Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-14
Brief Notes on the Maaazines.

The School Review, ably edited by Dr. J j..
q. Schurman, contains four articles in the
March number, one of which. Biology in
Secondary School. by DIR. !. NJ. Coul-
ter, deserves special mention. Ithaca,
N. Y.
Current Literature is improved by the ad-
dition of portraits and illustrations, and its
selection aud arrangement of articles on
erary skill and good Judgment. E New York
Current Literature Publishing Co.
The Century for March contains a re-
markable article on Napoleon; one on
Westminster Abbey; an account of ia
maica. finely illustrated, three completed
short stories, serials. several short articles
and many poems. New York; The Cen
tury Company.
Beautifully illustrated articles in the New
England Magazine for March are: The
University of Wisconsin; With Dean Stan
ley and Phillip Brooks at Plymouth Ye
Romance of Casco Bay. part five; The Re-
public of Chile. There are other interesting
articles in the number. Boston: 23l
Columbus Avenue.
Worthin ,tons Magazine for March en-
braces among other interesting articles
The Chicago Women's Club; Phenomena
of the Desert, by Col Thomas W. Knox,
and Phillips Brooks all of which are finely
illustrated. This is clean. healthy ma ga.
zine for family readlng. Hartford, Conn.
A. d. Worthington Co.
Leading features in The Review of Re-
views for March are: A Study of Ameri-
can Politics in the Careers of Blaine Lamar
Hayes and Butler; America in Hawaii
England in Egypt; Phillips Brooks, and A
Royal Road to Learniug. The Review con-
tains the cream of the American and for
eign magazines and reviews. New York
ID Astor place
+ My College DAYS, part one, by Edward
Everett Hale; Random Recoilections of
Emerson, by VIM. II, Furness; An English
Family in the Seventeenth Century. by
John Foster Kirk, and The Ancestry of
Genius, by lIaverlock Ellis, maintain the
old-time reputation of The Atlantic Mont h.
ly at its high STANDARD. Boston: Hough-
ton. MiiIiin & Co.
Valuable articles in The Sanitarian for
March are: Need of Sanitary Supervision
of Schools; New York Quarantine National
Quarantine Law; National Health Service
in Congress. Justification of Miaernl
Waters: Vital Statistics of France. and ar
ticle on National Quarantine Law in Edi-
tors Table. Brooklyn. NY, A. n. Bell,
NJ. D., editor.
The March number of the Magazine of
American History indicates the thorough
ness with which the new publishers under
take to present the proceedings of the his
torical societies throughout the country
These notes are carefully classified under
the various states and aim to present a COM
plete and Interesting picture of the work of
these organizations in the historical field.
New York: 1872 Nassau Street.
Three valuable articles make up the num-
Der of the American Meteorological Jour
nal for March. They are: Exploration of
the Free Air, by Prof. Mark W. Harring-
ton, chief of the L. s. Weather Bureau i;
The General Winds of the Atlantic Ocean,
by Prof. William Morris Davis, and The
Colors of Cloudy CONDENSATION. by Prof
Carl Burns. An extremely valuable num-
Der of an important publication. Boston
CHM & Co.: 30 cents per number.
The number of Litteifs Living Age for
the week ending March IL, is model num-
Der of this old favorite. The following
articles making up the issue are none of
them long, and in choice they cover wide
variety of subjects, viz Oliver Cromwell
as a soldier; Treasures; Ornaments Bates
the explorer of the Amazons; Up Creek
in Demerara Our Young Historians: A
Garden in the Tropics. These articles are
from the leading English reviews and mag
azines. Boston: Littell & Son.
The Forum commences its fifteenth vol
ume with the March number, and has
table of twelve articles, every one of
which is deserving of thoughtful attention
and close study. Hawaii and our Future
Sea Power; a New Commercial Era for the
United States; The Cost of Silver and the
Profits of Mining, and the Transformation
of New England are some of the articles
that rank among the best given by any re-
view or magazine for the last quarter, to
say the least. New York: Union Square.