The Portland daily press., 1894-03-06

tute. Owney, of the Mail Bags describes
little cur who has sworn allegiance to
tho Z. S. NJ, and travels from Dan to
Beersheba without ceasing. The Lilac
is poem by Miss wilkins. Joseph
Boruwlaski, as we learn from Mary
Shears Roberts, was the rarest OF won
ders, dwarf worthy of admiration--a
thorough little gentleman. Harriet
Monroe, in Broken Friendship, tells
little fable with illustrations by F.S.
church, pointing out that Aspiration
and Grubbing are an i'll assorted couple
or. If that isn't what she means, how
do You interpret her little story? The
Lament of the Outgrown Doll, Kept
After School, Spring Cleaning, The Dis
appointed Sailor, An Imaginary Case,
The Only Son of Halter, An Accom- Aeon
Photograph, How the Little Kite
Learned to Fly, are some of the short,
bright, taking little pictures, verses,
and oontraptions" of which st. Nicholas
alone seems TO possess the right secret
Length and dignity, or some compensat-
ing quality, must be sought n Marx
Iwaiil's Tom Sawyer A broad, Mr.. Horns
aday's The Cat Family in Our Country,
Toinette's Philip. Mrs. .Iameson's serial.
and Young George an English historical
story by Richard Marsh, an English
contributor.
The March number of the Review of
Reviews contains an article by the edi-
tor. DR.. Albert Shaw, on the Constitu-
tional Convention, which is to meet in
Albany, N. Y, in May of this year.
After explaining the constitutional pro-
vision that an opportunity for amend
ments be given every twenty years, DR..
Shaw gives details of the forthcoming
meeting of the delegates who were
elected in response to the vote of 1885 for
a convention, and then reports an i'm
portant interview which he himself has
had with delegate to this convention,
who is in an especial position to forecast
it's action. This delegate outlines, in
answer to DR.. Shaw's queries. the gem
eral scope of the conventions work and
its probable action on certain specific
questions of the highest Importance,
such as the provision for Greater New
York, a reform of the State judiciary
system, the introduction Of proportional
represent ation, educational reforms, GER
tain changes in city, governments, uni
form charters, city home rule and vari-
GUS other city reforms.
Mr.. Appleton Morgan opens the March
Popular Science Monthly with a severe
arraignmenS of prohibition under the
title Abolish All Prohibitiye Liquor
Laws. He denounces these laws as
Intellectual and inexpedient, and as
standing in the way of better remedies
for intemperance. The same number
contains some interesting recollections
of his long intimacy with Tyndall. by
Prof. Huxley. Frederick sHoussay de-
scribes, with illustrations, certain Indus
tries of Animals which closely resemble
some industries Of man. The Origin OF
Right handedness is treated by Prof. J.
Mark Baldwin. who gives the results of
experiments upon his infant daughter.
John G. Rothermel gives popular ac-
count of what has been discovered con-
corning Fossil Man, describing, with
illustrations, the Neanderthal, Spy,
Cro-Magnon. and other famous skele-
TONS Amherst W. Barber contributes
dish of horrors perpetrated under The
European Law Of Torture, which was
in force down to about a hundred years
ago. Under the title Customs and SUI
perstitions of the Mayas there is a curl
Gus assortment of the beliefs OF this
people, contributed by Mrs. Alice D. lie
Plongeon, who has been co-worker in
her husbands Central American explora-
tions. Th. article is fully illustrated.
The March number of the New Eng
land Magazine opens with an illustrated
article on Vermont at the Worlds Fair,
By n. H. Mcintyre, Vermont's Commits
sioner at the Fair, which will interest
many besides the people of the Green
Mountain State This is the second in