The Portland daily press., 1894-11-06
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McClure's Magazine for November
opens the promised Napoleon series with
fifteen portraits of Napoleon in early
manhood, most of them reproductions of
famous paintings, and portraits of his
father and mother, and other persons
closely related TO or intimately ASSOCIATE
ed with him, accompanying an interest
ing account by Miss Ida M. Tarbell, of
his career down to the time he assumed
command of the army in Italy. The
portraits are from very large and care
fully chosen collection made by the
Hon. Gardiner G.. Hubbard, and Mr..
Hubbard himself introduces them with
a valuable letter describing the
classification and varying merits of the
existing portraits of Napoleon. IT the
succeeding parts of the series maintain
the high level of this one and there is
every reason to believe that they Will,
for the editors announce that they have
a hundred and fifty notable Napoleon
pictures yet to present-the series must
make, as a whole, one of the most at
tractive products thus far of the recent
Napoleon revival. In this number is
presented almost the first Of series of
true detective stories derived, by permits
sion, from the official records of the
Pinkerton detective bureau. 1t is the
breathless story of the discovery and
Illustration, by Allan Pinkerton, of the
plot to assassinate President Lincoln as
he passed through Baltimore on the way
to Washington for his first Inauguration.
Interesting portraits of Lincoln and
Allan Pinkerton, one of the Lincoln
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type never before published, accompany
the article.
The complete novel in the November
issue of Lippincott's is "Dora's De-
fiance," by Lady Lindsay, an author who
has made her mark in England, though
little known rs yet in this country. 1t
is brightly told story of very Pc
culiar young lady who could find no in
terest in life till it came too late to be-
taken in the conventional way.
The Century for November signalizes
the opening of its twenty-fifth year by
the beginning of one of it's most impor-
tant enterprises, the Life of Napoleon
by William M.Sloane, Professor of His
tory at Princeton College. 1t is believed
that the time has come to make new
and unprejudiced review of the facts
of Napoleon's life in the light of the
documents now accessible and the
memoirs of which the last twenty years
have been SO prolific. The first chapters
deal with Napoleon's childhood and
youth including the Corsican period and
his school days in France. and in this
period the history has the value OF a
unique fullness. Much care has been
bestowed in the selection of illustrations
from the large amount of accessible
material, and the installment is rich in
carefully drawn views Of typical scenes
in NaEoleon's life. Among the illustra-
tions are hitherto unpu blished portrait
of Napoleon at sixteen, drawn by a
schoolfellow, and facsimile of the last
page of his exercise book at school, con-
tanning curious reference to St. Helena.
The frontlspiece of the magazine is an
engraving of Greuze's portrait of Bona
parte as Lieutenant of Artillery. Mr..
Charles Dudley Warner contri butes an
article on Prof. Sloane and his work.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop contri butes
to the number series of letters by her
father and mother, Nathaniel and Sophia
Hawthorne, and by Herman Melville and
others, which set forth incidents of the
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the establishment of hitherto unen-
graved protrait of Haw thorne made from
life by Leutze. Apropos of the war in
the East there is an illustrated article on
the City of Canton by Florence O'Dris-
coll, M. P. setting forth how the Chinese
live and work. 1t was at Canton, it
will be remem bered, that a thousand
lives were recently lost by a fire among
the flower boats on the river.