Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-14
NAY MAGAZINES.
Engineering Magazine.

Engineering Ms gaztne.
The need of wider markets for American
manufactures is discussed in the May En-
gineering Magazine by Hawthorne Hill, as
the industii ldemand of the day. A literally
illustrated article ofinierest on the inclined
railway systems of the world is contributed
by,TheodoTe c Ives, ard one the northern
-hite-pine ia us,ry by Richsrd A. Parker.
Prof. j. Woodbridge Davis describes the
Kite as Ife-saver at SEES. introducing draw
ings to show how ki.e-steering has been re-
'iu, ed to &C eDce. T~o important cleo
trical articles for popular reading are pre-
'eLted, and two on the best methods of
agricultural education for America. Gold
and silver-mining In South America and a
comparison of coal-gas and water-gas.
tog ther with the usual half-dozen editorial
departments in the hands of recognized au-
thorities, compl.t an unusually interesting
number. Engineering Meg.zire Co.,
Times Bailding. Nv York;
McClure's Magazine.
A great Grant number, in tuken of Gen
eral Grants birthday, April 27Ih, describes
in word McClure's Magazine for May.
General Horace Porter, a member of
| Grants staff, his assistant secre tary of war,
and, during the fist term of is presidency,
bis private secretary, writes of bis personal
traits. An interview tn Colon Frederick
| D. Or Mt records the Impressions of the
son v no was General Grams daily COM
psnion in the field through good part of
the war, and " no liv, d always near him to
the end of bis days. General O. o. How ard
and General Ely S. Parker supply some
| "reminiscences: and an autograph letter
write by Jesse r. Grant, G. neral Grants
| father, in 1865, gives a most interesting
glimpse into Grants If. and character. FL
| nally under the apt tie of General Grants
Great, st Year" Mr.. T. G. Crawford tells
the story of the not lie and heroic last year
Of Grants life. Scattered through these
articles and mskirg up also the department
of "lIuman Documents" is the most re-
mark able series of Grant portraits ever
published, if not ever coll c'ed, many of
| them being from rare photographs supplied
by Colonel Grant. After the Grant matter
the mot notable feature of the number is
an article on "Wild Beasts and Their he p
ers," by Cleveland Moffett, with illustra-
tons by J. Hambidge. An intimate study
of the daily life of Flammarion the astron-
omer, by r. H. Sherard, with pictures of
his observatory and his Paris home; an il
Illustrated short story of the New South by
Mary T. Earle, and one of Old California
by Bret Harte and fourth installmept of
Stevenson and Osbourne's serial, 1.-The Ebb
Tide" add further interest and value to
the number. Is. S. Mcclure, 743 Broad
way, New York;
Frank Leslie's Monthly.
In the May number of Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly appears, under the char
acteristic heading, "On the Spot" the first
of series of personal "reminiscences of an
artist at the front, in the war of 1851 65.
These "reminiscences, written and illustrated
by Mr.. Joseph Becker, the famous Origi-
nal especial for Leslie's," touch upon the
contrasted bumors and tragedies of war,
from the point of view of the soldier in the
ranks. Mr.. Cecil Charlie, the we'll
known Latin American newspaper
correspondent, contributes to this
number timely Brazilian paper, on "The
Revolt of the Fleet" Another feature is
DR.. Sherwood Dunn's comprehensive arti-
Gle on medical Education in France"
superbly illustrated with views of the great
French hospitals, and portraits of Messrs.
Pasteur, Patraire, Guyon, Pesn, Brouardel,
Pozzi, Pinard, Fournier and Francois
Franck. Other illustrated articles are 1.-THE
Romance of O. Tama Chiovara," by Alice
Howard Cady "Cloisters and Corners" by
Grace Ellery Channipg;"A Day in Upsala,"
by Charles Edwardes; birds of Fact and
Fable" by Nelly Hart Woodwork; and
"Sugar-beet Culture in Southern Cslifor-
nia,' by Frederick M. Turner. Mrs. Frank
Leslie, 10 Fifth avenue, New York;
Short Stories.
The special feature of the May number
of Short Stories is bright sketch called
This Jack and the Other" by Edgar Eau
cett, the well-known novelist and writer of
tales. Earle Tracy also contributes clever
study of Creole life and ways, and f. d
Pierson supplies a dramatic and picturesque
Hungarian story. This readable number