The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The January number of Casselrs
Family Magazine comes to us enlarged
by the addition of sixteen pages which
the publishers will continue throughout
the year though selling the magazine at
the regular low price of fifteen cents
number, or dollar and halfa year.
By means of the additional space thus
placed at his disposal, the Editor has
been enabled to arrange for series of
New Features of the highest Importance
and interest In no number, perhaps,
which has yet been issued has the dis
tinctive feature of this Magazine, viz,
it's entertaining reading for every indi-
vidual member of the family, been SO
conspicuously apparent as in the one be-
fore us.
Scribner's Magazine, for January be-
gins it's thirteenth volume and seventh
year, for which many important features
are announced, some of them making
their first appearance in this number.
Serial fiction will be a feature of the
year, with such writers as Frances
Hodgson Burnett, Fl. C. Bunner, Robert
Grant, Harold Frederic, and Miss Elliott,
the author of Jerry. In this number the
first part of Mrs. Burnetts serial is
given, under the title of The One / Knew
the Best of All, which is charming bit
of autobiography, covering the reminis-
cences of the authors childhood and
youth up to the publication of her first
story. 1t is believed that this story will
do for the child-life of girl very much
what was done by Dickens in David
Copperfield for the life of boy. Pro-
fessor Angelo Heilprin, who was in COM
mand of the Peary Relief Expedition
(which met the successful explorer of
Greenland on his return to Mccormick
Bay, last August, from his three months
journey on the ice-cap), describes the
voyage of the Kite. the quarters where
Mr. aud Mrs. Peary lived during the long
Arctic winter, and the meeting of Lieu
tenant Peary with the relief party on the
ice-cap. Professor Heilprin also 6 yes a
summary of the discoveries made by the
expedition; and the important incidents
are illustrated from sketches made on
the spot by f. w. Stokes, an artist who
pose The whole article is the authori-
tative account of the relief expedition,
and gives rather new glimpse Of Arctic
travel in the summertime, showing it to
be delightful yachting excursion in a
balmy region of plentiful sunshine and
most exhilarating atmosphere. The
very popular Historic Moment series is
represented this month by William
Howard Russells account of the Fall of
Sebastopol September s, 1850 of which
he was an eyewitness. Although, it is
almost forty years since that event,
Doctor Russelrs pen-picture lof it has all
the vividness of description written at
the time. The illustrated articles in this
number, which is rich in pictures, in
clude Madame Marios account of The
Poor in Naples, which is the seventh ar
ticle in the series on The Poor in Great
Cities. Madame Mario ilvt stigated this
subject for the italian Government. The
illustrations are by the skilful artist
Tito.
The January number of the Forum
contains an announcement of some OF
the leading features of the magazine foI
the new year-an announcement which,
it may be fairly said, covers all the most
important feds of contemporaneous ac-
tivity. 1t is noteworthy in the case OF
The Forum that ii gives particular atten-
ton to the problems and the tasks and
the duties which lie Immediately before
men in our own country. 1t is not a re-
view which simply publishes articles on
large subjects, or articles by men of wide
fame. but it holds close to it's purpose to