The record-union., 1892-10-07

History of the United States in Para
graphs" The tribute to George William
curtis is excellent. The departments of
notes, queries, replies, minor topics
ana book notices are clever and in
structlye throughout. Published 743
broadway. New York City.
If it were possible to shut all the strong
interest OF the month between the light
covers OF monthly magazine, the Octo-
per Cosmopolitan" would do it. AS
usual, the illustrations are more numer-
Gus ana varied in character than those of
the other leading magazines; the articles
are as short and as much to the point as is
consistent with literary finish; and one
mas the sense of vigorous and newly
| appreclatlVe grasp even of subjects which
IN themselves are familia,. Perhaps this
| quality OF vigor and trt shness is most
consplcuously displayed in the three
articles contributed by Henry Cabot
Lodge, John a. CockcrilI and Murat
Haistead, OF which the themes are, re-
SSPectiVoly, AS to Certain Accepted
IIeloes I, Phases of Contemporary
Journalism" and Liberal Tendencies
IN Europe" In these, we venture to say.
tie reader will find new thought, in
phrase that cuts its way and insists on
! being quoted. But, after all, this strong
individuality is noticed throughout the
SuiiGhe NUMBER. III about the degree
/ which the public has learned to expect.
| ne leaQlng paper reviews the art work
| OF Munich, and other foreign subjects are
! brought home in the articles which give
lhtIiilate views OF society in Southern
! Spain and in Persia The intense practi-
cal interest of home things will be found
in Nathaniel T. Taylor's article on AN
! 0Id Southern School," and President H.
| Is. Plants article. Other contributors
are thomas Wentworth Higginson, d.
Is. st. John Roosa, Louis Chanler Moul-
ton, Charles f. Lummis, Edgar Fawcett,
John Vance Cheney and Jonathan
otufges. Boyesen's social Struggles
! ters
The October number of "Harper's
! Magazine" New York; opens with an
article entitled The BaptismaI Font of
America" by Frank II. Mason. accom-
! panied by fourteen illustrations. An
other article is scholarly essay on Col
umbus, by Professor DR.. S. Ruge of
! Dresden. Theodore Child contributes an
interesting paper on Paris Along the
! SEINE" which is handsomely and pro-
! lusely illustrated. Laurence Hutton's
unique description of his collection of
Death Masks" is continued. IL. G. Bun-
ner writes of the weil-known artist 4. r.
FROST. The article is accompanied by fiji
Teen illustrations, including frontispiece
engraving entitled "Sorceryr; also bv a
! portrait drawn by j. w. Alexander. r.
eaton Woodville, the distinguished En-
! gllsh artist, gives stirring account of his
experiences at Tiger Hunting in Nv
sore.n President Charles f. Thwing, of
! the Western Reserve University. con-
! IrIputes valuable and comprehensive
article on Education in the West.n The
nth paper in James Russell Lowelps So
RES on the "Old English Dramatists" has
! Tor It's subject The Double Stars of Our
Poetlcal Firmament," Beaumont and
Fletcher. The fiction of the number in
ciuoeS the continuance of Miss wilkins
absorbing story, Jane Field"; the eighth
lnstailment of Mr.. HowelIs '|The World
OF GhanGe," and highly entertaining
tale by Thomas a. Janyier. The num.
Der having been printed during the last
illness of George William Curtis. it con-
! talns no communication from him. but
instead OF his usual graceful essays in the
short articles about the EASY Chair, it.
sell and on other timely topics.
The North American Review, Nav
! York; for October has these papers.
"A Vindication of Home Rulen
reply to the Duke of Argyle by
the Right Hon. w. Z. Gladstone, Prime
Minister Of England; 1.-The Excise Law
ana n the Saloons" the Right Rev. Bishop
of Missouri; The Buffalo Strike" Tbeo-
dore voorhees,, General Superintendent
New York Central and Hudson River
railroad: Some Adventures of a Necro-
mancer," Chevalier Herrmann: '.Busi
ness in Presidential Years." President
New New \ or6 Chamber of Commerce; The
torelgn Policy of England" II. Iabou-
cherei NJ. p; THE Hygiene of the At
mosphere,o Professor Samuel Lock wood.
London Society and Its Critics ), Iadv
Jeune; 1.-The French Electoral systems,
| Nj. Naquet, with comments by Theodore
Stanton; Paramount Questions of the
campaign" the Governor of Oregon:
Safeguards Against the Cholera" Sur.
! geon-General Walter Wyman, President
Charles q. Wilson of the New York
Board of Health, DR.. Samuel w. Abbott.
| Secretary of the Boston Board of Health.
DR.. Cyrus Edison, Sanitary Superintend-
The Ethics of Great Strikes" George
Ethelbert Walsh; Politics and the
Weather." a. Lawrence Lowell: "a Tax
| on Tales" M. a. de Wolfe Howe. Jr.:
bismarck and the Emperor" j. II,
! Sears.
The Atlantic Monthly'' for October
! lBostonl has these articles: "Mr. Tilden,D
! James G. Carter; "rhe Story of Childu
Margaret !, ct. Deland; "Tailleier, the Trou-
| yere," Clinton Scollard; 1.-The English
Occupancy OF North America" Alexan-
! der Brown; Rocco and Sidora," Gala
brian story, Elizabeth Cavazza; ga New
England Boyhood-IV., Edward Ever
EFT Hale; "The Betterment of Our High
/ ways" Nathaniel Southgate Shaler:
/ ARIA" Edith NJ. Thomas "Don Or
sini," f. Marion Crawford; 1.-The College
for Women" Mary A. Jordan: 1.-The
Naulahka and the Wrecker''; "Curzon's
Persia; "Cavour as a Journalist" 1t is
a number of exceeding strength and in
! terest.
The Overland Monthly, (San Fran
cisco, October) has these among other val
uable papers: The University of Cali
fornia,' by Milicent w. Shinn, illus
trated; Lawn Tennis in California" by
James f. J. Archibald, illustrated;
"Minerva's Mother" by Annie Getchell
| Gale; Possibilities, by NJ. c. ellington:
An Alaskan Summer" by Mabel H.
! Closson, illustrated: '.An Electrical
! Study" by We're Wilmington; County
Division in Southern California; by e.
! P. Clarke; with Fancy" by Sylvia
lawson Covey; 'Burke's Wife, by
| Beebe Crocker.
Public Opinion" washington, D. ca
continues to be a weekly without which
; the man desirous of keeping ahead of the
| age cannot do. 1t is weekly repository
of the pith of current expression of the
] world.