The Portland daily press., 1894-12-31

is one of adventure, love and jealousy.
By Telephone, a stirring newspaper story
by Francis c. Regal, shows how plucky
reporter defeated conspiracy and
brought the criminals to justice. A
| Question of Responsibility, by Imogen
Clark, deals with delicacy vs. life-sav-
ing in a lodging house. The other stories
belong to Christmas, and are offered at
the right time instead of a month before
hand, as is the usual magazine custom.
These are Mrs. Santa Claus, by Marjorie
Richardson, Prodigal Friend. by S.
E1gar Benet, and Mrs. Risley's Christmas
Dinner, by Ella Higginson. Each OF
them is in the spirit of the season,
though the last is in minor key.
The Popular Science Monthly never
flags in it's dask of giving to the general
public the new and broader views OF
Nature, including man, that scientific
investigators are opening up In che
leading article of its January number
many of the wonders that astronomers
have discovered are brought within the
view of amateurs with small telescopes.
1t is the second of a series of papers IL
Illustrated with star maps which Garrett
P. Serviss is contributing under the title
Pleasures of the telescope. In Twenty
five Years of Preventive Medicine,
history of sanitation in this country is
given by Mrs. H. NJ. Plunkett. Ethics in
Natural Law is the title OF an essay IN
which Dr. Lewis q. James critlclses the
famous Romanes lecture by Prof. Hux-
ley. Col. A. B. Ellis's paper, On the
Origin of Weeks and Sabbaths, shows
1, sIa .Irc of or
existed among different peoples they
have all been intended as subdivisions
of the lunar month. Under the title
Two Lung Tests, DR.. f. L. Oswald shows
how costly apes are killed in menageries
by lack of fresh air. Prof. James Sully
takes up In mis- otudes of Childhood the
idea of self, of the past, OF GOD, and
others that young philosophers puzzle
over. II. c. b. Cowell writes on School
Ethics, pointing out ways in which prac-
tical teaching of this subject could be
added to the theoretical. The methods
employed in The Baromertic Measure
ment of Heights are described by j.
Ellard Gore.
Some important illustrated articles
which will appear in early numbers of
The New England are Old Milk Street.
by Hamilton A. Hill; Round Arbout
Monadnock. by DR.. Edward Emerson;
Horace Mann, by Frank A. Hill. Seere-
tary of the Massachusetts, Board of Edu-
cation; Harriet Beecher Stowe, by George
Will is Cooke, Sir William Pepperell and
the Capture of Louisburg, Old New Eng
land Songs, Dartmouth College, The
Harvard Annex, Lowell Mason, Raleigh
Lost Colony, The Part OF Massachusetts,
Men in the Ordinance of 1851, The Bos-
ton Public Library and New England
in Chicago, by Edward Ishan. The
series of articles on our towns will be
continued with Boscawen, by Charles
Carleton Coffin, and Litchfield, Con
necticut. Dr. Samuel A. Green of the
Massachusetts Historical Society Will
contribute The Several Places Called
Groton, telling of the old English
various A merican Grotons. The history
and antiquities Of Boston will not be
neglected. Many strong articles on So
ciaI. political ana educational subjects
will be published in the coming year and
poetry and fiction will be we'll represents
ed. In short, this excellent magazine
will continue to improve along the nnes
which it's subscribers and the press of
the country agree in recognizing as SO
Important and unique.
The death of the late Count of Paris
gives the January Harper's an oppor-
tuuity to review The Fortunes Of the
Bourbons, which it does in it's leading
article tor the month. "A fine portrait
of the late claimant to the French throne,
drawn and engraved by Florian, is
given as Irontispiece to the Number,
IL Ill tuh
glories of Henry Nv and Louis XIV,
ends with some "reminiscences of the late
Count of Paris as he appeared in Ameri-
ca, The January issue contains the first
of three articles by Julian Ralph, de-
scriptive of the aspects and resources of
the new South. The subject of the first
paper is Charleston and the Carolinas,
and abundant illustration accompanies
the text. In the second part of Mr..
Hardy's novel, Hearts Insurgent, the
hero reaches crisis in his life which
affects all future numbers of the story.
Mr.. Hardy succeeds in yltallz1ng his
people almost at first acquaintance with
them. and Judge Fawley is recognized
instantly as a man and brother strug-
Cling with the problems OF the world,
and not as puppoG puSHcu buiouSn q
Iabyrlnth of situations for our amuse-
ment. The extent of the United States
is recalled wildly by Julian Ralph's artl-
Gle. Charleston and the Carolinas. While
winter is having its way in some two
million square miles of Uncle Sans ter
ritory, yet there Is a sunny side even to
the first three months of the year, and
the centre of all this charm is Charles
ton. The opinion has been Industrious
ly circulated that in points where the
speech of England and tue United States
differs the speech OF England is neces-
sarily the standard. In curiously and
entertainirgly Instructive paper, Henry
Cabot Lodge shows that many Of the
expressions contemptuously referred to by
british writer's as "Americanism" are
found in Shakespeare, where they are
used with precisely the same meanings
that now attach to them. In other
words, the English which the New Eng.
land colonists brought with them from
the mother country has been guarded
with greater care than the English of
England itself.
Full of the holiday spirit is the Janu-
airy mum Der of St. Nicholas. 1t opens
with beautiful drawing by Leon
Guipon, one OF the most promising of
the Younger artists, illustrating a poem,