The record-union., 1893-02-07
new PUBLICATIONS.

very seldom have we seen q better
mum l! Der OF any magazine than that the
AClantlc Monthly" puts before US for
Iepruary. 1t has Just enough of the va
rlouS Kinds of articles to give it variety
and yet the traditions of the Atlantic, are
.ot i violated III any one department. For
nIction, we have Mrs. Catherwood's serial.
OIq haSkaskia," and Margaret Collier
Granam's story, "Alex Randalps Con-
version" Two more papers of the same
cIass are Under the Far West Green
WOOD Tree" and '''Che English Cam
orl9ge IN Winter" History and biog-
raphy lind place in Parkman's "Feudal
Gnleis SL,eis OF Acadia" and in DR.. George L.
Ellis article on Count Rumford." )" Lit
erature IS treated in w. e. Mead's "Books
ana Reading in Iceland" +" in Horace Da-
Vls' curious paper on "Shakespeare and
Copyright" and in the appreciative pa
P%irioy PSf ny Richard nhrd !Hoyey on Thomas
w ll1am Parsons" Poetry is contrib
uted by Edith NJ. Thomas and by Bliss
Carman. Julius H. Ward writes of
W hlte Mountain Forests in Peril" An
ap!e review of Mrs. Van Rensselaer's S
English Cathedrals," and other COM
ment on new books, closes a number
winch deserves high praise, as represent
awe OF American effort. Houghton,
Mlfl1n u Co., Boston.
ruary (New York. opens with an inter-
esting paper by j. a. MacKnight on
brigham Young-A Fair Sketch bv One
VINO knew Him. Mrs. Livermore pre-
sents the second paper Of the entertaining
series OF personal "reminiscences, "In ole
Nlrglnny' Fifty y cars Ago" In 'Zeph''
Ida A Churchill contributes strong
and intense story. do Women Love
Their Worshipers ?' is a characteristic
paper by Junius Henri Browne. .sAliss
Irots Valentine" is an appropriate Feb
ruary story. In the 'Story of the Tile
Fish" Rene Bache gives an account of the
destruction, supposed to be total, of this
valuable edible fish and of its rediscov-
cry. The Regeneration of Camp Scott''
is powerful story from the pen Of Al
bert Blgelow Paine. The poetry is espe-
cially good. Clinton Scollard;s I'm n
Ba2ar'; the winter verses, full of the
spirit and beauty of the season, by Alice
w. Rollins and William Francis Bar
nard. and Eben B. ReXford;s Sunset
Eancy," are far above the average. "a
Defense of American Cookery''; "The
Diet OF Children"; Days of Gladness'' in
The World Beautiful" "Our Young
People" with capital story. Home
entertainments" finely illustrated:
Knots 10 Untie''; 1.-The Oracle": ALI
Around the House,; ''Geanings for the
Curious" and The Shining Hour COM
plete the collection.
However much one may have differed
poiltlcally from MIR. Blaine, he cannot
fail to be interested in the striking per-
sonality OF the man. The February Cos
mopolitan" New York presents a careful
review of Mr.. Blaine's characteristics as
man and statesman, prepared by +. G..
Crawford, and illustrated by numerous
sketches OF his home, and famous car
toons apropos OF striking phases of his
pnlifinal .
side with General Badeau's sketch Of
Lord Beaconsfield. The second article in
the series of the Great Railway Systems
of the United States'' appears in this
number, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe being treated. a delightful Japanese
story, "Iokl Murata," and jeu d'esprit
entitled June, 1885," from the pen of
Julian Hawthorne, are entertaining. The
making of beet-root sugar is one of the
rapidly growing interests on the North
American continent but for the first
time in magazine literature it is here
thoroughly explained in every process,
helped out by photographs of the seed,
roots, the method of cultivation and the
most improved machinery for conversion
into sugar. The magazine is richly il
lustrated throughout.
the Culver" for February (Cassell
Publishing Company, New York and
London) has among many other papers.
stories, poetry, illustrations and Sunday
reading, these articles: lone Life for
Two" story of womanly sacrifice;
Scripture Lessons for School and
Walk Through Spitalfields," by G.
Holden Pike; I'm the Footprints of St.
Paul" by the Rev. L. J. Hardy, NJ. A.:
The Heavenly Vision," by Rev. An
thony w. .Thorold, D. D., Lord Bishop of
Winchester; 1.-The Golden Pathway-A
Parable of the Sun-Setting"; Taken by
the Enemy" story in three chapters;
Three Faces-A Parable for Young and
Old''; "The Manager of Mansion Mills"
by S. Southall Bone: The Wilful Will
oughbys,' Cathedral City story, by
Evelyn Everett Green.