Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-08

14c cosmopolitan - certainly
taking very prominent position in the
world of current literature.
If the idea has anywhere taken root. be-
cause of the wonderful advance Of maya
zine journalism and the hot competition
between publishers, that the great pioneer
in illustrated magazine work has lost
ground, that idea should De abandoned
At no time in the history of its nearly
half q hundred numbers has "Harper's
Monthly Magazine" been better in every
department In the character of its papers,
the excellence of its illustrations, the in
tellectual capacity of its contributors or
the skill of editing il maintains its posi-
ton as foremost monthly, and one NOV
ing upon the most elevated plane of maya
zine journalism. The December, January
and February numbers are especially
choice, and if any criticism is TO be applied
adversely it is the narrowing of that IA
nous department of wit, The Editors
Drawer" But then in compensation We
have The Editors Study an intellectual
monthly revery Of charming type. In the
February number General Viseount Walse-
ley treats of the Standing Army of Great
Britain; Talks with Edison" are reported
by George Parsons Lathrop; James Hogg
tells of Days and Nights with De
Quincy" S. Il. NJ. Byers, former United
States Consul at Zurich, writes of the Lake
Dwellers; Brander Matthews and Hjalmar
Hjorth Boyesen contribute short stories;
the second part of Lafcadio Hearn's story
entitled "Youman appears; the second ar
ticle on Jamaica, New and Old, written
and illustrated by Howard Pyle; "A Ma
jestic Literary Fossil by Marx Twain;
"Benvenuto Cellini," by Mrs. E. w. Lsti-
mer, with the most complete illustrations
of his work ever published in g magazine;
and there is richly illustrated paper on
New York Banks" by Richard Wheatley.
The illustrations are very superior and ex-
ceedingly numerous.
Filled with good things for woman 70
benefit and pleasure, the February Ladies
Home Journal fulflls its reputation as a
thoroughly good magazine FOR the home.
There is practical ring in the pages that
inspires confidence. Nothing is printed
haphazard evidently, and the most insig-
nifcant atom of advice seems to have been
carefully weighed. 1t is this which makes
such q magazine so valuable to woman.
Her every want appears to De understood,
her every need filed. Among the writers
on the journal" are Mrs. A. D. T. Whit
ney, DR.. Talmage, Josiah Aliens Wife,
Kate Tannatt Woods, Maud Howe, Mary
J. Holmes, and more than score OF other
| leading names are in the February issue.
Illustrations are used that combine fine ar
tistic effects with interesting literature, and
making the magazine what is truthfully
claimed for it, an encyclopedia of woman S
knowledge. (433 and ass Arch street, Phil
adelphia.)
THE Arena" (Arena Publishing Com
| pany, Boston, for February is an illus
4 ! ~
| General Clinton B. Fisk and Helena
dramatic poem by Edgar Fawcett that is q
| glimpse of the year A. D. 10000. Dr.
Murray's "Maneloves' is concluded, one Of
the strongest, richest and most thrilling
prose poems it has ever been our good for
tune to read A notable paper is by Rich.
ard Hodgson on Physical Research" and
| is an Investigation into telepathy or the
power of mind to impress itself
upon others and of the immateria
| part 10 manifest itself to the sense of sight
and hearing. There are papers by 81. Fl.
| Gardener, T. B. Preston, D. Bixby and n,
T. Gilman. The Arena" has upquestion-
ably come to stay. 1t is perfectly free
lance, bold, fair, vigorous and edited with
marked ability.
"Cassell's Family Magazine" for Feb.
ruary is up to the standard of that journal
Kate Evre's serial, To be Given Up,
opens the number. 1.-The Mistress OF the
White House" is by an Anglo-Americsn
and is illustrated BY picture OF the White
House and portraits of Mrs. Harrison and
Mrs. Cleveland; the Family Doctor dis.
cusses MY Old Foe Again" bronchitis ;,
'After a Collision, is story by Arabells
N. Hopkinson; The Story of the Dwell.
ing House is by Edwin Goadby. Edward
| I. Stevenson. of The Independent, contrib,
utes 1.-THE Universal Advisory Committee
a Proposal "a Boating Song" is prettily
set to music. There is practical paper or
| "Gesso Work" an ancient art. There il
an interesting paper on Herr Joachim. ths
famous violinist; paper on the latest fash
ions, and full "Gatherer." Cassell Il Co..
New York and London.
The Atlantic Monthly" for February
! {Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston,, ha:
| these papers Between Two Worlds,
H. W. P. and L. D.; Sidney" Margare
Deland, (serial y AN Outline of the Jap
anese Constitution" K. Kaneko; Sap
pho Florence Earle Coates; The Be
gums Daughter Edwin Lassetter Bynner
! (seriaD "Taormina," G.. E. Woodbury.
1.-The Tragic Muse" Henry James, serial
"One of the Unreconstructed, John T
Morse, Jr.; lover the Teacups," Olive
wendell Holmes; AN American History
of the English Constitutions" MIR. Lowell
on Izaak Walton" THE Reconstruction O
Europe" and the usual departments. Els
peciaily of interest is The Behring Ses
| Question: as discussed by Charles B. Eli
oft; as also the article by General Franci!
Walker, on Mr.. Bellamy and the new
Nationalist Party"
The Catholic Quarterly Review" Hardy
| & Mahony, PHILADELPHIA for January pre-
sents these papers: True Reform in the
Teaching Of the Old Testament" by Rev
Anthony ]. Mas, s. J.; 1.-THE Tradition Of
the Gentiles," by N. NJ. Smell; Russian
Orthodoxy and Russian Sects," by "Zem'
liak"; "The Avesta and Its Discoverer," BY
A. Hilliard Attersge; THE New Crusade
of the Nineteenth Century" by R. H
Clarke, LID; THE First Period of Anti
| Irish British Diplomacy at Rome" by
| MGR. Bernard O'Reilly, D. D.; Magma
Charta as 1t Is" by D. A. O'Sullivan, Q. c.
The Higher and Lower Education of the
| American Priesthood by Rev. James r
| Loughlin, D. D.; Forty Years in the Amer
| lean Wilderness" by al. A. c.; "Our Re-
cent American Catholic Congress and Its
Significance by John A. Mooney.
"Harpers' Weekly" begins the year 1891
with its thirty fourth year Of existence. Itis
before us in covers and with supplements
very rich in illustration and choice in it;
literature. It is abreast with the great
events, discoveries, thoughts and political
ideas of the day, and is true to its articles
of faith years ago announced, the better,
| ment of the race, the publication of Amer
| lean politics. honesty and competency IN
Office, the cultivation of taste for clean
and helpful reading, and the presentation
| in artistic form of activity. current history
event discovery and research. lis edito-
rial tone is high, and the attractiveness el
| its pages is maintained without resort tc
sensational or demoralizing illustration
1t is q safe paper for the home ana perhsps
| than that.
1.-THE Ouiver'' for February is a very
good number. a many-sided religious mag
ez;ne in attractions. with the Grew 0j