The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-03-15
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Progress of the World in the March
Review of Reviews is a chapter of rum
ming comment on the important events
Of the past month. These are some of
the top les treated: The Loss of the Elbe
and the Safety Of Ocean Travel, The
New Government Loan, The Incapacity
of Congress, The Future of Gold Produc-
ton, American Confidence, Engineer aud
Public Works, Our Governmental Archi-
lecture, Decorative Art in the Boston
Public Library, New York City's New
Administration, The Brooklyn Street
Railway Strike. Japan's Recent Nicto-
ries, The Trial of the Hawaiian Con-
spirators, President Cleveland's Arbitra-
ton Between Brazil and the Argentine
Repu bile, British Politics, London
Council Elections, French Affairs, The
Late M. de Giers, of Russia; Crisp and
the King of Italy. George Peabody's
Anniversary, and the great names on
the months neurology roll. There are
portraits of Capt. Won Goessel, of the
Elbe; Capt. Baudelon, of La Gascogne;
August Belmont and Lord Rothschild.
DR.. George S. Morrison, president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers;
Col. Craighill; of the Army Engineers;
Mr.. E. A. Abbey, the mural designer for
the Boston Public Library; Col. Waring
of New York; the late Marshal Canro-
bert. M. Ribot. the late M. de Giers, the
Rev. DR.. A. J.Gordon, the Rev. DR.. Henry
M. Taylor, Prof.J K. Seeley, DR.. Alfred
L. Loonlis and the late Douglass Putnam
of Marietta, Ohio. illustrations are given
of the city halls of Vienna and Phila-
delphia (by way OF contrast) the new
Boston Public Library, the Putnam
house at Rutland, Mass, and other in.
teresting buildings.
The March Arena is good representa-
tive number of this live and progressive
magazine, which whatever may be sale
of contemporary literature in general
is certainly showing no decline in vital
ity and virility with the progress of tn,
new year. The March mum Der is as vi
to date as any of its precursors in tn,
field. 1t opens with fine autographed
portrait of Lady Henry Somerset, whc
contri butes a paper on The Welcome
Child-a study in the movement for SO
cial purity and equal standards of NOR
aIity for both sexes. Tho place of homo
in the number is given to Japan: Tt
Present and Future, by Midori Komatz
Frances E. Willard is represented with
paper on Scientific Temperance Instruc
| ton in the Public School, and Prof
James I. Bixby, Phi. D., eontri butes
solid and scholarly discussion of Mo
manned and 4he Koran, from the ad
vanced liberal point of view of compare
tive philology and religion. A timel,
and interesting feature ot the mum be
is bright and breezy descriptive paper
by Richard Linthicum of the ediuoria
staff OF the Chicago Times, on Judg
Lyman Trumbull, who has just re-en
tered publ life, with some notable ut
terances on the existing industrial an,
political situation. The article is accom-
panied with fine portrait of this oil
| political veteran. The editor, B. o
| Flower, contributes racy reading in
paper on Some Fatal Figures of TIL
Renaissance, in which he draws certain
parallels the oldrItalian repub
| lies and the existing political UNITED
States. Margaret 3. Peeke writes on Tru
uccultism; It's Place and Use. Prof
Thomas E. will, M. A., describes th
methods tor The Organism of the Unio
| for Practical Progress. George ". Pep
perell continues his trenchant series Q
| political pen portraits in An Open IIette
| OF the Hon. John u Carlisle.