The record-union., 1892-11-02
new PUBLICATIONS.

"St. Nicholas' Century Company.
New York; begins a new volume-the
tWentleth-with the November number,
and IS fortunate enough to have an ex-
] quIslte poem by Whittier to show at the
threshold. Kate Douglas Wiggin begins
a serial in ''St. Nieholas'' for November
1t is a bright and wholesome story
called Polly divers Problem" John
/ burroughs assists in making the est.
! Nicholas" bright and attractive by val
liable but pleasing account of a young
marsh hawk. Young naturalists must
! learn from this writer and, by the way,
! from Meredith Nugenfs conscientious
and artistic drawings how TO observe ma
/ ture and OF what to take note. To boy
readers tee fact that this new volume of
| ~. Nicholas" beginning with the No
Venber number, contains the first chap
/ ters OF new serial by w. Q. Stoddard,
! VIII De OF interest. IL will not be neces-
sary 10 commend them to read it, The
! very initial to the opening chapter, a
dafksome cavern, should be enough to
/ eAcite real boys curiosity as to wnat it
| IS All ABOUT II is a story of Australian
/ NE ana IS as carefully treated in its de-
talls as any OF Mr.. Stoddard's
3oys, stories. Among the excellent
J things, next to Whittier's beautiful
poem, girls will no doubt prefer Kate
douglas " lggin's serial, Polly divers
Hfohlem," and boys will select Stoddard'S
serial, The White Cave': but after The
| sigh OF satisfaction and regret that signi-
nes tne ending of the tIrst chapters of
| these long stories, both win nd donbl
turn to Felix Leigh's clever story a
| Giant III Fragments" or TO Burroughs
Interesting bl0gra phy of "A Young
Marsh Hawk" Thereafter Tor before.
may be- will come the picking out OF little
sweet bits, like the funny ilngles Illus
trated by Birch and by Newell, or the
] tah
/ siren" by Henry Bacon, the laughing
at Jack Dilloway's Scheme" or THE
Geometrical Giraffe"
! Volume NXN. Oh the columbian Cv-
ciopedla' has been published. II carries
The work from Propodium to Retford.
ana luIly sustains the admirable charac-
/ ter OF It's predecessors. On more general
SUBJECTS we notice articles on Protop-
Iastn, Proverbs, Public Domain OF the
hlted STATES. Pulley, Purana, sacred
/ BOOK OF the Hindus; Py9mia, KNIGHTS of
/ Pytnlas, C}uadrature Of the Circle. Ouick-
sand, Quinine, Ragged Schools, Rail-
roads, heaeon, Red Cross Association,
Rel Snow, Reform Schools. Re.gn OF
Terror Renittent Fever, Rent. Repub-
| llc and Mental Reservation. In the line
1 OF Mythology we find PrOserpina. Pro-
teus and Psyche. Among legal topics
are Prosecution, Punishment, Quitclaim,
heal Estate, receipt, Receiver, Recoup-
/ i4AOAlU anu IASklltNA. Farmers Will be IN
! terested III tho articles on Pruning.
| Ounce, Radish, Ramie, Raspberry and
/ lteaplng. Among the large number of
! famous people, sketches OF whose lives
! appear, are ErOudhon, Purcell. Putnam.
| FreGeric Ward, Pythagoras, the phiIoso-
! pher; QuIntl!tau, RabeaiS. the humorist.
! rachel, the actress; Lord Raglan Sir
! Walter Raleigh, Samuel J. Randall. John
randolph. Ranke, Raphael, Rapp, Rask.
| RaWllnsOn, George and Sir Henry:
! Charles Reade, keclus. Rembrandt ana
/ tenan. Also, notice articles on religious
| topics, including Protestant, Psalms.
| PurgatOry, Quietists, Ratonalism. Real
! Presence and Regeneration. This work
IS being rapidly pushed toward compile
| ton. Whoever wants good cyclopedta
| and in this age almost every body not
only wants but actually needs one.
should carefully examine the Column
bian. In many important respects il
stands at the head of all works of its class.
1t is sold for moderate price and on
very easy terms. Garret>on, Cox d Co.
3u5 Seventh street, Buffalo, \. y.
The "North American Reviewv New
York has this table OF contents for No
vember: The Presidential Campaign of
lo32," Hon. James g. Blaine; 9The
Scandinavia in the United States" Pro-
fessor II. ii. Boysen; politics and the
Pulpit" The Rev. Bishop Cyrus ID. Foss:
| Nv hat Cholera Costs Commerce." Fras-
tus Wiman; The Democratic OrtIook.u
! by the Hon. w. f. Harrity, Chairman
National Democratic Committee; Waste
Products Made Useful" the 1T. Hon.
| Lord Play1air; "HOw to Solve the School
! Question" Mgr. O'Reilly; "Swiss and
| French Election MethodS,'' Karl Blind.
| Quarantine at New York; DR.. w. II,
| jenkins, Health Officer of the Port of
| New York; Wanted, New Party" L.
| V. Powderly; Are There Too MANY of
/ G2tf tho DrpCi1ant nf {
| ERNEST Renan," by Col. K. g. Ingersoil:
/ Europe at the Worlds Fair--Cerinanv.i
| by the Consul-Generai at Berlin; Rus
! sia," by the Consul-General at st. Peters
| burg; objections to Theatrical Life,
Jennie A. Eustace; 1.-The Religious Issue
sanitation Versus Quarantine" Thomas
! Z. Hughes, ID. D.; 1.-The Naturalization
Problem" Fl. b. Bradbury.
In the same line as Miss Jordan's "CoI
| Iege for Women" published in the last
number of the Atlantic Monthly" there
| is in the November number a most
able article by Samuel w. Dixie, LII.
| D., entitled SOCIOLOGY in the Higher
Education of Women" The author dis
cusses tie subject at length, and shows
that now the problem is to put the edu-
cation that young women are now getting
! into its true relation to their future, and
to do more to equip the girl for what may
| be called the great profession of being a
woman in her social trinity of wife.
mother and member of society. The
many suggestions for the carrying out
| of this problem make this paper IA most
valuable one. Among other articles in
| this number may be mentioned Horatio
| +. Browns The Marriage of Ibraim
! Pasha; an Episode at the Court of Sultan
Murad Ill, l5S6'; Theodore Bacon's
''Some Breton Folk-Songs''; a timely
| political article, 1.-The Two Programmes
of 1922; combinations of Margaret De-
lands 1.-The story ola Child" Edward
| Everett Hale's "A New England Boy
! hood,' and +. Marion Crawford's Don
| Orsino'': and the usual book reviews and
| The Contributors Club."-Houghton
Mitliin " Co., Boston, publishers.
Jan Van Beers opens the Magazine of
| Art' for November, or. rather, NJ. II.
| Speilmann opens the number with an
| appreciative paper on that clever artist.
| We who know our Van Beers as an illus
TRAITOR of a very French school, the school
| of the student and the grisette, are sur
| prised to lind that he is a painter of
| serious pictures with a distinctly spirit
ual side to them. The second and last
paper on copyright in works of art is
given and suggestions are made for a
new bill. The third paper on The Dixon
| Bequest at Bethnal Green," by Walter
| Shaw-Sparrow, is filled with reproduc-
tions of the more famous of the paintings.
A full page is given to an engraving of
Her Friends" somewhat impr ession-
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