The record-union., 1893-05-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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'Donahoe's Magazine" for May is the
brightest and most interesting number
yet issued of this entertaining periodical
Among its special features are Through
the Worlds Fair in an Hour illus
trated), by Commissioner E. c. Hovey;
THE Sacrifice of the Shop Girl" Mary
Is. O'Sullivan; "Tha Catholic in Politics."
Thomas G. Quinn; The Sisters III the
Civil War;" Charles S. O'Neill; Thirty
Years of Ireland's Battle" Hon. John
f. Finerty; "In American Studios" Gl-
lustratedJ, Henry Austin; The Knights
of Columbus" illustrated), Thomas W.
Cummings; "Suppressing Dangerous
Books" Rev. Charles Warren Currier;
Round About Plattsburgh" illustratedl,
Bayard Bradford; and a discussion,
should Married Women Work ?'' In
fiction there are contributions by James
Realf, Jr., and Jessie NJ. Burgoyne, while
there are poems by George Russell Jack
son, Eugene Davis, Mary Therese West,
katherine +. Conway, Rev. A. B. O'Neill,
| 7. >. e., Godfrey Egremont, Arlo Bates,
Rev. Mortimer Edward Twomey, Cora
Stuart Wheeler and John 5. Browning.
Donahoe's Magazine Company, publish
ers. Boston.
Perhaps the most striking number of
Short Stories" yet issued is that for the
month of May. The tales contained i'll it
are interesting and of great variety, al
most all of them being original or trans
lated especially for ''Short Stories" from
the French, hungarian, Flemish, etc.
The story called Not a Salon Picture' is
charmingly illustrated by the we'll
known artist W. h. Lippincott, and
another, The Parchment of the Moorish
Doctor" has reproductions OF the mas
teriy drawings of Daniel Verge. There
are also stories by Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Guy de Maupassant, Robert Barr, Will
Carleton and other writers of note. Be
side the prizes offered by the Current
Literature Publishing Company to un-
dergraduates only for a story of college
life, there is one for the best love story
and another to the writer who will make
the best and most readable tale from an
outline plot given in this number by the
editor. Current Literature Publishing
Company, New York.
Outing for May New York; is as
pure and refreshing as the shades and
breezes of the woods and waters it loves
50 well. The number is finely illustrated.
The contents are: "How the Major
Learned to Fish," by John E. Gunckel;
"a Jack Rabbit Chase" by Belle Hunt;
Red Drum Fishing at Oregon Inlet" by
Lieutenant F. II. Newcomb; "Queens of
the Trotting Track; "The Toltec IDOL"
Credit" by Charles G. Mott, Jr.; How to
Catch the Willy Trout" by H. Prescott
Beach; Round About the Zuyder Zee,'
by Mrs. q. G. Davis; "Lenz's World Tour
Awheel"; Through Erin Awheel' (con-
tinued), by Grace Z. Denison; "A Cha
mois Hunt" by A. Ranger; The Modern
Single Handed Cruiser" by C. b. Vaux;
IAN Ideal Vacation Tour" by Charles Il.
Hammett; Starting and Starters" by
John Corbin; The South Dakota Ma
tional Guard" by Captain p. Leary, Jr,
and the usual editorials, poems, records,
etc.
The Whit of Lilac" we get on open
ing ''Cassell's Family Magazine" for
May makes us realize the presence of the
season of flowers, and the leading article
Hone Readers in Vacatlon''-reminds
Would that we could spend ours in the
beautiful lake country" here described
The economical reader will find much
practical information in the paper My
Packing Gases, and What 1 Did With
Them" "My Messenger Cali Box" is the
name of a story which shows conclu-
sively that the messenger service in Lon
don is better than it is in New York. "A
Touch of Liver" by the Family Doctor,
comes very timely as this is the season
when livers apparently do their best to
make their owners miserable. Another
timely article is on lilies. There are
great many stories in this number, and
anu lLo tEl6uL Will De
found invaluable. The Gatherer is un-
usually full, and altogether this is q capi-
tai number. Cassell Publishing Com
pany, New York and London.
''Macmillan's Magazine for April
(Macmillan & Co., New York and Lon
dom has these papers: Miss Stuart's
Legacy" by Mrs. Steel; The Names of
Political Parties," by c.. X. Roylance
Kent; ''Some English Characters in
French Fiction" by Arthur f. Davidson;
I'm the Realm of Sound"; my Pupils
in the Great Karroo": 1.-The Bruised Ser
pent," by W. II. Hudson; From Cora
cle," by a. G. Bradley; The Apostasy of
Julian Fulke," by Alan Adair; "Vir-
giliun Vidi," by the President of Mag
dalen College, Oxford.
Together with his knowledge of Islam
ism ex-Consul Alexander K. Webb has
brought home the peculiarly ornamental
accomplishment of knowing how to wrap
a turban around the head. The whole
operation lasts but a few seconds and
seems a marvel of dexterity.