The Portland daily press., 1894-02-12

PCio' ouO uodlluS Will uHluVlGoO poverty
the other an argument against medical
monopoly. A striking feature is Sym
postum by six well known American
women ON Rational Dress for Women u
This Symposium is profusely illustrated.
Altogether no Review of the month will
be so attractive to progressive persons as
the Midwinter Arena. The publishers
announce that hereafter the Arena will
contain 144 pages, making it the largest
| monthly Review published.
Mr.. George Du Maurier's novel. Trilby
as it develops in the February Harper's,
is the most delightful picture of artistic
Bohemia that has been drawn for many
a day. Mr.. Frederick Remington's In
the Sierra Madre with the Punchers
illustrates with pen and brush some
little known life in the outposts of
Mexico. Although the conditions are
hard, Mr.. Remington did not find the
wild open air life altogether unpleasant,
and he has mbellished his description
with humor that is very engaging.
The Rev. DR.. Henry Hayman, late head
master of Rugby, contributes some new
ly-found information regarding the last
months of the poets life in an article
called Lord Byron and the Greek Patri-
OTIS 1t includes the last letter Byron
wrote, on April 9, 1924, ten days before
his death. This letter has not before
been published. The ever-amusing and
inconseuuential Mrs. Roberts appears
again in the pages of Harper's, through
the medium of a new farce by Mr.. W. u.
Howells, called A Masterpiece of Diplo-
macy. Its complications grow from the
summoning of physicians of the old and
new schools to attend the youthful heir
of the Robertses, who is supposed by
Mrs. Roberts to be threatened with
cholera. A Singing Student In London,
by Jean Forsyth, reads like fiction. but
is said to be a recital of real experience.
The writer went to London to study
vocal expression under master, and the
tale OF her disillusion is told with all the
effect of the short stoly.
The secret of the great success OF the
Cosmopolitan is not SO hard to find, If
one looks carefully over the number for
February. A story by Valdes, the ia
nous Spanish novelist, the first from his
pen to appear in any American maga-
zine is begun in this number. Arthur
Sherburne Hardy's story, A Rejected
Manuscripts, is charmingly illustrated
by L. Marold who we believe makes his
first appearance in the magazines on this
side of the water. A profusely Illus
| trated article on the designingand build
ing OF war ship appeals to the interest
| taken by all in the new navy, and
| thrilling description of naval combat
! under the significant title: The Meloban
| and the Penthroy describes, after the
manner of the Battle of Dorking.. a
| possible sea fight. the outcome OF which
| is watched by the entire naval world
| Gliding Flight is an interesting contri-
| button to the problem of aerial naviga--
| tion bv one who has studied the flight of
| soaring birds in the East for twenty
years. Elaine Goodale, who married a
! member of the Sioux nation, has some
| interesting information Of Indian Wars
and Warriors. T. G. Crawford, the Wash
| ington correspondent, gives the first half
of a startling story. under the title OF
| The Disappearance Syndicate.
Blue and Gray has yielded to the
popular movement toward cheaper mag
| azipe literature and reduced its price to
ten cents, from twenty-five. The Feb
ruary issue is fully up to the standard
heretofore maintained by this unique
and always interestingly patriotic maga-
zine, and give no evidence of a reduc-
tion in cost of production, although the
! price has been reduced three-fths.
| Among the notable contributions is a
fine description of Louisiana sugar
| plantation, relating the history of this
industry in America, and accompanied
| by several graphic illustrations. A Fed
earl officer of rank, writing under the
| nom de plume of Yvan" contributes a
| thrilling account of despatch bearer
who made his way from Vicksburg to
New Orleans through perils innumera-
| Bile. Joe C.Aby, of New Orleans, tells
| jor P. Stout, of the CoonCreek Dragons
With Farragut Gu the Hartford is con-
| tinued by the anonymous naval officer
| who brings his hero up to the battle OF
Mobile Bay, an account of which will
| form the next installment.
| A prominent feature of the Midwinter
! Century is fiction, which has not little
variety of scene and style. In Mark
Twa1n's novel of Puddn'head Wilson
the action is advanced by dramatic in
terview between Tom, the reputed white
boy, and his mother Roxana, the negress.
| There is the first part of four-part story
| by Mary Hallock Foote entitled Coeur
d'Alene dealing with the labor troubles
in the mining regions of Idaho The
story pluuges into the midst OF love and
peril, and has illustrations by the au-
thor. A romance of the Faith, by Her.
bert D. Wardi, is piece of fiction, the
scene of which is laid in Ur of the Chal-
dees. the hero being Abraham, Father of
| the Jews In strong contrast to the seri-
BUSINESS of his tale are two humorous
stories, The Guests of Mrs.. Timms, by
Sarah o. Jewett, quiet study of New
England rural life and Mr.. Ebenezer
Bulls investment by Col. Richard Nal
| colin Johnston, transcript of old-time
| life in Georgia. February being the
| birth month of Lincoln and Washington,
| the mum Der contains material relating to
both. 1t presents two heretofore unpub b.
lished portraits OF Washington, one a
newly discovered miniature by Ramage,
| made in October, 1889, and the other a
| portrait in black silk EN- mbroidery on a
white silk ground by Rowlind, d daugh-
ter of James Sharpless, the English ar
tist. These two portraits are substantial
| additions to the pictorial biography of
l 49, Gr.t Droe;6opt Tho Tip,oi,