The record-union., 1891-12-11

-" pI1uSe IeilS an lautoDlographlcaIa ad-
venture in Italy. Thomas Nelson Page
has Southern reminiscenee, recounting
the hunting of 'Molly Cottontailr Just
before Christmas. t.Dayid Cameron's
Fairy Godmother," by Elizabeth Bis
land, is an instructive fairy tale. The
serial by Brander Matthews proves TO be
just the thing that boys like. The
verse is unusually bright. Oliver
Hertord's Crocodile is worthy to rank
with the ANT and the .Giraffe"; Miss
Pyle finds humor in Noah's Ark;
NJ. NJ. DIS poem christmas Eve"
speaks the thought of the Christmas-tree;
There was Man" and "a Complaint"
by Tudor jerks, with w. H. brakes
clever illustrations, are fine holiday
reading. The illustrations are very num-
erous, and all good.
The Engineering Magazine" for De-
cember is richly illustrated. The papers
are: American Supremacy in Mechan-
lcS," Coleman Sellers, E. D.; "a Perma-
nent Census Bureau" Edward Atkinson;
Fulton Night With the Mechanical
Engineers" j. f. Holloway; Geology
From Business Point of View" e. Fl.
Williams, Jr., E. NJ; "The Canadian Pa
cltlc Railway" i. Kennard Thomson, G..
E.; Picturesque Suburban Railway Sta
TONS" illustrated, Bradford Lee Gilbert;
The Manchester Ship Canal" George r.
Dunell, G. E.; impure Water and Pub
L III.
ist Landscape Beauty at Newport
John De Wolf, l.. A.; '"The Conditions
Causing Cold Wave" I. Russell, United
States Weather Bureau. Engineering
Magazine Company, New York.
The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise are both contributors to 1.-THE
Youths Companion" of December Sd.
The Marquis writes a bright article on
Life Among the. Highland Peasantry,"
and the Princess furnishes four sketches
from her own pencil. 1.-The Printing
Trade as the Means of Livelihood" is the
subject Ofan instructive article by George
Henry Bassett. Copious illustrations of
typesetting, electrotyping,, presswork,
ETC., add interest to the article. "An Old
Time Locomotive is an illustrated arti-
Gle for December Sd by r. II. Stanley. 1t
Is description of railroading in our
country fifty years ago. "The Militia
Sailor is an illustrated article by NJ. A.
De Wolfe Howe, Jr., in which the work
of Lieutenant Soley's command with the
White Squadron last summer is described.
The New England Magazine (Bos-
tom for December is very profusely and
richly illustrated. In the matter of illus
tratlon it is taking rapid strides toward
the front rank. Its text matter is very
choice, and includes Canadian Journal
lists and Journalism" by Walter Black
burn Harte; Randolph of Roanoke and
His People," by Albert G. Evans;
brunswick and Bowdoin College," by
Charles Lewis Slattery; "Black and
White" by Mrs. Lille B. Chace- wy
man; Mozart and Mendelssohn,'' by
Zitella Cooke; Pen Pictures of the Bos-
phorus," by Alfred d. F. Hamlin;
Stories Of Salem Witchcraft," by Win
field S. Nevins; 'The Trapping of the
Widow Rose' "a story, by Francis Dana;
1.-The New South--the City of Fort
Worth" by F. NJ. Clarke.
Minerals is the name of a new
monthly that will presently make its APP
pearance. 1t will be put forth by the
house of The Goldthwaites, of the Geo
plies, it viii be devoted to minerals
While every other science and depart
ment OF science is represented by a peri
Odical, that of mineralogy has no worthy
representative among the magazines, yet
1t is studied, either practically or theoreti-
cally IN all the higher schools, and there
are collectors by the dozens and hundreds
| in every town and city in the country.
The Christmas number of ''Harper's
Weekly" which was published Deem
Der I'd, is fiction number, and comprises
many new and attractive features. it has
a specially designed cover, and is filled
with illustrations appropriate to the sea-
son by a. b. Frost, Frederic Remington
and Rufus f. Zogbaum! The fiction is
| by Rudyard kipling, Richard Harding
Davis and John Kendrick Bangs Mr.
Davis story contains another episode in
the career of "Gallegher," a character
which he has so happily and successfully
immortaliZed.
THE Dolls Dressmaker," magazine
fer girls, reached its first birthday with
| beautiful December number. The peri
odical has been well received by mothers
and their daughters, who find in its
pages much instructive and entertaining
matter suitable to employ the minds and
the sometimes mischievous fingers of
their girls. THE Dolls Dressmaker," 81
a year, would make an admirable holiday
or birthday gilt. Jenny Wren. editor and
publisher, 30 East tSeventy-sevenths street,
New York City.
"Macmillan's Magazine for November
macmillan Il Co., London and New
York; has these papers: "a First Fam
lily ofTasajara, by Bret Harte; ''Talma,"
by f. A. Davidson; ''nhe Rights of Free
Labor by G. B. Roylance Kent: 1.-The
Three Persian Quatralns," by Z. C.
Lewis; "Mozart's Librettist," by Mrs.
Ross; IA Curious Discovery by Horace
hutchinson; 'Cowper's Letters" by j.
G. Bailey; "Philanthrophy and the Poor
Law"
Paper and Press (William NJ. Patton.
Philadelphia for November has some
portraits and other plates. There are
also samples of new type faces and de-
signs of new machinery for bookmakers
and printers, and a great deal of useful
and practical information for binders,
printers, stereotypers and all workers in
paper, types, press, or engraving. This
| fine quarto magazine is model of typo
graphic beauty.
Frank Leslie's Weekly' Christmas
number) is at hand. 1t is in handsome
illuminated cover, and is very richly IL
Illustrated by wood cuts and process pic
| lures. There are Christmas tales and
poems, and views of Christmas scenes.
portraits, etc. The full two-page picture
is fine and strikingly Iife-like cut of a
scene In the crusade of the children in the
thirteenth century.
The "Western Soldier'' (Brunt &
Burke, San Francisco for November is
a quarto of thirty-six pages in an
illuminated cover. 1t is devoted to the
interests Of the National Guard of Cali
fornia and the Grand Army Of the Re-
public. 1t is neatly gotten up and is
newsy and vigorous and appears to fill
field heretofore vacant in California.
"Our Little Ones and Nursery'' for De-
cember is at hand from the Russell Pub
fishing Company, Boston. 1t is a holi-
day number handsomely illustrated and
well filled with matter for youngest
readers.
''Littell's Living Age" the foremost
eclectic publication and the oldest in the
world, is issued weekly by Littell & Co,
Boston. 1t comes to us as one of the
most valuable literary journals of the age.
Health in Old Age.
L-d ,,-n.,.l C,nllir,Sa,n A11onras.