The record-union., 1891-04-24
new PUBLICATIONS.

DIR. Andrew B. White deals with par
ticularly interesting episode of the "War-
fare of Science" in his paper on Miracles
and Medicine which opens the May
Popular Science Monthly.n One of the
newest industries is described by Fred
erik A. Fernald in an article on Ice
making and Machine Refrigeration"
An article by Sheridan Delepine explains
methods of fortifying against disease.
An illustrated account of ''Some Games
of the Zunf' is contributed by John q.
Owens. 4 possible solution of the great
educational problem of the day is sug-
gested in the description of "An Expert
ment in Moral Training" given by DR..
Mary V. Lee. The conclusion of ''Pro-
iessor Huxley on the War-path," by the
Duke of Argyll, appears. Mrs. X. B.
Claypole describes some forms OF minute
vegetation. A survival of the human
weakness for charms and magic is shown
! by Lee J. Vance. The history Of the
French Institute is sketched by w. G.
Cahall, NJ. d. The strange story of ''The
Mexican Messiah" is told by Dominick
DAILY. Some of Froebel's stimulating
ideas are set forth in paper on THE
sketch and portrait of Captain Niels Hoff
meyer, Danish meteorologist of much
ability. New York: D. Appleton &
Company.
Even that annual bugaboo, house
cleaning, loses its terrors before "The
Ladies' Home Journals happy faculty
for turning things bright side out. 1t
must be a dull housewife indeed who
cannot find encouragement and Substan-
tial help in the CHEEKY words of Maria
Parloa, Christine T. Herrick, Helen Jay,
and Isabel A. Mallon, in the May num-
Der. There are many verses by Clinton
Sollard, Annie Isabel Willis, Mary L.
Storer and Madeline S. Bridges, and
Eben e. Rexford's flower talks and Mrs.
MallOn's page for ''The Girl Who Gradu-
ates," follow on 1.-THE Care and Dressing
OF the HAIR" Unknown Wives of Well
known Men, and women physicians by
DIR. Phoebe j. B. Wait, are articles Of in
| terest In the first chapters of "A Soul
From Pudges Corners" Jessie F.
strength. GA Golden Gossip which is
among Mrs. Whitneys finest work. The
charming personality of the Able Liszt
is preserved in Etelka Wilhelm IIlof-
| sky's "reminiscences. Mr.. John Stephen
son tells of the first horse-car. Curtis
Publishing Company. Philadelphia, Pa
"LittelPs Living Age' for the weeks
ending April 11th and 18th contain ''Sedg-
wicil's Life and Letters" Quarterly; "a
teenth Century ''Sir Herbert Edwardes
at Peshawur," and "The Contrasts of
| English and French Literature" Mac
millan's: 'Some Birds in India,' Long
mans; ''The Seal Islands of Behring's
Sea-" Murray's; ''Eothen Kinglake,"
and Horace Walpoles Twin Wives"
Temple Bar; "Cost of London Fog"
Leisure Hour "Epitaphs' and Biblical
Drama in South Staffordshire," CornhiIl !:
'Unclaimed Stocks, Dividends, and
Bank Deposits" Chambers "Our Vii
lage Book Club" Speaker; with install
ments of ''The Flight of the Shadow"
Eight Days." and ''Madeleine's Story"
and poetry. For ffty-two numbers of
! sixty-four large pages each (or more than
$500 pages year. the subscription price
| is IS. Litteu IL Co., Boston, are the pub
fishers.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
forApril 18th has a full page artotype show
ing President Harrison with the result of
a days duck-shooting in Maryland;
views in the coke region during the riots;
picture OF the Government building to
be erected for the Worlds Fair; view on
the gun deck of the Italian war ship
Duilio; picture of the new United States
Navy; several pictures of President Har-
rison and duck-shooting party on
Chesapeake bay. The text matter is
newSy, the editorials crisp, and on cur
rent topics and the miscellany is to the
| taste of those who love clean, weII-writ-
ten descriptive articles.
The April number of Entertainment,
contains descriptions of "a Baby Enter
tainment," "a Box SociabIe," GA Cake
Festival" and soap Bubble Parties"
The Curtain Pantomime," Doubtless
Newspaper" Limitation Mesmer-
ism," Gossip" and other home rec
| reations; practical talk about bicycling,
notes OIL kindergarten work, a number
of recitations, and some brain racking
puzzles. The Sunday school Blackboard
outlines will be found valuable Enter
tainment Bureau, Council Bluffs, Iowa,
publishers.
"Macmillan's Magazine" for April has
these papers: "a Mystery of Old Gray's
Inn" by Andree Hope; "Our New Po-
litical System;' Chapters From Some
Unwritten Memoirs by Mrs. Richie;
Morris; 1.-The Farmers Friends" by c.
Parkinson; ''Scott's Eeroines;" 1.-THE
Prospects of Greater France" by II. A.
Perry; "a Local Historian" by G.. G.
Macaulay; Henry Schliemann," by
Percy Gardner. Published by Mac
milan & Co., London and New York.
Among the leading features of the Nav
number of the "North American Re-
view' will be articles by Bishop Potter
of New York, the Secretary of the Navy,
Sir Charles Tupper, Hon. f. J. Phelps,
Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Henry
Cabot Lodge, and II. y. Taine, the famous
| French critic