The record-union., 1892-10-08
new PUBLICATIONS.

The Columbus interest eliminates. as
it should, in the October Century" con-
temporaneously with the celebrations at
New York and Chicago, the frontispiece
being the newly brought-out Lotto
portrait of Columbus. 1t is accompanied
by an explanatory paper by John G.. Van
Dyke. CASTELAR, writes of Columbus
homeward voyage; the architect Van
Brunt describes the fisheries building,
the exquisite art building and the United
States Government building at the
Worlds Fair. In an editorial on the fair
1t is declared that Chicago, in the housing
Of the Worlds Fair, has not only equaled,
but has surpassed Paris. An article Of
immediate interest is Professor jerks pa
per on money in Practical Politics."
The opening paper is a striking piece Of
autobiography by Archibald Forbes, the
famous war correspondent, who describes
in the first of a series of two papers what
he saw of the Paris Commune. Harry
Fem very curiously illustrates paper
by Charles Howard Shinn on ''Pictur-
esque Plant Life of California" In the
short stories new writer is introduced,
Hayden Carruth, a New York journalist,
who tells the story of ''Doggetts Last
Migration," with pictures by Kemble.
The poet Aldrich has short story called
L
and Miss Viola Roseboro tells Of "The
Village Alien" The very remarkable
series of ergravings by Timothy Cole,
after the old Italian masters, is concluded
in this NUM- ber, with an engraving from
Correggio. In the same number, in the
series on pictures by American artists,
appears, very appropriately, the MAN
With Violin," by Wyatt Eaton, the
original of which is Mr.. Cole. the en-
Crra IN dS 10 icb, IF
musician to that of an artist in his spe-
clal field. In the departments are an ed
itorial on Liberty, Law and Order,'
apropoS of recent events, and discussion
Of The Numerical Strength of the Con-
federate Army" Mary Z. Wilkins con-
tributes curious prose poem, 1.-The
Whist Players" and there are poems by
Edgar Fawcett, Frank Dempster Sher-
man, Edith NJ. Thomas and others. This
number Of the Century" rounds out it's
twenty-second year.
The October "St. Nicholas Century
Company, New York. ends the nine
teenth volume. The shelf that holds these
nineteen volumes is a full treasury of
bright, instructive, helpful and delight
ful reading for the young. Volcanoes
and Earthquakes' receive their full need
of notice in the October number. In pic
lures and in text is told the story of how
and why the earth shakes and the vol
canoes emit melted stone and fiery steam.
The pictures by Thomas Moran are beau
tiful black-and-white drawings. Charles
f. Lummis calls to the attention of young
and old valuable and neglected his
torical relic, 1.-The Stone Autograph AL
bum" 1t is the cliff called by the Span
ish explorer FL MORO the CASTLE. There
are two particularly funny pages by NAL
COIN Douglas, illustrated by Birch, and
"Inanimate Things Animated" the first
OF new series by 2. Newell. A bright
bit of verse-making, with a moral to if, is
The Servants of the King" by NJ. Helen
Fraser Lovett. Another poem is My
Betty" by Mrs. Richards. Young read
ers may learn in short and well-consid-
cred article, How Columbus Reckoned."
Clarence Pullen tells of boys Land
and Water Tussle" with a bear. The
Weather Bureau is treated, and S. A.
Wetmore describes the system of obser-
vation and report, and makes excellent
suggestions. A 'remarque" appended to
Mr.. Wetmore's serious sketch is 1.-The
Dodish Moral Signal Service" a delight
fully funny little home application of the
weather signals. A good ballad is Leon
idas," by Anna Robson Brown.
Approaching very near it's semi-cen-
tennial, that venerable and only eclectic
weekly, ''Littell's Living Age" is appar-
entity as young, vigorous, and valuable
as in it's earliest years. The issue for
October 1st, No. 2,5lS, is the initial num-
Der of the 195th volume, and appears in
an entirely new dress. Its old, familiar
drab-colored covers remains unchanged,
but its interior has been transformed.
With new, clear, and handsome type,
and the great improvement noticeable in
it's general 'smake-up," it compares favor
ably with any other magazine published:
and, combined with the high intrinsic
excellence which has ever characterized
its contents, ''The Living Ageu must
prove an even more delightful and desir-
able visitor than ever, and enter its year
of jubilee under highly encouraging
prospects. 1t presents every side of the
writing world, scientific, philosophic.
historic, didactic, critical, statistical,
poetic, narrative, biography, fiction, as
represented in the wide field of foreign
periodical literature, with freshness, oW-
ing to it's weekly issue, and with a salts
factory completeness attempted by no
other publication. During it's nearly
fifty years of life, it has ever stood peer
less in the realm of periodical literature.
Whoever possesses a set of it's bound vol
umes is master of variety Of reading
which in quality and quantity has rarely
been equaled. Litten & Co., publishers,
Boston, Mass.
1t has been said-was it Frenchman
who said it2-that the Germans cannot
write short stories. This assertion is
disproved by the brilliant October num-
ber of Romance" 1t is the second in
that magazines series of special issues,
and more than half of its contents are
from the German. Even the French sell
dom produce stories equal to Hugo
Klein's His Excellency, the Fool" Paul
Heyse's "The Beginning and the End"
the Queen Of Roumania's Tragedy of
Love-" and Hans Won Speilberg's "Tale
of the Great Sahara" No such collection
would be complete without a fairy story,
and an amusing one, new to American
readers, is supplied in The Donkey,s
Spring." by Rudolph Baumbaoh. There
are also classic German stories by Jean
Paul Richter and Ludwig Tieok. The
whole forms remarkable and interest
ing illustration of German fiction. Agree
able variety is secured by the interspers-
ing of half a dozen American tales.
flavoring strongly of the native soil. This
magazine is issued by the Romance Pub
fishing Company, Clinton Hall, Astor
Place, New York.
'sThe Forum October New York..
has these papers: "Cholera: The Lesson
of Preceding Epidemics," DIR. Lewis A.
Sayre; "Our Public School System: Evils
in Baltimore" DIR. J. NJ. Rice: "Venal
Voting: Methods and Remedies Pro
fessor J. J. McCook; 1.-The Literature of
the Future" Pierre Lott; "The Primary
the Pivot of Reform" Hon. David Dud-
ley Field; Sunday and the Columbian
Exposition" Bishop II. c. Potter; Civil
Service Reform: "A Review of Two Ad-
ministrations, Lucius b. Swift; "a De-
cade of the Merit SYSTEM" John T.