The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-06
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The New England Magazine for May
opens with an interesting account of the
relations of Phillips Brooks to Harvard
University, both as student and relig-
ious teacher. The paper is by DR.. Alex
ander Mckenzie, the well-known Cam
bridge divine. The frontispiece of the
number is fine engraving of Phillips
Brooks, as he appeared as a Harvard
student, done by M. Lamont Brown.
Celia Thaxter contributes fine poem,
Maize for the Nations Emblem, which
win interest all who are considering the
question of what shall be our National
Flower. A very attractive article which
every boy who has felt the fascination of
REFERS and gold buttons will want to
read is Life and Study at the Naval
Academy, by Walter G.. Richardson, En-
sign U. S. Navy. The article gives an
account Of the routine, the study and So
cial life of the Academy, aud is finely
illustrated from photographs taken
specially for this purpose. Lucy P. Hig-
gins gives description of Old Slip
Building Days at Duxbury. Mary A. P.
Stansbury has little poem called His
Last Word, based upon the dying words
of Phillips Brooks, II am going home.n
Caro- Anterior Dugan writes about
A Historic Doll. Irene Putnam contrib
utes delicate poem Of Love.
Perhaps the most thought-provoking
controversy-raising feature of any Ameri-
can magazines Of the current month is
Eugen Richter's Picture of the future in
the May number of the Review of Re-
views, published under the striking
caption, How Socialist Millennium
Would Work. Richter is the most bril-
liant parliamentary leader in the German
Reichstag, and he has written pamph-
let in the form of romance intended to
show how dismally and how unbearable
such state of society as that advocated
by the socialists of Germany and the
Nationalist of America would work in
reality if it were to be now introduced.
Richter's pamphlet has had an enormous
circulation in Germany, and it is now for
the first time made accessible to Eng
lish readers in this number Of the Review
of Reviews. Mrs. Henrotin, who stands
next to Mrs. Potter Palmer in Worlds
Fair undertakings has written for the
May number of the Review of Reviews "a
summary sketch of the participation of
women in the forthcoming Worlds Fair
Congresses. Mrs. Meredith, of Indiana,
also one of the high officials OF the Board
of Lady Managers, has given the readers
OF the Review of Reviews glimpse of
the Woman Building and what it repre-
sents. There is also, by another lady of
official standing in the Worlds Fair,
charming little sketch of the Children's
Building and its exhibits.
The Exhibition number of Scribner's
Magazine is the contribution which the
conductors of that periodical make to
the great Exposition at Chicago. 1t is
put forth as representative number to
show the literary, artistic and mechani-
cal resources that are employed in such
publication, and is fully representative
of the individual writer's who have made
the existence of great magazine posi-
bic. This issue contains nearly ond-third
more matter than the regular numbers
OF Scribner's, and the illustrations are of
extraordinary abundance and richness,
including twenty-five full pages, two of