The record-union., 1893-06-02
new PUBLICATIONS.

The Century" New York; for June
opens with reproduction of cast of the
Juno of Argos, discovered in 1892 by the
American School of Athens, with an ac-
count of the finding of the statue, by DR..
Waldstein. The number contains two
seasOnable articles relating to sports. by
| Lieutenant William Hem; and one a
consideration OF certain phases Of college
athletics by Walter Camp. An important
paper of general interest is the record by
Jonas Stadling, a Swede, of his expert
ence with IOlstoy in the Russian
Famine" Two biographical articles,
written from personal knowledge, are
IAN Hour with Robert Franz" the song
writer, lately deceased, by Henry L.
Finck, musical critic of the New York
Evening Post" with portraits of Franz
and his wife; and The Death of the
Prince Imperial" by Archibald Forbes.
in which that accomplished journalist
gives new materials relating to this event.
Forbes article is written from knowl-
edge obtained at the time upon The scene
of the Princes death in Zululand, June,
1879. Edmund GOsse contributes a criti-
cal article in the Notable Woman Series,
on christina Rossetti." The White
Islander" new novelette, by Mrs.
| Mary Hartwell Catherwood. author of
The Romance of Dollard," begins in the
present lumber. In addition to the
".
number contains another of Grace Kings
balcony Stories" entitled The Story of
a Day.; a most pathetic story by William
II. Shelton, Uncle Obadiah's Uncle
Billy" This number contains the first
OF several papers on matters relating to
hygiene, being discussion OF The
Public Health-The Duty OF the Nation
i'll Guarding It,", by Dir. r. Mitchell
Prudden. The concluding half OF Will
lam Henry Bishops humorous story.
Writing TO Rosina," has a surprise both
for Rosina and for the reader. There is
an illustrated paper, In Cowboy-Land,"
from the competent hand Of Theodore
Roosevelt, with pictures by Frederic
Remington. In the American Artists
Series there is an example of the work OF
Charles Sprague Pearce III his picture
The Widow" There is also full-page
drawing by Mary Hallock Foote, entitled
The Hermit-Thrush." In the editorial
department are an article commencing
the project OF a National Board of Health,
and giving suggestions regarding it; "a
discussion OF the question, Has Gold
Appreciated in NaIue?" and a second
article on The Disappearance OF the
Apprentice System" IN "Open Letters"
are articles relating to "Women's Work
and Wages" to the education of Special
lists in Church Music" and to THE
Australian Registry of Land Titles" on
which subject professor Il. Stuart Patter-
son replies to Edward Atkinson.
The June Arena" (Boston) is NAM
moth number. 1t is probably the largest
magazine every published as monthly
issue of a review, containing one hun
dred and siXty-tour pages, OF which one
hunured and 1orty-four are in the body
OF the magazine, and twenty pages Of
| carefully written book reviews by such
we'll known critics as Rev ". Ii.
Thomas, ID, OF Chicago, Helen Camp
bell, Hattie q. Flower, Hamlin Garland,
and the editor of the Arena" Among
the leading papers in this anniversary
issue ut begins the eighth volume) are:
| insanity and Genius" by Arthur Nc
Donald; The Liberal Churches and Skep-
ticism," by Rev. Marion d. Shutter, d. D.;
Arsenic versus Cholera" by r. b.
Leach, Nj. D., is interesting and timely;