Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-09
JUNE MAGAZINES.
New ENGLAND MAGAZINE

for June has for its leading article paper
bv Rev. DR.. A. Miner, of Boston, upon
"Neal Dow and His Life Work" Among
the engravings which accompany the article
are portraits of Hon. w. W. Thomas, Rev.
Drs. Ichabod Nichols and Edward Payson,
Josiah Dow at the age of 80 years, and his
son, Neal Dow, at the same age. While
the reforners, both of state constitutions
and city charters, are demanding that gov
errors and mayors should have greater
power and be less hampered by legis-
lative interference. Mr.. Raymond L.
Bridgman in an article on Government
by Commissions" argues that such legisla-
tive commissions, which have multiplied
with amazing rapidity in Massachusetts in
recent years, are in the line of real pro-
gress, that they are bound to multiply still
faster and that they ought to. The people
who are working for the introduction of
the Swiss initiative and referendum will
read with much satisfaction DR.. Lewis G.
James article on s'What New England
Owes to the United States" 1t is pane
gyric upon the town meeting, and vigor-
Gus plea for pure democracy in city govern
stories, poems, etc., fill up very excellent
number Warren F. Kellogg, Publisher,
Park Square, Boston.
Harper's Magazine.
The June issue of Harper's Magazine
opens with profusely illustrated paper de-
scriptive of Philadelphia, under the title of
1.-The City of Homes" by Charles B. Da-
Wis. 1t contains portraits of DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell, Owen Wister, Agnes Repplier,
Charles L. Moore, Richard Harding Davis,
and other well known literary people of the
Quaker city. Mr.. Alfred Parsons pictures
with pen and pencil the delights of the JAP
snese spring; George W. Smalley, revives
the times that tried mems souls with his
"Memories of Wendell PHILIPPE" Mr..
Howells describes his first meeting with
James Russell Lowell in his auto biographi-
cal record, entitled my First Visit to
New England" M. de Blowitz, the Paris
correspondent of the London Times, renders
an account of French Diplomacy Under
the Third Republic which has timely in
terest just now, when the relations of
France and Russia toward the Triple Al
lance are undergoing change. The num-
Der is particularly rich in fiction. There is
generous installment of "Trilby," George
du Maurier's curious biographical sketch:
James Lane Allen concludes in "A Ken
lucky Cardinal" bit of the daintiest writ
ing imaginable, and at the same time a
sweet, old-fashioned love story. Constance
Fenimore Woolson's last story, "a Watt
ress," is published. and will appeal strongly
to all lovers of Miss Woolson's stories.
Owen Wister, whose portrait appears in the
magazine, contributes another of his stories
of Western life, Little Big Horn Medi-
cine" Harper & Brothers, New York;
The North American Review.
The three articles which will be the most
read in the current number of the North
American are those which come under the
general head of 1.-The Menace of Coxeyism."
They are written respectively by
Major General O. o. Howard, who
discusses "The Significance and Aims
of the Movement" by Superin-
tendent Byrnes of the New York police de-
partment, who deals with the Character
and Methods of the Men," and by DR.. Al
yah H. Doty, chief of the bureau of conta-
gious diseases, who deals with 1.-The Dan
ger to the Public Health" Two articles on
"Woman Suffrage in Practice" written re-
srectively by the governors of Colorado
and Nebraska, possess a special value
at the present time. 1.-THE Political Olt-
look in England il dealt with from the
conservative point Of view by Sir Ellis Ash
mead Bartlett, M. P. Bishop Doane of Al
bany, writes on 1.-THE New York State Uni
versity;" and W. H. Mallock discusses
Fashion and Intellect" in most entertain
ing manner. What Should Doctor be
Paid?" is a question which is answered in
a most suggestive paper by DIVA. Ham,
mond; Prince .Augustin de Iturbide
contributes q vigorous arraignment of
the present Mexican government in an
article entitled "Mexico Under President
Diaz," and Sarah Grand furnishes another
trenchant paper on "The Modern Girl. "
Under the captionpf "Our Family Skele-
ton" John F. Hume deals with the repu-
dated or neglected debts of the Southern
states.