The record-union., 1892-02-04
new PUBLICATIONS.

The most timely article in the Febru-
ary Century is by G. G. Buel, which
records the results of a personal investi-
cation by him into the history, methods,
and designs OF just now notorious in
Etitution-the Louisiana Lottery. Mr..
4}uel goes back TO the time when the lot
lery interests of the country were cen
tered in New York City, and shows that
the Louisiana Lottery was established for
the benefit of New York gamblers and
lottery dealers. A posthumous story by
" Nolcott BaleStier, who is the co-author
with Mr.. Kipling Of 1.-THE Naulahka.'
"Reffey'' is novel in plot and situation.
Captain Francis Y. Greene, late of the
regular army, contributes an illustrated
paper on 1.-The New National Guard y
and in "Open Letters General A. V.
.Aautz offers plan OF making the regu-
lar army serve as school for officers OF
volunteers; Lieutenant X. II. Evans puts
in plea for "a National Militia "The
-Naulahka" is continued, also DR.. S. Weir
ditchelPS "CharacteriSticS,n - the text be-
ing enriched by some original poems;
there are short stories by Mrs. Burton
harrison, author of The Angloma-
MACS" and by the new Southern writer.
Mrs. Virginia Fraser Boyle. Apropos of
NashingtOn's Birthday, Charles Henry
Tart of Philadelphia has an illustrated
paper giving hitherto unpublished por-
traits of General and Mrs. Washington
ind Nelly Custis. A notable paper is by
edward Atkinson, on The Australian
Registry OF Land Tiues.'' 'Recent Dis
coveries Concerning the Gulf Stream -
by J. Z. Pillsbury, is q fresh and valuable
contribution. In pTOfuSely illustrated
article on Pioneer Days in San Fran
,isco," DIR. John Williamson Palmer de-
scribes from personal knowledge the
adventurous life and diverse types that
lent romantic color to the origin and
growth of the metropolis of the West. DR..
Nheatley'S concluding paper on THE
Jews in New York. is strikingly illus
trated. The famous Bella" by Titan,
engraved from the original by L. Cole, is
the frontispiece. American art is inter-
estingly represented by full-page en-
Fraving of Brush's killing the Moose;
There are poems by Frank Dempster
Sherman, Clinton Scollard, Richard f..
3urton Bessie Chandler, Katherine Lee
Bates, Charles j. O'Malley, and others.
IN Topics of the Time are editorials
entitled "Wlll an American State be
Guilty of Suicide ?'' "A Cheap Money
Hand Book" and ''The Metropolitan
Museum"
With the number for February the
Forum (Union Square, New York;
completes its twelfth volume, under
conditions which may be fairly called a
landmark in American literature. A
broad view Of American progress during
recent years brings home to every
thoughtful student the conviction that we
are living in a time richer both in re-
suits and in promise, in interesting sub
.ects for investigation and for public dis
cussion, than any preceding time. To
encourage discussion of all these import
ant new subjects and OF new phases of
old subjects, a company of literary men,
six years ago, established the Forum"
not primarily as a commercial enter
prise. but as public institution. The
reception that it met proved the correct
ness OF the analysis they made. Having
now become a great property as we'll as
power, and having enlarged its size, the
Forum" is broadening its scope, and is
undertaking lines of original work that
have been hitherto untouched by periodi-
cal enterprise. 1t has, for instance, re-
Gently sent out DR.. j. NJ. Rice q we'll
equipped student of all the European ed
IcationaI systems, to make a special in
Vestigation Of the practical work
tngs of our public school systems
of the principal cities III the United States
The February number has as special
feature an explanation OF three of the
greatest industrial problems in all his
Tory-which now await us: The Nicar-
aqua Canal lin both its commercial and
Is political aspects). the further develop
meut of lake commerce and of ways 10
Lhe sea, and the reclaiming of a great do
main by irrigation. In the same way,
-ilG ldISGSL SA DtIGiliSulS lIidL I1dNG Deen
made in practical philanthropy
Booths plan Of work in England and the
German labor colonies for tramps-have
been Investigated for the Forum by
Prof. Francis q. Peabody (who is now
studying social systems in Germany and
by Dr.. 4 lbert Shaw, who went to London
% study the results ofthe first year of Gen.
Booths work with the large sum that
was collected in response to his appeal in
Darkest England"
s'St. Nicholas for February opens with
]. IL. Dolph's clever dog and cat picture;
there is picture of Sir Jeffrey Hudson,
she dwarf OF IS inches stature. A scien-
lific-looking diagram that seems more
iitted TO the columns of grave treatise
ghan to those of a child's magazine is "A
Record of Master Harry's Ups and
Downs" Mr.. Taber's spirited drawing
shows company OF Dutch soldiers charg-
ing over the Ice on skates, and we read of
'The Battle on Skates, y and learn how
he Duke of Alva commanded his Span
ish warriors to skate in order that they
might meet the Dutch upon more equal
terms. j. .. Davidson claims attention
by telling with pen and pencil something
about Electric Lights at Sea-" Malcolm
Douglas finds something to say lnrolllck-
ing mood concerning 1.-The Little Man in
the Orchestral Oliver Hertord sets at
rest any question as to the invention Of
she umbrella. "A Strike in the Nur-