The Portland daily press., 1897-07-12
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The July number of Appletons' Popu-
lar Science Monthly is, as usual, full of
interesting and instructive articles. In
the series on The Racial Geography of
Europe, Prof. Ripley, in No. VI. deals
with France-of special interest because
it comprises all three of the great ethnic
types, and presents an unusual diversity
of climate, soil and fertility. William
Baxter, Jr., in an article entitled Fore
casting the Progress of Invention, shows
that we are too sanguine in predicting
great revolutionary changes from the per-
lection of aerial navigation, electricity
direct from coal, and the utilization of
solar energy, tides, etc., that we expect
more from them than they can by any
possibility give. Dr. r. W. Shufelot de-
scribeS some curious features of the Hy
menoptera under the title Some Facts
About Wasps and Bees. Attention is
called to The Principle of Economy in
Evolution. by Edmund Noble, who shows
that evolution, viewed apart from its sec
| ondary processes, may be summed up in
the simple formula, movement in the di-
rection of least resistance.
A beautiful view of the college yard at
Harvard, which forms the frontispiece of
lDS July I'll JIG NcW hIlSletuu
Magazine is an introduction to a most in
teresting and valuable article ON The De-
velopment of College Architecture in
America, by Mr.. Ashton R. Willard.
The writer goes back to the beginnings,
telling us of the early buildings at Har-
ward, Yale, Columbia and elsewhere, and
traces the course of our college history,
which the successive periods have shown
up. The next illustrated article in this
number is upon Martha's Vineyard.
This historic island, which has now be-
come SO popular a summer resort, has
never been presented to the public SO at
tractively in the magazines. The article
is by William A. Mowry, who is SO well
known in educational circles and is the
president of the Martha's Vineyard Sum-
mer Institute.
The leading article in the July Har-
per's is Sheridan's Ride, by General
George A. Forsyth, q. S. A., illustrated
by r. F. Zogbaum. Two other articles
appropriate to the month of July are The
Military Academy as an Element in the
System of National Defence, by Capital n
James Parer, U. S. A., and The Modern
American Mood, by W. d. Howells. The
Marian, by George du Maurier, reaches
its tenth and last installment; and in its
stead appears the first part of The Ken
tuckians, a novel by John Fox, Jr., il
Illustrated by W. L. Smedley.
The July number of ST. Nicholas has
number of patriotic articles, as BELTS
the season. The opening sketch is by
Ella Sherman Partridge, and it tells How
Grandmother Met the Marquis de Lafay-
ette Lieutenant Con Marrast Perkins,
of the United States Marine Corps, writes
regretfully Of The Last of the Drums, de-
scribing the gradual passing of this in
strument from use in the army and
navy. Aunt Portia and the Boys is a bit
of verse by Mary A. Gillette, proving the
impossibility OF properly celebrating In
dependence Day without plenty of noise
The beginning Of new volume of the
Review of Reviews is signalized by an ex
pansion of the name of that very success
full and widely-read periodical 1t has
now become the American Monthly Re-
view of Reviews, with particular empha-
sis on the first two words. 1t seems like
ly enough that the public will speedily
fall into the way of calling this magazine