The Portland daily press., 1893-10-03

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exhibit at the Worlds Fair. While in
this country he prepared for the Popular
Science Monthly fully illustrated arit-
Gle describing The Ural Cossacks and
Their Fisheries, which is published in
the October. number. It appears that
these fisheries are held as communal
rights, and are carried ON in a very sys
tematic and peculiar manner.
The chief attraction in this.number OF
The Century is. the unpublished diary
Of the secretary of Admiral Sir George
Cockburn, who was in charge of the
ship which conveyed Napoleon Bonaparte
into exile at st. Helena. 1t records the
daily life of Napo leon on board ship,
and his familiar table talk ON Large
variety of topics, including many notable
events of his own history, the siege OF
Moscow, battle of Waterloo, his proposed
invasion of England, etc. Careful re-
search fails to reveal the previous publ
cation of any part of this remarkable
narrative, which is not only unique as a
contribution to Napoleonic literature,
but has added interest in connection with
Las Cases account of the same voyage
in his Memoirs of Napoleon, both in the
resemblances and in the differences which
mark the two accounts. The blograph1-
cal articles in the October Century in
of Frederick Law Olmsted with front
ispiece portrait), recounting especially
Mr.. Olmsted's work as the landscape
artist of Central Park and of the worlds
Fair. M. Coquelin, the famous French
actor, contributes an article on the song
writer Beranger Thomas A. Janvler
writes of The Cats of Hentiette Ronner,
with Illustrations from paintings by this
famous artist of cat life and at character.
Walt Whitman in War Time is series
of letters written by Walt Whitman from
Washington to his mother during the
war.
Harper's Magazine for October opens
with the first of Edwin Lord Weeks's
articles describing the journey across
Persia which .he'undertook. last year with
Theodore Child. The route described
lies between Trebizond and Tabreez,
where the first stage of the journey end
ed ina cholera trap The illustrations,
from Mr.. Weeks's sketches, are unusually
attractive There is another of Mrs. PEN
nell s descriptions of a picturesque town
this time it is Toulouse-copiously IL
Illustrated by Joseph Pennell. Col. ia.
Dodge, of the United States Army, writes
of the Arabian horse at his highest es-
tate in his Syrian home, and the article
is generously illustrated. Richard Hard
ing Davis describes Undergraduate Life
at Oxford, showing some of its lighter
aspects, and for the text Mr.. W. Hather-
ell has made five characteristic illustra-
tions. The Old New York articles are
continued by study of Lispenard's
Meadows, by Thomas A.. Janvier, illus
trated by WA. Rogers. DR.. Henry Van
Dyke writes about The Childhood of
Jesus in an article illustrated from ia
nous paintings. Our National Game
Bird, the quail, called partridge south of
Mason and Dixon's line, finds biograph-
er in Charles d. Lanier, who describes
quail shooting at its best. This article
is embellished by six illustrations by
Mr.. A. B. Frost. An article of especial
timeliness, in view of the recent agita-
iton regarding the Hawaiian Islands, is
the Manifest Destiny of the United
States, by the Hon. Carl Schurz.
David A. Wells the eminent economic
authority, contributes an important pa
per to the Forum for October on The
Downfall of Certain Financial Fallacies,
throwing flood of light into all the
dark corners of the silver problem DR..
Carl Peters, the African explorer. and
friend of Emin Pasha, writes pictur-
esquely of the Prospects of Africa's Set
Element by Whites. Hamlin Garland,
the well known realistic novelist, has
stirring article on Literary Emancipation
of the West, disputing in favor of Chica-
go the claims of Boston and New York
to literary supremacy. The Burning of
Negroes and it's Causes is discussed by
Bishop Atticus G.. Haygood, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, in
thoughtful paper on The Black Shadow
in the South, and by Major Charles H.
Smith {" Bill Arp"), whose blunt COM
ment is headed Have American Negroes
too Much Liberty? Frederic Harrison
furnishes another charming critical essay
in The Revival of the Drama. Ernest
Hart, editor of the British Medical
journal, in Medical Etiquette, Quacks
and Secret Remedies, boldly denounces
acknowledgements. Isaac Z. Rice, for
merly foreign agent of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad contributes a
timely and significant paper ON Public
Business and the Right to Steal. Ed
ward S.Holden, Director OF Lick Obser-
vatory, tells some startling news about
The Wonderful New Star of 1892, with
reference to the possible destiny Of the
earth. Col. Carroll D. Wright, United
States Commissioner of Labor, in Cheap
er Living and the Rise of Wages, shows
how wages have steadily increased and
living expenses relatively diminished in
the last half century. Prof. II. Ogden
Doremus, one of the foremost living tox-
biological experts, furnishes curiously
fascinating discussion of the proposition,
Can Chemical Analysis Convict Prison
ers? Is the West Socialisticg is vital
question effectively answered by Frank
B. Tracy, of Omahaln Rise and Doom OF
Gleed. of Kansas, in True Significance of
Western Unrest.