The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-03-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The March number of the Ladies'
nome JournaP' preserves the excellence
which this magazine has accustomed it's
readers to expect. The place of honor is
given To the illustrated article by Ada
Chester Bond, "a Royal Recluse": Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher continues her in
terestIng "reminiscences; Miss Winnie
Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis, con-
tributes her concluding paper on 1.-THE
American Girl Who Studies Abroad:
Mrs. Frank Leslie and Henri Junius
browne answer with decided negatives
the questioned accusations, "Are Our
Girls Too independent? and care
Women lnconstant?" Frederick Dol
man gives sketch with portrait of Mrs
Charles ii. Sturgeon. The first part of
serial, "A Brief Prelude" by Margaret
Butler Snow, appears; A. B. WenzelI pro-
Yldes fiction; Samuel Abbott and Harry
Romano contribute short poems, while
the cover bears poem to March" by
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox; Rev. DIR. Taimage
Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Mrs. Margaret Bot
tome and Mrs. Scovil are found in their
respective departments; Robert J. Bur-
dette discourses pleasantly From a New
Inkstand"; Ruth Ashmore continues
Side Talks With Girls" and Foster
Coates gives the boys good information
The artistic is represented by Maude
Haywood and Mary +. Knapp. Mrs,
Mallon writes of Fashionable Visiting
Toilets, and Miss Hooper is helpful to
the home dressmaker. The juvenile sub
scribers are remembered in the full page
| Of Palmer CoX's Brownies" The Cur
tbs Publishing Company, Philadelphia.
The March number of ''St. Nicholas
contains useful sketch by John NJ. Eli
colt Of the navy, describing how a land
ing is made through heavy surf. The ar
| ticle is illustrated by Taber from photo
] TrY.n he, Tco
poem, "ArteSia of Tulare.' Hold Fast
Tom is an incident of the capture of the
| Island Of st. Helena from the Dutch, told
E@by David ker. Arthur Hewlett Coates
throws needed light on the construction
and use of 1.-The Boomerang" j. c..
| Francis, creator of the famous "Aztec
| Fragments" heralds his temperance bv
jingle and drawing Of The Genial Gri-
maxim" Charles f. Lummis tells an
| other Pueblo folklore tale. 1.-The Man
| Who Married the Noon" There is a bit
! of genuinely fine engraving OF an UNI
| hackneyed subject for trontispiece.
There are many pieces and pictures
worthy of notice. The four serials con-
| tlnue, and we call attention to their high
excellence and novelty in style and plot.
Century Publishing Company, New
| York.
The numbers of ''Tbe Living Age" for
the week ending 10Th and 9th of Febru-
airy contained Gothic and Saracen
Architecture" Westminster; ''The Max
ing of a Mandarin" London Quarterly:
English and American Flowers, by
Alfred r. Wallace; british Administra-
! ton in West Africa THE New AS
! tronomy and it's Results" and Victor
! Hugo, 'Dieu,'" Fortnightly; impress
| ions of Rome" New Review; "Jamaica
and Mauritius, and Corner of Essex -
! Nationals; ''Bernardin de nt-Pierre,"
! Temple Bar; "A Glimpse of Asia Minor"
! Cornhill; The Fall Of BaImaceda' -
| Blackwood; ''Smollett in the South" and
Mrs. Diifidence," All the Year Round;
| "Epigrams, Kindly and Singing" '"rhe
| Justification of the Will,' and ''Possible
| Pets" Spectator; with THE History of a
| Failure" The Wears Secret" and
! poetry. Littell q Co., Boston, ale the
! publishers.
The March number of Romance
| offers the varied and attractive table of
contents which the reading public has
| come to expect from this magazine.
| There are eighteen complete stories, and
writers of half dozen nationalities are
! represented. The list is headed by Tour
! guenetf, and another vigorous story is by
Moritz Jokai, the Hungarian author.
! Those who relish humor will enjoy three
funny translations from the French.
| Admirers OF ingenious plots, of romantic
! affection and OF touching pathoS, viii find
! their preferences regarded. Among the
! original stories is one of especial strength
"a study of life in the Southwest, fall OF
| local color, by IL. l.. Sargent. Romance
Publishing Company, Clinton Hall,
Astor Place, New York.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine for
March is richly and profusely illustrated.
! Among the leading illustrated papers
are the Columbian Exposition" by VI.
| ID. De1oung; Cologne Cathedral" by
| Elizabeth Bisland; An Episode in Mex
! ico,'' by Eleanor Sea; IN otes from an
! EX-Guardsman's Notebook" by Henry
| Arthur Herbert; "a Night With Leap
/ ard" by Macmahon Challinor; Political
| Cartoons of John Tennret," by f. G.
| Reynolds; Problems of Aerial Naviga-
! tion," by the editor. These are not all,
! but enough to disclose the variety and at
tractiveness of the magazine, one of the
! best of the day. New York: Fifth av-
aenue, Broadway and Twenty-fith street.
! "Harper's Weekly for February 9th
was very interesting number and illus
trated very richly. The editorials were
on current ''live" topics: the illustrations
| present architecture, portraiture, industry
and landscape. The dou page view is
of Pittsburg, Pa; and an especially happy
! picture is an interior view OF a Sunday
afternoon at the Boston Museum OF Fine
Arts. The pictures from the Westminster
Kennel Club will greatly interest sports
men.