has published. Mark
Twain's new novel will begin in the
Christmas number of the Century.
st. Nicholas with this number enters
upon it's twenty-frst volume, and might
well be expected to make a speech for
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