The record-union., 1893-07-01
new PUBLICATIONS.

How marriage proposal is made and
how 1t is wOrded always arouses the in
terest OF girls, and to them the charming
revelation made in THE Story of Five
Proposals" " which is told with delightful
trankness by Western society girl in the
July Ladies' Home Journal (Philadel-
phla) Will have an unusual attractiveness.
Just how to arrange a tennis tourna-
ment Is also an excellent article by Mabel
Esmonde Cahill, the champion lady
tennis-player. A full page gives descrip-
tons OF various ways of Entertaining
IN the Country" Mrs. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox asks and answers Can Woman
Reform Man?" A most beautiful page
OF periodical illustrations is Nancy Mann
Waddle's article on the cultivation of the
orchid. A page of biography presents
sketches, with portraits, of Rosa Nou-
chette 'Carey" and OF 1.-The Daughter OF
Charles Dickens" Anna Robertson
Brown gives the first paper in series of
articles on The Girl Who Goes to Col
lege." Mr. Box, the editor, discourses
upon the perpleXing question of corporal
! punishment Tor children. "Mr. Beecher's
Imprinted Words" as reported by his
private .stenographer. appear. The
charming story Of Dennis pRourke'' is
/ by Lucy Derby. Mr.. HoWelPs story,
The Coast of Bohemia" grows in inter-
est. a page OF illustrations from original
designs, entitled dressing Without the
/ Corset" by May Root Kern, will be read
with profit, and Mrs. Mallon's "The
| Ideal Summer Blouse" and "Odds and
Ends of a Wardrobe" Palmer Cox has
his inimitable Brownies climbing the
pyramids Of Egypt John Kendrick
Bangs contributes a poem. The editors
all have something bright to say also.
"Worthington's Illustrated Magazine
| (Hartford, Coun.) for July begins the
second volume of a periodical that has
| been exceptionally fortunate and success
ful. Each number has steadily gained III
attractiveness and value, and this latest
issue, while very bright and entertaining
for summer reading, has still sufficient
/ solidity to recommend it to readers in
! search of the practical and useful. The
! leading illustrated article is The Light
house System of the United States," by
/ Hon. $. q. w. Benjamin. A second de-
/ scrlptlVe illustrated paper is that by Mrs.
/ Jean Porter Rudd, entitled ''Some Phases
of Life in Tyrol." "Bear's Hands De-
cision" is a third illustrated article. 1t is
a story of Indian life at d reservation
school, written by Miss Frances c. Spar
hawk. "In 'Ole Virglnny'-Fi y ears
Ago" the seventh paper of Mrs. Liver
more's youthful experiences, we find
much of incident and interest. ''The
Poetry of Henry Timrod," by Eliza CAL
vert Hall, IS a paper OF much literary
value. The short stories and poems are
| fully up to the standard, and the depart
ments contain number of well-chosen
articles.
With the third part of "Omega," the
work of the French astronomer Flam-
marion, which appears in the "Cosmo-
politan" for July New York;, the reader
Is able to grasp something of the great
purpose of the author. omega" is de-
| clared by those who have read the entire
work to be one Of the most remarkable
] nf a H..
! ing to be novel; it is a work having a
deeply philosophical purpose, as is more
/ fully developed in later chapters. 1t is
something that no fairly intelligent per-
| son can afford not to read, and is surely
/ destined to become a classic In a recent
number of the Cosmopolitan" story
was published, entitled The House of
the Dragons" which received wide criti-
| cism because Of the importance of the life
! problems involved. A daughter of Bishop
/ Potter. who was for some time connected
! with important mission work among the
working girls OF New York, has under
taken to reply, and discusses another side
OF the question in the July number.
Mortal Man" is the title of a mono
graphic poem by A. Easton, published
by Charles II. Kerr * Co., Chicago, as
No. Is of the Unity Library, which is
| issued monthly at So year. The poem
IS philosophic, stronger than poetical,
-
that reason is the outgrowth of expert
| ence and the pathway of progress; that
self-love is the tount of immortality;
that force is the great factor that prevails
in nature: that the mission Of all life
! below. above, is love Of sex, of offspring
and self-love''; that vice countenanced
! by, yet subject TO law, is a safeguard to
to the better elements of society; that
sensation is the source of all knowledge;
| that reason undernines faith, and creeds
are the ingenious theories of the human
brain. The author teaches against belief
in resurrection and raises doubts of life
hereafter.
The July ''St. Nicholas Century Com
pany, New York;, contains an illustrated
article on Chicago by John f. Ballantyne,
which includes great number Of views
OF the famous buildings and boulevards
of that city. Mrs. Clara Doty Bates. who
is in charge of the children's library at
the Worlds Fair, contributes an article
on the children's building to the same
number. The number contains also sew
eral Fourth of July stories and an article
on Festival Days at Girls Colleges" in
Guiding illustrations taken at Wellesley
Bryn Mawr, Smith, Vassar and the Har-
ward Annex. 1t is a richly illustrated
number and especially SO in the articles
on "Waterspouts, /" The Fourth" Chi
cago," and IAN American Citizen.''
The July number Of the "Jenness-
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