The record-union., 1894-03-01
new PUBLICATIONS.

The "Chicago Daily News Almanac and
Political Register for 1892 has made its
appearance. AS it is standard authority
on matters treated of in the best publica-
tlons OF this kind, it needs no extended
notice. Briefly, therefore, it may be said
that in addition to the usual statistical
matter covering elections in every State.
which has been compiled with great care,
the present volume contains many arti-
cles of especial value TO the American
citizen who desires TO keep posted on the
leading political questions or events OF
the day. Among them are to be mem
toned those on the Hawaiian difficulty,
the Behring Sea arbitration, the dispute
between France and Siam, farms and
farm mortgages, modes OF assessing ana
collecting taxes in each State OF the Union,
the national silver convention in Chicago,
the repeal of the purchasing clause OF the
Sherman Act. and the international
monetary conference. The Wilson tariff
bill, as framed by the House Ways and
Means Committee, isscompared, item by
item, with the Mckinley law. AS a
handy book of reference this complete
and yet compact almanac is a model. 1t
will be sent by the Chicago Daiiy NeUS
to any address, postage paid, on the re-
ceipt of % cents.
"Harper's Magazine for March New
\ Ork) is choice number, with illustra-
tions and very full. "Harper's" grows bet
ter and better; we see in it no sign of de-
cadence, but many Of progress. Chief
among its attractions in this number are:
"Vignettes of Manhattan" !" Brander Mat
thews, with i've illustrations; 1.-The
Buckley Lady," Mary e. Wilkins; "a
Rodeo at Los Ojos," Frederic Remington,
with illustrations by Frederic Reming-
ton; LAS Told to His Grace" William
McLennan; The New England Negro"
Jane De Forest Shelton; "a Partie
Carree," w. +. Norris; "The Welcome OF
the Flowers" W. Hamilton Gibson,
illustrations by w. Hamilton Gibson,
engravings by T. S. King and f. Il.
Wellington; "Trilby," George Du Maui
can Industries" edited by Il. X. Rowker,
with illustrations; THE Russian and His
jew" Poultney Bigelow, with five illus
trations by Frederic Remington; IAN
Undivined Tragedy" Laurence Alma
Tadema, with two illustrations by Anna
Alma Tadema; tuberculosis and Its
Prevention" L. Mitchell Prudden, NJ. D.;
Editors Study, Charles Dudley Warner;
Editors Drawer, with Introductory story
by Ruth McEnery Stuart.
"Demorests Family Magazine" for
March New York. is handsomely illus
Il rated. One of the special pictures is an
oil chrome, Alone" and another is a
process picture. "A Happy Family"
Among the leading papers are: "Poverty's
Cryi' iillustrated), Leslie Kane; Silent
Gift" X. E. Webb; "a Tailor Made
Romeo" Charles Vernon; Dogs of High
Degree (illustrated), E. a. Fletcher;
1.-The Road to Fame and Fortune" (illus-
trated), Margaret Bisland; How She
Saved Her Lover" lan etching), J. C.
Cowdrick; Life as Found by Million
airaC,' In GtrQfp6 with UOrtraitcA
drew Carnegie, }. I. Oakley Rhinelander,
Hermann Oelrichs7 Hon. Orlando Potter,
William Steinway, Giovanni p. Mori-
SIM; The Chrysanthemum, " Eben L.
Rexford Society Fads," Madame La
Mode; 1.-The Worth of Water Mark"
Edgar J. Very; "An Evening with Flor
ence," Alice y. and S. Jennie Smith;
'Inexp pensive Homes" Gllustrated), j. b.
Oliver; Our Girls "a Home Mission
ary), Mary f. Butts; Home Art and
Home Comfort" illustrated Typography.
Radtke Luckner q Co., etching and en-
craving publishers and importers, East
Eighteenth street, New y ork, have graft
fed lovers of art by the issue of two new
beautiful large etobings, Home, Sweet
Home" by e. S. Field, and ''By the
Wayside," by Ernest c. Rost. Both are
remarques, and of high artistic merit.
We have rarely known subjects to be
more feelingly treated than in these cases.
The execution by the etching printer is
also OF a good order and rejecting credit
upon the publisher and doing justice to
the artist. We have also small electro
type reproductions of twenty-five other
recent fine etchings issued by the same
firm. We esteem the growing love for
etchings one of the best indications of an
expanding art taste, and broader appre-
citation of the relation OF the fine arts to
human advancement Every publisher
of engravings and etchingS who, like the
publishers of the pictures under notice,
turns out finished work and stands aloof
from the cheap and hasty, does distinct
good to the race. We speak Of cheapness
here in the sense of poor execution. cheats
and low class work.
"Romance" for March Clinton Hall.
Astor Place. New York; for variety and
interest surpasses it's previous issues
Its tales this time are: "His Spirit
Bride" Elizabeth w. Champney; 1.-The
Old Chair-Caner," Guy de Maupassant;
"Who Was He?" L. Cleveland; "Boum-
Boum," Jules Claretie; For Looly,"
Helen Lee Sargent; 1.-THE Golden
Florin," Henri Tessier; "Our Sufferens
With Agents." Josiah Aliens Wife;
"Scarritt's Wedding Gift" Keyes Becker;
"a Singular Case," Georges COurtelines;
1.-THE Minister'S Crime" Maclaren Cor
ban; "An Aged Couple" Alphonse
Doudet; paste or Diamond?" Anony-
nous; ''Helen's Folly" Kate Richmond;
1.-The Ghost of an Apple Tree" Jules
1.-THE Lovers of Grinderwald," Erck-
mann Chatrian; Miss Nellie" John
Capers Gilbert.
The Tribune Almanac" New York
Tribune" n. " for 1894 is volume of
nearly 500 pages, packed with political,
statistical and historical information. To
attempt to recite a 1.-THE of the titles of the
contents would far exceed our space
available. 1t is edited by Edward Nc
Pherson, and does his genius and patience
credit and reflects upon the Tribune
office infinite honor, for it is matter in
volving great outlay, call upon public
spirit and high journalistic enterprise to
issue such q work. The Tribune Alma
nae" has these many years been esteemed
a standard statistical work and political
register, but never before has it given US
so complete a volume as that for 1894. 1t
is mailed for 70 cents copy, and is richly
worth the price.
@ @"CasselPs Family Magazine" for March
(The Cassell Publishing Company, New
York;, is at hand. 1t is freely and hand
somely illustrated, and chief among the
contents are: "The Gatherer," giving in
formation of new discoveries and inven-
tions; Alfred F. Robbins article on "The
Parliaments of the World"; Miss Wick
hams serial, "Margaret's Way"; paper
on washable gold embroidery; new
piece of music, What Shall Play?" by
j. Mountfort; "a Night on Lightship."
by Herbert Russell; ''Disappointments
AS a Cause of Ill HEALTH" by a Family
Doctor; 1.-THE Sleeve of Care," serial by
C.. E. c. Wigall; paper on gardening,
and "a Moving Story" by J. Hall Rich
ardson.
"Vogue" (220 Fourth avenue, New
York comes to hand weekly and is well
come. 1t is novel idea to present the
fashions in the guise of literary matter
and choice illustration, but Vogue" does
it to nicely. 1t is quite an index to
fashionable activities, a note book of the