The record-union., 1893-05-12
new PUBLICATIONS.

Unknown to thousands, Thomas Car
1yle'S youngest sister is a resident OF this
( Western Continent. This interesting fact
the Ladies Home Journal'' has discov-
cred, and the home-life and personality
of ''the last of the Carlyles'' are most in
terestlngly pictured and described in its
May issue. Mr.. Howells' pictures of girl
life, 1.-The Coast OF Bohemia grows in
interest. and VIII y. Harden gives the
opening chapters of a short serial story,
Before Two Affairs" The Worlds CO.
/ lulnbian celebration is remembered in a
poem by Edna Dean Proctor. The Mar
/ RED w oman'S Signature, ~ IS the subject Of
q discussion by Julia Ward Howe, Frances
! Hodgson Burnett, Airs. Burton Harrison
ana others. On the same subject is the
/ plea made by Frances L. Lanigan for the
adoption of form of signature which
shall serve as an identification of ail
feminine letter writers. Edward w. Box
makes strong plea for men 10 give their
| wives more recreation. Elizabeth Robin
son Scovil contributes Il paper on "The
Art OF Letter Writing" One of Hamlin
| Garland'S etchings, Before the Over
ture," and another by William d. Mot
tat are followed by poems by Clinton
! Scollard, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop and
Margaretta Lippincott. Mathilde Wurm
tells how she learned the piano with
/ Schumann's Wife as My Teacher" An
excellent article on the duties of the
/ househeeper, IF the Cholera Should
Come" is contributed by Helen Jay.
EXpectant brides will be interested in
| Schuyler Matthews For Home Wed
! ding" Ruth Ashmore's The Girl
About to Marry" and Emma NJ.
] Hooper's Wedding and Travelling Out
| fits" Miss Scoyil contributes an article
on Life in the Invalid's Room" Pal
/ mer Cox gives a page of his inimitable
! Brownies" Lyman Abbott is as
usual helpful in Just Among Our
| selves" Curtis Publishing Company,
Philadelphia.
The May wide Awake" has an enter
tanning description of life on a lighthouse
Island in the China Sea, by Rounsevelle
| WlIdman. Grace Dean Mcleod has a
! characteristic Nova Scotia stOry-''Petit
| Pere Felix; Joseph Hatton tells of ''The
/ Princes Dilemma" an exciting incident
connected with the coinroom of the
British Museum; Crawford Capen writes
Of Stamps and Stamp Colecting':
! Annie Sawyer Downs tells how the
~ oung Folks at the Eddy dealt with
! the servant-girl problem; Penelope Pal
mer writes of the poor Welsh boy in
| the pennsylvania mines who made mar
| yelous u Underground Music"; Mrs.
! Miller has paper on The Dolls of the
! World'; Flora Haines Loughead. Berta
! Llttlehale and Edith Perry Estes have
! bright short stories. Hugh 5. Hart OF the
| Xavier Club of New York contributes to
wide Awake Athletics a paper-"Golf:
the Coming Came; Adaliue Fordham
furnishes timely suggestion for girls in
her "Constancy Club" and the poetry of
! the number Is from Celia IhaXter, Marion
Ames Taggart, Sallie Margaret O'MaIIey
and Price Collier. \ delightful account
OF delightful boy is Louise Imogen
! Guiney's sketch of Hartley Coleridge
Ten ears Old" illustrated by Wilkes
portrait. ID. Lothrop & Co., Boston.
The large number Of pictures in the
May Popular Science Monthly'' is the
hrst feature to arrest attention. The
number opens with an account of Japan
ese Home Life" by DIR. w. Delano East
lake. There is also description of ''The
| Oswego State Normal School" bv Pro-
lessor William NJ. Aber. Professor By
ron ID. Halstead contributes an illustrated
article on the practical subject Decay in
the Apple Barrel,' and Professor q. f.
! right defends his book in an
OF Glacial Man in Ohio" The
able argument of Herman Spencer
on The lnadequacy Of Natural Selec-
ton" is continued. q. w. Littlehales of
the United States photographic Office
describes The Growth of Our Knowl-
edge OF the Deep sea-" Professor Wesley
Mills advocates the "Cultivation of HUI
name Ideas and Feelings" p. Z. NJ.
Berthelot recounts The Discovery of AL
cohol and Dlstillation." "How Science
IS Helping the Farmer" is told by Pro-
fessor c. S. Plumb" Other articles are
Dietary for the Sick" by Sir Dyce Duck =.
worth; Tribute OF the French Academy
to American Geological Exploration j.
and sketch with portrait) of Professor
Samuel William Johnson" New York:
ID. Appleton d Co.
The Now Peterson" for May is ahead
of its predecessors. The number onens
with beautifully illustrated article by
Julian hawthorne, ~ City Within a
City: Chicago To-Day" Another capital
paper with profuse illustrations, is Miss
Elizabeth Robinson's Day in Marken.
Holland" Louise Chandler Moulton
contributes criticism of Arlo Bates. the
Boston novelist. absent Love" bv
Philip Bourke Marsoon, is one of the
loveliest of the regretted poets posthu-
nous lyrics. The two serials, "a College
Girl" by Ellen Olney Kirk, and "a Bor-
der Leander,' by Howard Seeley, are
worthy the regulations OF their popular
authors. The Mortgage on the Farm, {"
by Agnes Repplier, is in that gifted
writer's most brilliant vein. ''School
! Keeps" by Minot j. Savage. gives some
delightfully."- told "reminiscences of boy
life III Maine forty-tive years ago. The
rest of the contents are of merit, and there
number very attractive. QI2-ll4 South
Third street, Philadelphia
1t is good idea which Current I,itera-
ture" announces in the May number.
that OF issuing every month during the
period of the Worlds Fair a special edi-
| ton devoted to the good things published
! in newspapers and magazines in relation
to the exhibition. In the May number
| there are illustrated articles on our new
| l. mi i.nGGafiO,. "a E,,n1on1
! Ferry. Then follow glimpses of the
W orld's Far. The prize anecdotes and
/ others give no little amusement. The
next special feature Is a spiendidly illus
( trated description of the recent review of
the Renaissance in Boston's Museum of
Fine Arts. Everyday life is also de-
/ plcted IN humorous stories and sketches
while folklore studies and incidents Of
travel are painted in expressive word
pictures. in the art departments there
is a synopsis of Oscar Wilde's new DIav
and under literary discussion a portrait
of George Sand and an interesting episode
from her convent life. The whole num
Der is attractive and worthy of careful
perusal. Current Literature Publishing
1 Company, New York.
The Engineering Magazine" for Nav
| New York; is very handsomely illus
frated, and it is besides overlooking with
articles of great interest. For instance a
leading paper is on Professor Gray's
great discovery, the telautograph. by
which one may write by telegraph over
any distance of wire that the electric cur-
rent can be sent, perhaps the most Won
derful invention of the age. A fine por-
trait of Professor Gray introduces the ar
ticle. in which the machine is fully Illus
trated ana described. Other papers arc.
/ The Cholera Prospect in 1882 DR.. d. h.
st. John Roosa; Ethics of Architecturai
Competitions" John NJ. Carrere; Cotton