The Portland daily press., 1899-08-11
THE MAGAZINES.

New ENGLAND blossom with the sweet
flowers of romance az richly as any
meadows Of Old World fame" says
Samuel A. Eliot, In ths New England
Magazine for August, IN the introd uctory
lines of his interesting paper on The
Romance Ct Mt. Desert. his article
dwells particularly ON the period of
Champlain's 3 explorat ions and tie settle
ments CT the Jesuits ON Mt. Desert, and
summer visitors TO the island win be glad
that it's history is here 50 attractiy ely set
forth and 30 beautifully illustrated.
The famous lighthouse ON Minot's
Ledge, on Cohasset, Mass Is the subject
of the frontispieoe of the August St
Nicholas. and Of brief description and
historical sketch by 6ustase Kobhe. In
Colored Sunf, Dorothy Leonard tells
CT other suns than ours-blue SIZES, and
red ones and green ones. that bathe the
planets In lighrs that would make a visit
| ing stranger from this world feel very
atrange indeed. Phii's Second Bubble
Show, by Meredith Nugent, gives the
reader new conception OF the possibilf-
ties Of aoapy water and a clay pipe; for
it tells OF q bubble poissd on spinning
top. bubbles cut In two, or run together,
and OF bubble that lived happily for
fifteen minEtes In hath Of steam. La
| crosse Is described by an srdent admirer
Of this Ire American game; and The
Dczsn from Lekarrim continue their
deeds of derrfng-ao.
The Century for August is midsum-
mer and travel number. The Present
Situation in Cuba Is graphically stated
In brief article by Nsjor-Gen Leonard
Wood. Jacob Rsis writes of Feast Days
In Little Italy Ths first fast described
Is in homer Of some italian village saint
just-a-lik'-a your st. PatrloA here " as
dent Roosevelt of the Police Board, who
accompanied Mr.. Riis to Elizabeth Street,
and took i've chances in a ratfls for a
sheep. John Burroughs gives fasci-
mating glimpse of the wild life about his
slab. sided cabin near the Hudson River
at West Park. In The River OF Tea, Miss
E. X. Scidmoye writes If the Yaugtsze-
kiang, and especially Of the city CT
Hankow, where Russian and Siberian
merchants have supplanted the English.
though the tea-tasters, for reasons not
nattering TO Russian character, continue
to ke English only. In learned paper
on The Churches of Auyerfre', Mrs
van Rensselaer, Introduces effectively,
the picturesque episode CT Peter the
Hermit's preaching sf the first crusade; !;
and the story of the sfcnna statnres
Via Crucia
The leading article in AppIttons, Popu-
lar Science Monthly for August Is a reply
to Comptroller Coier by franklin II.
Giddings. Professor or Sociology In Col
umhia University. While Professor GID.
dings agrees with the comptroller in his
| main contention that it is economically
wrong for private organizations to uss
the taxpayers money without any public
accounting, he believes that there are
a number of considerations which par
TALLY Justify this arrangement. and per-
baps make 1t the hest one possible under
present conditions. Appleton Morgan Is
the author Of an article discussing Recent
Legislation Against the Drink Evil His
statistics seem to show that legislative
| attempts TO diminish liquor drinking
almost uniformly have the reverse effect.
| The Teachers School of Science, which
was founded some years ago in Boston
/ by few puhlic-spiritsd scientists, Ia de-
| scribed with number OF its organizers
| and officers In an interesting article BY
Frances XirngieheI.
| Fortunes vassals, by Sarah Barnwell
Elliott. the complets novel In LiLpin-
colts New Magazine for August, Is un-
doubtedly the strongest novel TO date from
| pen Wulcu HAS hIreauy pfOuuceu lne
Durket Spsrris and An Incident and
Other Happening. In conception 10 Is
original, and In execution Ii is romantic
and realistic. The life is that OF o.day
In small American town anywhere you
please. The controlling motives are the
oid-yet ever new--onss Of our common
nature.
In the American Monthly Review OF
Reviews for August the editor comments
on educational conditions In the South.
with reference 10 the future Of both the
whits and coiored races In the same
magazine Is the address delivered at the
Capon Springs, Va, conference In June
by DIR. j. Ia M. Curry, one OF the fore
most educational leaders of the South and
an active executive officer or. the Peabody
and Slater funds. In The Progress of
the World. the editorial department. of
the Review Of Reviews for August, the
questions connected with the Manila
censorship and Secretary Alger's resigna-
tion are discussed. and also the differences
between Secretary Gags and this Civil
| Service Reform League. There Is also
some comment on thu Buffalo conference
of political and social reformera