The record-union., 1894-12-24
new PUBLICATIONS.

From Raphael, Tuck IL Sons Company,
35S Broadway, New York, London and
Paris. has issued variety of holiday
publications of great beauty, the art
character OF which is very high. They
possess the quality also of cheapneSs.
They are small affairs, but just as pretty
and delightful to the eye as if worth
much money. The "Eilagree Box" for
instance contains six choice autograph
holiday cards ior Christmas and New
ear. For each there is an envelope,
and on the embossed illuminated folder
cover OF each card is either the holly,
baby blue eyes, the fern, the lily, or all
combined. In The Golden Box" there
are twelve of these beautiful cards, and
envelopes for each. The Choice Box"
has nine varieties of like character.
Some OF them are triple and quadrup le
folders and with pansies, lilies and
floral wealth in brilliant colors that are
almost bewildering. Tho Minuet Tab
leau" is "a large seXtuple folder, with six
human figures. " hen tho folder is eX-
tended the six appear in the set OF old
time mlnuet. 1t is a most tasty AM
novel conceit. with Kind Thoughts" is
small holiday card book OF sixteen
pages of bristol board with water color
views and appropriate poetical selections.
songs OF the Water Mil" Is the lille Ol
QuartO ten-page water color print book
illustrating William Wordsworth's songs
of the water mills. This, as with the
others, is printed at the Fine Art Works
OF Saxony from designs made in Eng
lish studios. My Little Pansy People'
is book OF similar character, pansies APP
pearlng as childrenS' 1aceS with lines by
Ida Scott Taylor. ''Itoyal Regle,"
sweet AbigaiP' aud FAIRY Series" Of
dressing dolls, with paper doll fOurlnter-
changeaDle costumes and hats and capes.
ETC., in each box, are charming things.
The figures are both male and female
and the robes are fashionable and in
brilliant colors. In all the line OF hOli-
day cards, dressing dolls and childrenS'
books we have seen nothing SO DGautI-
fully printed as these we have noticed.
DR.. Charles II. Park hurst's later and
croWning iabors in behalf OF municipal
reform in New York is the subject of an
article III "McCIure's Magazine" for
January New York;, by +. }. Edwards.
Miss Beatrice Harraden, author OF "ShlpS
that Pass in the Night" tells how she
came to write that novel; when, and
where. and how she wrote il; how she got
it ublished; how it won her friends and
correspondents in every quarter OF the
globe, and among all conditions and
classes Of people. There is portrait Of
Miss Harraden. Professor Henry Drum
mond has second paper on ID. l.. Moody.
The first of a series OF historical Napoleon
hnds appears, being graphic account of
the battle OF Marengo, and of thetamous
stand of the grenadIerS of the Consular
Guard. The Napoleon article is an ac-
count OF mis- swift and skilltul redemption
of France from bankruptcy; his reduc-
tlou OF a vast confusion of laws to a COM
pact and easily-understood code; his re-
vival and expansion of the domestic
industries; and his equipment OF the
country with roads. schools, mark cts and
beautiful public buildings; series of
labors that give more splendid exhibit
ton of his genius than do even his wars.
Many OF the problems he solved for
France are now occupying the attention
OF the American people. The wealth OF
Mr.. Hubbard's Napoleonic collection is
revealed in this issue, no less than
twenty-three portraits, mostly full-page,
appearing. Rudyard Kipling contributes
a new jungle story, ana a characteristic
short story by Conan Doyle is also given.
The Overland Monthly for January
(San Francisco) appears in new cover
in honor of the New Year. For artistic
finish IL leads any of the New Year covers
OF the year, and rivals the beautiful cover
on the december number. The most eX-
tensively illustrated and most interesting
contribution is "a descriptive article on
the strange old ASlatic city, Singapore,
by kounseville Williams. Joaquin
Miller's great tour-part poem, "The song
OF the Balboa Sea" concludes. The mag
azine and author are in receipt of con-
gratuiatory letters from Mr.. Gladstone
Lord Houghton, Oscar Wilde, DIR. +. e.
SIedman, Lord Rosebery and many
well-knoWn literary men. Following in
the footsteps ofthe Vigilance Committee
of '56," as an addition to Pacific Coast
literature, is The Evolution OF Shipping
and Ship-building in California" a coll
lection of personal narratives by Irving
NJ. Scott aud dozen early ship builders
''Stedman and His British Contempo-
raries" is character sketch by Mrs.
Mary j. Reid. The article that will prob
ably attract the most attention among
legislators and thinkers will be Marsden
Manson's study on the NAVAL Control
of the Pacific Ocean," 1t is a forcible
protest against England's aggressions.
In True Tales of the Old Wesr' series,
X. NJ. Daggett contributes mining remi-
niscence under the caption of My French
Friend" Among notable stories are:
Mrs. Badgers Snoot," by Horace An
nesley Vachell; Tim Slather's Ride"
by Granville Hurst, and THE Relapses
OF Pap" by l.. b. Bridgman. In LAS
Talked in the Sanctum" and ETC." the
editor las something to say.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly,
New York; for January, just out. is a
tine holiday number, with regard to both
the character of its reading matter and
its richness in illustration. The leading
article. "St. Andrews and Andrew
Lang" by Mrs. Leicester Adds. is a
charming account of the university ca
reer and literary life of this versatile
author. also OF the quaint little Scotch
city OF his Alma Mater. Frances Smith
gives a glimpse of Miss Gould at Lynd.
hurst" illustrating the occupations and
anuSements OF an American chatelaine.
and Frances Courtenay Baylor contrib
utes three suggestive chapters ION En-
IefialDlng.' III the Of
travel and exploration, there are Amer
ica's Egypt" (Iucatap), by Mime. Le
Piongeon; FINLAND and the Fins,r bv
Herman Montague bonner, and "A Dash
Into Pineapple Land" which is SOUTH
eastern Florida. Lydia Hoyt Farmer
contributes an interesting paper On ',Je-
rusaiem IN the First Century," and Char
thetically OF "Old kentuckey Homes
Ginning Bells" by s. ii. Ferris. Is a
seasonabie topic, thoroughly treated; and
full-page engraving of Boutlngy's
picture of the death of Marshal Lannes
at the battle of Essling furnishes the mo-
tive for some interesting historical pages
upon Napoleon and Alexander |. of Rus
sia.
The Christmas number of "Harper's
Bazar" New York., published December
10th, Will please great variety of tastes.
Octave Thanets Christmas story, "Mr
Ruthven's Black List" touches on no.
litical economy, showing a strike from
the different points of view OF the capital
ist and The operative. Miss Maria Louise
Pool. in a strong New England story.
The Tiff Way" brings out the sub,
stratum of granite that is the foundation
stone of most peoples characters in New
England. "A Pastoral Masquerade"
poem, by Katherine Pyle, illustrated by
herself MAX a bnantiful