The Portland daily press., 1898-01-08
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Bookman for January has an in
teresting table of contents. There are
poems by Gelett Burgess, 1. Zangwill,
Henry Thurston Peck. Charles j Bayne
and Virginia Woodward Cloud There
is an interesting article on libraries and
librarians by Joseph Dana Natter, and
Chapters l. II. and II. of JohneSpendlu,
the tale of a poor gentleman and the little
wars of Lorn are given in this number.
The January number of the New Eng
land Magazine opens with an article on
The Old Middlcsex Canal, by Arthur L.
HOPKINS. It is altogether unique pic
ture of al earlier phase of transportation.
The life and achievements of Nathaniel
Greene. major general of the Continental
army, are veil set forth by Mary A.
Greene. one OF his descendants. who re-
counts many instances showing his patrlo3
tisln and valor. Portraits Of the Generalh
and views of places associated with his
name are shown. The city of Lawrence,
Massachusetts, is treated by Rev. George
H. Young, q prominent citizen of Law
renee. Mr. William l. Cole of the South
End House, Boston, whose article on the
Ghildren's Institutions of boston ap-
peared in the November number, now
writes OF the Penal Institutions OF Bos-
ton, giving % most interesting account
of the Houses Of Correction at Deer
Island and South Boston, his paper being
well illustrated. O5her intere !tlng artl-
cles are Dudley Leavitt's New Hampshire
Almanac, Two Years with Colored
Regiment, by Mrs. Frances Beecher,
Ideals of College Education by Prof. F.
Spencer Baldwin of Boston University,
The Aye OF Homespun. q secular sermon
delivered by Horace Bushnell IN 1881 and
a sketch entitled jordan Branch by
George +. Tufts.
The January number Of the American
Monthly Review of Reviews in its open
ing editorial department The Progress OF
the World gives Il clear and exhaustive
summary of political conditions in both
hemispheres at the threshold of 1898. The
elaborate article on The Future of Aus
tria- Hungary, by an Austrian is by all
odds the best account yet given in the
English language OF the warning forces
which threaten to undermine the dual
monarchy of central Europe; Mr.. Charles
A. Commits clean-cut analysis of the
present demands for currency reform in
the United States is something that no
practical man of affairs should fail to read.
Dr. W. H. Tolman's summing up of the
municipal progress OF New York City
under Mayor Strong is just what is need
ed at this time as an encouragement of
efforts for civic betterment everywhere;
Lord Brassey's remarkable paper on The
Position of the British Navy, with As
sistant Secretary Roosevelt's comments,
is full of food for thought when read in
connection with the compact digest of the
United States annual naval report which
follows, and the review of Captain
Mahan's new book.
The complete novel in January Lippin-
colt is John Olmstead's Nephew, by
Henry Willard Frence. The remaining
contents are, The Eastern Shore, by
Henry Willard French; A Detective Who
Detected, by Philip q. Hubert, Jr. Irri-
CATION from Under Ground, by John e.
Bennett sChristmass Gold, by Owen Hall
To-day in the Bible. by William Cecil
Elan; Druggists. Ancient and Modern,
by Oscar Herzberg; Christmas Eve at
BiIger's, by Frank H. Sweet; Wolf
Children, by George Archie Stockwell;
Some Botanic Gardens, by George Ethel
bert Walsh Canuck and Raoul, by Eliza-
beth Knowlton Carter; Froissart, by
Emily Stone Whiteley.