The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-03

Ward, Maria Louise Pool, Afinot j. Saw
age, Olive Thorne Miller, Felix L. Os-
wald, Florence Hull, Alexander Wilder
and others. DR.. George w illiam Winter
| burn, No. go West One Hundred and
Tbirty-second street, New York, is the
/ publisher.
There is sparkle about the Ladies'
Home Journal that appeals with attract
lveness to a reader, especially so in the
February issue. Mr.. Howells has never
been brighter than he is in his Coast of
bohemia" Mrs. Burton Harrison tells
| girls great deal they will like to know
OF the social code. Octave Thanet has a
happy Article addressed to wives, on
That Man: Your Husband" which
vera Bernardiere supplements with in
tereSting glimpses OF the results OF for
elgn marriages made by American girls.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox tells who, in her es-
timation, are the 'Destroyers of Domes-
tic Edens." Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
discusses woman's tendency for curios-
1ty. Mamie Dickens "reminiscences, My
rather as L Recall Him." deepen in in
terest. Eugene Field has a beautiful
poem, "My Valentine" Mrs. BayarG
1aylorS portrait Is for the first time seen
IN PRINT. The daughter of Hawthorne is
also sketched, while Mrs. Burton Kings
land tells how to give timely luncheons,
teas and suppers. ''The Beauties OF Bat
tenburg Lace" are illustrated by Sara
Hadley; Palmer Cox has his inimitable
brownies" i'll Ireland on their trip,
while the domestic machinery is oiled by
suggestions from Maria Parloa. Pub
hshed by the Curtis Publishing Com
pany of Philadelphia.
.Lippincott's Magazine" for February
lPhliadelphia) has the complete novel,
THE First Flight" by Julien Gordon.
The Journalist series is continued in an
article by Hon. John Russell Young, on
Men Who Reigned: Bennett, Greeley
Raymond, Prentice and Forney." Por-
traits OF these famous editors are added
and one OF Secretary Seward accompanies
'Recollections of Seward and Lincoln"
| by James Matlack Scovil. In the athletic
series Herman +. Wolff gives an account
OF Wrestling" Karl Blind discusses
The Russian Approach to India" Mir
lam Coles Harris, the auther of ''Rut-
LEDGE" criticises ''Seventh-C Command
ment Novels" Under the heading, AN
Organ and Reform" Frederic NJ. Bird
calls attention to The Pagan Review"
ana discusses the question, Are Women
Free and iEqual?" NJ. Crofton descri bes
Ruskin, Earl Rosebery, Archbishop Ire
| land and Justice Lamar. Josiah Aliens
! Wife" supplies a short story, and Francis
| Wilson a sketch, ''Ihe f'irst-Born of the
| Orchard" The poetry is by Ella Wheeler
! Wilcox, Daniel l.. Dawson, Charles
Washington Coleman, Floy Campbell,
Charlotte Fiske Bates, C. L. w hitney and
E. w. Latimer.
'Outing" for February New York; is
beautifully illustrated number, filed
with breezy, seasonable descriptions of
/ sports in many lands. The contents are:
''Ski-Running," by W. S. Harwood:
(which Miss Charteris?" by c. G. Rog-
! ers; "a Comedy of Counterplots," by
! Edgar FawceLt; THE Wild Hog of Lou
! TgTga l.xr
Through the lee" by Ed. w. Sandys;
"a Blank Day." by Mildred Darby, "A
Day with Quail in North Carolina" by
Claude Prescott; 'Roping Elk in the
! Rockies" by II. S. Blanchard; "Lenz's
Tour AwheeP'; bicycling on Pablo
Beach," by ii. 1. Greene; "Harry's Ca
reer at ale" ,continued), by John Sey-
mour Wood; Through Darkest Amer
ica." by Mrs. X. White; Held Up" by
Myron B. Gibson; militia and National
/ Guard of Ohio" by Lieutenant w. II. c.
| Bowen, U. S. A.; Ice Yachting" by
Charles Ledyard Norton; and the usual
departments.
| The Forum for February is an espe-
clally full and very interesting number.
The number closes volume fourteen of
| this splendid journal of free debate The
contents of the number are: Tariff Re-
tornl-Retrospective and Prospective"
David A. Wells; THE Art of Writing
History" w. L. II. Lecky; Medicine as
a Career" DR.. J. 5. Billings; Emotional
| Tension and the Modern Novel" +.
Marion Crawford; "How to Prevent the
Coming of Cholera" Sir Spencer Wells,
eX-President Royal College of Surgeons;
THE Public Schools of Boston," DIR. J.
NJ. Rice; The Future of Poetry" Chas.
Leonard Moore; How TO Solve the
Housekeeping Problem" Miss Frances
NJ. Abbott: Imminent Danger From the
Silver-Purchase Act" Hon. George Fred
Williams; Negro Suffrage a Failure:
Shall We Abolish It''? John c. Wick
life; "a Practical Remedy for Evils of
immigration, Gustav Ii. Schwab. New
York: The Forum Publishing Com
pany, Union Square.
The Quarterly Journal of Econo-
mics" George H. Ellis, BOSTON, for the
current quarter has these valuable papers:
ION the Study of Economic History" by
w. j. Ashley; French Catholics and the
Social Question:" by Claudio Jannet;
Recent Literature on Protection" by
F. w. Taussig; 'Some Explanations Re-
! lating to the Theory of Dynamic Econo-
mics by Simon n. Patten; Social and
Economic Legislation of the States in
1892" by William b. Shaw; South
American Trade" by Frederick r. Glow;
Roman and Anglo-SaXon Agrarian Con-
ditions," by Lincoln hutchinson; Bank
of Venice by Charles f. Dunbar; THE
Gold Standard in Austria"
'Jenness Miller illustrated Monthly"
for February contains bright page of
timely topics from the pen of Mrs Miller.
| There is an appreciative sketch of Annie
Besant, and an article from her pen.
Those who like the mysterious will read
with pleasure the article entitled ''On the
Road to karli." The fashion pages are
bright and instructive, and the various
departments are as complete as usual
Jenness Miller Company, No. ia Fifth
avenue, New Y ork City.