The Portland daily press., 1894-05-01
THE PRESS PORTFOLIOS.
No. - of America Photographed Is
the Latest Arrival.
Several Cities Are Illustrated in This Num-
berthe Binders for Famous Paintings
Are Now Ready.

Several Cities Are Illustrated in This Num-
berthe Binders for Famous Paintings
Are Now Ready.
No. 10 of America Photographed" OPP
ems with view of Portland's namesake
in the West-the chief city of Oregon,
Portland is one of the most pictures que
cities of America, and the view given is
very fine one. General views are also
given of Tucson, Arizona, and Salt Lake
City, Utah. Both the residence and
business portions of Washington are
shown in two large engravings. A pic
tur of the famous Frog Pond at Wind
ham. Conn.,, is also given in this num-
Der. This pond was made famous in the
French and Indian war OF 1854. The
public mind at that time was disturbed
and apprehensive, and the people were
expecting trouble with the Indians. The
residents of Windham Green were
aroused one night by sounds most mystic
rious and terrifying. The alarm was CIV
en-, and rushing from their beds they lis
tened in horror and amazement. Sky
anu VllldSo W6IC SAIOutCd ldhy ooAh
ness, and thrown wholly on conjecture
and imagination they feared that the
French and Indians were marching upon
them. With morning came the solution.
Windham's amphibious population had
broken her peace and made all tie dis
turbance, for an extraordinary clamor
among the frogs was the cause OF all
the tumult. The residents in the vicin-
ity were ridiculed ever after for their
scare in the matter.
The wife and ait pupil of her talented
husband, Mrs. Alma Tadema. has her
own individuality as painter, md in
the domestic lifesof..Holland.in the sever
tenth century, she has found field for
the exercise of her undoubted genius
as a painter. So successfully did she ex-
plot this field that she was one of only
three women artists who were invited to
exhibit at the French International Elk
position of 1873 She is especially felicl-
tous in her representation of children
and chiIdren's dress. She endows IMAM
innate things with kind of vitality and
the fabrics seem almost to rustic as the
people who wear them move.
In No. II of Famous Paintings" is a
reproduction of her painting, entitled
"Nothing Venture, Nothing Have" A
little tot just learning to walk is tempt
ed to longer fight than she has yet
taken alone, by the apple held on by her
elder sister. at which she gazes with an
eager longing. The tottering poise of
the little one. the tender solicitude of
the mother, and the winning invitation
of the sister are we'll suggested.
The polar chart which is issued with
No. / of the Potter-Bradley Atlas, en-
bodies, with other accumulations, the
result of Nordenskjold's northeast pas
sage, the discoveries of the Jeanette
and the Greeley expeditions, in which
Lieutenant Lockwood reached the high
est northern latitude thus far attained,
and the famous land expedition of Lieu
tenant Peary from Mccormick bay to
the northeast coast of Greenland in 1892.
The track OF each of these expeditions
is laid down from data furnished from
Washington. The polar ocean currents
are also laid down as observed in the
recent expeditions.
Binders for "Famous Paintings" are
now ready. They are neatly lettered,
and will make handsome volume
when the parts are all in place.