The Portland daily press., 1898-03-07
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LOT AaTCA ls as AollONS. SuIOiiAOAo anu
Comment, with portrait of W. B. Yeats,
Henry Cabot Lodge, Lewis Carroll,
Stephen Phillips and Christiana Rosetti
and her mother, Mrs. Dunlop at the age
of II, Henry Drummond, J. III. Stoddart,
Maude Adams; Poetry by Myrtle Reed,
Harry Tburston Peck, William W. Camp
bell, Thomas Walsh, W. H. Kohl; The
Reader, articles by Edward Morton,
Stephen Crane, Frederic Taber Cooper,
M. II. DeWolfe Horne, L. G. Marquis;
The Bookman's Letter Box, London let
ter by W. Robertson Nicoll, Paris letter
by Alfred Mauiere; John Splendid, tale
OF Lorn, Chaps VII, VIII and TX, by
Neil Munro; Reviews Of New Books !;
Among the Libraries by Geo. A. Baker;
The Book Mark.
Municipal Art in Italy Is the subject of
one of the most important articles in the
March New England Magazine. The au-
thor, Mr.. Allen French, shows how the
influence of art has been enlisted in the
cause of good government and public
spirit in many of the historic Italian
cities, his paper dealing chiefly with the
Renaissance period. Wheaton Seminary
in the town of Norton, Mass, is treated
by Rev. George II. Hubbard. This now
famous institution was founded by Judge
Wheaton in 1885, and Mary Lyon, busy
as she then was planning and working
forsMt. Holyoke, yet found time to advise
and assist in setting Wheaton fairly on
it's feet. DIR. Henry Boynton's excellent
;<,1o dcto will no annTlCiatl0
by all lovers of that beautiful old Yer
mont town. Rev. Francis e. Clark S
paper on New England in India tells OF
the noble work accomplished by many
New England men and women IN the
mission fields of India. Another article
showing how far-reaching New England
missionary influences are is thatl upon
The American College for Girls at Con-
stantinople, by Emma Paddock Telford.
This college was Incorporated by the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in 1890,
and New England women are members OF
it's board of trustees, while it's professors
are all American women, graduates or
Mt. Holyole or other Eastern colleges.
These articles ara admirably illus
trated and give us Information which we
need and which may well stir our pride.
Mr.. Richard Webb of Portland contri butes
an able article on William Pitt Fessen
denis pubic career, and portrait OF
Fessenden forms the frontispiece OF the
number.
The opening article in Appleton's Popu
lar Science Monthly for March describes
A Summer Journey to the Sahara Desert;
it is by Prof Angelo Heilprin, of the
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. and Is
copiously illustrated. Franklin Smith,
under the title An Apostate Democracy,
sharply criticises the degeneration OF
American political ideals and States
manship. DR.. Fred e. Leonard dis
ousses the important question OF physical
Training in the Colleges. The pioneer
scientific society of the West, The Acad-
emy of Natural Science at ST. Louis, Is
described by Prof. Frederick Starr, OF
the University of Chicago. In a World
Half as Large is the title of an article by
M. j. Delboeuf, discussing some OF
the inconsistencies of Laplace's Exposi-
ton du Systeme du Monde. The con-
Guiding chapter in Prof. William 2 Rip
ley's series or The Racial Geography of
Europe takes up the problems OF city
populations. An interesting archaeologi-
cal paper, by +. S. Dellebauch, is en-
tion of Chooses in Action is the title of
David A. Wells's sixteenth chapter.
Harold W. Fairbanks describes the curl
ous geologic structure of The Great Sierra
Nevada Fault Scarp; the text is accom-
panied by instructive illustrations. The
First Thermometers. by M. P. Duhem,
giyes a history of this now universally
used instrument, and describes some
of the curious forms in which it's principle
was first applied to ascertaining tempera-
ture. The Sketch is of Sir Joseph Lister,
the author of antiseptic surgery.
The Arena for March Is rich in contri-
buttons. The first article entitled Trusts
Their Causes and the Remedy, by Senator
Marion Butler is a powerful exposition
Of the great theme now occupying the at
tention of the public. In the article The
Victory Of the Vanquished. Hon. Charles
A. Towne reviews in q trenchant manner
the results of the Presidential election of
| 1896, contenoing that the victorious party
was in reality vanquished, and that the
defeated party was in reality triumphant.
Under the caption of Studies on the
Money Question Anthony W. Dimook, OF
Wall Street, denies his views of the best
methods by which currency reform can
be effected, and to this the editor replies
| in controversial article against the gold
standard and the propositions OF the
Monetary Commission. Francis II. Wood
ruff contributes an interesting paper on
Single Standard for the World, advo-
eating the restoration of silver by the con
current action OF the nations. Commls-
sioper Harris's Statistics and Socialism
is ably reviewed by George Wilson, who
dissents from the conclusions arrived al
in the Commissioner publication. A
stirring article is entitled The Epic Oppor-
tunity by DR. William Bayard Hale, who
shows that America has in the swift
march of events come to theIthreshcld Of
O. great transformation.
The March number of The Century
opens with a paper on The Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky, written by John r.
Proctor, formerly State Geologist of Ken
lucky, and accompanied by many strik
ing illustrations by Castaigne. Johr
Sidney Webb describes The River TriI
to the Klondike, with pictures redrawr
from photographs. Last summer Mr.
Webb made tour of investigation along
the entire coast of Alaska, and up the
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