The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-30
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The articles in the June Forum are un-
usually valuable and interesting. Judge
Thomas AZ. Cooley, the eminent jurist,
leads this number with an impressive re-
cital of Grave Obstacles to Hawaiian An
nexation, and the Rev. Gilbert Reid, a.
missionary to China, personally known
to the Chinese Prime Minister, writes on
China's View Of Chinese Exclusion.
Mr.. Paderewski in America. an enthusi-
astic appreciation by Henry T. Finck,
the eminent musical critic, precedes two
striking articles on the pension scandal,
one by Congressman John De Witt War
ner, Half Million Dollars Day for
Pensions, the other by Lieutenant Allen
r. Foote, who quotes from the original
documents in the Farnham Post contro-
versy, on The Decisive Breach in the
Grand Army. Fl. Fl. Boyesen, the
novelist, utters some plain words con
corning American Literary Criticism and
its Value.
Senator Lodge and Mrs. Burnett take
the head of the column in the current
number of ST. Nicholas, and tell the
praises Of the national capital, to which
Mrs. Burnett gives the name, The City Of
Groves and Bowers-certainly a more.
pleasing title than City of Magnificent
Distances. Mr.. Lodge sketch gives the
important facts and legends connected
with the city's past. and commends the
wisdom that set apart a truly national
city for the capital Mrs. Burnett ap-
proaches the subject from the point of
view most suitable to young readers. In
graceful and poetic style we are told why
Washington should be a paradise for
children, Both articles are fully illus
trated. Boys will learn from Mr.. David
som sketch of the Vesuvius Just what is
TO be expected from Uncle Sans de-
structive marine popgun. How gum
cotton will act when brought into con
tact with an enemy's vessel wedo not
yet know, but one can imagine that. the
testimony as to its effects will be from
those who were at some distance. Draw
ings and diagrams make clear the con-
struction of this latest Yankee notion in
warfare. Lieutenant Commander E, w.
Sturdy, U. S. N, explains the Weather
Map of the Ocean, and gives due praise
to the compilers of this inyaluabla5g
to mariners. Since it is written for
young people, the sketch is undoubtedly
just what will interest and entertain their
elders.
The Century for June opens with re-
production of cast of the Juno of Ar
Cos, discovered in 1892 by the American
school of Athens. and here printed for
the first time. This is to accompany an
account of the finding of the statue by
Dr. Waldstein, director of the American
school, who, according to recent advices,
has since made important additional dis
eeveries in the neighborhood of Argos.
The number contains two seasonable
articles relating to sports, the first by
Lieutenant William Hem, the we'll
known naval officer and yaehtsman, who,
in 1885, sailed the Galatea against the
Mayfower for the Americas cup This
article records the pleasures and perils
of a cruise on the Florida coast in ship
jack of less than thirty feet in length, and
describes a perilous experience in cross
ing Jupiter Bar. The other paper is
consideration of certain phases of col
lege athletics by Walter Camp, includ-
ing training" ''rules," eligibility"
the attitude of college faculties, and
"the spirit of fair play" thus following
TIE line of current discussion in the atlr-