The record-union., 1892-11-02

istic painting by r. Prinet, which ex-
cited marked attention in the last salon.
The second paper on Burmese Art and
burmese Artists" is given. Following
this is a poem by Cosmo Monkhouse,
illustrated by C. Ricketts,. Then we
come TO most interesting paper on
French Feeling in Partisan Pictures"
Bernard Hamilton, NJ. A. "Our illus
trated Note Book" and copious unillus-
trated notes bring the number to a close.
CasseI Publishing Company: New York
and London.
"Godey's Magazine" (Philadeiphia) for
November is brilliant in literary and
artistic attractions. The complete novel
Is by Molly Elliot Seawell, and is en-
TITLED "A Strange, Sad Comedy" The
scenes are laid in the South before and
after the war. The novel is fully Illus
trated by Eleanor E. GreatoreX of Paris.
our Hospitals" is a carefully written
article by Thomas B. Preston, ON the
hospitals of New York. 1t is fully illus
trated. John Gilner Speed has an ar
ticle on The Dress of English Women";
Katherine Hodges writes about Tine
Women Who Dared" Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher has in her Home Department an
article on Rings Used as Symbols of
Authority" and Marie Frances Upton
writes on The Gospel Of Clothes" Co
dey's fashions are more beautiful than
ever before. The four art pictures,
printed in ten colOrs, represent Mrs.
James NJ. Waterbury, the Marquise
LAMA, Mrs. Marshall Orme Wilson and
Mrs. George J. Gould. The poems in
tins number are by the late Philip
Bourke Marston, Mel II. Colquitt, Clar-
ence Miles Boutelle and Wentworth Sal
vim. John Habberton reviews ''All the
Books" and The Search Light touches
upon live matters from an editorial point
OF view. Ihe publisher presents to each
purchaser OF the November number
"Godey's Idea of the Worlds Fair" a
picture which has become popular.
The Popular Science Monthly" edited
/ BY ". j. 1oumans and published by u.
Appleton & Co. New York, has these con-
tents for November, with many illustra-
/ tons: "Eurasia," by Sara Jeanette Dun
can; The Natural or Scientific Method
III Education," Wesley Mills; ION Posture
and Its Indications" L. Lauder Brunton;
The Problems of Comparative Psychol-
ogy," Professor Joseph Jastrow; The
SYnthesls OF Living Beings NJ. Armand
SaDatler; Economical Trees" Frederick
LIE Roy Sargent; The LatestiA rithmetical
Prodigy" NJ. Alfred Binet; "Reasoning
Animals" Allen Pringle Color in
tlowering Plants" Alice Carter; "Mod-
ern Nervousness and Its Cure" DR.. Bill
singer; The First German Paper
Maker" Eduard Crosse; Are Business
GfOHIs 100 Larger" j. B. Mann; The
Scientific Societies of Italy" Dr. w. q.
CANAL; sketch OF Henry " alter Bates;
correspondence, The Acknowledgement
of Penikese'; Hole or Holl?" "Evo-
luton in Politics.; prevention Of
Cholera Epidemics"; popular miscellany
and the usual notes.
A handsomely illustrated bound edi-
ton Of Longieil0w's ''Evangeline,"
the most popular long poem ever pub
uShed by an American author, and one
OF the most famous poems in the English
language, to be had for song, ought to
prove popular surprise. Such book is
Just issued from the publishing house of
John b. Alden, New York, who sells it
for - cents, plus cents for postage. His
idea is that good book is his best adyer-
tlsement, and that by putting out such a
pretty one as this at a nominal price he
VIII make the pleasant acquaintance OF
large number OF people.
The Battle of Love" is an intensely
interesting novel, by Aiphonse Daudet.
1t Is "a realistic novel of ruthless ambi-
tIon." Daudet as rOmancist is probably
more read than any OF his cOntempo-
raries. Donohue, Henneberry q Co., Chi
cago, publishers.
Current Literature" New York. be-
gins literary puzzle department with the
November number, and offers SO in gold
for the best quatrain on Tennyson sent to
them before December lst. Readers of
this journal are elegible to compete.