The Portland daily press., 1900-08-04

in the art of story telling, produces at
once a pleasing impression. 10 this
number Frank II. Spearman contributes
the first of a new series of railway stories,
telling of the exciting race of a train of
Yellowstone Park excursio nists with a
runaway freight Jack London. the
young Californian, has in this issue tale
of the perilOus journey of a KIOndike
miner and his Indian wife to obtain relief
for starving camp; this story is imagi-
native In the highest degree, and posses
SeS striking local color and extraordinary
pathetic force. Another strong story is
-" A Bill from Tiffany s. by Josiah Flynt,
the Well-knOWn explorer Of tramp and
criminal life, and Francis Walton. Lieu
tenant Commander Gilmore S account
begins in this number, of the extraordin-
airy hardShipS of his party in the Wilds of
Luzon, where a brutal death more than
once seemed imminent. The illustrations
to this article are by W. r. Leigh, and
are marvellously realistic.
Among the articles in The BOokman
for August are Men and Women, a poem
by Martha Gilbert Dickinson; The Mod
ern School of Canadian Writers, by Wini-
fred Lee Wendell; A Study of Chopin, by
Lewis M. Isaacs; An American Publish
or a Hundred Years Ago, by Luther S.
Livingston; a Famous Paris BOOkblnder,
by Marie l.. Van Worst; The Spirit of
War, by Thomas Bicker; The Foreign
Stage in New York, by Hutchins Happ-
good; Women of Fiction, by Ella Stryker
Mapes; Contemporary German Litera-
ture by j. +. Coan.
Many natives of Maine have won dis.
tinction in the field of literature, and this
State has been the home of many promi-
nent prose writers and poets In view of
the coming celebration there of Old Home
Week, an article on Maine in Literature
finds appropriate place in the New Eng
land Magazine for August. The author
of this interesting and valuable article,
Mr.. William I. Cole, in his careful study
has found it difficult to oontne the re-
suits of his research in the limits of his
present paper,-since a book which has
been published upon the subject, made
up OF specimen poems of the State, with
brief biographical sketches, is a bulky
volume of eight hundred and fifty pages,
and contains a list of more than four
hundred Names" He treats of many of
Names more notable writers, and thu
Illustrations OF his article include pOr-
traits of LOngfellow, N. p. Willis, John
S. q AbbOtt, Newman Smyth, MinOt J
Savage, Elijah Kellogg, Sarah Orne
JeWett, Kate Douglass Wiggin, and many
other well known authors whom Maine
claims by birth or adoption.
The contents of Harper's Magazine for
August is as follows: Then They Went
Seward, colored frontispiece illustration
for The Punishment of the Stingy, by E.
W. Deming; The Punishment of the
Stingy, George Bird Grinnen; English
and American Elections, Sydney Brooks;
Eleanor, novel, part VIII, Mrs.
Humphrey Ward; In a Hanson, a story,
Brander Matthew's; A Journey to the
Abyssinian Capital, part-III. Among
Central African Savages, Captain M. S.
Wellby; Song, poem, Robert / oveman
The Mantle of Elijah, novel, Part ",
Israel ZangWiu; WhilomyiIle Stories,
XIII.-A Little Pilgrim, Stephen Crane
A Message, a poem, Marguerite Mering-
ton; HIS Old Love, a story, Virginia
Frazer Boyle; The 10y Commandments,
a poem, Eleanor HaIlOWell Abbott; The
Lady Of the Barge, a story, W. w. Jacobs;
Evidence of Life after Death, Thomson
Jay Hudson, LII. D.; Farewell, RemOrse,
poem, Edith j. Hubert; A Century OF
Church Methods, j. H. EcOb; The Faith
Of the Trees, poem, Charles II. Gran
call; The Doctor Horse, a story, Mary
E. Wilkins; Richard Foster, a story.
Seumas Mac Manus; DrOuth, a poem,
Madison Cawein; A Bicycle of Cathay, a
novel, part III, Frank r. Stockton; AT
MOntmajOur, a poem, William McLennan
The Drawer, Introductory story by Hay
den Carruth.
The contents of Scribner's Magazine
for August are as follows: Frontispiece,
drawing to accompany The Green Pigs,
A. B. Frost; Tito, the Story of the
Coyote That Learned How, Ernest Seton
Thompson; Gossip, Oliver Herford; Old
Carnations, Albert Bigelow Paine; The
Duchess at Prayer, Edith Wharton; The
Green Dancers, Bliss Carman; Mi dsun-
mer, eight Illustrations in color, drawn
by Henry McCarter; Pretoria in War
Time, Richard Harding Davis; How
Granny Reads Her Omar, Mary Youngs;
Iobin's Monument, Arthur Cotton; Play
Up Piper, Josephine Preston Peabody
The Green Pigs, Sydney Herman Pres
ton; My Love story, James Raymond
Perry; Tommy and Grizel, CHAPTERS
AAV-XXVI, j. M. Barrie Ito be con-
tlnued); Whom the Gods Love, Julia O.
Dorr; A Matter Of Opinion, George
Hubbard; Loches, Ernest @. Peixoto, with
the authors drawings; The Point of
NI3W-ConversatiOn and SpeciaIism, The
Teaching of Music in the Schools, The
Real Work of Art; The Field of Art-The
american Academy at Rome, (John La
Farge.).