The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

was in England or Spain or on the Hud-
son. In the August number of the New
England Magazine Mr.. Richard Burton
has an article upon 1rving's services to
American history, in which these SER
vices are more approximately presented
than they have been by any previous wri-
ter. The article is an adniring one at
the same time that it is critical, showing
with fine insight the real character of Irv-
lng's work. The article Is admirably IL
Illustrated and will be widely read, for the
interest in Irving is always warm.
| The features Of the midsummer Har-
per's are The Inauguration, companion
article to The Coronation, by Richard
Harding Davis, illustrated by G. D. Glib
son and 7. de Thulstrup; The Hungari.
an Millennium, by F. Hopkinson Smith,
| illustrated by the author; White Mans
| Africa, Part x, British and Boer Gov
eminent, by Poultney Bigelow, illustra-
ted by r. Cation Woodville; The Cen
| tury's Progress in Physics, Part H., the
Ether and Ponderable Matter, by Henry
| Smith Williams, NJ. D.. and A State in
Arms Against Caterpillar, by Fletcher
| Osgood, illustrated by Edwin B. Child,
and from photographs.
Prof. W. z. Ripley has the lead in the
Popular Science Monthly for August
with his study of the race types of France
in his Racial Geography of Europe series.
The important question of the moral
and legal accountability of inebriates and
the value of their testimony is raised by
DR.. T. d. Crothers as one of the New
Questions in Medical Jurisprudence. The
ninth article of the Hon. David A. Wells,
on The Principles of Taxation, relates to
the definition of a direct tax and the ma
ture of the income tax. An interesting
application of one of the more recent dis
coveries in physiology is touched by DR..
| Pearce Bailey in The Thyroid Gland in
myxoedema, cretinism, goiter and back
ward development is deduction of rea-
son1Dg rather than a result of experiment.
| The Despotism of Democracy is a forcible
pregnant review, by Franklin Smith, of
certain tendencies which are showing
| themselves among us, and are threaten
| ing the destruction of individuality and
personal independence.
| There is wide variety in the contents of
the August number of St. Nicholas
Charles Thaxter Hill, the artist who has
written a number of articles about the
New York fire department. for this maya
zine, contribu ties sketch Of Peter Spots
Fireman. Peter is a dog belonging to
one of the engine companies in New
York, and he is as enthusiastic fire
man" as any one in the department.. A..
| Hyatt Verrill tells of Some Common Bees
and How They Live. Among the inge.
NOUS insect homes that the writer de-
scribes are those made by the carpenter
bee and the leafcutting- bee. Mr.. Verrill
also tells of the bee that makes himself
an unlimited guest in the home of the
bumblebee. A paper by Gustav Kobbe
is On the Grand Banks and Elsewhere.
Mr.. Kobbe writes of the hardy Nova
Scotian and Yankee fishermen and of
| their methods of catching cod and hall
| but.
The Midsummer Holiday (August)
Century is ga travel number" and it
opens with panorama of the Hudson
River from the Bartholdi Statue to AL
bany, presented in series of large illus
trations by Andre Castaigne, accompany
ing paper on The Lordly Hudson, by
Clarence Cook. Other illustrated travel
articles include A Journey in Thessaly,
by Prof. Thomas Dwight Goodell Of Yale,
setting forth in a picturesque way the
scene of the recent fighting between Turk
and Greek, and particularly the wonder
full monasteries of Thessaly; The Alaska
Trip, by John Muir, an account of the
wonders which one may expect to see in
the thirteen days trip from Tacoma
Down to Java, by Eliza Ruhamah Scid
more, author of Jinrikisha Days, setting
forth the authors typical experiences in
this fresh field; two articles on Norway
by Horace E. Scudder and the late HAL
mar Hjorth Boyesen, dealing with land
which is more and more coming into the
range of the tourist; On Margate' S
Sands, a second paper, written and illus
trated by the Pencils, in the group on
London at Play, and dealing with one of
the most popular English watering
places.
Intelligence for August is an especially
attractive number of this popular maya
zine. Among number of very interest
ing articles is one on Richard Wagner.
his early history, family relationships,
musical education, growth and develop :
ment, by Prof. Albert Ross Parsons,
which every lover of music and musical
lore should read. 1t is entitled A Nine
tenth Century Musical Mystic-The Sc
cret of Wagner's Genius.