The record-union., 1892-05-12

Lorne urges with frank conviction that
Great Britain is in the right. Goodwin
SmIIh.s article, Party Government on
Its Trial." describes the evil that lies in
party spirit in popular government
John Russell Young writes of 1.-The Chi
nese Question: Lady Jeune has an ar
ticle on London Society," MIR. Glad
stone concludes his instructive papers on
The olympian Religion" other topics
discussed are Mexican Trade" by NJ
Romero, the Mexican Minister; "Con-
tracts and Currency" by Sylvester Bax-
ter; "Can We Have Cheap Cabs2v by A.
j. Cassatt; Growth Of Cities" by Chas.
NJ. Harvey; Twenty-Five Years of
Alaska" by Ivan Petrof, and "The New
York Trade Schools" by Colonel Rich
ard L. Auchmuty.
The Overland Monthly' for May (San
Francisco) has these papers: street
Characters of San Francisco" Francis E.
est" Herbert Bashford; .'Patsy's Pot
lach,'' f. l. Vassault; AN Idol Of High
Price," Frank Bailey AIiliard; Balboa" :"
Felicia Madden; ''Santa Catalina Mock
ing Birds Night Song" Silvia Lawson
Covey; California Flower Shows" e. j.
Wlckson illustratedl; Hard Times in
the Colonies,' L. j. B.; 1.-The Raisin In
man illtIstrated); "Art, and What Cali
fornia Should DO About Her." Douglas
Tilden (illustrated); Mount Tacoma"
Alice Gray Cowan; Daughter" Isabel
LamaiSon; 'California's Discovery of
Gold in lS4I," John Murray; ''Eschsch-
oltzias," Alice Gray Cowen; "Fuegia,"
Andrew /. Sibbald; ''The Story OF Mar
garet NJ. Hecox," Marie Valhasky; ''The
Wrath OF the Shark God" Newell Doug
las; IAN Estimate of Walt Whitman"
The April number No. 54) OF the Riv-
erslde Literature Series published quar-
terly during the present school year, at
hfteen cents single number, by Hough-
ton, Mitflin Il Co., Boston and New
York; contains more than score of the
poems OF William Cullen Bryant that are
most celebrated and best adapted for use
in schools. Among these may be men
toned "Sella," ''Thanatopsis," 1.-The
White footed Deer,'' ''The Little People
of the Snow" !'To the Fringed Gentian"
and Abraham Lincoln" The poems
selected, with biographical sketch and
explanatory notes, make this number
one OF the best that have been lately
issued in the Riverside Literature Series
Romance for May New York is a
mastery good number. The magazine is
devoted wholly to short, complete stories,
and they are always of high order. 1t
IS new departure in magazine publish
ing, and one that cannot 1ail to prove at
tractive to the reading public. The con-
tents are Well-selected and the stories are
as unobJectlonable in character as they
are interesting, Mrs. Kate Upson Clark
recently became the editor Of Romance"
Mrs. Clark has been for number ofyears
past successful writer for the periodical
press OF the country, having been a fire.
quent contributor to ''Harper's BaZar"
The independent" 'Harper's Maga-
zine," "Lippincott's" and other leading
journals ana mOnthlieS.
There is an interesting group of bright
girls at the New England Conservatory
OF MUSIC IN Boston, who represent the
quality of push characteristic of the
American girl There are some thirty
1--WE OF these girls and they are being
muslcally and vocally educated by s'The
Ladies' Home JournaP' Of PHILADELPHIA.
Some time ago the magazine offered, as a
stlmulant to girls to get subscriptions for
1t, free educations at the Conservatory.
Ihe American girl is quick TO see a
chance, and one by one THESE thirty i've
girls have come from all parts of the
country to Boston.
'Macmillan's Magazine" for April.
which, being published abroad. reaches
US later than American magazines. is at
mana. 1t Is choice number. The lead
ing papers are: Don OrSino,r by f.
Marion Mar n Crawford, ,''Nillage Lite,' by the
Death'; Hampton Court''; "a Plea for
the Sparrow" by the author of ''Forty
Years OF a Moorland Parish"; Lord
Beauprey," by Henry James Part u:
The Stranger in the House." Mac
milan " Co., publishers, New York and
London.
"When My Ship Comes Over the Sea. -
as sung by Denman Thompson's quartet
in The Old Homestead" is the latest
musical hit by the popular song writer.
Will l.. Thompson. Published by VIII
l.. Thompson 81 Co., Chicago, at 25 cents;
arranged for the piano.