The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-07-17


readers.
Among the notable and valuable ar
tcles in July Arena are Mrs. Helen H.
Gardeners papers on Environment: Can
Heredity be Modified? a question now
being discussed by all thoughtful people;
Whittier's Religion by Rev. W. H. Saw
age; Monometalism and Protection, a
mastery analysis of the tariff and finan
cial question, showing their intimate
relation, by G. S. Thomas, one of the
ablest bi-metallist advocates in the
country. Occult Science in Thibet is
treated by Heinrich Hensoldt, Phi. D.
India Silver, Wheat and Cotton by
Samuel Leavitt is another splendid pre-
sentation of the argument for bi-lnetal-
ism. James L. Hughes criticizcs Prof.
Goodwin Smiths arguments against the
enfranchisement of women, and su bjects
that eminent scholars domestic preju-
dices to the severe test of logic The
Higher Evolution of Man, by Henry Wood,
is an ethical paper ef value. Mr.. BIO.
Flowers discussion of Japan's treaties
and the subseq uent legislative operations
of the English and American govern
ments, IL paper called Justice for
Japan is demand that the American
and not play the bully, as John Bull
always does, disregarding both honor
and decency.
A str liking full-fgure portrait of Cap
tain Alfred T. Mahan, U.S.N., on whom
Cam bridge has recently conferred the
degree of Doctor of Laws, forms the
frontispiece of the Review of Reviews
for July. This number contains many
other interesting portraits-Populist
Senators and Representatives at Wash
ington, Mr.. John W.Goff, the successful
counsel of the New York Senate's Police
Investigation Committee; Sir George
Williams, the founder of the Y. M. Ca;
the late William Walter Phelps; Profess
or William D, Whitney, the Hon. George
Peabody Wetmore, Rhode Islands Sena-
tor-elect; M. Casimir- and Charles
Dupuy, the French statesmen; Samuel
Gompers, President of the Federation of
Labor; the Coxeyite leaders; Professor
Henry Drummond, Governor-elect Lord
of Oregon, and other people prominently
before the public.
There are six good short stories in the
July Harper's, although no announce
ment is made that this is fiction num-
Der. Specimen Jones is one of Owen
Wister's most successful studies of the
Southwest; The Evening Party. by
Grace King is sketch of New Orleans
life with wide application; Ebb and
Flow, by Eva Anstruther, touches on the
changing social conditions of England;
Un Mauvais Quart d'Heure is bright
summer sketch by Charles Stanley Rein
hart, gwho has illustrated it with his own
4 IT, 4f@ kLo p.a. Ii So nrrr
another Vignette of Manhattan, by
Brander Matthews, gives a glimpse of
life in New York's great East side; and
In Fly Time, by Robert Grant, is a
humorous Fourth of July tale of a New
England farm, with pictures bv @. d.
Gibson.
Scribner's Magazine for July opens
with descriptive article on the social
aspects of that region along the Massa-
chusetts Coast known as "The North
| Shore" 1t extends from Nahant to
Cape Ann, and as the author of this ar :
ticle, Robert Grant, says: it is very
| pretty place to which Bostonians who
wish to keep cool and ret be able to see
| the gilded dome of the State House
| through the telescope, hide themselves
| from June to October.n Mr.. Grant is
| thoroughly familiar with this whole
| region and he describes the varied life
of 1.-THE yachting, the hunt clubs, and
| the social functions-with all that vi
vacity and keen appreciation which
might be expected from the author of
| The Recofections of a Married Man. The
| illustrations were made by W. T. Smadley
| from actual sketches along the North
Shore. There will be similar social
| studies in succeeding numbers of the
magazine, Mr.. ". G, Brownell writing of
Newport and F. Marion Crawford of Bar
| Harbor.
The Popular Science Monthly presents
varied table of contents in it's July
number. The opening article, by Logan
| G. Jefferson, is on.The Meaning of Cor
2oratio ms and Trusts, showing that such
com binations are natural results of we'll
| known causes. Several articles suggest
subjects for observation during summer
outings. Prof. Byron D. Halsted has
an illustrated paper under the title Sun
shine Through the Woods, describing
the rings and veining of several import
ant woods. Alexander McAdie describes
A Colonial Weather Service. Prof.
James Sully contributes the first of half
a dozen papers on Studies of Childhood,
| the subject of imagination being first
| treated. Some curious structures are
| described and illustrated by L. N. Bade-
| noch, under the title Homes of Social
Insects. In Latitude and Vertebrae,
Prof. David Starr Jordan presents study
in the evolution of fishes The Great
| Bluestone Industry is described in an ILL
ustrated article by Henry B. Ingram.
In Mary Wortley Montague and Modern
Bacteriology, the introduction of 1nocu-
lation and vaccination for small pox in
England is described by Mrs. H..
| Plunkett.
The July number of McCIures Maga-
zine, in The Heraldry of the Plains by
Miss Alice MACEDONIAN and A Chemical
Detective Bureau, by Mss Ida M. TarbelI,
continues a class of articles which have
become one of the most acceptable feat.
ures. Falling into the same class is an
article which reports the observations
and experiences of ian sactual workman
in the great steel mills at Homestead.
An article entitled Alphonse Daudet at
Home, byR. Fl. Sherard, relates mainly in
Daudet's own words, the story of his