The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-05-06
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of interest.
The May number of ST. Nicholas opens
with an article by Tudor jerks on Three
Boys in Armor, describing the famous
portraits of Don Carlos BalthazaT, Prince
William of Orange, and Charles L.,
painted by Velasquez and Van Dyck.
Fine productions of the pictures are
given. An article illustrated by NINE.
Ronner and others, describes Pussinella,
cat that was born in palace. Robert
Wilson Fem, in The Jaguar and the
Caymans, tells Of the clever trick py
means of which one of these fierce South
American cats succeeded in crossing
river infested with alligators Mrs. he
becca Harding Davis tells of the expert
enoe Of a wide-awaks American boy In
Old Florence, incidentally relating some
of tbs curious pagan and medieval Gus
toms that still survive in that quaint
City. A second and concluding paper,
on The Little Japanese at Home. is con-
trlbuted by Ida Tigner Hodnett. In this
article Miss Hodnett describes girl life and
school life in the Sunrise Kingdom. The
serial features still continue in interest.
Enoch Crosby, who rendered Washing
ton valuable service as spy in Westohes-
ter County, New York, during the
Revolution, was the original of Harvey
Birch in Cooper's novel, The Spy. and
many Of the incidents related by Cooper
were real adventures in the exciting life
which Crosby lived while serving his
country SO faithfully. Under the title of
The Spy of the Neutral Ground, Mr..
Harry Miller has contributed to the May
number of the New England Magazine
a most interesting account of Crosby's
experiences and his many narrow escapes
from death while disguised as tory. All
ested in following the true story of his
counterpart. The illustrations ars chiefly
from photographs made especially for us
with this article. and show places in and
around Crosby's old home in Carmel, N.
T., while portrait of the patriot himself
is given.
The May number of The Century ap
pears in special cover, printed in gold
and cclors, after 3 design by Feruald
Lungren. repre- senting the great mesa of
Katzimo. This is apropos of an article in
the number by E. W. Hodge. of the
chronological Bureau, describing his re-
cent Ascent Of the Enchanted Mesa. H.
e. Krehbil, the musical critic, writes of
The Beethoven Museum at Bonn, and
there are pioturs by Louis Loeb. Prof.
Louis Boutan, of the Sorbonne, gives an
account of his successful experiments in
Submarine Photography, and there are
reproductions of several photographs
taken under the sea at various depths,
including one made by artificial light. A
timely suggestion is that this sort of
photography may become useful in ex-
amining sunken vessels. A characteristic
sketch by Thomas Bailey Aldrich is His
Grace the Duke. Oscar Chrisman con-
tributes an article on q novel subject,
The Secret Language of Childhood. with
whimsical examples. Lieut.. General
Joseph Wheeler, G. S. A, tells of An
Effort to Rescue Jefferson Davis A SUBJ
ject that is engaging the attention of law
makers in almost every state is treated by
Franklin B. Loke in Railway Crossings
in Europe and America, with pictures BY
Potthast, Fraser, Pape and others.
1.-The unique position which France holds
in relation to The Question of Wheat is
pointed out by Worthington G. Ford,
chief Of the Bureau of Statistics at Wash
ington, in his second article which heads
the table Of contents in Appleton's Popu-
lar Science Monthly for May. The West