The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-02-15
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

England Magazine contains third and
final article on Negro Melodies, by vii.
liam h. Barton, ID. ID. The first, which
apparel in the December number, con-
tanned the older plantation songs; the
second, the songs which show the iniiu-
ence Of the war and of the new freedom
which 1t brought to the slave; and the
third concerns itself principally with the
newer songs which have grown up or been
modified Ivy new uses since eman cipation.
| The articles embody the words and music
of nearly seventy of the best of Theses
songs, most OF them till now unpublished
| Some of these newly published songs are
equal to the very best hitherto In print
and all are Of interest
The leading article In Appleton popu-
lar Science Monthly for February dis
cusses the very important question of
| Vegetation in Cities in Its relation to
heslthtuIness. DIR. Smith the author,
has been one of the leading physicians of
New York city for the past twenty five
years, and is hence well qualified to
speak authoritatively on the subject.
Mivart's Groundwork of Science, by w.
X. Brooks, of Johns Hopkins University,
calls attention to some of the
weak points In DR.. Miva. is
philosophy, and points out the evil
effects which su CHI attempts
at compromise always produce. Dir. G.
Il. White contributes an extremely i'm.
| ortant article on The Science of Obssrva-
ton. Mir. I. A. Jagsar. Jr., has an ar.
| ticle entitled Death Gulch. a Natural
Bear Trap, which describes curious and
| grewsome gorge in an out -of-the-way
corner of the Yellowstone National Park.
The Labor Problem in the Tropics, by
W. Alleyne Ireland gives the results of
u study of this question during resi-
dence of many years in tropical colonies.
The conclusion of the Law OF the Diffus.
| ion of lakes, in the late David A. Wells's
series on The Principles of taxation, is
as practical and immediately applicable
to our present problems of Taxation as
| has been all of the work of this eConu.
mist
The Midwinter Number of The Cen
| tury February is remarkable for the
variety and interest of its articles on other
than military subjects. yet ii finds room
| for no less important contribution 10
the history Of the late war than an ac-
count OF the part played by the army In
The Capture of Santiago de Cuba, the
historian being the commander of the
American forces. Maj-Gen. William X.
Shafter. The General writes with force
and spirit, and his article, without being
reply to the criticisms that have been
made on his conduct Of the campaign.
will nevertheless dispose OF many OF them
| and clear up cloud of misrepresentation
| The current instaiment of Lieut.. Hob
sons fully illusi rated s5ury describes WV
idly, but with becoming nodesty, the ex-
perienoss Of the writer and his men after
the sinking of the collier Merrimac. Civ.
ing interesting details hitherto unpuh
lished. Mr.. Walter Wellman, comma nd
or OF the Wellman Polar Expedition,
writing under date OF August 2, 1925.
from "the most northerly Inhabited houss
in the world" describes the experiences
OF his party thus far ION the Way to the
North Pole.
MoCIure's Magazine for February opens
with notable poem BY Rudyard Kipling,
in which the white Man" (unmistaka-
bly, the White Man Of the United States)
is urged to take up his buren, and go forth
and fulfill his divine office of master and
teacher to his new caught sullen peo
pies, half devil and half child" Follow
ing this is an interesting account, b.
franklin Matthews, of an actual descent
in the Holland diving torpedo boat, Illus
trated with drawings from life. Hamlin
Garland contributes "a delightful descrip.
tion of the daily life of the trail, drawn
from his own close acquaintance with 1t;
Captain Brady relates some more good
stories from his own experience as Il tele-
graph operator and train dispatcher; and
Stephen Crane depicts, in his own vivid
N nf
cry on the part of marines to whom it fell
at Guantanamo To signal from shore TO
the ships under full exposure to Spanish
sharp shooters.
The complete novel in the February
issue of Lippincott's is For the French
Lilies, by Isabel Nixon whieloy. The
action is chiefly in Italy in l5il-l2. and
in this remote period the author shows
herself at home. Warden Allan Curtis
tells The Tale of the Doubtful Grand
father, aud a most extraordinary tale 1t
is, such as surely was never told before.
In A Night in DEVILS Gully, Owen
Hall records an Australian experience Of
a kind now happily rare. Austin Bier
bower, In A Diplomatic Forecast predicts
that the leading and predominant powers
will soon be England, Russia. and the
United States, with Germany as bad
fourth-uuless she attacks and overcomes
Russia before the latter has carried out
her Asiatic plans
The February St. Nicholas transports
the youthful reader from the SHOWS of the
SO -called temperate zone to the heat and
bloom of the tropics. though the storm at
Apia, which Mr.. Lloyd Osbourne de,
scribes in the opening article, Amatua's
Sailor, hardly tsmpss one to exchange the