The record-union., 1894-04-07
new PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLlChIlUNS.
The "star'" contributors to the April
number of the North American
Review" (New York; are Cardinal
Gibbons, who furnishes some exceed
lngly interesting Personal Remi-
niscences Of the Vatican Council' Mark
Twain, who tells the "Prlvate History of
the Jumping Frog Story" and Gov
| ernor Stone of Mississippi, who discusses
The Suppression of LaWleSSness III the
South" Justin Mccarthy, M. p, con-
tributes timely article on "New Parties
Parliament" and Hon. Thomas II. Car
ter supplies an able paper on "The Re-
| publican Outlook" President Andrews
OF Brown University, who was one OF the
year, writes on Tariff Reform and
| Money Reform'; DR.. j. ii. Senner.
United States Commissioner Of Immigra-
ton. describes "How We Restrict Immi-
grafton" and William +. Wharton, who
was Assistant Secretary of State during
| President HarrisOn's administration,
| outlines plan for "RefOrm in the Con-
sular Service" These articles. however.
| by no means exhaust the table of con-
tents. a paper possessing a unique in
| terest, on Forgery as u Profession" is
| contributed by Robert 4. PinkertOn, of
the well-known detective bureau. I'm
der the caption of "Wild Traits in Tame
Animals" DR.. Louis Robinson writes
most instructively and ontertainingly OF
| the horse. "Our Navigation Laws"
forms the subject of a paper by Charles
II. Cramp." of the eminent ship build
| ing firm, and the mutual advantages OF
IAN Anglo-American Alliance are set
| forth by Arthur Silva White. Other top
les treated are "Delicacy, True and False" "
! by William Matthews, LII. D.; college
| Theatricals as We Have Them," by E.
Iren@us Stevenson, and Land Held
| Out Of Use." by J. w. Bengough.
The April number Of "St. Nicholas"
rings down the curtain upon tom Saw
yer" by Mark Twain, and "Toinette's
Philip" by Mrs. Jamison. In the pres
ent number begins the new serial, Jack
| Ballister's Fortunes" by Howard Pyle.
In the "City Series'' Charles Ii. Shinn
shows US the good points of San Fran
cisco, and, aided by photographs, takes
his readers through its picturesque scenes
and recalls its unique history. In the
Natural History Series" Mr.. Hornaday
| gives a most interesting sketch of wolves
and foxes. DR.. Eastman continues the
| autobiography of his Indian bOyhoOd.
| ION Glacier in Greenland" by Albert
! White Worse, tells cleyafly the adven-
lures of little Eskimo from that small
sayage's own standpoint. There is a
| clever fairy story by Rudolph Bunnell,
and one of David Ker's snappy storicules.
! The verse of the number includes ArlO
| Bates "The Dreamer" Miss Wilkins
| Bachelors Button" l.. +. Richards
| 1.-THE Clever Parson" and Professor Boy
esen's ballad, "Ottar Birting,'. and hu-
norous contributions from Malcolm
Douglas, Nell X. McElhone, Claude Har-
ris and John Bennett. Palmer Cox IS
| Brownie play, The Brownies in Fairy
! land" and NJ. l.. Kinks pretty Rainy
Day" picture are attractions. The April
number is an excellent one. We have
named but portion of its attractions
'Harper's Magazine" for April besides
a very brilliant lot of illustrations, and
| the usual departments, has these special
features: "a Battleship in Action" by
Lieutenant S. a. Staunton; 1.-The English
Senate" (the House OF Lords) by George
| w. Smalley; Emperor Williams Stud
Farm and Hunting Forest" by Poultney
Bigelow; yale University" by Pro
fessor Arthur L. HadIey; '"TriIby," by
George Du Maurier. An article on "Col-
onel Matthew Lyon of Vermont" by
John Gilmer Speed; Edwin A. Abbey
drawings illustrating Shakespeare's s
Winters Tale" are reproduced with
comments by Andrew Lang. The num-
Der contains eight complete short stories:
Manhattan) by Brander Matthews; THE
Writing on the Wall" by Richard Hard
ing Davis; 1.-The Monument to Corder, y
by Eva Wilder McGlasson; "An Inter
rupted Story" lin the series LAS Told to
His Grace,") by William McLennan;
1.-The Promised Land" by Owen Wster;
"a Pale Girls Face" by EVAN McPher-
son; IAN Affair of the Heart" by Miss
Grace King; and "Thelr Story" by
George A. Hibbard; the number con-
tains three poems: Race" by w. ID.
Howells; ''The Wapentake,n by Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps Ward; and witch
Hazel" by James E. Learned.
The Century Magazine New York.
for April, beside riches in illustration and
Mark Twaln's and Mary Hallock Foote'S
serials, has these leading articles and all
stories, Topics of the Times" ETC..
'Mors Benefca," Edmund Clarence
Stedman; "From the Old World to the
New" Andri Castaigne; ELLEN Terry in
The Merchant of Venice" Thomas B.
Aldrich; "Lincoln's Literary Expert
ments," John q. Nicolay; "Old Dutch
Masters" Timothy Cole; My First and
Last Balloon Ascension," Robert Y. Y.
Sewell; "a Comet-FiHder," Frank w.
Mack; wild Flowers or English Speech
in America" Edward Eggleston; 'P'tit
Matinic' Monotones" (rhe Wreck George
Wharton Edwards; "a Summer Month
in Welsh Village" Susan Nichols Car
ter: ''Driyen Out of Tibbet," w. Wood
vile Rocxhill: ''The Supply at St.
Agathas," Elizabeth Stuart Phelps;
"Millers Life at Barbizon," Pierre Millet;
Hunting an Abandoned Farm in Con-
necticut," William Henry Bishop; Gods
of India" F. Marion Crawford; Matthew
Arnold" Florence Earle Coates; 'For-
estry Legislation in Europe" B. e. Fer
now: "Goethe on Paper Money" Munroe
Smith; 1.-THE Head of Sir Walter Scott"
T. T. Munger; 1.-The Unity of the Sects."
William Dewitt Hyde; American
Artists Series" w. Lewis Fraser; 1.-The
Department of Athletics Tudor jerks;
1.-The Lost Friend" Mary Rerri Chap
man; development" Helen Nicolay.
Edward Bellamy tells singularly in
teresting story in his account OF How
Wrote Looking Backward" ;" in the
April Ladies' Home JournaP' (Phiia-
delphia) aud adds to the interest by
describing how the idea of nationalism
occurred to him. Not less interesting is
William Dean Howells in the fifth article
of his literary autobiography. "My Lit
erary Passions, The clever woman
whom Robert Louis Stevenson married
is presented in a portrait and sketch, as
is also the wife of E. S. Willard, the actor.
Beautiful in Illustrations is an article on
"The Care of p st. Bernard Dog" by
Alexander Mackenzie Hughes. Madame
Blanc, under her nom de gsse1Te Of 9Th.