The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-07
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painting of Scenes in Constantinople
Another article of popular character is
sketch of the elder Dumas, by Mrs
Emily Crawford, the Paris correspond
ent, in which a vivid picture is drawn of
| that robust novelist. Entertaining also
is the fiction of the number including the
fifth part of Mrs Humphrey Wards
new novel, Sir George Tressady; the
fourth and concluding part of Mr.. Hop
kinson Smiths Tom Grogan. and short
stories by Chester Bailey Fernald and
Mrs. Burton Harrison. On the more
serious and important side comes, first
of all, the Life of Napoleon by Prof.
Sloane, in which Napoleon is shown as
the g Fountain of Honor and Power,''
establishing new feudalism and having
visions OF wolrd empire. Another article
OF sort which one is accustomed to
LOOK for in the Century is an account Of
| Htamp1ng out the London Slums, written
by Edward Marshall, Secretary of the
New York Tenement HOUSE Commits
SION, which will be in the nature of q
revelation to Americans, besides giving
suggestions as to the treatment of SINH
lar problems in our cities. Another ar
tiGle of Importance is Mr. William E.
Smythe's Ways and Means in Arid Amer
ica.
ST. Nicohlas for March presents wide
diversity of contents Stories, sketc hes,
and poems will appeal to boys and girls
of various ages. Lieutenant John NJ.
Ellicott of the United Sattes navy, who
has contributed several papers to this
magazine on the methods of signalling at
sea by means of flags and lights has
somewhat similar article, Into Port.
Their First Moose Hunt is a breezy story
Of the woods written by Tappan Adney.
Charles +. Lummls, in A Little Hero
of Peru, tells of plucky boy who save d
the lives of two American scientists
overcome by the mountain sickness.
The Goodly Sword, by Mary Stuart Nc
Kinney, is a chapter giving the history
Of the noblest of weapons from the earii-
| est times to the present day. The seri es
of natural history papers by W. I. Horn
aday, which has been a feature of St.
Nicholas for a year or two past, is brought
to an end in 1.-THE Lowest of Our Quad
rupeds." This paper is devoted to the
armadilsos. ant eaters, sloths and opos-
sums. All of the serials carry along their
plots with interesting chapters. The
senior partner in the firm of "Sindbad,
: Smith & Co.." sustains his Arabian
Nights reputation by discovering an I'M
known city in the United States. The
Sw or,inlaker's son is devoted this mouth
to that portion nf tine sacred story that
tells of the miracles in Capernaum.
There are the usual number of poems and
jingles. and a prize puzzle, The Fairy
Godmother, is printed.
Harper's Magazine for March is varied,
entertaining and beautiful illustrated
number. One of the most striking papers
is by Park Benjamin, entitled The
Nerves of War Ship. The writer shows
that battle between two fleets of iror-
clads would be an unorganized melee, in
which the admiral would heav practical
ly no part. and in which success would
depend largely upon the individual cap
tains. Anything like concerted action
would be impossible after the opening Of
the battle; annd in the opinion of Mr..
Benjamin, efficient management is a
more important factor than armor, while
efficient management depends almost
entirely upon a perfection of mechanism
which would place the entire control of
the war ship in the hands Of one man.
who would not only steer the vessel, but
fire the batteries, which had previously
: heen sighted automatically, OF oouse a
battle between ifonclads, fought as des-
perately as sea fights have been fought in
the past, would mean practically the
sinking OF the whoe fleet. In fiction
the number is unus 1ally strong. Besides
, the generous instalmentS of William
Blacks Briseis, and The Personal Recol-
lections of Joan of Arc, there are short
tales by Owen Wister. Helen Huntington
and Julian Ralph.
AS President Andrews's great Hist ory
serial in Scribners draws to a close its
entertaining quality is intensified. The
March instalIuent contains o pictorial
record that is unique in magazine illus
tration. giving 30 pictures in one article
Including original and very artistic
views of the Worlds Fair reproduced in
pen drawings of unusual beauty. The
, Homestead riots and the Tennessee con-
viot troubles are also fully illustrated
from instantaneous photographs. The
text gives, among other striking pas
sages, An interesting summary OF the
marvellous advance made by electricity
in recent years. The third instalment
VI O0u 10 Si'NN
number. One of tho most timely and in
teresting articles is British Opinion OF
America, by Richard Whiting, OF the
London News The "opinion" here
presented is that of the masses, not that
of the classes. In short fiction there IS
story by III. c. Burnett. entitled The
{ Lost Child and most amusing character
+ sketch, A Chameleon, by Horace An
nesley Vachell.
b In McClure's Magazine for March i
: brought to light speech by Abraham
7 Lincoln in 1887, which biographers IN
til now, seemingly, have known nothing
{ of: though il contains passages still of
the highest interest Col. John Hay
contributes al interesting paper on Ellis
, worth, the young hero killed at the be-
ginning of the war. On his twenty-sec-
onu birthday Ellsworth began diary,
because, ''as he wrote, ''my life has been
and bids fair to be, such tumble of
strange incidents that. should 1 become