The Portland daily press., 1897-01-09

can republic. An eyewitness of the Au-
rust nlassacras describes The Slaughter
Of Armenians in Constnntinople
Harper's Magazine begins the year
with strong and attractive January
mum Der, varied in contents ana peauti-
fully illustrated. The opening paper is
the third In Poultney Bigelow's series,
The White Man in Africa. 1t is called
Portuguese Progress in South Africa,
and contains a strong indictment lor
off oial corruption and misgovernmen6 OF
the blacks. This paper is embellished
with illustrations drawn by II. Cation
Woodville, a striking picture OF war
dance of the Zulns standing as the IRON
tispiece to the number. George du
Maurier's The Marian increases in IN
tersst as the story progresses. In the
instalment printed in the January num-
ter. of Harper's Magazine the hero, Barty
Josselin, is exhibited as young man in
lazy pursuit of an art edu cation in Paris
and Antwerp. For some, at least, OF
the incidents in this instalment Mr.. Du
Maurier drew upon his own experience.
& The January Arena is the most inter-
esting number that he's appeared in
many months. IT is of special interest
to legislative bodies, physicians and law
yers on account of the article on A Court
of Medicine ana Surgery, written by A.
B. Choate, the prominent lawyer, gat the
request of leading physicians. Mr.
Choate intends to inaugurate move
ment which il is believed by some of the
ablest lawyers and physicians will be OF
as vital Importance to medicine and sur
gerry as well as to the public as was the
movement that resulted in the establish
ment of trial by jury to the public and
to the legal profession. This is the open
ing shot of 4 campaign that will be
waged from The Arenas pages by lead
ing physicians, surgeons, and jurists In
the near future, and that will be carried
before the legislature in Minnesota and
elsewhere this winter.
MoCiurc's Magazine begins in the
January mum Der a series of Life Portraits
of Great Americans with reproductions
of NIL the existing portraits of Benjamin
Franklin known to have been made from
life. There are fifteen such portraits,
and some of them have never been pub
lished. Mr.. Charles Henry Hart, proba-
bly, the highest authority on early Ameri-
can portraits. is collecting and editing
the material for the series, and will add
Introduction and notes giving the his
tory of the several portraits and whatever
Ia interestingly the circumstances OF
their production. There will also be an
article on Franklin by Professor Treat,
of the University Of the South.
The complete novel in the January is
sue of Lippincott's is Stockings Full OF
Money, by Mary Kyle Dallas. 1t is
tale of domestic relationships and affec-
lions, but turns Oh the mysterious disap-
paarance of two thousand dollars, and
the various suspicious as to the thief.
Henry Willard French, in A Christmas
Midnight in Mexico, narrates an adyen-
tuIe of the road which might have ended
disastrously. The other short stories are
An Anony nous Love-letter, by Virginia
Woodward Cloud, and Robert the Devil,
by Claude NJ. Girarandeau.
How Not to Better Social Conditions Is
the title of an article by Theodore Roose-
yelt in the January Review of Reviews.
MI. Roosevelt is permitted to publish a
letter addressed to him a few months
since by the Hon. Thomas Watson, then
the candidate for Vice President on the
Populist ticket with Mr.. Bryan. This
letter was accustomed by Mr.. koos eyell s
article in the Septem Der Review OF he
views dealing with the Vice Presidential
candidates. The letter is q mGst i'm
portant and Interesting contribution to
what may be termed the personal Htefa-
ture of the last campaign: it puts its
writer in q new light, and must lead to
a thorough revision of the opinions
about Tom Watson entertained so gener-
ally by his political opponents.