The Portland daily press., 1893-02-25
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The complete novel in the March num-
Der of Lippineott's Magazine, Warnings
Peril, is by Captain CHARLES King, the
laureate of our little army. No living
| author is more sure of an eager audi
ence, or more certain to hold and delight
his readers No one knows more thor
oughly the matters of which he writes.
and no one else can describe them with
more graceful and natural art. His stories
always have plot; his characters are
living men and women; he makes the
barracks, the march, the battlefield, as
near to us as if we had been there; and
he clothes them in something of 'sthe
light that never was on sea or land, -
for he is poet, whose poetry insinuates
itself through practical and most read
able prose.
Mr.. Raymond Blathwayt, who has
earned the name of being the best sin
terviewer' in England, opens the March
number of the Culver with an illustrated
interview with DR.. Moon and an account
of his work for the blind The Witness
of the Stones is an article to interest old
and young; and then, in lighter vein,
comes Cousin Walter, a charming story
by the author of Miss Prescott's For
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concluded in this number. The Theol-
ogy of the Sun, by Prof. w. G.. Blaikie,
Gods Harvest and it's Needs, and In
the Footprints of ST. Paul. by the author
of How to be Happy Though Married,
are papers that cannot fail to interest
thoughtful readers. There are generous
instalments of the serials. For the read
er who is looking more for amusement
than for instruction there are stories and
poetry, and a department of Short Ar
rows filled with anecdotes that point a
moral.
Insthe Popular Science Monthly for
March Prof G. Hanford Henderson COM
pletes his illustrated account of The
Glass Industry, describing the gradual
advance of glass..making in America from
1900 to 1880, and the immense strides it
has taken since the introduction Of natur-
al gas as fuel. Considerable light is
thrown upon the problem of irrigating
our Western lands in an illustrated arti-
Gle on Artesian Waters in the Arid Re-
gion, by Robert T Hill. A strange phase
of life in colonial times is exhibited in
Colonel A. B. Ellis's paper on White
Slaves and Bond Servants in the Planta-
tons. An explanation of The Decrease
John G. Rose. Under the title An Agri-
cultural Revolution, Prof. Clarence M.
Weed describes, with illustrations, the
operation Of spraying fruit trees with in
secticides and fungicides. Grant Aliens
study of Ghost Worship and Tree Wor-
ship is concluded in this number. Edith
Sellers tells the Story of a Colony of
Epileptics, which gives excellent testi-
mony to the beneficial effect of steady
occupa ion in nervous diseases. The
Brooklyn Ethical Association, a society
for the study of social problems by scien
tific methods, is described by DR.. Lewis
G.. James, it's president. Other articles
are Notes on Pal@opathology, by DR.. r.
W. Shufeldt, The Scheele Monument at
Stockholm, by Fred Hoffman,, East
Central African Customs, by James Mac
donald, and a sketch by Robert Hare,
with Portrait. In the Editors Table,
The Everlasting Ghost, A Shattered Ar
gument, and Stoves without Flues are
sharply dealt with.
A figure picture by Luke Fildes has
been reproduced by the photogravure
process for the frontispiece of the Maya
zine Of Art for March. 1t is called La
Zingarella and belongs to the Venetian
period of Mr.. Fildes's art life. The open
ing article of the number is criticism
of the Royal Society of Painters in Water
Colors, by Frederick Wetmore. The
illustrations are full, and show the paint
ings to be above the average. The editor
discusses the Old Masters Exhibition
and Mr.. Henry Silver brings us down to
modern times with most interesting ar
ticle on The Art Life of John Leech,
filled with reproductions from drawings
by that delightful draughtsman. The
French painter Dagnan-Buuyeret is the
subject Of a sketch by Prince Bojida
Karageorgevitch, whose name appears
so often in the Journal of Marie Bash
kirtseff. There is a symposium of sug-
gestions for new Fine Art copyright
act in England from the pens of Holman
Hunt, Seymour Haden, Briton Biviere,
FL. T. Wells. John Brett and Mr.. Poyn-
ter. Walter Crane furnishes the second
of his papers on Design with his own
illustrations, and then we come to Mr..
Swinburne's little carol, illustrated by
w. E. F. Britten. Edwin Bale, r. T.,
has paper on Mr.. Timothy Cole and
American Wood Engraving