The record-union., 1891-03-28

grocer Sehds you something IN place OF Fear
My Store Cupboard" is a practical ar
ticle. This is followed by a story, kate
Moore's Wedding Trip" by Edward l.
Stevenson. The fashion letters from
London and Paris are full of timely hints
and suggestive illustrations. There are
several graceful poems and n full Gath
erer, which keeps the reader posted in the
new inventions of the month CaSsell
Publishing Company, New York.
There is all the sunshine of spring and
the fragrance OF flowers in 1.-The Ladies
Home Journal" for April the Easter
cover, designed by w. Hamilton Gibson,
is fair index to the charm of the num-
ber. Mrs. Whitney's delightful serial,
"a Golden Gossip" is continued. Maud
Burton and Caroline A. Mason contribute
seasonable short stories. The Mrs. Ros-
sitter Lamar" of the latter forms as at
tractive n feature as the clever sketch OF
Mrs. L. DE Witt Talmage. Other articles
are Amelia Il. Barr's 'Mothers as Match
Makers" dealing with question OF uni
versal interest, and the third of George
w. Cables mastery papers on "Teach-
ing the Bible" An article by c. +.
Klunder, the New York florist, on
Flowers In the Home;" those upon
Women,'' and Mrs. Mallon's delightful
pages of Spring Fashions will be espe-
cially appreciated. The number is COM
plete in every part and richly illustrated.
Curtis Publishing Company, Philadcl-
phia.
The Arena for April B. o. Flower,
BOSTON, has these papers: Prof. J. r.
Buchanan with portrait); PHILOSOPHY of
Crooked Taxation" by Thomas c.
Shearman; Concerning Psychic Medi-
um in Hypnotism," by DR.. Mason;
Buddhism in the New Testament" by
Professor Bixby; Morality and Environ
ment," by Arthur Dudley Vinton;
naturalization of Land as First Pre-
sented," by Professor Buchanan; Ma
tionalism versus Individualism," (anon);
'The Burial of Bradlaugh' tpoem), by
Gerald Massey; '''rhe Heart of Old Hicll-
ory," by VIII Allen Dromgoole; 1.-The
Morning Cometh,' by Rev. w. II. Saw
age: Liberal Thought the Safeguard of
HAS the Command of Jesus Been Re-
voked ?" by A. G. Emery. Editor
Flower has notes on variety of current
topics of living interest.
The April number of "The Quiver'' is
as usual filed with interesting matter as
regards both pen and pencil. The num-
Der opens with "The Rough Days of
Stronger Wings" by Edith Lister;
paper in the Sundays with the Young
series, in which the lesson of the tele-
scope is taught; ''1'he Fall of Jericho' is
n paper for Sunday reading; story, Dis
missed;" "a Cordial for Care" by the
Rev. G.. Brooks; "A Sprig of Rosemary"
a story in two parts; the fourth in the
series under the general title of "The
Shield, the Sword and the Battle" called
''The Sandals of the Gospel" by the Rev.
G.. Everard; work in the Masters name
tells us the story OF "Mackay of Uganda;"
"Upspokeu Love; or. the Tree in Our
Street." is finished in this number; Min
nie's Heroes, a story that will be relished
by little girls; the serial Waiting to be
Claimed" is drawing to close. Cassell
Publishing Company, New York.
The numbers of "The Living Ager for
March 14th and 2ist contain: 1.-THE Paint
ings of Pompeii," Edinburgh: "Wit and
Pathos in Suetonius," National; "Three
Finnish Scholars" Scottish; 'rurnerian
Landscape-an Arrested Art" Nineteenth
Century; "A Ride in Kailirland,' and
"Aiexander William Kinglake'' Black
wood; illustrations of Animal Life in
Tennyson," and "Ischa and its Earth
quake" Cornhill: Life in the London
Slums." )" Temple Bar; STATESMEN of Eu-
Last Century" Murray's; "Our Witticst
Judge" Belgravia ''Wild Beasts and
Their Ways" Longman's; "Our First
Cousins and ''Some Savage Contribtl-
tions to Civilization Chambers; "At
the Regent-Street Tussand's," Punch;
''The South African Doctrine of Souls"
Nature; Robert Louis Stevenson on
Realism and Idealism," Melbourne Ar
gus. Littell Il Co., Boston, are the pub
| fishers.
| The Popular Science Monthly" for April
| ID. Appleton IL Co., New York. has these
papers: From Freedom to Bondage" by
Herbert Spencer; "a Brief History of
the Ohio River" by Prof. J. F. James;
..Street, Cleaning in Large Cities" by
Character" by Prof Henri Marion;
what Keeps the Bicycle Upright?" by
c.. b. Warning; prof Huxley on the
| War PATH L. By the Duke of Argyll:
Social Changes in California" by
Charles Howard Shinn; Notice of Dr.
Henry T. Schliemann," "The Badger and
the Fox" Race Influence and Disease"
tific Jottings in Egypt" by DR.. II. Car
rington Bolton; 'Whale Catching at
Point Barrow by John Murdoch:
sketch of Daniel G.. Brinton," by DIR. C.
c. Abbott; Editors Table, Literary Notes,
Popular Miscellany and Notes.
The Overland Monthly for April has
these papers: ''Dairying in California, L."
I
We Gave Name to Tennessee Cove" +.
| NJ. Stocking, with illustration; .sThe
| Sherman of Early Days." w. G. Little;
.'Why the Political Boss is Power.n f.
/. Vassault; "a Bit of the Unclassified
Residuum, H. Quien; .Patriotism and
School Education,n G. Nj. Wager; Peter
Foltz, Tailor" Il. p. H.; Camp and
Travel in Texas, H." Dagmar Mariager:
Living Marion Hill; Her Children"
Ella Beecher Cuttings; 'The Old World
Judged by the New" James d. Phelan;
"Daphne,r Lillian III. Shuey; SIN Dark
est England" Florence Prag: ''Some Re-
ligious Studies and Speculations, H."
| Book Reviews"
.sSt. Nicholas" for April The Century
Company, New York;, is at hand. spring
| ladened with bright papers and beautiful
| illustrations. ..The Fortunes of Toby
Trafford.' Trowbridge's charming serial.
continues; there is delightful paper by
Mary Hallock Foote, on 1.-The Gates of
| Grandfather's Farm There is beauti-
full wood engraving of child's portrait,
| from painting by Zimmerman; two more
chapters of 1.-The Boy Settlers, by Noah
| Brooks: and papers by Katherine Alcorn,
| Frank Stiles Woodruff, Lee Woodward
| and others. 1t is in all rich number in
text and illustration, and will delight all
youthful readers. Mrs. Dodge makes '.St.
Nicholas" an agent of great good in the
| world of young people.
..Harper's Young People" for March
oath contains among other features espe-
cially appropriate to the Easter season, an
ipfereStipc article by BiShOp John III