The Portland daily press., 1895-05-08

man. Prof.-James Sully in his Studies
of Childhood now passes from the ideas
to the feelings of children, taking up
Fear, which he shows is not always pro-
duced by the same causes in different
children. Prof. Frederick Starr traces the
progress of Archaeology in Denmark
the country that has given this science
many of it's leading terms and divisions.
Many cuts of prehistoric objects and
portraits of eminent Danish archaeoIo-
gists illustrate the account. Prof. Charles
S. Minot, of the Harvard Medical School,
contributes spirited and suggestive
essay on the Work of the Naturalist in
the World, containing both warnings and
congratulations. W.D. LeSueur discusses
Kidd on Social Evolution criticising
what that author says OF the attitude of
science toward religion. The good work
in zoology done by Conrad Gesner in the
sixteenth century is described by Prof.
W.K. Brooks under the title An Old Nat
uralist, with reproductions of some of
Gesner's illustrations M. Paul Leroy
Beaulieu writes on The Office of Luxury,
which he regards as stimulus to exer
tion. Logan G. Mcpherson discusses
Business, Friendship and Charity in
their sociological relations.
Harpers maintains it's reputation as
"the best collection of short stories"
The May number contains three, each
each widely different from the others in
scene and manner. Owen Wister's La
Tinaja Bonita is love story of Arizona,
with desert and drought for back
ground; Bobert Grant, in By Hook or
Crook, relates an incident in the social
career of a prosperous Boston architect;
and Julian Ralph, in Dutch Kitty's
White Slippers, introduces his readers to
another set of People We Pass in the East
side of New York. The scientist who
can write entertaingly for wide circle
of readers is rare person and one to be
made the most of. DIR. Andrew Wilson,
of the University of Edinburgh. is such
| a person, and he has succeeded in giving
| to The Story of the Liver, the fascination
of fiction. Not only is his paper interest
ing from the popular standpoint, but it
is valuable in showing the result of the
latest scientific research in this field
| Charles Dudley Warner in the Editors
Study, writing from villa near Flor
ence, discusses the common European
view of America. He admits that we
must seem crude and foolhardy to for
| eigners, and against this impression sets
the fact that Immigrants annually flock
to our shores by hundreds of thousands
in obedience to "a kind Of blind instinct
as to the existence of better opportunities
and freer lives.n According to Mr.. Warner
the great thing" for the immigrant is
that here he cannot only have an opin-
ion, but an opinion that will be counted,
and that he VIII be real unit in the
state"
The May Century has a wide range of
interest. In the Napoleon Life Prof.
Sloane narrates the conclusion of Napo-
leon's superb campaign in Northern
Italy, including the battle of Rivoli, the
capitulation of Mantua, the humiliation
Of the Papacy and of Venice, and the
peace of Leoben. A new novelette,, The
Princess Sonia, by Julia Magruder, begins
in this number and is illustrated with a
dozen pictures by Charles Dana Gibson.
Alexander Macarthur well known in
musical circles, contributes paper on
Rubinsteia: The Man and the Musician,
personal sketch from the point of view
of pupil and friend of the great pianist
Announcement is made that Mr. E. J.
Glave, who was with Stanley in his last
expedition 10 Africa. has been engaged
for many months in making al investi-
CATION or The Century of the slave trade
| in Central Africa, and forerunner of
his articles appears in the shape of three
| photographs of the inscri bed tree under
which is buried he heart of DR.. Living
stone, the dentlu cation having been
made by Mr.. GIave after the failure Of
others to find the tree. Mr.. Noah Brooks
contri butes the last of his papers on
Washington in Lincoln's time, dealing
| with the close of Lincoln's career, and
giving "reminiscences of the tri iai of the
conspirators in 1865.