The record-union., 1893-12-02

1a1ISlan W inter Costumes, inter
Hats" French Toilettes," FIFTY Cent
Luncheons," by Helen Churchill Candee;
What Parisiennes are Wearing" Won
Moltke as Correspondent" by Mar
garet E. Sangster; "Art Criticisms at the
Fair" by Maria A. Wait; "Dressmaking
for Amateurs" 1.-The Edwin Booth
Memorial" 1.-The Wee Ones of Japan,
by Mae st. John Bramhall; 1.-THE Maid
He Married." by Harriet Prescott Spot
ford; Them Chickadees," Thanksgiv-
ing story, by Maria Louise Pool; Peg
Woffington,' parlor play" by Far ME
Aymar Mathews. This latter is charm
ing conceit and most readable dramatic
production.
The atlantic Monthly" for December
(Boston), the magazine essentially OF the
highest literary type, contains, besides
the critical editorials and departments,
the serial, 1.-The Man from AidOne," by
Elizabeth Cravazza; ''Thoreau and His
English Friend Thomas Cholmondeley,"
f. b. Sanborn; Birds at Yule-tide,"
Frank Bolles; 1.-The Blazing Heart"
Alice Williams Brotherton: "Of the Eter-
nal Feminine" Lafcadio Hearn; Tom
O the Blueb'ry Plains" Kate Douglas
Wiggin; In the Flat Woods" Bradford
Torrey; the serial "His Vanished STAR"
Charles Egbert Craddock; "Western
Landscapes" Hamlin Garland; Dem
ocracy in America," Francis Newton
Thorpe; Mere Literature" Woodrow
Wilson "Chaucer's Pardoner," George
Lyman Kittredge; "Some New Light on
Napoleon"
Current History (Garretson. Cox &
Co., Buffalo, n. Y for the third quarter
1893 is at hand. No periodical comes to
us more useful to the busy newspaper
man. Assuredly it is of equal value to
all others. In brief. it is compact his
tory of the worlds activity and progress
from day to day and hence it is year
book, record and a diary that enables
one to make use OF 1t as reference book.
The successive mum bers of this magazine
form source Of information on recent
happenings, which no collection of news
paper files or clippings, no index to
periodical literature, can supply. 1t IS
most convenient in form and arrange
ment. Even the careful student of the
daily or weekly press Will find 1t a most
valuable library of recent information,
needed as a supplement to all other works
OF reference.
''Short Stories'' is one of the first mag
azines in the field with Christmas num-
ber, and very attractive one it is. There
are humorous stories by Ii. G. Bunner,
q. B. Burgin and James Payn; stories
from French writer's such as Dumas and
Dudet. Clark Russell, George Fleming
and other celebrities are represented.
One feature is an Interesting and pathetic
study of Japanese family, called ''Saka-
kura San," by Mrs. McNeill Scott, who
was long a resident in the Satsuma VAL
ley. Another is the prize Christmas
story, by Mary c. StOckbridge. 1t is
promised that the January holiday num-
Der will be equal to the Christmas num-
ber. Numerous prizes are offered in the
Christmas number OF short Stories"
Current Literature Publishing Company,
New York.
''Harper's Weekly" for Thanksgiving
week contained New England Thanks
giving story by Hezekiah Butterworth,
Sidney Webster's paper on Taxation"
Z. Cresson Schell illustrated and A. f.
Matthews described the remarkable trial
trip of the Columbia, Dr.. William Hayes
Ward wrote of the Salvation Army, and
w. A. Rogers made a full-page drawing
of the recent notable Congress in New
y York. There was an interesting page of
Hawaiian scenes, and another of life
among the miners OF West Virginia; A.
b. Frost and Remington furnished full
page pictures, and there were traits and
appreciatiVe notices of William I. Cole
man by Noah Brooks, Of the Rev. DR..
Deems by DR.. II. X. Carroll, and of eX
Secretary Rusk by n. &. Watrous.
The Magazine Of Art" (Cassell & Co.,
New y York and London) for December
y
jardin of Rossettl's "Neronic NerOnese,"
aud a treasure in the way OF etchings, by
ii. Macbeth Raebum, being a view of
1.-The Alhambra." The Ruston collection
is treated by Claude Phillips, with seven
illustrations; John Bell, sculptor, tells
how he would restore the Venus of Melos,
and gives illustrations of his proposition;
X. A. NJ. Stevenson treats of Greg, with
seven illustrations; Reginald Blomteld
writes of gothic architecture, according
to French view, and Percy Anderson
treats of costumery on the stage, with
seven illustrations. There are other
papers and the usual notes, reviews and
chronicles.
"Cassells Family Magazine (Cassell
Publishing Company, New York and
IOndon) for December is a bright, cheer
ful, seasonable issue of one of the best
cheap family magazines OF which we
have knowledge. Not cheap in any sense
except that OF pennies, for it is a chaSte,
helpful and entertaining periodical, full
of address to the fancy, the imagination
and to the scientific and graver tastes.
Thus we are monthly told of garden
treatment, bodily health care, scientific
discovery, invention, fashions, literature,
manufacture, ETC., and YET plenty of space
is given to short stories, serials, poetry,
and the like.
Romance has increased it's size. The
Christmas number is of extraordinary
brilliancy. Out Of it's score Of charming
tales ten are especially designed for the
Christmas season. Among the authors
of Christmas stories are Octave Thanet,
Martha McCulIoch Williams, Francois
Coppee, Mary G. Hungertord and Madge
Robertson; while the other contributors
include Arthur Beardsley Mitchell. TheO-
dore Bartlett, Arthur Quiller Couch and
Georges Ohnet. The number is particu-
larly strong in merry and humorous
stories. Romance Publishing Company,
Clinton Hall, Astor Place. New York.
"Macmi!lan's Magazine" for Novem-
Der New York and London) has these
papers: The serial ''Perlycross," by r.
d. Blackmore; THE Appeal to the Peo-
ple," by G. B. Roylance-Kent; "A Chap
ter in American History" by a. q.
Bradley; "The Early Life of Samuel
Pepys," by C. II. Firth; Deer stalking;
1.-The Blue Dryad"; "An Episode IN the
Life of Thomas Beckett" by the Rev.
ment," by II. Y. Toynbee; "a Son of
the Soil" by Miss Bramston; "SOme
Thoughts on Rousseau"
The "St. Nicholas" Christmas number
| Century Company, New York; is a
| juvenile magazine of great beauty. We
doubt if any has been issued that is it's
equal. 1t has new cover, is enlarged
and is printed on extra heavy paper. 1t
! contains most remarkable programme
OF attractions. Rudyard Kipling's story,
''Toomai OF the Elephants" is one Of
! Kipling's greatest efforts. With the merg
! ing of wide Awake in ''St. Nicholas"
| the latter becomes the chief among if not
the only monthly magazine for boys and
| girls in America.
| "Harper's Young People," is the fore
most weekly for young readers. Strong,
! helpful, clean; it preserves the happy
medium between instruction and enter
tainment essential IN any publication adj