The record-union., 1892-03-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Progress of the World" which is
the exceedingly live editorial department
OF the Review OF Reviews" New York.
discusses the American political situa-
ton with great frankness in it's March
number. a very fine new portrait oi
Grover Cleveland is presented, as also
are equally striking half-tone present
ments Of President harrison, Mr.. Blaine,
PostmaSter-G General Wanamaker, Chief
Justice Fuller the late justice Bradley.
Chairman Bland OF the Coinage Com
mittee and tie late John j. Knox. The
review OF foreign affairs is also fresh and
keen, and is interspersed with portraits
OF Judge Henry Foster Of Chile; Presi-
dent Dlaz and Senor Cara of Mexico;
tul-page portraits of Prince George and
the Duke of Clarence; a fine, full-page
portrait of Father Anderledy, the late
General OF the JeSuits; portraits of NJ. de
Freycinet and VI. Clemenceau, who are
SO prominent in the present political
crisis in France, and various other celeb
rites OF the day. Among the interesting
special articles one finds an account of
Professor Ely and the new Wisconsin
State University School OF Social and
Political Science, as director of which
Professor Ely has accepted an appoint
ment. There is also review of the late
Professor Emile de Layeley's new work
upon democratic Government" and a
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aIlty. There are further notes upon the
London Polytechnic's proposed excur-
sion Of thousands of young English me-
chanicS to the Worlds Far at Chicago
next year, and an article discussing and
tavorIng the proposed sixteenth amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States.
The Popular Science Monthly'' for
March has varied and attractive table
of tl,.nf 1, l. q
DIR. Andrew D. Whites new chapters i'll
The Warfare of Science" dealing with
astronomy. In the series on American
industries there is fully illustrated paper
on The Organ" by Daniel Spillane, de-
scribing some of the largest Instruments
in the United States. Domestic Ami
mails in India, is by John Lock
contributes an instructive paper on
Social Statistics of Cities in his Les
sons From the Census" Under the title
''Wayside Optics' Il lesson on the mech
anisnl of the eye, with diagrams. is given
by DR.. Casey A. Wood. Ia Moral Edu-
cability'' the possibility of educating the
moral faculties is discussed by Edward
p. Jackson. The latest important dis
covery in zoology, that of the Australian
Marsupial Mole, is described, with illus
trations, by DR.. e. Trouessart. There is
q very spirited "Autobiographical Sketch
of JustuS Won Liebig.' An account OF
''The Cotton Industry in Brazil" and its
prospects is given by john c. Branner
There is popular discourse on the natu-
raj history of babies by DR.. Louis Robin
son. In the Editors Table, ethical
teaching in schools is discussed, and the
other departments present pleasing
variety. New York: d. Appleton q Co.
Naval topics are prominent in Crank
Leslie's Popular Monthly for April.
The opening paper is a profusely illus
trated account of the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, by Thomas Stinson Jarvis. "Chiie,
and Modern Naval Warfare presents
some spirited pictures, by an English
eyewitness, of the principal engagements
in the Chilean revolution of last wear.
which taught the world ali it knows
about the practice and conditions of ma
rine warfare with the new ironclad YES
sells and improved armaments. Captain
II. d. Smith, US N, writes of Hen
lopen and its Hidden Treasures An
article of unusual interest is that upon
''Some Representative American bra
matists," by Arthur Hornblow, accom-
panied by portraits ond autograph letters
of the principal new men, in our native
dramatic literature. ''Cities of the Dead"
"a Day with the Round-up," ''Some
North German Towns,' and "Old Eng
lish Porcelain" are other subjects inter
estingly described and illustrated while
short stories and poems are contributed
by Lucy Hooper, Olive Harper, c. NJ.
Harger, David Ker, Belle Hunt, Charles
III. Crandall, Madison Cawein, Henry
Tyrrell and others.
Clothes Make the Man," says the pro-
verb, and new spring dress is a neces-
sity to every woman. The April "Peter-
son" gives specimens of all the newest
and most becoming styles. The two
double fashion mates show every yariatv
of American and Partisan costumes and
bonnets. There are excellent designs
and descriptions of all sorts of garments
for ladies and children, besides pages of
notes and suggestions for housekeepers.
as novel as they are useful "a Strange
Country" by Sidney Ross, is the first ac-
count any American magazine has given
of that unique district in France termed
The Landes. 1.-THE Story of Gilbert
Neal' is by NJ. G. McClelland. ssOld-
Time Thimbles," by Harriet Latham, is