The Portland daily press., 1895-08-09
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The July number OF The Granite
Monthly contains an article descriptive
of North Conway by Mrs. Ellen M. Ma.
son, the we'll known writer, who has
long been resident of the beautiful
town, and who possesses the knowledge
and the literary skill to set forth in at
tractive form the striking features of one
of the most picturesque of the summer
resorts of the Granite State. The article
is profusely illustrated by Mr.. I. E. nj.
White and Mrs. Gabrielle White. A good
deal OF the reputation which North Con-
way enjoys as a watering place is due to
Mrs. Mason's facile pen, and this article
will put the town under new obligation
to her.
Herbert Senoer opens the August Popu-
lar Science Monthly with the fourth of
his papers on Professional Institutions, in
which he shows that the functions of the
orator, poet, actor and dramatist are all
developed from the acts of the primitive
tribesman in welcoming his victoriously
returning chief Andrew D. White,
writing on The Continued Growth OF
Scientific Interpretation, describes the
battle by which reason conquered tradi-
tion in English theology In an illustrated
article on Art and Eyesight, DR.. Lucien
How shows that artists are by no means
exempt from the Irregularities of vision
that other persons have, and hence that,
to see pictures as they see them, one must
for the moment induce the same irregu-
larity in his own eyes, In the series on
the Development of American Industries
since Columbus, John G. Morse describes
Apparatus for extinguishing Fires, with
many pictures of apparatus, ancient and
modern. Prof E. L. Richards sets forth
the Importance of The Physical Element
in Education. Under the title The Mo-
tive for Scientific Research an editorial
in an earlier number is criticised by
Hubert L. Clark. Other contributors
to this number are David Star Jordan,
Garrett P. Serviss Prof. John F. Stod-
dard, DR.. John Ferguson and Gustave
LIE Bon.
The first of Anthony Hopes new series
of Zenda stories in McClure's Magazine
for August, reciting heroic love passage
between the beautiful Princess Osra and
brave Stephen the Smith is most charm
ing. "The girl was young and the
dream was sweet" and the story is in
full accord with these attractive condi-
tions. The new Jungle story by Kipling
is also notable. Only one or two of the
previous jungle stories approach it in
strength and ingenuity. In the same
number is story by Stanley j. Wey-
man, wherein good, hearty justice final
ly overtakes an oppressive taxgatherer;
ay,d To 1so p4o hrr R,,of Horf
Miss Tarbell supplies very interesting
account of Bishop John H. Vincent and
his work in founding and developing
the Chautauqua Assembly, and also of
the wonderful growth and usefulness of
that institution. Numerous portraits
and other pictures accompany the paper
The life of the circus performer, as it
shows itself behind the scenes, Is the
subject of an illustrated article by Cleve-
land Moffett Moltke's manner of carry
ing on war is described by the English
war correspondent, Archibald Forbes,
from the writer's own observation of
Moltke through the Franco Prussian
war, and from conversations which he
himself held with Moltke on the subject.
The Review of Reviews while it is
perhaps the only periodical published in
the United States that may be properly
called an international magazine sum-
ming up aseit does the progress of the
whole world from month to month, Is
none the less strong in it's Amerioanism
The editor, it is easy to perceive, is first
of all an American. In the August num-
Der he points out as one of the most signi-
flcant utteranes Of the last month the
speech made by NJ. Hanotaux, the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the indie
pendence Day banquet of the American
Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which,
evidently inspired by Minister Eustis,
was brilliant and Intelligent tribute to
the United States of America as the
foremost of modern nations. Nothing" :"
says the editor of the Review, "has been
said in long time that has been so deft-
ly designed to promote warm relations
between the French Republic and our
own as M. Hanotaux's frank and hearty
speech Unless we are greatly mis-
taken in reading what seems as simple as
the alphabet, the French Republic has
wisely concluded that the best possible
course for the French to pursue in their
relations with Western Hemisphere
questions, is to consult frankly and cor
daily with the United States and Ito
make their policy, so far as possible, con-
form with the policy and wishes Of this
country"
Harper's Magazine for August is strong
in fiction. The Personal Recollections of
Joan of Arc relate the story of Joan's OK