The Portland daily press., 1895-06-11


lands Nicaraguan relations at some
length; he also summarizes the probable
results of peace in the far East Other
international matters which receive at
tention in the editorial pages of the Re-
view are the relief Of Chitral German and
Austrian politics France and the Nile,
the new Speaker of the British House of
Commons, elections in Greece and Den
mark, the Pope's Encyclical to England
and the school question in Manitoba. On
the side of home politics, considera BILE
space is devoted to the silver controversy,
the annulment of the income tax and the
prospects of civil service reform. Apropos
of recent important changes in the man
agement and personnel of the Chicago
daily press, Mr.. Will J. Abbot contributes
under the caption Chicago Newspapers
and Their Makers, an exceedingly graphic
account of the past and present fortunes
of journalism iu the Western metropolis
Mr.. Abbot asserts that the great Chicago
dailies are all well printed, cleanly edited
and dignified, and that in these respects
they excel most of their contemporaries
in the Eastern cities, just as their news
columns excel in the range of telegraphic
reports.
Vacation time is near at hand and the
children will find pleasant suggestions of
of st. Nicholas. One of the little verses,
that will awaken sympathy in the mind
of every reader, is When Vacations Near
ing, by A. S. Webber. Mr. Stearn s
Chris and the Wonderful Lamp is brought
to an end with a most unexpected coin.
plicatinp cbouino how Jaddip,c rpania
escaped from the slavery of the lamp. In
Mr.. Pyle's story, Jack Ballister wins full
recognition for his pluck in rescuing the
heroine from the pirates. Teddy and
Carrots, the two little boys that James
Otis is describing, are planning Teddy's
release from the JAIL where he was SO Iln
feelingly put by the policeman In The
Boy of the First Empire, the main event
is the turning of the Paris .populace
against Napoleon, but the developments
throw light upon the parentage of Philip,
the page. The short stories and sketches
are up to the standard of the magazine
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt writes of George
Rogers Clark and the Conquest of the
Northwest in his series of Hero Tales from
American History. Prof W. T. Horn
day has one of the most interesting of his
natural history papers, his subject this
month being The Buffalo, Musk OK
Mountain Sheep, and Mountain Goat
There is much freshness in The Century
for june The frontispiece is hitherto
unengraved bust of Napoleon owned by
Charles j. Bonaparte of Baltimore and
modelled from life by Corbet during the
Egyptian campaign. Prof. Sloane's mar
rative covers the gap between the conclu-
sion of the Italian campaign and the first
victories in Egypt. AS usual, there is a
profusion of portraits and of pictures by
French and American painters, including
Detaille and Gerome. A notable illus
trated out-of-door article by John Muir
relates the circumstances of his Discovery
of Glacier Bay in Alaska. Thomas A.
Janvier gives a personal narrative of the
visit of the Comedie F,rancaise to Orange
in the south of France and their presenta-
tion of Greek tragedies in the theatre at
that place, and the article is strikingly
illustrated by Louis Leob. W. d How
ellis contributes the first part of a paper of
quiet humor entitled Tribulations of
Cheerful Giyer, relating to the question
of street charity in New York. The New
Public Library in Boston is the subject
of two articles, one on Its Artistic Aspects,
by Mrs Van Rensselaer,, and the other on
Its Ideals and Working Conditions, by
Lindsay Swift, and Illustrations accom-
pany the text. The fiction has much
variety, including the eighth part of
Marion Crawford S Casa Braccio, con-
tanning remarkable chapter narrating a
quarrel between husband and wife; the
second part of Julia Magruder's novelette,,
The Princess Sonia, gayly illustrated by
Gibbon, and setting forth an unexpected
relationship between the characters of the
story. There are also three short stories,
one, by Mary Hallock Foote, having a
unique plot, entitled On Side Track;
one sketch of strong contrasts by F.
Hopkinson Smith, entitled The Lady of
Lucerne; and story of the Chinese quar-
ter of San Francisco, piquantly entitled
The Gentleman in the Barrel, by Chester
Fernald. a new writer. The poetry of the
ballards one of the son by James Jeffrey
Rochse, entitled A Business Transaction,
illustrated by Howard Pyle; the other Of
the Civil War, by Maurice Thompson, en-
titled A Ballard of Little Fun
The Popular Science Monthly for June
opens with the first of a group of papers
under the general title From the Divine
Oracles to the Higher Criticism, which will
lOTIn tlG ClOSluS (llNlSlOn Vi LIZ. Andrew d.
Whites New Chapter in the Warfare of
Science. Two prominent professions now
generally united-those of the physician
and the surgeon-are treated by Herbert
Spencer in the second chapter of his Pro
fessional Institutions. Barton w. Ever
mann describes Two-Ocean Pass, with
illustrations, and tells how trout get
through it into the Yellowstone River
above the falls The Decline in Railway
Charges is discussed by H. I. New comb,
who advocates the removal of restrictions
on railway consolidation so that closer
economy may be attained The fifth ar
ticle in Garrett P. Servisss series on
Pleasures of the Telescope is entitled In
Summer Starlands. and describes to us
the beauties of Scorpio, Hercules, Draco
Sagitta, and other Consultations with the
accompaniment of carefully prepared
maps. In The Psychology Of Woman,
Prof. G. T.. W. Patrick gives the results
of a close scrutiny of this fascinating sub
ject, from which he has obtained wealth
of data and comparisons. An illustrated
article by d. T. MacDougal gives the re-
suits of experiments and researches on
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