The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-13
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

In McClure's Magazine for Februery
Mr. Fl. j. W. Dam has a particularly in
terestiDg article on the Making Of the
Bible First it describes by what strange,
| and almost miraculous, means narratives
| of which the original records have utter
| Iy perished, survived in fair integrity
| through centuries of turmoil and confu-
sion: and next it describes the finely
wrought, typically modern. instrument
sslities and appliances by which those
narratives are today published to the
| world, in all its varied languages. by the
million copies, through the Oxford UNI
versity Press. An article OF the highest
value in the same number is Mr.. Hainl1n
Garland's account of Grant in the Next
oan War. 1t is original and important
both in its point of view and in It's ma
terial. The personal recollectiops OF Gen-
eral LoDpstreet and others who fough6
beside tirant through the war, and Two
unpublished letters written by Orfnt
himself from the field describing the
movements and operations OF the army,
combine with the rest of the paper to ex-
hiDit in their first exercise, these peculiar
qualities of faithfulness, GOODNESS, sagacl-
ty and modest hero1sm which later made
Grant the inevitable leader in the Civil
War. The paper is fully illustrated.
In the February Romance Clark Rus
sell writes a fish story; Anthony Hope
finishes his story of the venturesome
Duke; Hall Game continues his tale of
Morocco: and Grant Allen, I. zangwiil,
Gilbert Parker and the daughter of
Captain Marryatt have related each their
own romance from real life. Miss Brad
Il - q 9,,,ro hat
interest all young married women; Mrs.
Theodore Sutro has told CT an incident
in her own life; there is translation
from the French by M. De Linelle Coop
er, and the story of A n other Romantic
Frenchwoman, by the editor.
The February Arena contains articles
on The New Education, by Hon. W. T.
Fl arris, commissioner of education; Art
FOR Truths Sake in the Drama, by James
A. Herne; The Civic Church, by Paul
Tynes; Recompense Ia poem, by Charles
G. Miller; Our Arid Lands, by Judge J.
S. Emery; Emerson's Sphinx, by Charles
Malloy; The Telegraph Monopoly Part
XII, by Prof Frank Parsons; Giosue
Carducci, by Mary Stfton Pepper; Pneu-
matology. Science of Spirit, By Lucy S.
Crandall; The Problem of the Novel, by
Annie Nathan Meyer; Should Hawaii
be Annexed, by John r. Musick; viii
liam Morris, Sonnet. by Q. E. DIN;
The Effects of Nicotine by Prof, Jay
w. Seaver; The National Council Of
Women, by Mary Lowe Diokenson; A
Court of Medicine and Surgery. A Sym
postum, by Henry V. Marcy, D. ..
Hon. Elroy McAvery. LII. D., Edward
Nc Grout, Thaddeus b. Waterman.
Lardon Carter Gray. NJ. D., and Others;
by Genevieye Thorndike Clark; Book
Reviews.
The Century for February contains
three serials, viz: the conclusion of Mr..
Marion Crawford's novelette,, Rose OF
Yesterday; the fourth part of DR.. Weir
Mitchell's Hugh Wynne, and the contin
uation of Gen. Horace Porter's recollec-
lions of Grant in the field The short
stories are A Man and Some Others, u
Crane and Miss Selina's Settlement. a
story of New York society, by Mrs. Bur
ton Harrison. In addition to these there
is q touching narrative by w. j. Still
man of the life and death of two pet
squirrels. Mrs. Schuyler Van Renss
laer. VINO knows New York by heart,
contributes an illustrated paper on
Places ia New York, the topics of which
range from the slums to the opera. The
Battle of Copenhagen, by Capt A. Il.
Mahan is the third of this DISTINGUISHED
writer's studies of Nelson's victories.
Another illustrated article having curl
GUS interest is study of the Serbian
Swamp, Vendland, by Charles De Kay.
The paper is attraGtively illustrated by
Louis Loeb.
The February issue of st. Nicholas is
the Midwinter Holiday number. Frances
Courtenay Baylor, whose story, Juan
and Juapita, was one of st. Nicno-
lass pronounced successes, begins new
serial for girls, Miss Nina Barrow.
George Kennan in A Siberian Scare tells
one of his experiences in the wilds of
that country. That he was visited by
yeritable ghost the superstitious peasants
firmly believed, although Mr.. Kennan
penetrated to the bottom of the mystery.
Julia Taft BayHe furnishes paper about
Willie and Tad Lincoln, who were play
mates of her brother. She tells of their
pranks in the White House, and describes
what was probably the first and only
minstrel show given i'll that building.
The programme of tie entertainment,
rudely traced in Tad's you thful hand,
is reproduced. Mrs. Bayne also tells of
HMrs- Linooln's Zouaves." made up
ticle to this is . paper on The Birthplace
of President Lincoln, by George FL.
Yenowine.
By far the most complete account of
the many sided career and public services
of the late ten. Francis A. Walker that
has appeared anywhere since his sudd en-
death early in January, is published in
the February Review of Reviews. A
character sketch by Joseph J. Spencer
reviews General Walkers life as stu
dent, lawyer, soldier, adiutant general
on Hancock's staff, journalist, teacher,
government statistician, census commits
sioner, writer on economics, historian and
educational administrator. Prof Davis
H. Dewey treats in more detail of Gen.
eral Walkers services in the army, as
head of ths census bureau, as political
economist, and rs president Of the Mas
sachusstts Institute Of Technology. and
discusses particularly President Walkers
relations To the monetary questions of
the day. The articles are illustrated
with portraits of General Walker at diff
erent ages.
The complete novel in the February
issue of Lippincott's is Under the Pa