The record-union., 1892-05-09

Emery Stuart, and another French Ca
madam dialect story, "Malouin.', by
William McLennan, There are poems
by William Sharp, w. D. Howells,
Charles g. D. Roberts, John B. Tabb and
W. L. Preble, Jr. The Editors Easy
Chalr and Editors Study are conducted
as usual by George William Curtis and
Charles Dudley Warner, and the Editors
Drawer is opened with an introductory
story, Little Mordica at the Bar" by
Thomas Nelson Page.
The May Century, New York. be-
gins new volume and three new serials,
namely, The Life of Columbus" by
Emilio CASTELAR,, who. in his first paper.
considers the age in which Column bus
lived; ''The Chosen Valley" a novel of
Western life in the irrigation fields, by
Mary Hallock Foote, illustrated by the
author; and the architect Van Brunts
semi official and fully illustrated papers
on architecture at the Worlds Column
ban Exposition" In the way of short
stories there are two very interesting
ones, one by Wolcott BaIestier, Captain,
my CaptalRw story Of the town which
is the riyaf5f Topaz in ''The Naulahka,"
ana the other, "A Gray Jacket" by
Thomas Nelson Page. Few pictures so
charming have been published in the
series OF old masters as that by Luini in
TINS number. OF particularly timely
character is the article on Coast and In
land achting." by Frederick w. Pang-
porn. Ihe opening paper of the number
Is one OF remlnlscence by the painter
Healy, who is residing in Paris, on
Thomas Couture" one of the striking
ngures In modern French art. Mr..
Stedman, prints his third paper on
the subject of poetry, dealing
with Creation and Self Expression"
James Lane Allen describes "Home-
~ lrrA l.
are given of the work of the American
painters, Carl Marr. J. H. Dolph and the
sculptor, Herbert Adams, with sketch
OF these men by Mr.. Fraser of the Gen
lury, art department. OF the serials,
Halniln Garland's Western story, "Ol'
Pap's tlaxen," is concluded, and further
lnstallments are given of DR.. Weir Mitch
ellS characteristics" and THE Nau-
lahka," by kipling and Balestier. In
topics of the Time" the themes are
The Peoples Money" ''The Machine
Versus the People, and Regularity and
Independence In "Open Letters
Poultney Bigelow writes of ''The Ger
man Emperor and the Russian Menace"
A sonnet, "On Portrait of Columbus" by
". u. Woodberry, is printed opposite the
lrontlsplece-a portrait of the discoyerer
0ther poets of this number are Thomas
BAILEY Aldrlch, Louise Chandler Moul-
ton, Edith NJ. Thomas, Maurice Thomp-
son, Julian Hawthorne, Herman Mel
VilIe some posthumous verses accom-
panied by sketch by Arthur Stedman),
rank Dempster Sherman, Thomas
wentworth Higginson, James Herbert
morse and Richard Watson Glider. 'In
Lighter Vein" contains a Southern
sketch by Harry StilIwell Edwards. au-
thor OF 1.-TWO Runaways,' illustrated bv
Kemble.
Just what it means to have man of
Mr.. Howells' literary skill. Jong exne-
rence and wide personal acquaintance
WIN authors, at the head of magazine is
SHOWN In the May number of the "Cos-
mopolltan" New York;. An examina-
tloil OF The table of contents of Mr..
doWelIs' first issue seems to Justify the
confidence placed i'll his editorial ability,
Il contains a posthumous poem by
James Russell Lowell; contribution
from the famous novelist, Henry James:
story by Frank Stockton; another by
hanlln Garland; Mechanical Flight"
sleatGu S,a;tb py Professor Langley, head of
essays by Theodore Roose-
Yelt, Murat Halstead and Edward Everett
HAZE, are some of the things of interest,
while IN the same table Of contents are
round the names of Edmund Clarence
Stedman, John Hay, Brander Matthews,
II. III. Boyesen, Marion Wilcox, Gertrude
smith, Edgar Fawcett, Sarah Orne
yeNWetL, 1;NH, Lila Cabot Perry, Luther q.
Billings and Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson, Mr.. Howells himself concluding
the number with a farce. Even more
unusual than the list of authors Is that of
the artists whose work illustrates the
number. 1t includes Walter Crane. Will
lam NJ. Chase, G. S. Reinhart. F. S.
Church, Wilson de Meza, Frederic Rem
Wharton Edwards, Henry Sandbam.
Charles Howard Johnson and Louis J.
Rhead.
The Atlantic Monthly" for MAY has
these papers: 'The Emerson Thoreau
espondence-The Dial PERIOD bv
+. b. Sanborn; Private Life in Ancient
Rome l., by Harriet Waters Preston and
Louise Dodge; "A Cathedral Courtship.u
by Kate Douglas .Wiggin; ''An Attic
Plea for Seriousness" "Seyern's Roman
Journals" by William Sharp; Don Or
slno." X. NJ. by +. Marion Crawford:
Home Scenes at the Fall of the Confed
eracy," by David Dodge; 1.-The Sours
Ride" by Lila Cabot Perry: "The
Present Requirements for Admission to
Harvard College," by James j. Green
From West to East" Recent Amer
lean and English Fiction" Comment
on New Books" '.The Contributors;
Club" Houghton, Mifflin Il Co. Boston.
publishers.
The April number of the ssCatholic
quarterly Review" Hardy tS Mahonev.
Philadelphia), among other papers. has
these of interest and note to churcbmen.
The Catholic Idea in Prophecy. bv
Very Rev. Augustine T. Hewitt. D. D.
Z. ). p; Beatrice and Other AlIeooricai
Characters of Dante Alighieri," Rev.
James Conway, S. J.; "Father Her
mann," Theodore l.. l.. Telling:
christopher Columbus-The Prophecy:
The Otter; The Acceptance" Richard IT
Clarke, LII. D.; "Church and State i'm
I rance Very Rev. John Hogan, S. s.
u. d.; The Last of Three Great English
Cardinals-His Special Work,r Arthur
+. Marshall, B. A. (Oxon); Catholic
Astronomers" Rev. ID. II. O'Sulliyan. S.
d.; the Two Kendricks,'' Very Rev.
John canon o. Hanlon, NJ. r. l. A.: ''In
NJ Memoriam-Cardinal Manning" by his
eminence, Cardinal Gibbons.
"Babyhood," the mothers nursery
gude, continues in its May issue the
medlcai articles on catarrhal affections
ana the treatment of the headaches of
childhood. good deal Of space is de-
voted to what We Would Do VIII
Him." Under Nursery Problems. ad-
wee is given as to the suitable time for,
weanlng, the disagreeing of milk. learn
ing 10 SIT upright, constipation. taking
cold easily, club feet, suspicion ofworms'
etc. There are also articles on s'Dressino
I ne baby After Six Months.n "Occupa.
tons and Amusements," )" PRIMARY Musi-
cal Education," etc; s. year. SAMPLE
copies Tree on application to the Baby
hood publishing Company, 5 Beekman
street, New York.