The Portland daily press., 1895-11-20
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Foreign affairs naturally have more
than usual prominence in the November
Review of Reviews In the Progress of
the World, tho department. of that peri
odical in which the editor rapidly re-
views the events of the preceding month,
the possibilities of war in the far East are
pointedly set forth. Another theme sug-
gested in the same connection is the
progress of Christian missions in the
Orient. The prospects of Japan and
Russia as Eastern powers are terSely dis
cussed. The editor also comments bne1y
on the relations of Russia and France,
the italian celebrations, the French VIC
tory in Madagascar, the Cuban situation
and British policy in Venezuela. Among
home topics of the month. the coming
elections, the condition of New York pol
itics, the anti-prize fight campaign In
in the Southwest, and the educational
outlooks are selected for treatment.
The cheerful, unwrinkled, handsome
and almost youthful face of Lincoln, in
the very prime of manhood, which serves
as frontisp1ece to McClure's for Novem-
Der, is perhaps the most interesting con-
tribution ever made to Lincoln portal
ture. There are five other portraits OF
Lincoln in the magazine, all interesting
and rare, and the first chapters OF new
biography. This new life of Lincoln is
genuinely fresh, vigorous and absorbing
narrative Miss Tarbell has succeeded
in collecting such a fund OF fact and an
ecdote from surviving contemporaries,
his education and his character, that
story more Astounding in incident and
interest could not be asked. Even more
unexpected than the information brought
to light is the abundance and interest OF
the pictures found to illustrate it. This
is by no means exclusively a Lincoln
number of McClure's however. There
is a bunch of remarkable letters from
Robert Louis Stevenson to his closest
friend, Mr.. Sidney Colvin, describing,
in such phrase as only Stevenson ooqld
command, the round and stress OF his
daily literary life in Samoa. An intro
ductlon by Mr. Colvin and some entirely
new pictures of Stevenson and his family
accompany the letters. Mr.. George e.
Pond. in a fully illustrated article on
the new commander of the army, Major
General Miles, tells the stirring story
of q soldier who was in the hardest of
the fighting, throughout the civil war,
and then in the most toilsome and ha-
zardous of the Indian campaigns
Economic and scientific questions of
great moment are treated in the Popular
Science Monthly for November. Hon.
David A. Wells furnishes the introduce
tory article of series on Principles of
Taxation, which promises to be the mcst
| important contribution of recent years
to economic science. The Past and Flu
ture of Gold is discussed by Charles s.
Ashley, who maintains that gold has not
appreciated but shows signs of decline.
DR.. A. L. Benedict writes on Consump-
ton Considered as Contagious Disease.
showing that it is more to be dreaded
than leprosy. Herbert Spencer continues
| his history Of Professional Institutions
| by tracing the evolution of Judge and
Lawyer. An English author, HI. P. Fitz-
| erserald Marriott, contributes an Illus
trated article on Primigenial Skeletons.
The Flood, and the Glacial Period, in
which he describes three prehistoric skel-
etons recently found at Mentone. Prof.
Mary r. Smith, of Sanford University,
discusses Recent Tendencies in the Edu-
cation of Women This number contains
| also the address of DR.. Daniel g.. Brin-
ton before the American Association on
The Aims of Anthropology, the oonolu-
sion of Prof. E. P. Evans's essay on the
Recent Recrudence of Superstition, and
| the twelfth of Prof. James Sully's Stud-
les of Childhood, dealing with disobe-
dience.
The November issue of st. Nicholas
begins a new volume and gives a fore.
taste of the features provided for the
coming year. The frontispiece is a bean
tiful portrait of a child, drawn by that
gifted artist, Cecilia Beaux. A Famous
French Painter, by Arthur Hoeber, is a
sketch of the career and the personality
of j. L. Gerome several of whose MIC.
lures are reproduced in the article
Fanny l.. Brent has pretty story.
Riches Have Wings, telling of a youno
girls effort to secure an artistic training
Reading the Book of Fate by Louiso
| Willis Snead, describes the fortune fell
ing and flower games played by the chill.
dren of the@ South. Launching Great
Vessel is a deep problem in mechanics as
we'll as an impressive sight, as the reader
will learn from tho interesting article On
the subject by Franklin Matthews. iIIns.
trated by f. Cressou Schell. Princeton .
A Modern Puss in Boots, by Minnie r
| Sheldon, is a story of a cat, and. inci.
dentally, of football contest. The CON.