The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-02-07
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A portrait OF George Z. WOODBURY.,
whose Essays in Letters and Life,n
North Shore Watch and Other Poems,"
Life of Poe" in the American Men of
Letters Series, etc., have made him one
OF the more prominent of the younger
literary men of Boston, is the leading at
traction of the February number of the
BOOK Buyer" and sympathetic. ap-
preciative and scholarly sketch of Mr..
Woodberry's literary career, with an ac-
curate and suggestive pen-portrait of his
personality, by Lindsay Swift. of the
Boston Public Library, will prove eX-
tremely interesting to all of the admirers
OF this authors books. The portrait, by
the way, is the first one of Mr.. Wood
berry that has ever been published.
Arlo Bates sent budget of entertaining
gossip from Boston, and j. Ashby-Sterry
has fresh, breezy London letter in this
number, which also contains the usual
quantity of notes about authors and
books, illustrations and readings from
the latest publications, reviews of the
newest books and the department of
questions and answers, edited by Rossi-
ter johnson. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New
York, publishers.
The February Home Maker Home-
Maker Company, n. W, is the finest
number that has appeared to date. Its
half-tone illustrations of typical homes of
America are art works Of superior
order, and SO, too, the articles in the
magazine are up to high standard.
Jenny june proves to be an editor of ex-
ceiling good taste, and is doing work
upon the magazine that all journalists
will recognize as of a desirable or
"China Painting" and "The Modern
Drama are especially interesting. cash
IONS" the domestic Club,'' the ''Shop-
per-" the Book Reviews etc., with TIE
poems, stories and sketches, complete a
number that is full of strength and
beauty.
The primary Sunday-school articles in
THE kindergarten (Chicago) are prov
ing invaluable helps to teachers of infant
classes in the Sunday-school. We learn
from the columns of this magazine, that
each lesson is an outgrowth of the per-
sonal experience with the writer's class
OF sixty little ones, which is having I'M
precedented success. Parents, we are
told, are becoming so greatly interested
that many of them visit the class every
Sunday morning and ask Miss BRYAN
show it is that she makes them so useful:
they are anxious to work at something
every moment, in order to express their
love in deeds, as well as words'
'Harpers Bazar'' for February 18th is
especially attractive. The supplement
presents two full-page illustrations from
paintings OF prominence, and the body of
the paper gives us full-page picture
OF stampede at Vesuvius. 1t is full of
action and is decidedly nouing picture.
There are fashion plates and articles,
Besant's new serial begins, and the usual
news. editorial and miscellany are pre-
scented.
The "Wide Awake for February ID.
Lothrop d Co., BOSTON,, is at hand. It is
rich and bountiful in illustration and
choice in text. Every deacon" in the
land ought to read 1.-THE Story of Hun
CRY Boy" 1t has moral everyone may
digest. The ''Wide Awaken is one of the
foremost among the agencies of the day
in educating and properly entertaining
youth.
The Occidental Medical Times" Sac
ramento) for February is at hand. 1t is
as usual well filled with papers of high
value to the medical faculty. DIR. Parkin-
son is making the magazine invaluable to
his profession.