The Portland daily press., 1897-09-10


streets OF a great city as clean and whole
some as a well-kept house. And SO far
reaching in its physical and moral effects
does he show the public cleanliness or
uncleanliness of a city to be, that 1t
should seem that the most immediate
means of making signal reduction of
misery and crime in any city is general
improvement in it's street cleaning. The
article is illustrated with special draw
ings showing the different operations in
improved street cleaning.
Theosophy published by the Theosophi-
cal Publishing Co.. at IA Madison Ave-
nue., New York, price, 20 cents} offers un-
usually varied reading in it's September
number. The Power of the Imagination,
by DR.. Archibald Keightley, the we'll
known scientist of Cambridge Univer-
sity, England, is profound and interest
ing study OF this extraordinary faculty,
and should prove particu larly valuable TO
the Mental Scientist as well as to the
neutrality-suspicious. The learned author
treats the subject from the standpoint OF
western psychology, but introduces some
novel considerations based upon his 1nves-
LEGATIONS of Theosophy and Occultlsm.
The beginning of the school year is
signalized by the appearance of Septem-
Der st. Nicholas. The frontispiece is
reproduction of the painting by Geoffroy,
A Village School in Brittany. Virginia
Cabell Gardner contributes story of Old
England, entitled A Girl of Winchester,
telling how little lass was chosen to re-
cite an epithalamium before Queen Mary,
on the occasion of the latter's marriage to
Philip Of Spain. Charles I. Hill, who
has written a number of papers on tho
New York Fire Department has another
one on Floating Fire Engines. Mr.. Hill
describes the powerful fire boats of New
York, which are equal in the amount Of
water they can throw, to twenty ordinary
fire engines. A Brave Little Coward, by
prairie fire. A Right Royal Robe, de-
scribed by Frederic A. Lucas. is one
made wholly of rare feathers, the work of
scores of years, belonging to the kings of
the Sandwich Islands. John A. Lindsey
tells of a most unusual experience in
mountain travelling in a paper called A
Wagon up Tree.
There is more than spice of adventure
about the September Century. What
Stopped the Ship, by II. Phelps Whit
marsh, is a story setting forth mid
ocean mystery. A tale of peril in Alaska,
called An Adventure with Dog and a
Glacier, is by John Muir, whose timely
pa per on The Alaska Trip, was printed
in the August Century. Prisoners of
State at Boro.. ..Boedor is an illustrated
article on the experiences of two ladies in
an out-of-the-way region in Java, by Miss
E. R. Sciddmore, author of Down to
Java, In the August number. There
is another instalment of the extravaganza
by Mrs. Marion Manville Pope, Up the
Matterhorn in Boat, with pictures sug-
ges'ing the daring adventures of her
aeronauts. A subject of current interest
is treated In a paper on Cruelty in the
Congo Free State, with striking photo
graphs and notes of travel, made by the
late e. ]. Glave, in whom there Is now
an additional interest connected with his
explorations in the Yukon region. Ad-
venturesome also are the other serials
Hugh Wynne, DR.. Weir Mitchell's S Ameri-
can novel, and The Days of Jeanne
d'Arc, Mrs. Catherwood's s study of the
maid of Orleans.
Old Dover, New Hampshire, is the old
est town in New Hampshire, settled in
1923. 1t had trying history in the In.
Ntdb pCA4O0 anu Cdlu0 ~ 1tS 2TOWUQ
through great tribulation. 1t played
good part in the time of the Revolution,
when Jeremy Belknap was the minister
of the old First Parish, and in the anti
slavery time, when 1t was the home of
John P. Hale, and today it is a bright
and busy manufacturing town. It's in
teresting story is told by Miss Caroline
Harwood Garland the librarian of its
public library, in the September number
OF the New England Magazine, and all
the lovers of the old town have reason to
be grateful to her, for their town has Ger
talnly never been SO well presented to
the general public. The artist has ad
m1rably supplemented Miss Garland g
pen, great mass of well chosen and we'll
executed pictures adding to the interest
of her pages.
The American Monthly Review of Re-
views for September has good deal to
say about the Andrews incident and
Brown University-not SO much, as the
editor remarks, on account of the per.
sonal interests involved In the case as
because Of the far reaching principles
affecting academic life and liberty which
have become matters at issue. A fair
minded and judicious estimate of Presi-
dent Andrews services to Brown is given
" q luz AAAAy SoAfcIsduu WlUn GQ0
facts, and the protest of the faculty is
printed in full. The editorial comments
on the awkwardness and needlessness of
the situation are piquant and to the
point.
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly
for September offers it's usual instructive
and. interesting variety of papers. The
leading article, Spanish Experiments in
Coinage, by Henry G. Lea, describes the
way in which Spain's stupid tampering
with her currency has brought about her
present bankrupt condition, and points
an obvious moral. The Hawks of New
England, by William E. Cram, is de-
1ightful little bit of na5ural history fresh
from the fields. In Oh apter x of Princi
pies of Taxation, David A. Wells discuss
es real and personal taxes, and gives some
curious incidents arising out of the efforts
of the law to make sharp dividing line
between the two classes. Prof. William
2. Ripley, in Chapter VIII of his Racial
Geography of Europe series, deals with
the Basques. These curious people derive
a romantic interest from the persistency
with which both in France and Suain