The Portland daily press., 1894-08-07

"a tAo August eAAoAi'' p" 1890
must attract great attention deals with
keely's navigation, and is written by
Clara b. Moore. 1t is review of Keely's
wonderful experiments and discoveries
IN the construction of his system OF SYM
pathetic physics, system that is adverse
to All the canons of mechanical physics,
anu winch opens una new world OF
force to the student of physical science.
keely's researches have lain beyond the
horizon OF molecular force, where graVl-
", cones1on, inertia and momentum are
disturbed III their haunts and diverted
to use where, from unity of origin ema-
mates Infinite energy in diversified forms.
McClure's Magazine for August sup
plies companion piece to Mr.. Hamlin
Gariand's striking description OF life in
the steel mills at Homestead, published
in the June number, in a no less strik-
ing description of life in the depths of
coal mine. by Stephen Crane; and the
strong points in Mr.. Cranes description
are emphasized, as were the strong points
in Mr.. Garland's by a remarkable series
of pictures. A paper of personal reeel-
lectlons, by 5. M. Byers, does for General
Sherman what the notabl series OF
papers published in the May number
did for General Grant, making manifest
in all his strength and graeioushess OF
character the actual man. AS a member
of Sherman's staff, and his intimate
friend for twenty-five years, Mr.. Hyers
enjoyed rare opportunities for studying
his subject, and his paper shows that he
appreciated and made the most OF them.
A notable series of portraits of Sherman
accompany the article. Professor Henry
Drummond's new book, The Ascent
of Man." is regarded by Washington
GLADDEN. "as one of the latest and most
striking phenomena in the world of
thought" and under the title OF The
New Evolution he devores paper in this
number of McClure's to showing what
the book signifies.
Scribner's Magazine for August is a
Fiction Number, as has been the--custom
for seven years. 1t contains six complete
short stories, by. G. Bunner 7. r. Sui
livan, William H. SHELTON, w. Orally
Hewitt, Octave Uzanne and Harrison
Robertson, the author of one Of the most
famous stories ever published in Serib-
ners, How the Derby was Won. All
these stories are distinguished by an in
dividuality and delicate fancy that make
them of unusual quality, even for the
high standard of short fiction in Ameri-
can magazines. Mr.. Bunner in French
for Fortnight, describes the adven-
lures which befel a strict clergyman
while living with a French family on the
Bronx, near New York Mr.. Robertson's
She and journalism is love story that
ends right; Mr.. Shelton, in The Missing
Evidence in the Case of the People
versus Dangerking, tells an oldfash-
Toned detective story of the most exciting
kind; Octave Uzanne's The End Of
Books is peep into the future when
books and newspapers will be furnished
by the phonograph instead of type; An
Undiscovered Murder, by T. Sullivan,
is tale of real imagination while the
element of simple pathos is furnished in
the little sketch, Awaiting Judgment,
by W. orally Hewett. an English writer
new to American readers. The fiction
is beautifully illustrated by Castaigne
Steiner, Hatherell and the distinguished
to short fiction there is an amusing in
stalment of George W.Cable's serial
story John March, Southerner.
In an article on some Edible Toadstools
and Mushrooms, in the August number
of Harper's Magazine, civilian Hamilton
Gibson declares that the difference be-
teen toadstoo1s and mushrooms is purely
imaginary. Some mushrooms that look
poisonous are edible, and the only toad
stool that contains a deadly poison looks
like very innocent pure white mush
room. Mr.. Gibson illustrates his article
with pictures of eighteen varieties of
mushrooms, and explains very minutely
how the novice can distinguish the
poisonous from the edible sorts which
are most common in our woods and pas
lures. That veteran journalist, George
W.Smalley, long the London eorrespon-
dent of the New York Tribune, contrib
utes an article entitled Chapters in Jour-
nalism. 1t is addressed to newspaper
men, and includes an interesting disclos-
ure regarding the battle of Antietam,
"reminiscences of the Austro-P russian
and Franco-German wars, and the ac-
count of the establishment of the first
London office of New York newspaper.
An ideal summer trip is journey,,ul
the rugged Norway coast to the land OF
the midnight sun. 1t is seldom taken
however. except by English sportsmen,
who go there every summer fer the
salmon fishing, and the guidebooks are
singularly reticent on the subject, How
tosmake the trip in order to get the most
out of it is told by George Card Pease in
the August Harper's. The article is
illustrated by L. dc Thurlstrup.
The radical reduction lin the price
of Romance, from 25 to 10 cents copy,
resulted Immediately in great increase
of its sales. four editions of the July is
sue being required to met the demand.
1t is safe to predict still larger sales oil
the August number, as the public only
needs to know of such an opportunity to
buy the best of stories, ten of them, fol-
dime, and it is sure to improve it,
The special feature of this issue is a
group of Mystery Stories, the first OF
which ia the famous Heaphy ghost story,
unknown to this generation, but the
source of much wonder and delight
thirty years ago. The two or three tales
of this group are original and striking.
Besides these there are one of Alnhnnse
Daudet's charming fantasies, pretty
summer love story by Herbert d. GalIau.
Diet, an extraordinary tale by Stanley I.
Weyman, boys story by Hetta e. II.
Ward, and others eq ally attractive.
Romance is issued by Romance Publish.
ing Company. Clinton Hall, Aston