The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-06
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For the story of the siege of Santiago de
Cuba, as it affected the people directly
| involved, on either side, in their personal
safety and comfort and their daily lives.
there is no document yet published equal
| to the October number of McClure's Mag
azine. Mr.. Stephen Bonsnl, in an article
entitled The Fight for Santiago. de.
scribes the campaign as IL affected the
msrican soldier. writing from his own
observation and experience; while for the
experiences of the pan c-strioken and
half-starying people shut up in the city
of Santiago we have very remarkable
diary kept by the British Consul at San
| tiago, who was all the time in the closest
relations with tie Spanish authorities.
| and was expending-as it later proved
| his very life in relieving the general
suffering. Mr., Bonsaps article is very
fully illustrated-partlyf from photographs
taken in the field by himself. and partly
from drawings by W. j. Glacekens, the
| special artist for McClure's with the
army of INVASION.
| The leading features of the October
Harper are The Santiago Campaign, by
Caspar Whitney, illustrated from photo
| graphs by the author, James Burton,
William Dinwiddie, and others; On the
| Roof of the World, by Sven Hedin, illus
| by the author; Social Life in the British
Army, Second Paper, by A British OFF,
Ger, illustrated by X. Cation Woodville;
| Our B uture Policy, by the Hon. j. G..
| Carliele; Our Navy in Asiatio Waters by
William Elliot Griffis, illustrated by G.
| d. Weldon, Guy Rose, Harry Fem, T..
K. Hanna, Jr., William Thorne, Henry
photographs and prints; Mr. Gladstone.
"reminiscences, Anecdotes and an Esti-
| mate, Third Paper, by George W. Small
ley.
AS the opening article in Appleton S
Popular Science Monthly for October.
Prof. W. 2. Ripley contributes supple
mentary paper to his series on The Ra-
cial Geography of Europe. relating to
Russia and the Slavs, and showing who
| the result of contact and conflict Of the
Russians and the Asiatics has been to
generate a type fitted to protect the
| races of Europe against barbarian OF
Asia. Under the heading Evolution OF
High Wages from Low Cost of Labor, Ed.
ward Atkinson, reviewing the effect OF
improvements In the methods OF produc
ton in raising wages. predicts the ulti-
mate suppression of war by the evolution
of the forces of commerce. Plant Life IN
the Canary Islands is picturesquely de-
scribed by Alice Carter Cook. Prof. G.
HanfOrd henderson considers Inc Race
of Manual Training in Rational Edu-
cational System. He would make it an
integral part of education, in the shape
of ''self directed work SO arranged as to
develop the whole organism, and bring
out the moral and aesthtic and emotional
and bodily sides OF life quite as thor
oughly as the intellectual Some
Weather Freaks of the West Indies are
told of by DIR. Felix L. Oswald.
The complete novel in the October
issue of Lippincott's is Confessions of an
Aide de-Camp, by Captain F. A. Mitchell.
1t is rafting tale of the Civil War. and
the heroine and hero Especially the
heroine) pass through some surprising
adventures. Other stories are Tish's Tri-
umph. and Grandina's Diamonds, The
latter is by r. L. Olbar.
The article in the October Scribner' Is
on the Battle of San Juan, by Richard
Harding Davis. is not only vivid des-
cription of that famous victory. but a
complete and careful analysis of the con-
duct of the whole Santiago campaign.
Captain Arthur Fl. Lee, of the Royal
Artillery, the British Military Attaohe,
who accompanied our troops to Cuba,
writes Of The Regulars at I'll Caney.
This article, coming from the representa-