The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-19
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Instead Of the usual extended character
sketch of some onesperson, the December
Review of Reviews publishes six shorter
character sketches, covering in the
group a.wide range of international in
terest. The first is sketch of Serge
Julien Vitte, the new Russian Minister
of Finance, whose mastery hand has
checkmated Germany in the bitter tariff
war that has for many months been
raging between the two countries. The
second is sketch of Tom Mann, the
most interesting personality among all
the labor leaders of England, and the
article is by John G. Garlic, himself an
active worker in English trades union
ism. The third is an article on the late
Carter Harrison, of Chicago, by DR..
Shaw, seditor..of the Review of Reviews.
and. is fair and impartial characteriza-
ton of the most widely known of Chi
cago's politicians. 1t is accompanied by
portraits of Mr.. Harrison. The fourth
skech is from no less eminent writer
than Archdeacon Farraf, and it's sub
ject is the late Benjamin Jowett, master
OF Balliol College,, Oxford, the eminent
Greek scholar and translator of Plato
The fifth accompanied by "a magnificent
full-page portrait is a very attractive
account of the life and work of the dis
tinguished French musician Gounod.
Finally in the sixth sketch there is a
portrayal by Mr.. Sam j. Capper of the
late Louis Ruchonnet who served two
terms as a President of Switzerland and
who was the best known of all the pub
lie men of that enlightened little coun-
try.
The Century for December is embell-
ished with a Christmas cover and
abounds in holiday features A nota BILE
contribution to this number is the first
part of Mark Twain's new dramatic
novel Pudd'nhead Wilson, which is to
run in the Century for six OF seven
months. The author here is once more
on his familiar ground--the Mississippi
River region-and among characters
known to his boyhood. The other
fiction of the mum her is particularly
strong and varied and includes Fleur-
de-Lis by Kate Douglas Wiggin with pic
lures by Pape and Mrs. Alice Barber
Stephens; Bladder by Hopkinson Smith
a humorous story in the Artists Adven-
lures series with pictures by the author;
"A Set OF sketches a tale by Howard
Pyle illustrated by himself; The Curious
Vehicle Midnight Story by Alexander
Drake with drawings by Gustavus
OF Toby Van Loo, by Anna Eichberg
King illustrated by George Wharton
Edwards; Texas story with heroine
by Nellie Mackubin illustrated by
Zogbaum; and the concluding. half of
The Casting Vote by Charles Egbert
Craddock illustrated by Louis Loev,
Among the artistic features of the num-
Schuyler van Rensselaer, and Mr.. Cole, the
engraver, and short article on Jan
Steen, by Mr.. Cole; these three articles
being Introductory to the series of Old
Dutch Masters. In addition to the en-
cravings Of The Supper at Emmaus, the
number contains engravings by Mr.
Cole of Rembrandt's Portrait of
Woman. The Phllosoher in Meditation.
and detail from the celebrated paint
ing of Rembrandt's known us The Night
Watch. The Jan Steen article is also ac-
compan1ed by an engraving, by Mr.. Cole,
OF The Feast of St. Nicholas by that
painter, this feast being the Dutch
Christmas. The pages Of these three arti-
cles are framed with quaint designs on
Dutch themes by Alphaeus Cole, a son of
the engraver.
Good Houseekeing for Decem Der closes
the seventeenth volume of that popular
and valuable family journal. 1t is a
Christmas number, filed with m after
appropriate to the occasion, but not
neglecting the numerous interests in
every day life. In modestly referring
to its success in the past, the magazine
promises even better things for the fu-
ture, naming some of the attractions
which it will offer during the coming
year. 1t is enphatically. as its title in
dlcates. a family magazine, conducted
household" Sample copies are sent on
application, and the subscription price
is but 81 year,