The record-union., 1891-03-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

before the March number was issued.
| The original plans for the conducting of
the magazine have been broadened, its
number of pages increased, and for once,
at least, q magazine has sprung into full
life in its infancy. The March number
contains twenty short stories, all of the
character that the Story Club was or
ganiZed to emphasize, namely. stories tull
of action-stories that really tell some
thlng-and not stories that are in any
way morbid or namby- -pamby. The
writers for the March number are Mau-
rice Thompson, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de
Maupassant Richard York, NJ. Betham
Edwards, Edith Sessions Tupper and
other writers of equal force and popu-
larity. The initial story III this number
| by the famous California story writer.
Mr.. w. G. Morrow, is one of the most
dramatic short stories that has appeared
IN popular literature since the days OF
Poe. The price of Romance" is only %
cents number. and specimen number
IS sent on application for 10 cents by the
New York Story Club, 80 L. Twenty
third street, New York.
The New England Magazine Boston)
for March is richly illustrated and has
these papers: Harvard College During
the War of the Rebellion,'7 Captain
Nathan Appleton; ''Some Recollections
OF Slavery, by a Former Stakeholder" NJ.
V. Moore; ''Ihe Early History of
Electricity in America George Herbert
Stockbridge; rachel Maloon," Marion
Douglas; Window Gardening" Mrs.
Henrietta l.. T. Wolcott: ''A Master From
the States,n Lewellyn Grosvenor Hum
phreys; The Indian Corn as Our Ma
tionaf Plant,' Sarah Freeman Clarke: -
Wayfaring Man." Edwin c. Martin;
Success" Katherine Lee Bates; Loves
Guerdon," Nellie Talbot kinkead; "a
Fair Exchange. L. Dorothy Prescott;
rH,Pt,hI,otographic Illustration of Poetry
William III. Downs; I'm an Old Attic"
John Stewart Barrows; Expression"
Marion p. Guild; 1.-The Problem OF the
Unemployed" William NJ. Salter: 1.-The
History of Historical Writing in
America. H." ]. f. jameson, PHI. d;
Etiquette and Precedent" Pamela Nc
Arthur Cole; "New England in New
York" !" Editors Table, "Omnibus."
The numbers of 1.-The Living Agev for
February 2Sth and March 7th contain
American Fiction" Edinburgh; Gas
pard de Coligny," Church Quarterly;
'Aristotle as Naturalist" Contempor-
airy; The Father of all the Goats,' and
"TheDecline ofIndian Taste, Nineteenth
Century; 'Noncontormists and Union
ISM" Fortnightly; Random Roaming"
and ''An Evening with Schliemann,"
Blackwood; Life and Labors of Schiie-
manu." National; The Education of
Genius English Illustrated; ''Voltaire
and his First Exile, Temple Bar; MAX
inns for Novel Writers,' Murray's; "a
Pompeii in Bohemia" Cornhilf: MY
Witches Caldron," Macmillan; ''Meis-
sonier," Saturday Review; Frozen to
Death" St. James Gazette; ''Royal Sur
Names" Speaker; Modern Fighting and
Firearms" Army and Navy Gazette;
with installments "Madeleine's Story"
The Shrouded Watcher" and poetry.
The 1ifty-two numbers of sixty-four large
pages each Tor more than $500 pages
a Year, given at subscription price so low
as IS q year. Little & Co., Boston, are the
publishers.
The March "Wide Awake bristIes
with good things, from Margaret Sidneys
inimitable Pepper Serial to Miss Pouls-
sons Scandinavian witch story; from
Hon. John d. Longs article on "Our
Government" with its page portrait of
Hamilton, to Mrs. William Claflin's let
ter on the behavior OF young people to
their elders and superiorS; from Oscar
Fay Adams illustrated visit to Winches-
| ter College to hear the boys sing the
! famous old commencement song, 'Dulce
! Domum,' to Mrs. Ormsbee's graphic ac-
count of "How Grandmother's Spoons
! Were Made;' from articles by the learned
! men of the Smithsonian Institution. to
the four sparkling pages of original anec-
dote known as the Men of Things"
! pages; these and many more stories,
| poems, pictures and articles give wide
range of first-class family reading. d.
Lothrop Company, publishers, Boston.
The March number of ''Outing'' CNew
York; contains charming pastoral ro-
nance entitled "Gert.' 1t is also full in
all its departments, and they are very
many and relate to all kinds of manly
sports, hunting, fishing, yachting, field
games, sports of the gymnasium, etc
! There are also articles on various parts of
the country as seen by the tourist sports
man and yachtman. Amateur photogra-
! ply, boxing, canoeing, yacht building,
cycling, army training, the kennel. cote.
and many other subjects are treated fully.
The Illustrations are very fine and nu-
merous.
Henry n. Copp, of Washington, D. c.,
has revised and reprinted his Settlers
Guide" the seventeenth edition. In
view OF the recent confusing legislation of
Congress. this book is q valuable assist
ant for all who are, or expect to be, inter
ested in public lands. A chapter, illus
trated with numerous cuts, shows how to
tell township, section and quarter-section
corners, and explains the system OF sur
veys. Itgives full information about the
homestead, pre-emption, timber culture
desert land and other laws! The price Of
the book is % cents.
The principal topics discussed in "Baby-
of Infants" Gllustrated) 1.-THE Ideal
Nursery )" Intestinal Worms''-a full
description of the symptoms which char
acterIZe their presence, and the treatment:
and Defects that can be Remedied or Pre-
vented" "Babyhood'' has now among
| its contributors many of the most emf
nent'physicians in the country, and is in
every sense the mothers helper-not a
Juvenile magazine, as many suppose
Published at Becbman street, New
| York
| The anniversary number of ''Figaro,"
Chicago quarto issued weekly, is at
hand. 1t is a journal of wit, gossip and
society news. Its editing is crisp, bold,
without abuse, and critical, without fault
| finding. The anniversary issue contains
fine full page supplement, presenting a
portrait of Mrs. Potter Palmer, President
Of the Board of Lady Managers of the
| Worlds Columbian Exposition. There
| is also fine title page portrait OF Mrs. H.
o. Stone. The number is a very hand
some one.
The Magazine of American History"
| for March airs. Martha J. Lamb, New
| York; is at hand. It's trontiSpiece is q
! fine process portrait of Cotton Mather. A
| leading paper is the life of General Fran
! els q. Spinner, fianancier, with choice il
lustrations of public buildings in Wash
! ington. A profoundly interesting paper
| treats OF the pennsylvania convention of
l7SS, and another is ''The Historians
First Book, J" by Herbert Howe Bancroft
Manual Training in the Public Schools
of Philadelphia by Superintendent
James MacAlister, is the title of an edu-
cational monograph published by the New
York College for the training of teach
ers and issued from No. g., University
| Place, New York. 1t is very interest
| ing and exhaustive pamphlet with tables
and illustrations.
Entertainment" the Council Bluffs