The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-11

and Jack Ballister, the serial stories.
are good reading for all ages, and in the
first named there is very humorous ac-
count of a midshipman.
The June number of the Arena is nota-
BILE for several articles of conspicuous
ability, interest and value. The number
opens with a profusely illustrated paper
on the fashionable quarter of Boston,
The Back Bay. 1t is written by Walt er
Blackburn Harte. Mrs. Helen E. Star
rett contri an appreciat1ve paper on
Benjamin Hathaway, "A Pioneer Poet"
whose name and work is we'll known in
Chicago aud throughout the West. Mr..
Hathaway himself is represented with
long poem, The Enchanted Wood. Mr..
b. o. Flower, the editor, writes upon The
Social Ideals of Victor Hugo, and, with
critical commentary, shows how the
mind of great genius is vivified by con-
science. A striking collection of data is
presented in the symposium on Child
Slavery in America, by Mrs. Alzina
Parsons Stevens, Assistant Factory In
spector for Illinois, Mrs. Alice l.. Wood
bridge and Professor Thomas E. Will. a.
NJ
Neal Dow and the Maine Liquor Law
is the subject of the opening article in
the June number of the New England
Magazine. 1t is written, most appropri.
ately. by Rev. A. A. Miner. A very differ
emit article, but equally timely, is that
on The Latin Play at Harvard by Prof
L. B. Greenough. Prof. Greenough had
the chief supervision of the recent pio-
duction of Terence's Phosmio by the
Harvard students, and he gives us here
a full and ever bright account of the
performance which attracted so much
attention in our whole American academic
world. Mr.. Herbert Laws Webb con
tr1 butes an article ON The Telephone of
Today which, fully illustrated as it is,
brings before the reader more graphical
ly than any other article which has been
given the public this amazing system
which has come so q uickly to play so
great part in our everyday life. The
important series of illustrated articles on
New England at the Worlds Fair is con-
tinued Rhode Island being the State
treated this month.
Recent mum bers of Harper's Magazine
have been unusually strong in fiction.
Mr.. du Maurier's Trilby. which has been
running since January, and will be con-
cluded in the August mum Der, is attract
ing more attention than any other maya
zine serial that has been pulisbhed for
many years. Brander Matthews's Wig
nettes of Manhattan have given in short
stories characteristic aspects of New
York life, and not since Bret Harte
wrote his first tales of California life has
the newer West been studied SO sympa-
thetlcally or with such strong apprecia-
ticn of it's picturesque and dramatic side
as by Owen Wister, whose Emily, Balaarn
and Pedro, The Promised Land, and A
Kinsman of Red Cloud have appeared in
Harper's within the last few months. A
new story by Mr.. Wister, Little Big Horn
Medicine, appears in the June Magazine.
Our naval policy is one of the leading
topics treated editorially in the Review
of Reviews for June. In the same con-
nection, projects OF ship canal building
in relation to the board defense are dis
cussed. Other matters of general inter-
est receiving comment in the Progress of
the World department. this month are
the Senate's tariff muddle, the Great
Northern Railway strike and arbitra-
j ton, the coal miners strike, the rational
of .Coxeyism, the New YORK Constitu-
tional Convention, the question of wom-
an suffrage, the temperance movement
ALL uGWS IIOLl Uuo CUlloSS WOTlu. En2-
l1sh political and social movements re-
ceive attention also in this department.
of the magazine.
Scribner's Magazine for June contains
an article by John Heard, jr., which, for
the first time in accessi BILE form in Eng
lish, tells the tragical story of Maxi
milan and Mexico in the light of many
documents which have recently been
published in France. Mrs. Frances
of Beautiful Thing, in which she tells
of the rise and growth OF touching
London charity officially known as The
Invalid Children's Aid Association,
which is devoted to making life pleasant
er for those little incurables who have
been given. up by the hospitals as hope
less and returned to their miserable
homes Prof. MS. Shaler has entered
upon new field in his popular studies of
nature, and begins in this number a
group of articles on Domestic Animals,
those animals which are nearest to man
by use and association. The present ar
ticle on The Dog is full Of the most en-
PERTAINING information. DR.. Leroy M.
IGlts oil duSloF VI SFodU experience,
writes brief article upon some of the
best known American Game Fishes-the
brook trout, the striped bass. black
bass, salmon ETC., with charming bits
of description in regard to the habits and
haunts of these fishes. founded on his
own experience. Archib bald Forbes, the
veteran war correspondent. writes re-
markable short paper on The Future of
the Wounded in War, in which he pre-
diets that the great advance in the
manufacture of deadly weapons and
also the increase in the size of armies
will make it impossible in the next great
war to give anything like the attention
to the wounded which has heretofore
prevailed; and that war, instead OF be-
ing more humane, will be more cruel.
800 Reward, 800.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded