The record-union., 1892-03-24
new PUBLICATIONS.

| The most elaborate travellers and
| Shippers directory and guide book of
/ routes, rates and other details of travel
Tor the States and Territories west of the
| ROCKY Mountains, is that of the Denborn
! Company, San Francisco and is entitled
! travellers and Shippers Directory for
the Pacific Coast" We have copy by
courtesy of III. A. Cummings, San Fran
cisco. The book is Of nearly 600 pages,
and is to be issued monthly 1t is abso-
\ lutely exhaustive of every detail relative
TO rail and steamer routes, freight and
fares information, tickets, time tables
| excess OF baggage, stations, connections,
banks, bankers, bills of ladng, ship
| ping receipts, coastwise vessels, postage
and postal union, arrival and departure
of mails, commutation rates, excursion
| rates, through rates, sleepingcar fees,
! through tickets, ,dutiable aud nou-dutiable
| goods, methods of consignment. postal
and express money order rates and tel
egraph tariffs for all points on the coast,
and at what places available, and half
! hundred other subjects. No such an
elaborate work has ever before been at
tempted, of the guide-book order.
upon this coast 1t fills want and de-
| serves success.
The frontispiece OF the Magazine of
Art" for April is an etching by Chauvel
from Troyon's 1.-The Watering Place."
which is among the happiest and most
! admired of this famous painters compo-
| sitions. The opening article is 1.-The Old
Masters at the Royal Academy" richly
| illustrated with reproductions from Rem
| brandt, Sir Joshua and Constable. "The
! Art treasures OF the Comedie Franchise
| is by Theodore Child. illustrated with
J views OF the interior Of La Maison de
Moliere. 1.-The Royal Water Color So
ciety; Its Rise and History is by +. G..
stephens, founded on Roget's book. "The
Dixon .Bequest at Bethnal Green is by
| W. Shaw-Sparrow. Lewis L. Day writes,
IN series on artistic homes, about '"rhe
! Choice of Wall Paper" illustrating his
| article with a number of tasteful pat
! terms. There is a short paper on archi-
lecture, "A Profession or an Art" an
illustrated paper on ''The Royal Academy
! Students Competition. a notebook full
OF timely illustrations, and a large batch
OF home and foreign art notes. Cassell
Publishing Company, New York and
| London.
"LittelFs Living Age'' is issued weekly
| by Llttell x Co., Boston. 1t is the only
eclectic weekly in the world Its age
may be understood when we say it is
now in the 192d volume OF it's existence,
and the fifth series of its eventful life.
Its scheme is to present the cream of the
great foreign English writing reviews
and magazines, such as the "National
| Review" ''Gentleman's Magazine. -
Temple Bar" '.Fortnightly,'5 'Fra-
ser's," ''CornhilI," .'Blackwood's, )"
Nineteenth Century," Leisure Hour"
London Quarterly ETC. 1t is in our
estimation one Of the most valuable ionr-
nails literary man can have, while gem
! eral readers will find it of the deepest in
terest If their tastes are at all elevated.
! The numbers for March 18th and March
18th are at hand, and are up to the usual
standard OF this splendid old magazine.
! Littell IL Co. club with all leading maga-
/ zines for subscribers to the Age"
! THE English illustrated Magazine
for March (Macmillan y Co., III Fourth
| avenue, New York;, has this table of con-
! tents: THE Queens Rivera Residence:n
The Late Mr.. Spurgeon," by the Rev. ii.
! 4. Haweis: Athlete Sports at oxford
and Cambridge" by NJ. Shearman and
! Il. w. Turner; 1.-The Royal Mews.n
| by official permission; 'Among the
! Western Song Men, by :. Barring
Gould; "Nona Vincent" by Henry
James; 1.-The Lost" an Australian story
! by Mary Gaunt; and ''The Speakers
Mace" by III. NJ. Cundall. Every article
| is illustrated and finely so. This maga-
zine is steadily broadening and betterlng.
1t Is one OF the best cheap monthlies re-
ceiyed in any English-speaking commu-
nifty; It's character is far superior to what
its low price might be thought to indi-
cate.
"Harper's Young People" for March
| 10Th was a very handsome and freely
| illustrated number and well filled with
story letters, poetry, wit and instruction.