The record-union., 1891-05-11

nome Journal, recently gave some in
| tcresting figures relative to the manu-
scripts received by his magazine during
1880. Owing to its departments and pc
| culiar character the journal" probably
! receives more manuscripts than any other
| magazine. Mr.. Box says that he received
at bis office q total number OF 15, 205 man
! scripts. OF these 2,2S0 were poems, ! .746
stories and IL, l79 miscellaneous articles.
OF the poems, 66 were accepted; of the
! stories, only u, and of the articles 40, of
! which latter, however, over 300 were
solicited articles. Thus it will be seen
that OF the entire $1,000 manuscripts only
491 were accepted; a tri1ie over three per
! cent. Deducting from this the 300 ac-
! cepted articles written at the EDITORS
solicitation, the net percentage of un-
! solicited manuscripts accepted is brought
/ down to l91, or a little more than one per
! cent. Statistics such as these show how
much utter trash is being written. and
the number of persons writing who
| ought TO be employing their time at some
| thing else and better
'Belford's Magazine for May is an
unusually strong number. The paper
| which will attract the most attention is
the opening one on ''The Thirteen Super
stition Among the Fair Sex by Mrs.
! Henry NJ. Stanley, Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, Lille Devereux Blake, Francis f.
| Willard, Jenny June, Grace Greenwood,
Susan B. Anthony, Amelia f. Barr, Mrs.
Frank Leslie, Marquise Clara Lama,
| Fanny Davenport, Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
and Nellie Bly,. The complete novel is
Captain Poison" by Pedro Antonio de
Alarcon. Told by the Housekeeper,"
is a story of power by Grace Ellery
The Future of Our Agriculture" is by
James X. Reeve, and 'What is Money ?S
| by Lyman j. Gage. Junius Henri
! Browne writes of tom Marshall" and
! Count Roman |. Zubot gives an interest
ing account of the public career and pri-
vate life of Sarah Barnhardt
Julien Gordon, author Of those popular
| works, "A Diplomats Diary and GA
Successful Man, contributes the COM
! plete novel to the May number of Clip
pincOtt's Magazine" 1t is called Yam
| pires," and tells the story of the struggle
! of poor man to maintain an idle and
| luxurious and semi-invalid wife. One
hears often Of the women who work and
| slave for idle husbands, but here the case
is reversed. There is but little plot to the
| story, but so life-like are the characters
and so keen the discernment evinced of
the comedy and tragedy of life, that the
novel must stand as the authors master
piece; In the body Of the magazine a
sketch of Mrs, Cruger, under the title Of
! "a Successful Woman" is contributed
! by Mrs. NJ. T.. w. Sherwood The Nav
number of ''Lippincott's" is one of es-
pecial attractiveness.
Fra Lippo Lippi-a romance by Mar
! garet We're harrington" is the graphic
ally told story of the life and loves Of one
! OF the great painters of Florence a his
! torical character whose adventures are
! here related with almost exact adhesion
! to the historical record. Fra Lippo LipDi.
/ genius whose works made his brush ia
| nous, seduced the nun LucreZia Butt,
and the story of their love and devotion
and their life in unsanctifed union is one
! of the most pathetic we have ever read.
| The authoresS has invested the tale
with an interest that is dramatic and
! absorbing. The large octave contains
! fourteen photogravure plates of great
| beauty, most of them beng from the
greatest Of the paintings of Lippo Lippi.
| G. p. Putnan's Sons, New York and
London, are the publishers of the volume.
The numbers of 1.-The Living Age" for
| April 18th and May I'd contain ''John
! Wesley" Nineteenth Century; 1.-The
Anabaptists and their English Descend
ants The Influence Of Democracy on
| Literature" and John Wesley" Con-
temporary: The Fair Ophelia of High
| land Glen" National; "A Suffolk Par
SON." Ancient Lights in the Guelph
| Exhibition" AN Irish Landlord" ;" and
! Archaeological Nomads in Rugged Ci-
licia," Blackwood; "a Village Obituary."
! Gentlemap's; Butter Making in iut-
| land" and my Witches Caldron," Mac
milan; ''Sark," Longman's; MILITARY
Tactics of Animals,7 Spectator. The
! Baboo's English st. James, with in
stallments of MY Old Drawing Master.r
Eight Days." and "a Young Wife," and
| poetry.
The New Era In Russia" by Col.
! Charles \. de Arnaud, is at hand from
! j. $. Ogilvie, publisher, 81 Rose street,
New York. 1t is a thrilling work,
| strong, ,incisive and courageous defense of
! Russia, and assault upon Nihilism. Cas-
sius NJ. Clay. Minister to Russia. warm
! ly cOmmends the author for his work.
and Senator Wilson, who is well inform
| ed in Russian politics, believes the gen
! eral reading Of the work will do much to
remove the false impressions concerning
! Russia, which Nihilists have diligently
made. 1t is certainly a view of Russia
| from a standpoint few Americans take
| The literary style of the work is fine
| The work is one of vigor, hearty patriot
| ism and earnest protest that Russia has
| been misrepresented before the world.
Readers of ''Outing" for May New
| York. have genuine treat in John Sey-
mour Woods fascinating new story, en-
! titled "Harry's Career at Yale" 1t will
| carry every "old boy'' back to the good
old times under Alma Matters wings.
| The first of a series of articles by that
word painter Adirondack" Murray APP
pears, and Malcolm w. Ford the peer of
amateur athletes in this country. writes
of sprinters and their methods. OF spec
| ial interest to our lady readers is Mrs.
| Kennedy's article on fishing in Norway.
A richly illustrated article on the forma-
| ton and progress of the Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard is found among the many
good thing, and among the practical
common sense articles is one on canoe
| building for amateurs.
| The May number of the "Atlantic