The Portland daily press., 1894-09-15
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

long review OF the Chicago Strike or IA.
The author dismisses the matter of riots
and violence as being merely MATTER
for the municipal and State authorities
to have dealt with under the provisions
a question affecting the principles in
volved in the conflict between organized
labor and organized capital. He then
addresses himself to critical analysis OF
the righIs of both parties in the conflict.
These he defines according co the great
est legal authori ties, Blackstone, Coke
and others, and the common law and
constitution of the United States, and
by the same analysis he defines the
nature and functions of the State and
Federal governments. Then the au-
thor declares the proper equilibrium of
rights under the law, and shows the
peril of such a confusion and perversion
la Dor troubles in Chicago. The paper is
written in Il very philosophic spirit. but
it docs not lack irony and wit.
Prof. James Sully, of Univ ersity Col
lege London, heads the list of contri bu-
tors TO the September Popular Science
Monthly, with the second of his Studies
of Childhood, dealing with The I'M
aginative Side of Play. An enterprise of
enormous possibilities is desert bed in an
Illustrated article by Ernest A. LIE Sueur
under the title Commercial Power
Development at Niagara. The prepara-
tions for Harvesting the Falls to the
dynamo are now well advanced. T his
number contains another of the charm
ing sketches of outdoor life by the late
Frank Bolles, it's subject being The
Humming Birds of Chocorua. There
is an evolutionary study of Barberries,
by Frederick LIE Roy Sargent, in which
the general reader Will be surprised to
see how much of interest can be found
in SO common plant. The various parts
of the bush are illustrated from original
drawings. In Ethical Relations Be-
tween Man and Beast, Prof. E. p. Evans
shows how the doctrine of the earth and
all that is in it being made for man
has fostered cruelty to animals. Mr.
Stuart Jenkins, who has had experience
inswinter work ON Canadian survey,
sets forth new plan for reaching the
north pole under the title Arctic Tenn
peratures and Exploration. In Para
site and Psedaceous Insects, the method
of lighting insects that are destructive to
vegetation by means of others that are
harmless is described by Prof G. Y.
Riley. The New Mineralogy is described
by G. P. Grimsley. DR.. II. Il. Armstrong
writes on Scientific Education.
One of the distinctive charms of the
New England Magazine is in the great
number of articles which appear in it's
pages relating in one way or another to
the historic and beautiful New England
places. Quaint Essexs, Newport in the
Revolution and In the White Mountains
portant illustrated articles of this char
;cter in the Septem Der mum Der; and be-
sides these there is charming illus
trated sketch of Damariscove. the
famous little Maine island, and a poem
on "Diana' Baths, with a beautiful
view of that cool resort, so dear to ell
summer sojourners at Inervale, New
Hampshire.
There is more than the usual amount of
adventure to attract the youthful readers
to st. Nicholas for September Decatur
and Somers, as told in Miss Mollie
Elliot Seawell's serial, lead the Ameri-
can naval forces in the memorable storm
ing of Tripoli. Edwin Fiske Kimball
tells the thrilling story he took down
from the lips of Nantucket life saver
of The Wreck of the Markham" and the
rescue of the crew. Two Schoolhouses
and sihipwreck, by Isabel Marbury, is
an account of the succoring of the crew
of an American vessel by the Japanese,
and of the building of schoolhouses
with the money granted them by Con-
gress for their humanity. Thomas C.
Brine tells of the hunting of a herd of
wolves who pulled down deer. John
Williamson Palmer writes of A Little
King with a Long Name, the boy ruler
of Nepaul, and his warliSe subjects.
There is a humorous story by Tudor
jerks Anthony and the Ancients, and
poems by Oliver. Herford, f. Upper,
Edith M. Thomas, and Mrs. Mary Mapes
Dodge.
A prominent feature of the Septem Der
Century is continuation of the unpub-
lished correspondence of Edgar Allan
Poe. edited by George E. Wood berry.
and dealing this month particularly with
the Philadelphia period of Poe's life.
The present Installment contains a po1
trait from a daguerreotype owned by
Mr.. Thomas J.McKee, which. however
it may challenge criticism as likeness.
is nevertheless well authenticated. There
is also portrait of N P Willis, and the
writers besides Poe himself are Washing