The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-03-08

many new factS aDOu6 tHe lat$itc gu"
hares.
The complete novel in the March issue
of Lippincott's is A Tame Surrender, by
Captain Charles King. Departing from
this authors usual field, the purely
military, it deals with the Chicago strike
the riots and their suppression, and the
loves of United States lieutenant and
high minded young lady who works 2
typewriter. 1t is her tame surren-
DER" after long resistance, which gives
the tale its title The other stories, all
very short, are Fultilmenr, by Elizabeth
Knowlton Carter, The Luck of the At
kinses, by Margaret B. Yeates. and One
of the Wanted, by B. E.
The March mum Der of Home and Coun-
try, New York, Corporal james Tanner
appropriate to the season ontisplece,
entitled, In BluStery Weather. Besides
this, other illustrations are numerous,
and not the least attractive are those
from bird land.
One of the most important projects
ever undertaken by Scri bner's Magazine
begins in the March number with the
first instalment of President e. Benjamin
Andrews sdramatic narrative, "A His.
tory of the Last Quarter-Century in
the United States.n That this viii be
always interesting is proved by the state
menu of the authors plan to his readers
in the Introductory paragraph, in which
he tells them that they are going upon
rapid excursion. through vast tracts,
with frequent use of the camera, and not
upon a Typographical surevy." Each
instalment will be filed with what was
once the sensational episode OF the day,
and which has been proved by time to
be of great historical Importance. The
first instalment deals with the United
States at the close of Reconstruction,
and among the incidents described are
the Chicago Fire, the Tweed Ring, sthe
Rise Of the Liberal Party. the ku-hlux
Khan, Black Friday and the Treaty of
Washington. Each incident is accom-
panied with unique series of illustra-
tiors, drawn from the best sources and
supplemented with the accounts OF eye
witnesses, SO that the story of the quar-
ter century will be told pictorially from
month to month. This series is of all the
more Importance because there is no
book in existence that gives a history
of our own times for those who are liv-
ing in them.
Perhaps the most important article
in the New England Magazine Tor
March is that by Thomas S. Townsend
on Massachusetts, in the Civil War, an
able account of the noble deeds per-
formed by Massachusetts, grave sons
who came from all walks of life at their
conntry's call. Experimentation war
time portraits accompany the article.
Raymond L. Bridgman, in an excellent
article on Weather Studies at Blue Hill,
tells of the careful record kept by the
self registering instruments SO busily at
work at the Milton Observatory. Photo-
graphs and diagrams showing the man
ner Of recording the weather changes add
to the interest of the article. In the
series on Old Boston Streets, Hamilton
Andrews Hill writes in his interesting
way of Old Milk Street, one of the earli-
est highways laid out in Boston, ana
this, with illustrations showing the or
iginal thoroughfare and the Milk Street
of our day, will appeal especially to all
Boston readers Old Dutch Houses on
the Hudson, by William e. Yer Planck.
is a very readab paper describing old
homesteads still standing in Dutchess
OOuuty, M WulCu NcIo OuIlu ny Lie
early Dutch settlers. Photographs of
these old houses render the article more
attractive
In variety and significance OF them,
wealth of illustration, and eminence of
contri butors McClure's Magazine for
March will be found very notable num-
Der. Mr.. Gladstone furnishes an article
ON The LORDS Day, wherein he shows,
with his accustomed learning, by what
authority and with what spiritual in
tention Christians keep Sabbath the
| first instead of the seventh day of the
week, and wherein he indicates the true
standard OF Christian Sabbath obsar-
vance. Following this is series of most
interesting portraits of Mr.. Gladstone,
years of age down to the present time.
Conan Doyle supplies dramatic short
story of the Fanco-Prussian war, and
also a short paper relating his personal
experience in crossing most difficult
Alpine pass in midwiGter on ski-wooder
runners strapped to the feet. Stanley
j .Weyman hasa story of the free handed
| high spirited court life of the time Of
Henry ". of France; while, as if for the
widest sweep of contrast, Mrs. E.V. Viii
son tells tragic story of blizzard or
the Western prairies. Drs. Biggs ant
Park, who as mem bers of the New York
| City Health Department have had super
vision of the manufacture of the anti
toxine serum which promises to deprive
dlphtheria of most of its malignity, de-
scribe in fully illustrated articles the
slow, difficult and costly process the
new remedy is prepared, the manner OF
its administration, and the results that
attend it's use. The Napoleon pictures
in this mum Der include (besides especial
ly interesting portraits of Napoleon
| portraits of Marie Louise, his SECOND
wife, and-of his son, the king of Rome
and famous picture of the final scene
between Napoleon and Josephine prior te
| her divorce.
| Seventy colored women were discharged
| from the oovernmant nrintipr oa;ot