The record-union., 1893-06-03
new PUBLICATIONS.

With the June number 'Worthing
toms illustrated Magazine" Hartford,
| Conn., completes its first volume. Its
liable of Contents shows remarkable
variety of timely topics. The names of
contributors would do credit to any
magazine. Among these are Mary A.
LiYermOre, Edgar Fawcett, Hon. S. G.
W. Benjamin, Professor q. Frederick
| Wright, Rev. George NJ. Stone. ID. d.;
Lillian Whiting, Helen Campbell, Mrs
Jean Porter Rudd, Clinton ScOllard, Rev.
Francis E. Clark, d. d., President of the
Society of Christian EndeavOr; Richard
Burton, William Francis Barnard, Char
lotte Perkins Stetson, Eben e. ReXtord,
Ida a. Churchill Robert Beverly Hale,
Sara A. Underwood, Ella Wheeler Will
cox, Charlotte NJ. Holloway, d. b. Wag-
gener, Martha McCulloch Williams,
Mary Bradley, Spencer Leigh Hughes,
Arthur Dudley Ninton, James Buckham,
Imogen Clark, Kate Miner Rabb, Jean
La Rue Burnett, Hester NJ. Poole, Alice
w. Rollins, with many other names of
gifted and popular authors, 1t has been
enlarged by sixteen pages, and shows
steady advancement in everything that
helps to make up an exceptionally bright,
attractive and instructive magazine.
The whisper of perfumed breezes and
the song of foamy waters are prisOned in
the wholesome pages of Outing" New
York; for June. The contents are as fol-
lows: "Black Bass Fishing" Francis J.
Hogan; "Shore Birds and Shire-bird
Shooting" by Ed w. Sandys; "After
Kangaroo" by Edward Wakefield; "All
for Life,,' by J. Heard, Jr.; The Sail
ing Yacht Of To-day" by Charles L.
Norton; 'An Apache Dance" by Nation
Lupan; Kings Of the Trotting Track"
by Dexter; "CanOe-pulling on the
Cascapedia," by +. Hemenway; "That
Big Trout" by Wakeman Holberton;
a.. / L,
S. Scoville, Jr.; "a dangerous Sidepath,"
by John ). Wood; "Lenz's World Tour
AwheeI'; Canadian Militia in Action
by Captain II. J. Woodside; Trout
! Fishing in Deyonshire." by Hamilton
Hill: Through Erin Awheel," by Grace
L. Denison; and the usual editorials,
poems, records, etc.
The June issue of "Belford's Monthly"
(Chicago) is entitled to more than a pass
ing comment, for both in its artistic and
literary makeup it is of the best. 1t has
thrown off its political aspirations; it
has greatly advanced. This month it
contains the first chapter of Mrs. Linden
w. Bates humoristic story of the Pacific
Coast, "a Frontier Fiction" The COM
ing intercollegiate baseball tournament
offers President Rogers of Northwestern
and Francis w. Coler an occasion for a
splendid, fully illustrated article on
college athletics in this country and
Europe. Hubert H. Bancroft's library
| of Americana" is described by pen and
picture. Humor and sentiment mingle
in three very readable sketches entitled
respectively Rachael and Elias" IAN
Idle Dream" and 1.-The Honorable
Frederick" Finally the defense OF
spjritisn, with phantom pictures inter-
spersed, is undertaken by NJ. NJ. Dawson.
Current History" the valuable quar-
terly published in Detroit has been pur-
IL. Il f.N- 49,, g. -
and will be published from the latter city
under the editorship of Professor Alfred
). johnson. Its name is now changed to
the 1.-The Cyclopedic Review of Current
History" Each number will comprise
about 200 pages, being a material increase
over the amount of reading matter here
totore appearing in Current History"
In size and form, the pages will be al
tered so as to conform, when bound to
the volumes Of the columbian Cyclic
pedia." In the matter of illustrations,
the highest standard of artistic work will
be fully maintained, we are assured The
subscription price will remain the same,
81 80 year; single numbers, 40 cents;
sample copies, p cents. All agreements
with old subscribers remain in force, say
the publishers.
The New England Magazine" for
June BOSTON, is very freely and hand
somely illustrated, both with half-tones
and wood cuts. The Boston Tea Party"
illustrated from old prints, is very novel
and interesting feature; "Norway's
Struggles for Political Liberty" by J. E.
Olsen, is of profound interest; personal
Recollections OF Whittier is an insight
into Whittier's character that is very
satisfying to the lovers of that poet; 1.-THE
Real Inventor of the Steam boat" is
paper by Charlotte +. Hammond; B. 2.
Shellaber's Experiences During Many
Years" is in its third part and is of sus-
tanned interest. These are not a third of
the papers in the number, which is one of
very superior character. The New
England Magazine is in the front rank
of American periodicals, and deservedIy
so.
"Harper's Bazaar" for May 9th has
editorials on Cooks and Cooks" and
ITO Be Alive" Pattern-Sheet SupDle-
meut of Fashions: New York Fash
ions" "A Worth Tea Gown "A Paris
Dinner Gown" Household Science"
by Agnes Bailey Orms bee; THE Worlds
Fair Scholarship Association" ''What
Face-Stesming Does" by Christine Ter
hume Herrick; First Impressions of
the Worlds Fair" "Glimpses of the
Worlds Fair" illustrated; Harmony
in House Decoration by Clare Bunce;
The First OF june" story, by Duffield
Osborne; The Rebel Queen" by Walter
Besant; where's Your Master ?r full
page picture, by Davidson knowles.
Current Literature for June l54 La
fayette place, New York. is a Worlds
| Fair edition. 1t is handsome number,
and the contents too many and varied to
reproduce by title here. Were we to Sc
lect leading papers we should have to
take all between the covers. Suffice it to
say the Worlds Fair, fads, fashions and
iancies, recent science, everyday life.
Iatter-day philosophy, travel and literary
discussion are the departments, and I'M
der them there is variety and merit
enough TO satisfy the most exacting TASTE
THE Good Citizen" is new magazine
! published by the Columbian College Of