The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-11

Henry G. Marquand by E. A. Alex
ander, describes and illustrates the Mar
quand collection in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. In Preparedness for
Naval War Captain A. Il. Mahan points
out the greatest weakness in our military
defence. in Decaienee of the New Eng
land Desp Sea Fisheries Joseph William
Collins describes the passing away OF the
most picturesque and adventursome of
American vooarions. In The shast of a
Great Black Nation, Poultney Bigelow
describes English rule among the
Basutos, and narrates tho life OF Moshesh
their national hero. Besides the sixth
instalment If The Martian. by George
du Maurier. the number oontaips three
complete stories the Editors Study, and
the Editors Drawer.
The March number of The Arena is the
initial issue of the magazine under the
new management and editorship. The
company has beea reorganized on snlid
financial basis, and the current number
OF the magazine comes in form ana
substance well calculated to win public
favor, and following its well established
policy of liberalism and reform. The
number opens with the first Of series
of important contribu tions ON the de-
velopment and reform of city government
In the United States. This first article is
by the Hon. Josiah Quincy, Mayor OF
Boston, who therein expresses himself
as in favor Of the municipal ownership,
though not necessarily Of the municipal
operation, of public serviees such as gas
and electric lighting and street rail-
ways. An excellent portrait lof Mayor
Quincy forms the frontispiece to the
mum Der.
New England in Kansas is the subject
of an important article by Prof. William
II. Carruth. which occupies the opening
place in the March number of. the New
England Magazine. The part which was
played by, the New England aDti-slavery
people in 1864 and the years following in
character of the new STATE was most in
fiuential aud significant, and the story of
that WORKINGS never before been 80 well
told as it is here told by Prot. Carruth.
The article is accompanied by portraits
of dozen of the leading actors in the
struggle and by views Of the interesting
Kansas places, as we'll as by fac-siniiles
Of tile famous Kansas poems written at
the time by Whittier and Lucy Lnrcom.
Rev. William 4. Barton has strong ar
ticle on The Cumberland Mountains and
the Struggle for Freedom. Mr.. George
H. Hayes writes of the famous Kansas
Know Nothing Legislature Of 1856. One
of the Strangers at5 OUR Gates, Hby Max
Bennett Thrasher, is n bright and in
teresling study of the French Canadians
who constitute so large proportion OF
the present stream of immigrants into
New England. Mr.. Frank B. Sanborn
CharOnea, the famous monument Dullt
by the Thebans to commemorate their
heroes who fell OH that fateful held in
the conflict with the Macedonians.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly
for March has something for every reader
who has any interest In science, and
much for most Ereaders. Prof. William
q. Ripley continues his series on Racial
Geography with paper explaining how
the shape of the head is made use OF in
studying race. A contribution to the
much discussed question of the harm
fitness of alcohol is given by Prof. c. F.
Hodge, who describes, with illustrations.
certain Experiments on the Physiology
or Alcohol made under the Auspices of
the Committee of Fifty. In his Princi-
pies of Taxation series this month Hon.
David A. Wells gives six naxims which
should control the leyying OF taxes under
a free government and describes cases in
which decisions upholding the first two
of these msxims have been given. The
Confessions of Normal-Sohool Teacher,
by M, Ii. Leonard, is n breezy cumpari-
son of the training for teaching affOrde
by the college and by the normal school.
Surgeon General Sternherg writes on
The Malarial Parasite and other Patho-
genie Protozoa, giving an account of the
discovery of the nalarial haematoZoon
and the ground upon which it is accept
ed as the specific infectious agent in
malarial fevefs. The paper is illustrated.
Under the title The Stability of Truth.
Dir, David starr Jordan defends science
against recent attacks by Lord Salisbury,
Balfour. and Prof. Haeckel. Prof. ID.
W. Heiing, of New York University,
tells what progress has Teen made in A
Year or the x Rays, with skiegraphs and
figures Of apparatus.
The lead ing article in The National
Magazine for March is entitled In the
Florida Resort-Land, by Arthur W.
Iarbell. 1t is an interesting sketch CT
our greht winter resorts in the American
Riviera md of the round of pleasuresthat
the tourists enjoy in the Southland. The
second article il The Surviving Leaders
of the Confederacy, giving portraits and
sketches Of all those men now living,
who held prominent positions, govern
mental and military, during the late
war. A Marble City: or tie Tennessee
Centennial Exposition is still another ar
ticla cf intense southern interest, as it
forecasts, in a descriptive and illustrative
manner the great exhibition TO be- held