The Portland daily press., 1894-01-22
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

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zine. is of extraordinary interest for the
January McClure's. The FIXTURE of
Christianity, The Marvels of Electricity,
The Future of Food-making by Elec-
tricity, The Outlook for War, The Great
Social Problems, ETC.. The Mastery of
Disease, are treated by Pope Leo XIII,
Bismarck, Pasteur. Professor Houston,
Thompson Houston Eclectic Company
DR.. John Hall, CA. Briggs, Dumas Fills.
Aphonse Daudet, lola, Archdeacon
Farrar, Talcott Williams, Washington
GLADDEN., Jules Simon, of the French
Academy, President Gilman and
many Others.
The January number of the Popular
Science Monthly opens with an article
on the Ethics of Tribal Society, by Prof.
p. Evans, which is to be the first Of
series on ethics by the same writer. DR..
R.W. Shufeldt contributes an illustrated
description of the Night Hawks and
Whip-poor-w lis, which corrects various
wrong opinions in regard to them. A
fully illustatred article telling How the
Sea is Sounded is furnished by G. W.
Littlehales Another illustrated paper,
and a particularly timely one, in this
United States Life Saving Service, by
FIG. Carpenter. under the title Uncle
Sans Life Savers. The pictures show
a station house and the surfboats and
other apparatus used by the life savers.
Equally timely is vigorous essay on
Recent Railroad Disasters, by Lafayette
G. LOOMS, recommending some of the
safeguards used on ocean steamers.
There is critical paper by St. George
Mivart, who declares the recentsRomanes
Lecture to be an evidence of Evolution
in Professor Huxley. A novel subject
ly, WindowLights and Their value. This
writer shows that the light that enters
city window comes not only directly
from the sky. out in part by reflection
from the walls and pavements near by.
A red brick wall may SO tinge this light
that it is unfit to judge certain kinds of
merchandise by. Miss Lille e. War
rem writes on methods of teaching deaf
children to speak. The use of Logical
Method in Biology is set forth by Frank
Cramer A very creditable chapter of
Invention and Industry at the South is
presented by Barton H. Wise. The is
an account of Elisee Reclus and his
Opinions, by Miss Helen Zimmern, with
portrait OF the eminent geographer.
Harper's Magazine for January opens
with frontispiece in tint, illustrating a
poem by Margaret E. Saneser, called
My Golden Haired Laddle, fol-
lowed by the first installment of George
du Maurier's new novel, Trilby, embell-
ished with fifteen drawings by the au-
thor. There are two other stories in the
number which have a serial character.
although they are complete in them
selves. One is A Midsummer Midnight,
in Brander Matthews's Vignettes of
Manhattan, and the other is the second
of WllllamMcLellan's tales of the French
Revolution, AS Told to His Grace Mr..
Owen Wister contributes a striking story
of Western ranch life, called BALKAN
acter is highly-strung horse. There is
also study of Nantucket, by Helen
Campbell, called The Ending of Bar
slows Novel, and this, wirh Thomas
NelsonPage's short story introducing the
Editors Drawer, and tale of San Fran
cisco life, by Geraldine Bonner, com
pletes the story telling OF this ISSUE
The January Century opens with the
second paper on the Old Dutch Masters
by Mr. Cole, the engraver, the subject
this month being Franz Halls, of whose
work Mr.. Cole has engraved three exam
pies, The Archers of St. Andrew. The
Jolly Man, and the celebrated Jester,
the last being printed as the frontispiece.
Mr.. Coles notes interestingly supple
ment the work of the grayer. Chief of
the literary material is an unpublished
essay by Mr.. Lowell entitled The Func-
ton of the Poet, which Professor Norton
in a PREDATORY note declares to he mot
unworthy tt stand with Sidney's and
with Shelley's Defence of Poesy and f" fit
ed to warm and inspire this poetic heart
of the youth of this generation. An ad-
dltion to the group of articles ON Nota-
bic Women is paper on George Sand by
her friend and protegee The BENTON
(Madame Blanc), a contributor to the