The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-07

lcdl corruption, and arrs1gns the Eng
lish politicians for dishonesty in election
and the English public for brutality
and personal vindictiveness in cam
paigns. w. e. Norris contributes another
realistic story of fashionable English life
under the title of The Dowagers Com
panion. Among the short stories are
The Cabinet Organ, by Octave Thanet,
with illustrations by Clifford Carleton;
The Love Letters of supertine Gold, by
Julian Ralph, illustrated by @. D. We'll
don aud A Fool to Fame, by f. W. AL
exander, with illustrations by John W.
Alexander. The first ia q story of the
middle West; the second is the last of
Mr.. Ralph's series of Chinese tales, and
A Fool to Fame is an amusing sketch of
two merican artists in q provincial
French village.
Scribner's Magazine for July opens
nth an entertaining description of
Coney Island by Julian Ralph, illus
trated by Henry EMcCartItin. Brander
Matthews writes ON the Poetry of Place
Names. A Thousand Miles Through tho
Alps is an article Of unusual adventure,
by Sir William Martin Conway, outlin-
ing route taken in the whole range of
the Alps, the descent from each peak,
ending at the starting point for the next.
Nine. Blanc, the French critic, whose
articles have long been published under
the name Th. Bentzon, oontribu II
paper on A French Friend of Browning
Joseph Milsand. distinguished schol-
ar, essayist and poet, who died about ten
years. ago, and with whom Browning
maintained "a close friendship for many
The wall animal MAINTAIN
j. Garter Beard, contributes short
paper entitled A New Art, in which he
advances the claim of taxideIIny as prac-
tised by W. Il. HorDaday to be oonsid-
ored an art. In fiction this number is
made notable by one of the last short sto-
ries of the late Fl. Ell. Boyesen, entitled
In Collision with Fate. 1t is the charm
ing love story Of an ocean voyage. There
is also a short story of the American
Revolution by Clinton Ross, entilt o.
The Confession of Colonel Sylvester
Mr.. Ross has made study of this period
for purposes of fiction.
EThe opening article in the July number
ofa The Century is by Marion Crawford.
the third of his papers on Rome. 1t is
devoted to St Peuer;s, and is fully IL
Illustrated by Castaigne. The contents of
the number also include a number Of
topics prominent in the public mind.
There is the third and concluding paper
by Mr.. James Bryce giving his impress
sions of South Africa from recent visit.
This takes up the relations between the
Beers and the Uitlanders that led to the
Jameson raid A glimpse of the disputed
territory of Venezuela, with an account
Of the Guiana natives, the white settlers
and the gold works, is given by W.
Nephew King, 1t is accompanied by
many Illustrations. A propos of the al
legged identification of Marshal Ney with
North Carolina school teacher, There
is printed hitherto unpublished family
record of the marriage and execution of
Ney by Nine. Campan, who wrote the
m emoirs of Marie Antoinette, accom-
panied by an Introduction by relative
Of Nine. Ney. George Clinton Genet Of
Greenbush, N. Y. An Arctic Studio,
an illustrated article by Frank Wilbert
Stokes. is description of the northern
most studio of the world. established
during the Peary expedition. A move.
lette by W. u. Howells, an Idyl of Sara
toga, is begun, and there is q story of the
Oh inese quarter of San francisco by
Chester Bailey Fernald, entitled The Pot
of Frightful Doom.
The complete novel In the JulyTissue of
Lippincott' S is A Judicial Error, by Mari
on Manville Pope. 1t is q strong story,
based on murder for which the wrong
man was convicted and hanged. He has
a friend who determines to prove his in
nocenoe, and does it. This plot involves
some rousing scenes and situations, and
the author has not been slow to improve
her opportunities.
In the July number of st. Nicholas
there is much that breathes a patriotic
spirit The opening story is Maur ice and
His Father, q romance of the American
Revolution, by Sara King Wiley. This
tells of little English lad who was tray
cling through the colonies with his faith
err. During skirInish the boy is lost
troopers. The father embraces the cause
of the patriots. and his son is finally re-
stored to him through the Instrumental
ity of Washington. Toby Hinkle, Pa
triot, by Pauline Wesley, is an account
of a crippled boy who makes q fine new
flag for the New England village in
which he lives and wins a pleasant re-
ward. A Word for the Old Fourths is a
pisa III V6@S0 ny sSuhflSS henry W6DD.
81. L. Bridwell, in a couple of sketches,
shows in way to impress the memory
What the Stripes Mean and What the
Stars Mean, in thu American flag. Most
appropriate to the season is paper by
Lieut.. John M. Ellicott U. S. N, on
Gunpowder. telling of the manner of
making the various kinds and how thy
ore used in the big modern ordnance.
Whoever cares to know how Rudyard
Kip ling composes one of his spirited bar
rack room ballads will be interested in
the opening paper in McClure's Maya
zine for July. Written by Mr.. E. Kay
Robinson, with whom Kipling was init
nately associated in the editorshlp of q
newspaper in India, the paper is full of
interesting personal facts about Kip]ing.
But perhaps surprising this in a5un-
dance of new personal detail is a paper of
recollections of Longfellow. Whittier and
Holmes, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Whittier, it appears. while never losing
his cheerful tone, was in his last years,
much oppressed by loneliness; and
Holmes, while outwardly SO merry
man. was ut heart grave almost to mel
ancholV In HIS later Vears tho latte,