The Portland daily press., 1894-03-06
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Century for March bristles with
points having a number of articles on
novel and unique topics written by per-
sons specially qualified to treat them.
The opening articls is sketch OF life in
The Tuilleries under the Second Empire,
by Miss Anna l.. Bicknel who was an
inmate of the Tuilleries as an instructor
of the children of one of the court
families. Mrs. Sophie Howard Ward
contributes findp in the shape of the
story Of the sMischianza, or the famous
farewell banquet given in Philadelphia
in IRIS in honor of Sir William Howe,
then commander -in-chief of the British
armies in America. Earthquakes and
How to Measure Them, is the subject
of popular paper by Prof. Edward S.
Holden of the Lick Observatory. 1t ex-
plains the principle of the seismometer.
and records the latest word of science
in regard to these phenomena. The
fiction of the number includes the con-
tinuation Of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead
Wilson, in which the action moves very
rapidly, resulting in duel between the
Judge and one Of the italian twins. The
humor of the extracts from Pudd'nhead
Wilson's calendar is of Mr.. Clemens's best
There is striking illustration by Louis
Loeb. Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote'S Occur
d'Alene is continued, with complications
of plot of piquant sort. Mrs. Foote
has lived so long in the midst of Western
mining life that her descriptions are ac-
cepted as above criticism from the point
of view of local color. In addition to
these serials there are four short stories:
~ The Counting OF Jufrow van Loo,
by Anna Eichb berg King, with an Illus
tration by George Wharton Edward,
both author and artist having closely
studied the Dutch life with which Mrs
Kings story deals, 90 Isam and the
Major, by Harry Stillwell Edwards,
the author of Two Runaways, to which,
in fact, this story is a sequel, with pic
lures by Mr. Kembie, which reflect both
the pathetic and the humorous aspects
of the story; 81 The Timber Cruiser, by
Julius Cham bers, an illustrated, out-of-
the-way sketch of life near the sources
being the pioneer who explores new
tracts of country for the purpose of To-
eating aland-scrip; and a. The Great
Sympathetic Strike, by Charles Belmont
Davis, b skit on labor trou bles, with a
point which it would spoil to tell in adj
vance of its perusal.
Blue and Gray for March is thoroughly
enjoyable throughout. The frontispiece
is graphic picture of Farragut's fleet
passing the forts at the mouth of Mobile
Bay, showing the sinking of the
Tecumseh, and is one of the best of Mr..
Xanthus Smiths recent drawings. A
careful and accurate sketch of the ram
Tennessee, also from Mr.. Smiths brush,
is worth securing and keeping. The
Farragut series is now nearly completed,
and has been a very popular feature of
this popular magazine. Under the title
A City of the New South, Mr.. Joe OIL,
writes fine description of Atlanta, Ga. !,
covering several pages and well illustrat-
ed. War stories, aside from the Farragut
matter, mbrace Recollections of an
Army Surgeon, by J.O. Harris, NJ. D..
and spiendidly written story of bred
Lundy and his favorite horse, By
Charles M. Clay.
Motheripg Sunday claims the frontis-
piece and the first article in ST. Nicholas
for March, and is short statement de-
signed to explain name that has out
lived it's origin; an American finds
Thanksgiving Day a satisfactory substi-