The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-03-03

ward Cloud, Mary Mcneil Scott, NAL
colin Douglas, Felix Leigh and others.
The serials by Mrs. Wiggin, W.. o. Stod-
dard and NJ. Carrie HYDE the humorous
pictures by Birch, Newell and Kemble
are excellent.
The March Overland Monthly" San
francisco, comes TO us with timely de-
Scorpions of Hawaiian scenery, illus
trated from handsome photographs. The
| illustrations are up to very high stan
dard. Mabel IL. Blossoms familiar sim
pie. entertaining descriptions are rfvaled
by the sketches I'm the Wilds of Ha-
wall" and The Footsteps OF Pele''
"Lauth," by Frank Norris, is a unique,
weird tale of medieval Paris. The
Bauksia Rose" by William NJ. Tisdale,
is pretty romance of Southern Califor-
MIA, quite novel in its plot. Under the
modest title of "A Scrap OF Frontier His
tory" by Charles Harkins, is thrilling
! narrative OF two fearful rides for life in
Mexico during the civil war, when the
Apaches ran unrestrained over the min
| ing districts. OF argumentative literature
there Is III this number an able paper by
John Z. Henderson, on the Free Coin
age OF Silver by the United States Gov
{ ernment," in which the plea for silver is
SO ably made as to call forth a letter of
commentator from Senator Stewart.
The poems of the number are excellent,
both In style, illustration and variety.
Among the familiar names are Herbert
bashford, Nirna Woods and Elizabeth S.
Bates.
The atlantic Monthly" for March
lHoughton, Mifflin Il Co. Boston,, has
~Old kaskaskia," part third, by Mary
hartwell Catherwood; admiral the
Earl of st. Vincent" by a. Il. Mahan;
MON Cely's Wonderful Luck" by
Elizabeth w. Bellamy; Persian
Poetry" by Sir Edward Strachey; "Of
a Dancing Girl" by Lafcadio Hearn;
Garden Ghosts" by James b. Kenyon;
Random "reminiscences of Emerson"
by William Henry kurness; "On Grow
ing Old" by II. C. Merwin; "My College
Days" l., by Edward L, Hale; "Words, ;"
Agnes Repplier; AN English Family in
the Seventeenth Century," by John Eos
ter Kirk; "A Seventeenth Century Song.'
Louise 1mogene Quincy; The Ancestry
of Genius.p by Havelock Ellis; "A
Great Lady of the French Restoration"
Pagan and Christian Rome," ''Sy-
mond's Life of Michaelangelo."
"Harper's Magazine" for March New
ork) is superb number. The third in
stallment Of Doyle's historical novel,
The Refugees" appears-one of the
most dramatic, vivid and well-told tales
Of the age. 1t is richly illustrated, as also
Is washington Society" and Stanley 5
Slavery and the African Slave Trade"
and Theodore Child's The Escurial, !" and
julian Ralph's "Our own Riviera
Other papers are: 1.-The Face on the
WALL" a story, three illustrations, by
Margaret Deland; "Monochromes, y
poems, twelve illustrations, by w. d..
Howells; My Upper Shelves" poem,
by Richard Burton; Horace Chase" a
novel, Part III, by Constance Kenmore
Woolscn; AN American in Africa" by
Richard Harding Davis, with portrait Of
William Astor Chandler.
"Lippincott's Monthly Magazine" for
phia) has "Warng's Peril" a complete
novel, by Captain King. United States
Army; The Newspaper Woman's
story" by Elizabeth Joadan; "a Rose OF
the Mire," a story, by Kate Jordan;
Queer Trades" by Charles Robinson.
and poetry, sketches and short papers.