The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-11
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

OF the manuscript left unpublished by
Robert Louis Stevenson at his death (not
many, by the way, the first to reach
the public is a collection OF very original
"Fables'' in the September number OF
McClure's Magazine. One of them is a
conversation between John Silver and
&C Cap'n'' Smollett, of Treasure Island, y
which is as delicious in its way as any
thing those worthless do or say in "Treas-
ure Island" itself In the same number
Anthony Hope relates another adventure
of the ever charming Princess Osra, an
encounter in the forests of Zenda with an
attractive and most courteous highway.
man. There is also a romantic tale or
court intrigue by Stanley J. Weyman,
and new Drumtochty story by Ian
Maclaren, the author OF Beside the Bon
ME Briar Bush. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps supplies an admiring review OF an
earlier story of Ian Maclaren's, After
wards which appeared in MCCLURE
last SPRING Of the illustrated articles,
Cleveland Moffett's interesting account
of the artist Will II. Low, and his work,
with the beautiful reproductions of draw
ings and paintings, must be mentioned
first: but, in the nature of things, a
greater thrill is to be derived from Mr..
Garrett P. Serviss's account of the ex-
periences of an amateur mountalneer IN
climbing the Matterhorn.
The September Arena opens with a
vivid description of the wordy battle now
being waged in the legislatures over the
agitation for raising the age of consent.
The facts are marshalled in order by
Helen H. Gardener, the we'll known and
popular novelist, and deal this month
with the arguments, pro and con on the
recent legislation in Nebraska Colorado
and Missouri, where the age has been
materially raised Prof. Joseph Rodes
frontispiece of the number, contributes
a striking and valuable article on. The
Marves of Electricity. In his paper called
After Sixty Years. Mr. B. O. Flower,
editor of the Arena, touches upon the
disillusions of the career of the reformer,
and tells of the career of one who IN
life time of sixty years, service has not
lost faith in humanity, James j. Clark,
of California A symposium of clergy
men and other writer deals with Prof.
George D. Heron and his work. DR..
Heron has created a great stir by his
teaching in the West, and he has been
bitterly assailed for some of his views
of social Christianity. These gentlemen
defend his POSITION; They sa are Rev. D.
Rev. J. Cummings Smith, Rev. j. r.
Scott, Elder NJ j. Ferguson. Rev. X.
M, Webster and James q. Clark, the
poet.
The name of The New England Kitch-
en- Magazine has been changed to The
American Magazine. There is no change
in the ownership and management OF the
magazine, though the change OF the
name necessitates also change IN the
title Of the publishing firm. This will
be hereafter the Home Science Publishing
Company, which will publish not only
the American Kitchen Magazine but
books and pamphlets pertaining to II the
subject of science in the home. Inc
members of this firm remain as before,
Mrs. Mary j. Lincoln, Mrs. Estelle NJ
H. Merrill and Miss Anna Barrows.
Neither is there any change in the pur-
poses of this magazine. The kitchen is
to the home what the foundation Is to
the house. Unless good and lntelilgent
work is done on the foundation the mouse
is very insecure; and unless the Kitchen
is rightly and intelligently conducted the
family must suffer in health, in mind
and in morals.
Edwin Lord Weeks, the painter, we'll
known also to the readers of Harper's
Magazine as the writer of delightful ar
ticles of travel to which he contributes
the illustrations is the writer of paper
on Indian Art and Architecture, published
in tho September number. According to
Mr. Weeks, the art impulse is still strong
in India, and not even the commercial
Philistine is able to crush it. Flourish
ing art schools exist in Lahore and Bonn
bay, and although their efforts are de-
voted chiefly to artistic manufactures and
to decoration. yet it seems probable that
the school of architecture which produced
g Tai Mahal will not be allowed to die
out. In The Evolution OF the Cow
Puncher, Owen Wister has made care
full study of the pioneer ranchman OF the
Western plains, now fast disappearing
before the locomotive and the barbed wire