The Portland daily press., 1895-10-14


Vestlgation of the slave trade IN the III
terests of this magazine.
Fun, fancy, and facts are mixed togeth-
er in the usual pleasant proportion for
the readers of st. Nicholas in the October
number Elbridge S. Brooks historical
romance Boy of the First Empire,
which has been feature of the magazine
for the past year, is brought to an end.
The closing chapter chronicles the sur
render of Napoleon to the English, and
his removal to St. Helena. The heroes
OF Mr.. James OUis's serial, Teddy and
carrots prove themselves manly little
fellows IN overcoming the difficulties that
confront them. The first chapters are
printed OF two-parb story, Yamoud, by
Henry Willard French. This recounts
the adventures of q little Arabian boy,
whose mother was carried off by slaves
A good old-fashioned sort in Hans the
Otherwise, by John Bennett.
One is never disappointed in The Popu-
lar Science Monthly It is one of the
popular magazines that never contain the
twaddle of transient fads-that have never
taken a step downward to cater to degen
crate minds. In the October number DIR.
Andrew d. White concludes his papers
under the title From the Divine OracIes
to the Higher Criticism with state
ment of the latest views of scholars as to
the way in which the Bible was made
up. He points out also the chance for
new and better growth of Christianity
Herbert Spencer shows in his essay on the
Man of Science and Philosopher how the
professional class to which he himself be-
longs arose from the priesthood An Illus
trated account of the mode OF trout
Culture now in use is contributed by Fred
Mather, who has had quarter century s
experience in this work. Prof. Ii. +.
Evans writes on the Recent Recrudescence
of Superstition shown in the assertions
Of German Catholic clergy as to miracles
and witchcraft. There is an admirable
estimate OF Thomas Henry Huxley by
Michael Foster, the distinguished pro-
fessor of physiology at Cambridge. Gar
rett 2. Seryiss' series OF surveys Of the
consultations is completed with one On
Pisces. Aries, Taurus, and the Northern
Stars, among which the Great and Little
Bear are included. The Life of Water
Plants is described by M. Busgen.
The editor of the Review of Reviews
finds. several incidents in this falls politi-
cal situation on which to comment with
effect in The Progress of the World for
October; the part played by the liquor
question in the New York campaign is
very clearly described The present diff
culties of the U. S. Treasury and the
bearings thereof in national politics are
discussed. The opening of the Atlanta
Exposition and the recent patriotic gath
arIngs at Louisville and Chiokanauga,
the international yacht racing fiasoo, the
building of American batGle-ships and
Lord Wolseley's appointment as Com
mannerin- Chief OF the British Army, are
among the topics included in the months
survey. The Madagascar campaign, the
massacre of missionaries in China, the
Armenian question and progress in South
Africa under Cecil Rhodes (Whose Dor
trait serves as the frontispiece of this
number of the Review are matters of in
ternational interest which also pass under
editorial review.
The complete novel in the October issue
of Lippincott's, My Strange Patient, con-
tains some adventures that are by no
| means commonplace. The author, Will
liam L. Nichols, though hitherto little
known, has q story to tell, and knows
how to tell it in way to catch the read
er's interest in his first paragraph and
hold it unfalteringly to the end The
other tales of this number are The Train
for Tarrow''s, by Virginia Woodward
Cloud, and Carols Cows, by E. L. G.
One would scarcely expect the story of
the making of pair of equestrian statues
Of Lincoln and Grant to be as interesting
as a piece of fiction; but this it truly
proves to be in MeClure's Magazine for
October where Mr.. Cleveland Moffett de-
scribes the long and patient labors of the
artists O'Donovah AID Eakins first in
the collection and study of documents
and the discovery of suitable living
models for horse and rider, and then in
the actual modelling of the life-size stat
ues lately completed by them for the
Brooklyn memorial arch A description
is also given of the work of the founders in
casting the models in bronze; and q sue
cession of pictures, from special photo |
graphs, exhibits the entire operation of
modelling and casting. from the very be- |
ginning down to the finished bronze casts. |
A granu-nephew of the poet Keats, Mr.. |
John GilIner Speed, takes note, in the
same number, of the centenary of the
poets birth in a paper written from
original letters and manuscripts in his
possession. He presents Keats in a new,
and what one feels is a much truer light |
than some of the hiographers have shown
him in. The paper is illustrated with
portraits from originals made from life
and now owned. most of them, by Mr..
Speed
The Arena for October is unusually at
tractive. A fine portrait of the talented |
young Tennessee authoress, Will Allen
Dromgoole, forms the trontispieoe, aud |
richly illustrated paper on Chester on
the-Dee from the pen of the Editor opens
this issue Mr.. Flower gives graphic
history, as well as a vivid description, of
this quaint old city, in a most charming
style, while many of the pictures are
superb A contribution which will doubt
less excite general attention and occasion
much comment is from the pen of Hon.
A. R. Barrett. Ex-Goyernment Examiner
for failed banks, entitled The Era of
Fraud. The revelations of fraud as prac-
ticed by many banks are Of q most as
founding character. Helen Ii. Gardner