The record-union., 1892-08-27
new PUBLICATIONS.

Among the many interesting and note
! worthy articles that have appeared in re-
/ cent issues OF 1.-THE Living Age" are
Europe and Africa" by William Gres-
we'll IAN Authentic Account of the
Events Leading Up to the Franco-Ger-
man War Of lS70'' is a calm, unimpas-
stoned recital of those events from the
pen of an active participatOr in them,
/ Ernest Pinard 'The Earl OF Albemarle," :"
! by Roden Noel. The story of this life so
lately closed. "Ancient Rome and Mod
ern London" compares the old World
metropolis with the new TO the adVan-
tage of the former. THE Lost Cause"
! gives a chapter from the romantic history
OF that Earl OF DerwentWater who Sacrl-
| feed his life to the cause of the Stuarts.
The New Star in Auriga," by William
/ Huggins, is the substance of a discourse
| given at the Royal Institution. "Curi-
osities in our Cathedrals,' San (East)
Indian Funeral Sacrifce,'' 'The Tuscan
Sculpture Of the Renaissance" :" 1.-The In
surrection in Mongolia" The Fourth
Centenary Of Columbus" !" Letters Of
/ Carlyle to Varnhagen Won Ense," etc.
Five Voices From an Old Music Book"
! ''Sister'' we hardly know whether to
class as fiction or as chapter OF verltable
history. The usual page of current
poetry accompanies each number. The
price OF this weekly publication, IS per
annum, is very low. Littell u Co., Bos-
! ton.
"Why Young Men Defer Marriage is
! the subject Of an interesting article on
! this trulh-asserting topic, by John Lam
! bert Payne, in the September Ladies'
! Home Journal" Between Mistress and
/ Maid" is intelligently discussed by Har-
! rIet Prescott Spotford, Mrs. Lyman Alb
| bott, Helen S. Conant and Christine Ter
! hume Herrick, as is Getting Home from
the Country" by Helen Jay. The wife
! OF Alexander Dumas is the subject of a
sketch by Lucy Hamilton Hooper. Maude
| Haywood contributes a specially Illus
trated paper on ''The Chicago Society of
! Decorative Art.'' The editor speaks some
! timely words about the restlessness OF the
! American man and its effect upon women
The fiction of the number includes the
continuation of Miss Magruder's delight
! ful story, IA Live Ember," clever short
story entitled "a Fair Fee" by Cornelia
/ Rathbone, illustrated by Frank O. Small
and GA Princess Wolf Hunt" by the
| Marquise de Fontenoy. a carefully pre-
! pared paper by Isabella M. Altken upon
! The Care of the Hands, will be found
/ valuable TO women, as will Miss Par
! loa's ''All About the House," Rev. T.
! De Witt Talmage writes of Art in the
! Old World" Robert j. Burdette writes
refreshingly of ''Home, Sweet Home"
and Mrs. Mallon gives some Hints to
! Elderly Women" Curtis Publishing
Company, Philadelphia.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
| September is very richly illustrated. One
/ plate is in five colors. The leading papers
are: ''An American Gentleman's Estate"
George j. Manson; "Beneath the Surface
! of the Sea-" Captain II. d. Smith, U. S. N;
| ''FoX's Ferry" Eta w. Pierce; "a
Bird's-E Eye View of Latin-American
Politics." Jose Bornn; ''Soaping Gey-
sers"; with the Paris Art Student"
/ Corwin X. Linson; ''Ihe Great ChanJry
Diamonds" Daniel Dane; History of
the Osaka Castle, Japan," w. c. Sakai;
AN Island of Amazons," Margaret B.
! Wright; The Supernatural in History"
| Lucy III. Hooper; "a Day With Victor
| Hugo" j. William Fosdick; 1.-THE Ex-
tinction of the Great Sea Serpent" Rich
ard Beynon, F. Il. q. s.; "a Cruise in
the Erie Basin," Don C. Seitz; silk
Making in Italy," Lena L. Pepper;
Realism VS.. Impressionism," Maude
! Thockmorton Wilson; Port Limon,"
| Cecil Charles: 1.-The Last Of the Roman
Tribunes," John MacMullen; "Gallic In
vaders." Mary V. Worstell; RECENT
Progress in Science" Ernest Ingersoll.
The Magazine of Art'' for September
has for its frontispiece an etching by
Contessor," variously known as the
The Good PASTOR and "Rival Con-
fessors." The opening article is devoted
to Onslow Ford, the English sculptor, and
is by Marion Hepworth Dixon. "Charles
keene, His Life and His Work. has for
its foundation George Somer's Life of
! keene. Some of the best illustrations
! from the book are used. Apropos of the
] Shelly centenary, Theodore Watts con-
| tributes a poem. Lord Ronald Cover
! discusses ''Some Portraits of Marie An
toinette." Bernard Evans, landscape
| painter, is exploited by Alfred L. Story,
whose assertions regarding his clever
ness are made good by the illustrations
given. The new Grafton Gallery,
is carefully described by NJ. Phipps
Jackson. There is an article on ''Artistic
Homes," and there are copious notes.
Cassell Publishing Company, London
and New York.
'Harper's Weekly" we find to be
| constant source of good things. The
number for August 18th was especially
strong in editorial and interesting and
other matter, and the illustrations were
very striking, largely eXpository of the
Columbian year activities. Among arti-
cles of especial value were: ''Trolleys
and Storage Batteries" ''The Rise of the
Summer Cottage" THE Clubs Of Chi
cago," by Henry Loomis Nelson, with
eight illustrations; Anarchists in New
York;" by John Gilmer Speed, with six
illustrations: The Columbus Monument
in New York." with six illustrations:
columbus Himself at Chicago" with
seven Illustrations; Abandoned Farms
in the East" Exploiting the Great
Fair" by Julian Ralph, with portrait of
Major Moses p. Handy; "The Opposition
of Mars" by Garrett P. Serviss, illus
trated; state Buildings at the Fair,
with five Illustrations.
The overland for September (san
Francisco has several excellent ilIustra
tions. Its leading papers are: "Califor-
MA" by Charles A. Gunnison-head
piece by Peixotto; LOS Farallones de
los FrayIes," by Charles S. Greene: t.To
Ina D. coolbrith;% by Ella Higginson;
''An Interesting Historical Discovery. ;;
! by John S. Hittell "A Bare Faced De-
ception," by Charles e. Brim blecom.
''At Anchor" by Isabel Hammell Raw
mond; In Mendocino," by Lillian H
Shuey; staging in the Mendocino Red
woods" H., by Ninetta Eames; ''Quail
and Quail-Shooting, by j. A. A. Rob
ninos; "The Storm" by Sam Davis:
1.-TWO Gournets OF Bloomfield, - by Alice
S. Wolf; Russia and America" by Hor-
ace 4. Cutter; "The Wrong Trump" by
Emma a. Thurston.
The serial Barbara Merivale" opens
| ''Cassell's Family Magazine" for Sep
tember, and is followed by a practical
paper, My Wood-Carving Experience.
''The Well in the Cuckoo's Grove'' de-
scribes picturesque summer resort in
Wales. How Wilderness Became a