The record-union., 1892-09-29
new PUBLICATIONS.

With page of pretty Luncheons and
Dainty Teas, a special paper on Changes
in Fashionable Stationery" by Ada Ches-
ter Bond, and an article by Mrs. A. @.
Lewis on "Children's Parties, Fetes and
Frolics," the October Ladies' Home
Journal opens attractively. Marguerite
Merington gives sketch, with portrait
of Margaret Deland, the author Of John
Ward, Preacher" and Mrs. Mallon writes
entertainingly of the personality and
home-life of 'The Duchess" the author
of phyllis and Molly Bawn." Aimee
Raymond, daughter of the late Henry S.
Raymond, is pictured and pleasantly
written OF, as is the wife of Oscar Wilde,
in the series of Unknown Wives of
Well-known Men," Rev. #. Dewitt
Talmage discourses of his travels
Through Nictoria's Domain" Abram S.
Isaacs of 1.-The Jewess in Authorship
and Robert j. Burdette of October and
the Ills That 1t Is Heir to- The editor
talks of the necessity for thorough
boys. Maud Haywood gives good adj
vice to art students. The fiction in
cludes "Clad in Doublet and Hose"
by May Kelsey Champion. and
the continuation of Julia Magruder's
serial story, "A Live Ember."
Women who love dainty fancy work are
remembered in a page of Ideas in Dainty
Needlework," by Sara Hadley, and a
Group of Artistic Portieres,' by Mar
garet Sims. Mrs. Mallon's dresses for
Early Autumn" will be found helpful.
Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Mrs. Margaret Bot
tome, Miss Maria Parloa, Miss Scoyil.
Ruth Ashmore and Mr.. Rexford all fiji
their departments. The Curtis Publish
ing Company, Philadelphia.
''Lippincotts Magazine for October
philadelphia has the complete novel
1.-The Kiss of Go1d,'' by Miss ate Jordan.
1t deals with the fortunes and INSIDE
meanors of a young writer, whose sud-
den success was attended by temptation
too strong for his integrity. The tale is
illustrated throughout. Under the title,
Hearing My Requiem" George Alfred
Townsend ('Gath'') narrates a curious
incident in his professional experience of
long ago. James Cox gives history of
that well-established institution, the Car
nival at st. Louis. This paper is illus
trated by six full-page plates. Edwin
Checkley, whose portrait precedes his ar
ticle, continues the Athletic Series.r A
portrait of the veteran poet and journal
list. Richard Henry Stoddard, heads his
"reminiscences of the late James Russell
Lowell. Sigmund j. Cauf1man furnishes
fully illustrated account of certain mon
uments and remains, little known to the
ordinary tourist, of 'Old Paris" In
Men of the Day. NJ. Crofton gives free
and vivid sketches of G.. 4. Sala, Sir L.
Leighton, Camille Flammarion, and. for
home subjects, Speaker Crisp and Cen
eral r. A. Pryor. ''As 1t Seems, dis
cusses the vexed question of romance VS..
realism III its present aspects. There is
an illustrated short story, AT the Stage
Door," by Robert NJ. Stephens. The
poetry of the number is by Margaret J.
Preston, Helen Marion Burnside and
John B. Tabb, besides a striking dialect
piece. The Prayer Cure in the Pines.''
by Clarence II. Pearson.
'LittelPs Living Age" comes freighted
with good things. Its excellent table OF
contents is suggestive of many delightful
hours of instructive and entertaining
reading. Two articles that appear in No.