The Portland daily press., 1894-08-07
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The complete novel in the August
number of Lippincott's is Sweetheart
Manette, by Maurice Thompson. The
scene is laid at Bay ST. Louis, on the
Gulf of Mexico, and the charming
heroine has a quartette of lovers, and no
little difficulty in deciding between
them. This well known author has done
no better work. Louise Stockton's tale,
A Mess of Pottage, is concluded. Other
short stories are At the Rough and-Tum-
BILE Landing, by Prof. Charles 6. Rob-
erts; A Military Manoeuvre, by Kate Lee
Ashley; The Everlastin' Buzzards' Sit
by Charles McIlvaine; and An In
Memoriam of the Keys, by Johanna
Stats. Thomas Stinson Jarvis CON
tributes an acute and suggestive essay
Oh Feminine Phases, and Charles Henry
Webb discusses Uncared-for Cats in a
humanely humorous vein.
Three of the original articles in the
August Review of Reviews are devoted
to Canadian topics. A sketch of the
Hon. Wilfred Laurier, the leader of the
Canadian Liberal party, is contributed
by Mr.. William B. Wallace: Canada's
Political Conditions are described bv the
Hon.J. W Longley. Attorney General of
Nova Scotia, while the editor of the
magazine, DR.. Albert Shaw. writes on
Toronto as Municipal Object lesson.
Each of these articles is full of intorma-
ton about affairs beyond our Northern
border. Canadian politics and govern
ment are subjects as to which our educa
ton here in the States has been sadly
neglected. The Review of Reviews is
doing useful service in acauainting it's
readers more fully with the institutions
of our neigh bors across the line
In the opening article of The Popular
Science Monthly for August Prof. John
Dewey, of Michigan, attacks one of the
educational problems of the day, under
the title The Choas in Moral Training.
An especially timely paper is one on
Human Aggregation and Crime, by MIG.
Trade, which is a general study of the
phenomena of mob violence Prof e. S.
Morse gives some suggestions upon The
Distri bution of Government Publica-
tions. There are two articles of especial
interest to englneers-one being an Illus
trated description of the tunnel under
the St. Clair River, by j. Jones Bell,
which he entities The Story of Great
Work, while the other is A Proposition
for an Artificial Isthmus between Scot
land and Ireland, which is set forth by
E. A. lie Sueur. The absurd pretensions
with regard to Rainmaking that have
been made by various cranks are thor
oughly ridd!ed by Prof. Fernando San
ford, of Stanford University. Frank nj.
Chapman contributes a descriptive arti-
Gle on The Nocturnal Migration of Birds
aud there is another by Prof. C, NJ. Weed
describing, with. illustrations, A Family
of Water Kings.
There are two important articles in the
New England Magazine for August.
which are much more closely related to
each other than might at first sight ap-
pear. They are Edward Everett Hale's
article on The New ENGLAND Congrega
tional Churches, and What by Rev.
Charles G. Ames ON Boston-the City OF
God. DR.. Hale shows us what were the
| ideals of the men who founded New
England. Mr.. Ames tells US what the
| ideals ought to be of the citizen of the
| New England capital today. Nobody in
| this time has brought before us more
strongly or strikingly the Importance OF
putting our highest ideals into our social
and political affairs than MIR. Ames does
in this noble paper of his on Boston
| the City of God. Mr.. Ames burns with
the same flame as those sturdy Puritans
] of whom DIR. Hale writes. His word ought