The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-05-13
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beautiful Loves Dream After the Ball.
waltz, by Czibulka; "Paderewski's Min
uet'; Poor Girl Didn't Know; the
great song. MY Son, My Son, My Only
Son; the famous Swedish song. "Tyst-
nad, and last, but not least, Montene
gros famous "Oxford Berlin Polka"
which is danced everywhere.
The American Agriculturist" for
May Orange Judd Company. New York;
Is very superior number. 1t is hand
somely illustrated, is varied in contents,
prlei In articles, strong in expression,
ana Is packed with valuable information.
IL treats OF sheep breeding, of birds and
insects, of the wheat crop of the North
west, OF American market gardening, of
| the sllo, farming in Venezuela, care of
! the heifer calf, pressure in cheese max
| ing, plows, walks, cisterns, barns, con-
densed milk, the wood-duck, lightning
! rods, Russian farmers and the famine,
| poultry, berry culture, horse-shoeing,
the. phosphate industry, fruit spraying.
1rult diseases, mice in Corntields, fiori-
| culture, cowpeaS, home decorations to
! great extent, dresS-making, ETC., and has
juvenile, story, puzzle department., CORE
| spondence from all parts of the Union,
| science papers, foreign notes, papers on
crops ana minerals, seeds, weeds, manure,
Gays, nuts, vegetables milk, fertilizers,
drainage, etc. 1t is the most versatile
journal OF its order of which we have
! knowledge.
The New England Magazine" for May
| lboston) has, with many fine illustra-
lions, these papers: '.Village Life in Old
England" Reuben G. Thwaites; ''On the
Track of Columbus" Horatio J.. Perry;
THE Governors Reception" Frances NJ.
ADDott; The Progress of the American
| Republics" William E. Curtis; Love,
Death and Sorrow" John w. Chadwick:
! The Human Freedom League" Allan
Il; Cross; Governor Winthrop's Farm"
Abram h. Brown; Bermuda in Block
ade Times" Charles Hallock; Henry
Clay as Speaker of the House, Mary p.
Eo!lett; "a Shaker Community" James
Il. Reeve; Fallen Love-" Philip B. Mars
ton; Gone" John S. Barrows; "rhe
Chicago Stockyards," p. J. O'Keefe;
The Poets Praise Charles E. Mark
ham; "Lennette, II.'' Ethel Davis; "Ye
yester; The Cars Banquet" Marie
! Petravsky; Jenny Lind in Northamp-
ton" Elizabeth LIE Baron Marsh; "Edi-
tors Table," Edwin d. Mead: '.In a Cor
ner at Dodsley's," Walter B. Harte.
The May number of "Casselrs Family
MMa aggsai shows us that Mrs. l. I.
Meade's charming story, ''Out of the
Fashion," is drawing to a close. 'Colo-
nists in Embryo" is a paper telling how
young Englishmen are prepared for
roughing it in her majesty's colonies.
Then follow practical hints in the art of
LildhIilS embroidery
How to Look Nice" is calculated to in
terest the young woman. 'How For
| tunes are Made" will incite US to do as
| some of the worlds millionaires have
done. Formed for Conquest is the
title of a new serial. There are other
stories, long and short, and plenty of
poetry and music. 1.-The Family Doc
tori has a timely chapter on "Infiuenza
and After" The Fashion, letters
| from London and Paris are filled with
useful suggestions, and 1.-The Gatherer''
is, as usual, q Storehouse of practical in
formation. Cassell Publishing Company,
| New York and London.
The brilliant and versatile Pierre Lott
who has just been received into the circle
| OF French Immortals, has written the
article on ConStantinople for the series of
| papers on the Great Capitals of the
World" now being published in ''Har-
per's Weekly" The article appears in
the w eekly,' issued May 18th, and is
superbly illustrated. Another note
worthy feature of the same number is a
description, with numerous illustrations,
OF the Willard collection of casts of his
torical architecture, which has lust been
added to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York City. There is also an
appropriate illustrated article OIL the Law
ing of the cornerstone of the Grant
Monument, and highly interesting
| paper on the 5th of May Independence
Day in Mexico. The latter is strikinply
illustrated by Remington.
An important literary feature of Char
per's Magazine" in 1892 is the publication
Tor the first time OF six papers by James
| Russell Lowell on the "Old English
Dramatists." In this, his last literary
work, Mr.. Lowell returned to the love of
| his youth, his earliest studies having
been in that field; and we shall have in
these papers the results of his ripest
thought on subject which profoundly
| interested the three greatest critics of orr
century-Lamb, Hazlitt and Coleridge.
These studies are not only examples of
| the best criticism, but are as Professor
| Charles Eliot Norton designates them.
genuine pieces of good literature
Ihey abound also in passages of intimate
personal interest, refiexes of Mr.. LowelPs
moods and of the impressions occasioned
by incidents of his later years.
We have received a copy of the "Patti
Waltz Iyrolienne," composed by Charlie
Baker. 1t is simple and remarkably
pretty, and can be played on piano or or
gan. The title page contains an elegant
| photo OF Adelina Patti, the world-re-
nowned songstress, in stage costume.
Prlce 40 cents per copy. 10 readers of
TINS paper copy will be sent upon receipt
OF 20 cents by Baker d Helmick, 265 Sixth
avenue, New York, the publishers.
"Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine
| in its late issue had fine variety of mat
ter. The magazine fills broad field
well. 1t calls to its columns some of the
ablest writers and it makes geographical
science far more prominent among the
| masses than it has ever been before. The
| venture is a new one in magazine fields,
but one that will, as it ought to, succeed.
| The Goldthwaites publishers, New York.
The Kindergarten" for May (Chicago)
| opens with fine portrait of Frau Luise
| Froebel. The letter press is varied and of
deep interest, we should judge, to edu-
| Gators by the kindergarten system. 1t is
| a very attractive number.
The Occidental Medical Times" for
| May 81. H. Parkinson, NJ. D.. Sacra-
mento) is full of papers. reports, news
notes, reviews, etc., of special interest 10
physicians, surgeons and sanitarians.
"Our Little Ones and the Nursery"
! Russell Publishing Company, Boston)
| for May is at hand, crisp, bright. richly
| illustrated and full of meaty matter fit for
Juvenile mental digestion.
| ~ Rosy cheeks are