The record-union., 1893-08-24
new PUBLICATIONS.

NIT the opening of its parlors and con-
servatories to the public, regardless of
days, was Mrs. Patterson, the daughter
of President Johnson. and of whom a
the September Ladies' Home Journal"
(Philadelphia.) Mrs. Jefferson Davis
contributes a sketch of the widow of
Stonewall Jackson; Alice Graham Nc
Collin writes of 1.-THE Blind Reader at
Washington;" "Women's Rights and
Wrongs" are discussed by Rev.gT. De
Witt Talmage, and John Lambert Payne
contributes an essay on "What is Written
in a Womans Face" Mrs. Burton
Kingsland has an article on THE Conduct
of Guest" Robert J. Burdette is happy
in his dissertation on 1.-The Six-Fingered
Man" Palmer Cox gives a page of his
inimitable Brownies; when Choos-
ing Home," by Agnes Bailey Ormsbee
and FURNISHING Moderate Home" by
Helen Jay, are helpful autumn articles.
Mrs. Lyman Abbott writes of "The Girl
in the Church." and Ruth Ashmore on
Girls and the Use OF Money" Mrs.
Mallon advises the woman of forty how
to dress. Miss Scovil contributes paper
on 1.-The Punishment of Children" Eben
E. Rexford gives A Chapter on Bulbs"
and Nancy Mann Waddle an illustrated
page on ferns. Altogether this Septem-
ber journal" is charming.
A brilliant feature of Prank Leslie's
Popular Monthly" for September New
York; is the leading article on "The
Business and Sport of Horse Racing" by
Martha Mccullough Williams. Probably
no description, at once so vivid and so
well informed, of New York's and the
worlds finest race courses-Morris Park,
Monmouth, Sheepshead Bay and Graves
end-has ever before been written. and
the accompanying illustrations, over
twenty in number, are full of artistic an
lmation. A charmingly picturesque pa
per on "'Cycling Round Paris'' takes
the reader to st. Germain, st. Cloud, Yer
sailles. Rambouillet, Vile d'Avray, Pom
toise, etc., over those historic and we'll
kept roads which make France the
wheelman's paradise. "The International
Yacht Races" are described and illus
trated; also Verdps new opera. "Fall-
staff''; Nicaragua and the Canal Pro-
Ject," and "LocomOtion at the Worlds
Fair" Frederick S. Daniel writes in
terestingly of Government Life at
Washington" and George Hoist gives,
with pictures, some novel information
about Henrik Ibsen as a Landscape
Painter" Short poems and stories are
contributed by Lucy G.. Lille, Nora
Marble, Lurana W. Sheldon, Belle Hunt,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Watson,
r. de Cordova, E. w. Perry and Henry
Tyrrell.
In the city series, now running in ''St.
Nicholas" Century Company, New
Baltimore in the August number. The
article is we'll worth reading, and is ex-
cellently illustrated by Harry Fem. The
viking Ship is described and drawn
by j. Q. Davidson. An article that will
attract every boy who owns, and can use,
a iackknife Is Miss McCabe's story of
''The Boyhood of Edison" Less modern.
hnf fnllU intnraotinn 10 I,a
from Hakluyts Voyages" prepared by
the late Florence Snedeker. This INSTALL
ment gives an account of the last VOYAGE
made to the West Indies by Sir John
Hawkins. From Montresa to San Ma
teo," by E. Vinton Blake, is an exciting
frontier episode. Other prose pieces are:
1.-THE Crown Prince of SIAM" about the
cutting of whose hair there is ceremony
and bother enough to console any average
boy for the inhiction: "Outwitting a
Shark" short incident, told without
waste of words" las Charles Reade put
it,; "St. Nicholas at the Fair" notice of
the Century Company's exhibit; and two
articles on animals-''The Little Bear OF
CaZadero," by Charles II. Shinn, and
THE Stormy Petrel." by Captain II. D.
Smith of the United States Revenue Sery-
ice.
"Worthington's Illustrated Magaziner
(Hartford, Conn., for September shows
great diversity of material and an excel
lent list of contributors. The interest
and value of its leading articles, and the
fine literary quality of it's stories, poems
and department matter, are admirably
supplemented by fine press work and
specially prepared illustrations which
make this number as attractive as 1t is
readable. The leading article is a we'll
written paper upon 'Seals and Sealing. -
by Joseph Stanley Brown. Hours with
Percival," by Richard Storrs Willis,
Yale Al is paper of great literary value.
Mrs. Livermore's serial, "In Old Vir-
ginny-Fifty Years Ago." is well sus-
tanned and full of incident and interest.
AN Old-Fashioned Love- Match" by
Helen Campbell, is another paper of
great literary value, embodying facts
and incidents in the life of Anne Brad
street. the Tenth Muse" and grand
mother of American lilerature," and OF
her husband, Simon Bradstreet, one of
the finest, and most cultured among the
Puritan colonists of Massachusetts.
A large part of the contents Of the
Der New York. is devoted to important
topics Of the time. why Silver Ceases
to be Money" by Professor +. w. Taus-
sig of Harvard University; 1.-THE Pilgrim
Path of Cholera" by DR.. Ernest Hart;
Lee j. Vance writes on Folk Lore Study
III America; MISS NJ. "A. BOland ,tof the
Johns Hopkins Training School for
Nurses, points out the dangers of improp-
eriy prepared food and the need of sys-
tematic instruction in cooking. In IRE
formatory Prisons and Lombroso's s
Theories" the views of the noted italian
specialist, are set forth by Miss Helen
Zimmern. II. G. Mercer describes the
PREHISTORIC Jasper Mines in the Lehigh
Hills" M. Charles Letourneau describes
the Origin of Literary Forms" There
is biographical sketch and portrait OF
DR.. Henry Darlington Bolton, President
of the New York Academy of Sciences.
The August New England Magazine
is better than ever, and it significantly
marks its change of management with a
beautiful colored frontispiece of Mt. Cho-
corua in midsummer 1t is a picture
which will interest all who have visited
the wonderful White Mountains, and the
print itself is worth framing. It is not a
mere lithograph of the old style, but pos
sesses absolute Photographic reproduction
OF detail and delicate blendings of the
coiors and tones of nature. The New
England" is the first popular magazine
TO make use of the wonderful recent ad-
yances In color illustration, and this par
ticular issue is of great interest to all
amateurs in Photographic and art work.
Warren f. Kellogg, Boston. publisher.
"Harper's Bazar" for August 10Th was
one of the handsomest issues ever put