Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-04
OCTOBER MACHINES.


The current number of The Forum is
notable one, and contains articles by such
well known people as President Eliot, Hon.
Henry L. Dawes, Prof. r. T. Ely, and
Octave Thanet. In "Reasons Why tie
Republic May Endure President Eliot
sums up the principles and forces which
make for the permanence of the American
Republic-religious liberation, universal
education, better domestic relations, etc.
Mr.. Dawes in his article entitled, HAS
Oratory Declined" gives many interesting
"reminiscences of our great orators. Prof.
Ely of the University of Wisconsin, who
was recently 'tried" for economic heresy,
states briefly his views relating to some of
the fundamental sociological problems of
the time; and Prof Hadley of Yale wholly
disagrees with Prof. Ely's views and criti-
cises his latest book, Socialism and Social
Reform" In an article entitled 1.-THE Con-
tented Masses" Octave Thsnet maintains
that the great mass of American people are
consented and happy-that unrest and dis
content exist only in the large cities. A
timely article "Significance of the Japan
China War" is contributed by Michitaro
Hisa. (The Forum Publishing Co., Union
So, New York;
The Art Amateur
for October is fully up to the usual STAN
dard of this popular monthly. The color
plates of the month are Charles Sprague
Pearce's meditation" and Paul de Long
pres "Peonies." The frontispiece is a fine
engraving by Baude after John Russelrs
"Cherries." pastel in the Louvre Among
the thirteen supplement designs there are
fish and game plates by Charles Voikmar,
figures and monograms for embroideries by
George r. Hahn, and a graceful nasturtium
border for embroidery by NJ. L. Macomber.
An illustrated paper on the life and work
of George Inness, the well known artist,
whose death occurred in Scotland several
weeks ago, is given in THE issue. The &C.
count of VIM. M. Chase's summer school
at Shinnecock Hills, by Lillian Baynes, will
be appreciated by all interested in art for
the valuable information given. Another
very valuable article is Hints on the
Care of Pictures" condensed from "a Gen.
| fury of Painters" by Redgrave. The SIKH
installment of Theodore Child's articles on
the National Gallery at London, deals with
the work of the early English portrait
painters. The technical papers are as
| usual thorough timely and practical. Mon
tague Marks, % Union So, New York;
Leslie's Monthly.
The October number of this popular mag
azine has for its frontispiece fine portrait
of Mrs. Frank Leslie, the head of the lar
gest publishing business in the world owned
and conducted bv woman. This business
is described and illustrated in an article en-
titled "Modern Magazine Making" which
is full of information and entertainment for
every body interested in the artistic and lit
erary progress of the times. Other illus
trated features of thi, number are: "A
Sbipwreck in Summer Seas" by Kem-
per Bocock, being vivid account of the
adventures of the Hon. Warner Miller and
the Nicaragua Canal commissioners, who
were shipTrecked in the steamer Aguan,
on Roncador Reef, on the same spot where
the Kearsarge met her untimely fate "Un-
der the Peak of Teneriffe," by that viva
cious cosmopolitan, Howard Paul; "Ameri-
can Medical Students by DR.. ]. Howe