The record-union., 1892-10-07
new PUBLICATIONS.


Volume XXIII. of the columbian
Cyclopedia" carries this excellent work
from the titles Paysandu to Pttston.
In respect to the variety Of its contents
this volume has a still wider range.
Among the subjects which will attract the
general reader are the Peabody Educa-
tlonal Fund; PEASANTS War, the terrible
scream of oppressed humanity" in Ger
many, III the 10th century; Pen, an in
| terestlng sketch of the development and
manufacture OF this important inStru-
ment; Pencil; Pensions and Pensioners,
nearly five pages; Perception; Pcriodi-
Gals; Perpetual Motion, with several il
lnstrations; Pessimisn; Petroleum; Phil
ology, fourteen pages; Philosophy; Pho
netlc Alphabet; Photographs; Phospho-
rus; Photography, fourteen pages; Bhre-
nology, nearly fifteen pages; fhysiognony
and PHYSIOLOGY. In the line of geogra-
phy we find articles on Peklng; PennsyI-
vania, twenty-five pages, including val
liable statistical tables; Persia; Phlladel-
phla. more than twelve pages; Phpnicia;
Pitcairn Island, settled by mutineers of
the Bounty, and Pittsburg. In the line
of biography we find many noted names,
including George Peabody the phiIan-
thropist; Dom Pedro, late Emperor of
Brazil; Sir Robert Peel; Pelagius, the
theologian; William Penn; Emile and
Isaac Pereire, the great French tinancierS
who founded the Credit Mobilier; Peri
cles. the Greek statesman; Petrarch, the
poet of Italy; Austin Phelps, the edu-
Gator, and William Walter Phelps, the
statesman; Phidias, the Greek sculptor;
Wendell Phillips, the retormer and ora
tor; Timothy Pickering; Franklin Pierce,
the President; Charles &. Pinckney,
author OF the famous phrase millions
for defense, but not a cent Tor trlbute,'
and William Pitt, the English statesman.
Among the topics which Will be consulted
by religious people are Pelagianism; Pen
tuelch, near y eight pages; Pentacost;
Perlecuonisul; PerfectioniSts; PerSever-
ance OF the Saints; Peter, the Apostle;
Pharisees; Pietism; Pilgrim, and Pill
! grim Fathers, nine and a half pages. The
farmer will find articles on Pea; Peach;
Peanut; Pear, and PhyllONera; the student
will find many interesting articles on
neurological characters: many legal top
les are treated, and there are subjects
along all other lines of investigation.
The work is wonderfully complete, and
is brought down to Gate. The subjects
are ably treated and the large number of
illustrations form very helpful feature of
the work. We commend this cyclopedia
which, in many important respects. is Il
great advance on any OF Its predecessors.
1t is sold by agents. GarretSon, Cox IL
Co., New York, publishers, 1893 Pearl
street.
To the "Review of Reviews" New
York and London) tor October Mr.. Stead,
the English editor, contributes one of his
raciesJ character sketches, this time deal
ing with Mr.. Gladstone's new Cabinet in
a bunch, so to speak, rather than with
some single parsonage. Mr.. Shaw, the
American editor, writes of two great
Americans, Whittier and George Will
lam Curtis, the article containing not
| only recent portraits of these two emil
nent men, but also very interesting pict-
ures of them as they appeared forty
years ago. The Review OF Reviews" in
various ways recognizes the completion
Of four centuries since Columbu dis
covered America, and the preparations
hich are making to celebrate that event
during the present and the coming year.
Perhaps the most important con-
tribution that has recently been
made 10 the literature of current
religious movements and tenden-
cies is that which the Review" contains
in the form of a group of articles brought
under the generic title, Religious Co
operation, Local, National and Interna-
tional." This series includes eight brief
papers, one by DR.. Strong, of the Evan
gelical Alliance, on "Co-operation in
Practical Church Work.; by the Rev. DR..
Dana on competition in Home Mis-
SlODS ; DY Or. w dSnluSlOU Olduu6H Oh
the Municipal Idea of the Church,; by
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes on National
Christianity: by the Count D'Alviella
on the NV World's Parliament of Religions
at Chicago; one summing up the prog
resS Of the "Civic Center' movement in
England; one describing the progress of
! the brotherhood of Christian Unity"
movement in America; and one review
| ing the recent English religious confer
ences on the reunion of churches, held at
Grindelwald i'll Switzerland. Numerous
portraits accompany these articles. In
! their popular department, entitled The
Progress of the World" the editors cover
briefly and tersely the leading topics that
absorb attention of America and Europe
The cholera question has it's due atten-
ton, and the English political situation
is quite fully discussed. Numerous
maps, sketches and portraits make this
October number quite as interesting and
entertaining as is its predecessors.
No periodical is probably more read
and enjoyed than the Magazine OF
American History" 1t is an elegant
country in past years, aud every article
is readable and worth preserving. There
| is infinite pleasure in cutting its leaves
| The October number greets US with a
handsomely y-illusIrated paper on His
toric Homes and Landmarks" by the
! editor, wnlcn gives SplrlteQ account OF
| White Plains in the Revolution" Mrs,
Lamb marshals the American officers
into a brilliant procession, and discovers
| to the public that almost all the distin-
| guished men of the revolution We're with
| Washington at this crisis. One feels.
after turning these pages, as if he had ac-
tually seen vast military parade. Col
umbus in Romance" by o. A. Bierd-
stadt, is timely contribution, for it
! shows how much has been written in
| glorification of the great discoverer by
| the poets, novelists and dramatists of
various countries. "A Bit of College
| History" by Roger S. Baldwin, enlight-
ems the present generation as to how and
/ why young men were expelled from col
! lege 100 years ago. The Career of Gem
eral James Hogun, one of North Caro-
! lina's Revolutionary Officers by Judge
Walter Clark of Raleigh, is tardy
| tribute to deserving hero. ''Some Rel
! les of John Howard, the Philanthropist," ;"
| by Howard Edwards, takes the reader
into another train of thought and re-
search. "A Historian in Color.r by
Charles Cheney Hyde, sketches John
Trumbull and his numerous vicissitudes.
The story of Horseshoe Robinson
grows more exciting as the end ap-
proaches. Colonel Norton continues his