Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-11
JANUARY MAGAZINES.
The Arena

for January contains remarkable sym
postum on the Age of Consent Laws in
the United States in which eight OF the
leading writers whose names are con
nected with the movement for Social
Purity are represented. They are Aaron
NJ. Powell, the editor Of the Philanthro-
pist; Helen H. Gardener, the well-known
novelist; Francis f. Willard; Rev. A.
H. Lewis, D. d. DR.. o. Edward Janney,
NJ. D.; Will Allen Dromgoole, the story
writer of Tennessee life; and DR.. Emily
Blackwell of New York. Rev. w. H.
Savage contributes to the popular series
on The Religion of the Poets, an interest
ing paper on "The Religion of Longfel-
lows Poetry" Helen H. Gardener in
"Our Little Neighbor in the East" dis
cusses the war in the East and its social
and other causes in Japan. 1t is illus
trated with pictures by japanese artists
sent direct from Japanese friends of the
author. W. d. McCrackan, A. NJ,
writes on "Politics as Career" Walter
Blackburn Harte is represented by short
story of New York street life, be-
tween midnight and dawn, called "a
Drama in Tatters. A large number of
other notable articles make up an unusu-
ally excellent number. (Arena Pub. Co.,
Boston, Mass.)
Atlantic Monthly.
An article in the January Atlantic
which will be likely to attract the attcn-
ton of the thoughtful readers is Mr.. John
H. Denison's 1.-THE Survival of the Amer
lean Type" The whole paper is suggestive,
and will probably excite comment of vari-
Gus kinds. Fiction is well represented
in this number which contains not only
the first instalment of "A Singular Life a
serial by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps but the
opening portion of "A Village Stradiva
RUS" characteristic two part story by
Kate Douglas Wiggin, and an amusing
and yet somewhat pathetic country story by
Alice Brown, "Joint Owners in Spain. y
Mr. Lafcadio Hearn contributes Japan
csc sketch of today of peculiar interest.
Mr. J. r.. Trowbridge, one of the two sur
viving contributors to the first number of
the Atlantic, pays q tribute to Mr.. f. ii.
| Underwood and Mr.. Winthrop is also
| fittingly commemOrated at the close of re
view of his recent privately printed Rem
iniscences (Houghton, Mifllin & Co.,
| Boston, Mass.)
Home and Country.
CORPORAL James Tanner, editor, for
| January New Years Number) is, If any
thing more bright and entertaining than
usual The table of contents includes
''The Story of a Wedding Dress" by
Florence f. Benedict; "Sherman's Great
March," by William Hemstreet; "The
Origin of the Modern Orchestra" by
Albert Grieg; cause and Effect. I'M
prcssions Which Shape our Lives" by ID.
Herbert Halves; " Burglary as Science, :"
by George Ethelbert Walsh; 1.-The Art of
Entertaining A Hint for the 400, :"
by Samuel Jaros; Heredity," by Mildred
Lancaster; after the Curfew," by Josie
r. Nichols; can Emperor's Fate. The
Last Days of Napoleon ILL.," by Edgar
Mels; "The Secret" by Walter Swift
Historical Events Which Have Told for
Freedom by William o. Mcdowell l.;
1.-THE New Woman Suffragists.' by Joel
Benton; 1.-THE Wide, Wide World" by
Evan Stanton, and The Indiana Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home, by Wallace
Foster (Jos. W. Kay, 55 East 10th ST.,
| New York;
Review Of Reviews.
The frontispiece of the January Review
of Reviews is portrait of Robert Louis
Stevenson; the same number contains an
other picture of the late novelist-a
sketch drawn from life by that clever il
illustrator, Victor Gribayedoff. There are
also portraits of Professor Roux, Mac
kenzie Bowel, Sir John Thompson, Dean
Hole, the Sultan of Turkey, the Princess
Bismarck, and other prominent person
ages. Mr.. Robert Donald, an English
journalist, presents pen picture of John
Burns, the English labor leader. An I'M
usually important and timely article is
that on the Armenian crisis by an Ameri-
can who has lately returned to this coun-
try from Armenia, and whose statements
are based on accurate information fur
nished by persons neither Armenian nor
Turkish. The illustrations are chiefly
from photographs taken by the writer of
the article, whose name is withheld In