The record-union., 1892-04-25
new PUBLICATIONS.

Lh1cSOuIi, h6pISSSRldtlNG IOOubCiiO va
Maine, Representative Burrows of Michi-
gan, Representative Wilson of West Vir-
ginia and Representative Kilgore OF
Texas An article on 1.-The Poet OF
Democracy walt Whitman) by John
Burroughs, and other contributions by
Hon. Charles Emory Smith, United
States Minister to st. Petersburg, and the
find little that is fiattering in an article
which General b. +. Butler has written,
Lady Jeune, whose receptions are SO
agreeable and noteworthy a feature of the
London season, has written on London
Society.'' THE Exclusion of the Chi
nese From the United States'' is the sub
iect of an article by Hon. John Russell
Young. The concluding article in the
series of four on the ''Olympian Re-
ligion," which Mr.. Gladstone has written
for the Review" appears. Professor
Goodwin Smith has a severe arraignment
of the methods of party government,
both here and in Great Britain. Senator
Stewart of Nevada, Chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Mines and Mining, has
an able article on The Rules OF the
Sold Kings" There are also brief ar
ticles OIL ''Our Exports to Mexico" by the
Mexican Minister; Can We Have Cheap
Cabs?" by A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad; Twenty five Years of
Alaska" by Ivan Petroff; Contracts
and Currency" by Sylvester Baxter, and
''The Growth of Cities" by Charles NJ.
Harvey.
There is a freshness of spring time
about the May Ladies' Home Journal -
The number opens up with "A Day in
PATHS Castle" by Florence Wilson. Mrs.
John Wanamaker gives a paper on ''The
Patient Work of Motherhood"; Mrs.
William Ewart Gladstone contributes her
second article, Hints from a Mothers
LIFE; Miss V. Stuart Mosby furnishes a
sketch, with portrait, of the wife OF ex-
Senator Ingalls,; Mrs. Alice Freeman
Palmer is written of by Kate Upson
Clark, and Mrs. l.. B. Wallord gives a
charming description of IAN American
Girl at Court" Two good illustrated
short stories, "a Modern Martyr" by
Madeline 5. Bridges, and "a Privileged
Person." by Caroline Atwater Mason.
provide good fiction. "The Duchess
writes OF when l Was a Grip; Mrs.
Beecher continues her "reminiscences;
Mrs. NJ. G. Williams writes of the Native
Heath of Authors; Mrs. George #.
Lanigan of 1.-The Naming of Country
House,; Mrs. Burton Kingsland of
Ideas for Pretty Luncheons," and Rob-
ert j. Burdette discourses ON May.
Palmer Cox gives full page of his in
imitable Brownies; Mrs. Mallon devotes
several pages to summer and graduation
gowns, and Miss Haywood writes of
Tapestry Painting; DIR. Talmage, Mrs
Lyman Abbott, Mrs. Bottome, Miss
Scovil, Miss Parloa, Miss Hooper, Ruth
Ashmore. Foster Coates and Eben E.
Rexford ill their departments The Cur
tbs Publishing Company, Philadelphia.
Herbert Spencer and the Synthetic
Philosophy" is the subject that opens the
May Popular Science Monthly" The
writer, w. II. Hudson, was for some
years the philosopher S private Secretary.
Considerable space is given to anthro-
pology in this number. A copiously IL
lustrated article on "Cave DWELLINGS of
Men" is contributed by w. ii. Larrabee
1t relates not only to the ancient cave
dwellings of America and the Old World,
but describes also the way in which
modern troglodytes are living in several
parts of Europe to-day. David Dwight
Wells illustrates Evolution in Folk
Lore" Professor Frederick Starr tells
what facilities there are for "Anthropo-
logical Work in Europe In other de-
partments of science are 1.-The Limitations
of the Healing Art" by DIR. II. Nothna-
gel; some considerations as to "Why We
Should Teach Geology" by Professor A.
5. Packard; an illustrated paper on "Den-
drlteS,' a curious tree-like formation in
rocks, by Stanislas Meunier; and one of
Grant Aliens always delightful papers
on "A Desert Fruit namely, the prickly
pear. The paper on Science and Fine
Art" by Emil Du raymond, is con-
cluded. as is the one on bad Air and
Bad HEALTH" by Harold Wager and
Auberon Herbert. A sketch and portrait
of "Alessandro Volta" the discoverer of
voltaic electricity, are given. New York,
ID. Appleton d Co.
Mrs. Frank Leslie's vivacious chron-
icle of the transcontinental excursion and
first annual convention of the Interna-
tional League of Press Clubs appro-
priately leads the brilliant MAY number
nf nSli III
Nalerien Gribayedoff illustrates with
some spirited drawings a timely paper,
full of instructive interest, on the
Armies of Continental Europe" by
Thomas Donnelly. Felix Oldboy's Re-
collections" an idyllic description of New
York city in the last generation, is the
last piece OF literary work done by its
gifted author. the late Colonel John Flavel
Mines. 1t is charmingly illustrated by
Joseph Becker. Other important contri-
buttons TO this number are: '"rhoreau,"
by w. l. Lincoln Adams; Through the
Jura," Won Moltke on the Franco
German War;" "a Nautical Gladiator,
the Swordfish), by Hugh NJ. Smith. of
the United States Fish Commission;
Footsteps of the Swedes along the Della
ware" by Richard j. Hinton, and the
concluding article on ''Old English Porce-
lain," by Thomas L. Winthrop. The
short stories and departments are rs
haid Nshi4So as 10 Will
this periodical.
The Magazine of Art'' (Cassell & Co.,
New York and London) for May is a
very handsome number and rich i'm illus
tration. The frontispiece is beautiful
photogravure from painting by l..
Alma-radema, r. A. Then follows
'Stanhope a. Forbes, A. r. A." by Miss
Marion Hepworth Dixon, with a por-
trait; "Glimpses of Artist-Life: Press
Day and Critics." by NJ. II. Spielmann,
with an illustration; Artistic Homes !:
Wallpaper Decoration" by Lewis +.
Day, with illustrations; Sir George Reid
y. K. 5. A." by Professor Baldwin
Brown, with nine illustrations; Painter
Etching; Art Treasures OF the Comedie
Francaise-Part H." by Theodore Child.
with five illustrations; Irish types anu
Traits" by Miss Katharine lyman, with
three Illustrations by ii. Helnic; ILLUS
trated Notebook; "The Chronicle of
Art" and American Art Notes.
A prominent feature of the number of
"Harper's Weekly published April 10Th
was an article, 10y Anne ID. HalloWeli, re-
lating AN Episode in the Lite of James
Russell Lowell" Mrs. HaIlowell is the
daughter of Edward NJ. Davis, OF phi!a-
delphia, a prominent actor in the early
antl-slavery movement, at whose home
some of the incidents which she narrates
occurred. The article contains many let
ters full of domestic interest, written by
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell in the early days of
their married life to Mr.. Davis ana his
wife letters which have never before
been published. 1t also includes a poem
by MIR. Lowell, "A Raliying Cry for New
England Against the Annexation of
Texas" which does not appear in any
edition of his works. The article is ac-
companied by portraits of Mr.. and Mrs
Lowell from daguerreotypes taken soon
after their marriage.
Some time ago Public Opinion"
Washington, d. g., the eclectic journal
of Washington and New York offarad