The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-07

OF adventures as no boy having once
made the acquaintance of Tom and Huck
parently, was with the party, judging
from his illustrations Children love
New Orleans is what Mr.. George W. Cable
tells us in delightful paper wherein he
has made it partly plain why "being
boy" in New Orleans must have been SO
much jollier than han being boy in any
Dwarfs" IS continued Gf by paper concern concern
ing Nicholas Ferry, the dwarf of the
King of Poland, and the poetry of the
number brings us such familiar and
trustw orthy names as those of Virginia
Woodward Cloud, Oliver Herford, NAL
colin Douglas, John Kendrick Bangs,
Katharine Pyle, Tudor jerks and Emile
Poulsson.
The November number of Harper's
Magazine completes the eighty-seventh
volume in manner worthy the long life
and high character of that periodical.
The opening article is the second in Mr..
Edwin Lord Weeks's description of his
journey from the Black Sea to the Per-
sian Gulf by Caravan, and the frontis-
piece illustrates an interesting family
group set in a characteristic Persian
landscape. Engravings of fourteen adj
ditional drawings by Mr.. Weeks. and
portrait of the late Theodore Child ac-
company the article. Arthur Symons
discusses The Decadent Movement in
Literature, and four portraits of leaders
of the movement illustrate the article.
In connection with it is given an Imagi
nary Portrait, by Walter Pater, called
Apollo in Picardy. Julian Ralph writes
entertainingly of The Bayou Teche,
which flows through Acadian louisiana,
and for this article Mr.. W. I. Snledley has
made nine charming illustrations. Mr..
Rezln W. McAdam turns the light upon
the Indian Territory in an illustrated
article entitled An Indian Common
wealth, and Richard Harding Davis con-
animated sketch of London in the
Season, with illustrations by Hather-
ell. Mr.. Frederick r. Coudert contributes
timely paper on Arbitration, Col. T.
A. Dodge writes of Rides in Turkey, and
Daniel Roberts relates A Renaissance
of Stephen "a. Douglas. The number is
generous in fiction. William Blacks The
Handsome Humes reaches its conclusion
and, besides Mr.. Pater's Imaginary Por-
trait, there are three short stories: The
Frog that Played the Tromb bone, by
Brander Matthew'S; Vorbei, by Annie
Nathan Meyer; and Emily, by Owen
Wister. Poems by John Hay, Anna G.
Robert Burns Wilson, and the usual de-
partments of comment, record and
humor, fill out a strong and attractive
number.
Scribner's magazine for November
opens with a picturesque, and amusing
travel sketch by Colonel H. E. Colville,
C.B. of the Grenadier Guards, in which
he describes his experiences while In
Camp with the Katchins-a tribe of cat
tle-raiding mountaineers, living near the
Chinese frontier of Upper Burma
Among.the articles which are thoroughly
American in their authorship and sub
ject are The Picturesque Side, by F. Hop
kinson Smith giving with pen and
pencil his impression of the Worlds Fair,
particularly of the aspects of the Mid
way Plaisance. Another distinctly
American article is Isaac H. Bromley
contribution to the Historic Moments
Nomination of Lincoln. A paper of most
pertinent interest to everyone interested
in the. education of women is Miss
Katharine de Forests account of the
present conditions governing Education
for Girls in France. Miss De Forest is
an American girl who has for a number
OF years lived in France and has had ex-
ceptional opportunities for a careful study
OF this subject. Mr.. F. N. Doubleday
concludes his Glimpses of French Illus
traitors with accounts of the work of
Renouard, Kaemmerer, Beraud, Flam-
eng, Leloiro Farm and other contem-
porary artists, with many effective ex-
amples of their work. The fiction of
this issue includes two short stories by
Octave Thanet and Martha McCulloch
Williams.
The leading feature of the Review of
Reviews for Novembr is Representation
of the Possibilities of thu. Great North
west, in an article by Mr.. S. A. Thompson,
and in a supplementary article by DR..
Emory r. Johnson upon Inland Water
ways for the Northwest Mr.. Thompson
as secretary of the Duluth Chamber of
Commerce, has for several years been
actively engaged in searching .out and
applying effective means for bringing
the great States northwest of the Upper
Mississippi, and the great Canadian prov
inces belonging geographically to the
same region, into closer communication
with the rest of the North American
continent. He is therefore able to write
with an enthusiasm born of in innate
knowledge of the subject and supported
by very.important and surprising statis-
tics. DIR. johnson is lecturer on Trans
portation in the Wharton School OF Fl
nance sand Economics, University of
Pennsylvania. and has recently published
a monograph upon Inland Waterways.
DR.. johnson particularly emphasizes the
Importance Of canal and river transpor
tation as means of lowering railway
rates, and he finds very large social
as well as economic influence resulting
from this extension of facilities for
shipping and FOR personal travel These
two articles suggest a future of almost
unimaginable growth for the great
Northwest. Each article is fittingly illus