The Portland daily press., 1896-04-14
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

April describes Lincoln's first debate
with Douglas-twenty years before the
famous debate of 1858-with passages
from an almost unknown speech of Lin
coins in reply to Douglas. 1t contains
the true story of Linooln's ooursthip and
marriage. clearing away forever a mass
of scandal and falsehood that gossip has
piled up regarding these incidents in
Lincoln's life. Portraits of Lincoln and
Mrs. Lincoln and numerous other pic
lures accompany the paper. An autobi-
ographlcal paper by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps in McClure's for April revives
the tragic history of the burning of tn
Pemberton Mills-a casualty that fur-
nished the bases of one of Miss Phelps
most effective stories; and also tells how,
moved by the mourning that filled the
land at the close of the war, she wrote
that epocn-making book, The Gates
Ajar.
The Century plays two of it's best cards
in the April number, namely, Cole and
Castaigne, the frontispieoe being
beautiful engraving by Cole after George
De Forest Brush's painting entitled
Mother and Child, and Mr.. Csstaigne
u10 AAAdSbioUAOilc I'LL oAA3ASAJ
article by Prof. Allan Marquand of
Princeton on The Old Olympic Games
apropos of the revival of the Olympic fes-
tival at Athens. Prof. Sloane's Napo-
leon is particularly rich in illustrations.
He treats of Napoleon as the assailant of
nationality, of the Spanish campaign,
and of the rise of Germany under the
lead Of Prussia. A notable article by
Victor Louis Mason, an attache of the
War Department, is entitled Four Lin
coin Conspiraoies, and makes record OF
the three attempts to murder and one to
kidnap. and includes new particulars of
the flight and capture OF the assassin.
The illustrations are chiefly from arohige
of the War Department (for the most part
unpublished), and comprise photographs
f.sthe conspirators in irons, documents
in Booths handwriting, scenes along
the route Of his escape, etc. An amusing
article ON a subject of current interest is
Mr.. D. P. B. Conkling's article on Japa-
nese War Posters with four illustrations.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, author of
English Cathedrals, contributes paper
on The Churches Of Perigueux and An
gouleme, with illustrations by Joseph
Pennell, and the series of sketches by
the painter Vibert comes to conclusion
with three diverting examples, including
a one-act comedy.
The April number of the Bookman is
made especially attractive and valuable
by containing timely article on Ameri
can Feeling Toward England, by PROBES
sor Il. 7. Peck, and an ably written re-
view from the same pen on some recent
books of warlike character under the
heading The Drift Toward War. The
Living Critic--the sixth of an interesting
series-is Mr.. Andrew Lang, of whom
fine portrait is given. A new portrait
of Alphonse Daudet also accompanies a
chatty interview with him in his study,
and another amusing contribution is
made to previous articles on Shall and
Will, which this time takes the form of a
satire, entitled DR.. Burtonon the Future
Tense.
Among the live social, economic and
political subjects ably discussed in the
April Arena are Prof. Frank Parsons's
continuation of his mastery paper Oh
the Telegraph Monopoly, in which facts
upon facts are mershalled forth in a most
convincing manner. Prof. Parsons's le-
gal training and his duties as professor
of the Boston University School of Law,
as we'll as his experience as a legal text
book writer for one of the greatest pub
fishing firms of the country, render him
especially qualified to sift evideno and
deal deadly blows against the great mo-
nopolies which are sucking the life blood
from the veins of ma tional life. Presi-
dent Gates of the Iowa University
makes some startling revelations in
paper entitled Government by Brewery.
DIR. John Clark Ridpath, LII. D., the
eminent historian, continues his able and
startling papers which have awakened
such interest from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Justice Waltor Clark, L. l.. ii.
of the Supreme Bench of North Carolina,
who has recently returned from an ex-
tened tour in Mexico, during which he
made a careful study of the actual con-
dirions of all Glasses in our Sister Re-
public, discusses the effect of Free Silver
as he found it in actual operation in
Mexico.
The April number of Scribner's Maya
zine contains very unusual number of
articles of immediate interest in connec-
ton with current events of the first i'm
portance. The leading article is SYM
pathetic review of the late Lord Leigh
ton. P. r. A., by Cosmo Moukhouse.
The illustrations. which are of remarka-
BILE richness and beauty, were selected
with the assistance of the artist himself,
and the whole article was completed be-
fore his del th on January %. 1t is the
most complete record of his artistic Ca
reer that has, or will be, furnishd by any
periodical Another article of great con-
temporary interest is The Quarrel of the
English Speaking Peoples, by Henry
Norman, the correspondent of the London
Chronicle, whose kilograms from Wash
ington were SO influential in modifying
British opinion on the Venezuelan ques-
tion. Mr.. Normans article is very
clear exposition Of the present temper Of
the British people, and it also points out
with definiteness the line along which
the peaceful solution is to be expected.
He is, of course, an advocate of the doc
| trine of arbitration, and he also believes
that the United States would simplify
relations in future If it should definitely,
through Congress, define the Monroe
Doctrine as it is accepted by the govern
ment. Mr.. Norman closes with an emu
| meration of certain domestic problems