The Portland daily press., 1895-06-11
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

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most interesting papers includes one on
Bathing at the Continental Sea- Shore
Resorts, !" by J. Howe Adams, that is
most attractively illustrated Trouville,
Saint Malo, Ostend, Schevinengen with
its wind-charis Treport and Arromanche
fully set forth. "The Chautauqua Move
ment, by Boyesen, illustrated by Harry
Fem, will appeal to thousands of Chau-
tauquans, especially at this season.
Charles Yriarte has a very interesting
article on 'The Paris Salons of '95. )"
There is an excellent illustrated paper on
Bee Culture, by VIZ Hutchinson-Clark
Russell's interesting story, ga Three
Stranded Yarn, is continued Would-be
dramatists will be interested in Joseph
Brooks illustrated paper on 'sHow Sue
cessful Plays are Built, - and there are
several other articles that will command
the attention of the reader
The June Arena comes as usual full of
piquant discussion of alive and up-to-
date questions of interest. John Clark
Ridpath, the well-known historian, ap-
pears as the frontispiece of the number,
and he contributes an interesting article
called An Epoch and Book, recalling
the condition in the South and the South
west before the war. The book which is
the starting point of his summary of the
epoch is Helen H. Gardeners Gan I'm
official Patriot" The Editor of the maga-
zine, B. o. Flower, describes a soiourn
in Florida, a paper which is copiously
illustrated. The author of the Preston
Papers contributes an interesting article
on Boston Schools and Teachers Solo
mon SCHNEIDER writes about the The First
Steps in Nationalism. A writer signing
himself an ex-Democrat discusses Mr..
Bland and a New Party. E. W. Smith
considers the Laws Governing the Age of
British House of Commons A very for
chile and striking paper, raising some
What. peculiar question, is B. o. Flower S
trenchant criticism of certain features of
the marriage laws, which he claims foster
PROSTITUTION within the marriage relation.
j. & Miller asks very pertinent question
IN paper called Are the People of the
West Fanatics9 which will probably
elicit all sorts of replies. Emil Richter
considers certain phases of the industrial
problem presented in the Brooklyn trolly
strike. Prof. Frank Parsons of the Bos-
ton University Law School contributes a
very valuable study of the lighting of
cities, called The Peoples Lamps.
A new story by Rudyard Kipling, re-
lating the adventure of an American in
England; fantastic Tale of Revenge by
Robert Barr; and brave story of adven-
ture by Stanley j. Weyman, akin in it's
time and setting to Mr.. Weyman's popu-
lar novel, A Gentleman of France, in
themselves give the June number of Nc
Clure's Magazine special distinction. But
there is no lack of other significant mat
ter. What men and machinery accomplish,
and how they are sometimes blown to
pieces, in the du Pont powder-mills; and
how that stupendous aggregation of tints
and wonders, the modern circus, gets
planted in the fields at daybreak and
crammed into the cars at midnight, are
the subjects of two illustrated papers by
tween General Moltke and Wimpffen, and
Napoleon III, and Bismarck, after the
battle of Sedan, to settle the terms of the
French cap1tulation, are described by
Archibald Forbes. who, as London war
correspondent, was on the ground and
himself saw most of the scenes of which
he writes. Some very interesting pictures
accompany the article, while with it is
published letter from General Sheridan
to General Grant, written few days
after Sedan, and giving his observations
at that and other battles of the Franco
Prussian War, and recording his judg-
ment that the American armies had
SHOWN greater skill in our own recent
war than the French and German armies
were showing. Napoleon's Relations
with the United States, by Miss Tarbell,
which shows how, with the most friendly
ana, aVoWedly, even loving, attitude to
the United States, Napoleon diligently
played it against England; an account
OF Grants weary search for military en-
ployment at the outbreak of the war and
his beginning with very humble clerk
ship; and Colonel McClure's account of
The Night at Harrisburg, in 1851, when
Lincoln was making his secret Journey to
Washington, to avoid the possibility of
assassination at-Baltimore, are ali nota-
Bile papers.