The record-union., 1894-05-11

this vast majority. Each volume is a
compact history of nation, people and
phase of civilization. and no one volume
is so large as to frighten any reader from
| it. In every case there is edltorSnlp
! chosen from among the best OF our MS
torical editors and students. 80 that he
| who takes these volumes one by one Is
sued during several years will by their
! perusal come out a well-infOrmed
man upon the rise, development. decay
or present condition of all the nations and
peoples of the earth, save only few OF
the lesser and lower tribes of the present
time.
The Century Magazine" New York;
for May is prcfusely and very richly
illustrated always is, it is never weak
in the matter OF pictorial effect. Its lead.
ing papers are: "Dagnan- Bouvert,"
! William A. Coffin; 'Pudd' nhead Will
| lish and American Scenery" E. S. Nadal;
Hunting an A Abandoned Farm in Upper
] New England William Henry Bishop;
'A Loan OF Half Orphans" Thomas A.
Jannier; ga Lady in Black" american
Artist Series). Frederick w. Freer: "Old
Dutch Masters; Aelbert Cuyp," Timothy
Cole; "Bookbindings Of the Past.'' Bran
Jeffrey Roche; ACROSS Asia on a BIZ
cycle" Thomas G. Allen. Jr., William H..
Sachtleben: ''Witherle's Freedom" Cor
nelia Atwood Pratt: Occur dAlene"
(conclusion), Mary Hallock Foote; Cap
ture Of the Slave-ship Cora" Wilburn
Hall; 'Zmai Iovan Iovanovich' (the
chief Servian poet, Nikola Tesla; 'Para-
| phrases from the Servian," Robert I'm
derwood Johnson: ''Mr. Pate's Only In
trinity" Richard Malcolm Johnston;
1.-The Initiative Functions and their Place
in Human Nature" Josiah Royce. Topics
of the time-"What is Political Econ
omy?" "The Foreign Element III Trade
! Unions" Popular Education in Citizen
ship" The crisps open letters treat of
living matters, and the notes in lighter
vein are charming.
The need of wider markets for Ameri-
can manufactures is discussed in the May
"Engineering Magazine" New York; by
Hawthorne Hill as the industrial demand
OF the day. A literally illustrated article
of interest on the inclined railway sys-
TENS of the world is contributed by The
odore 9. Ives, and one on the northern
white pine industry by Richard A. Par
ker. Professor j. Woodbridge Davis
describes the kite as life-saver at sea,
introducing drawings to show how kite
steering has been reduced to science.
| Two important electrical articles for pop
ular reading are presented. and two on
the best methods of architectural educa-
ton for America. Gold and silver min
ing in South America. and comparison
of coal-gas and water-gas, together with
the usual half-dozen editorial depart
ments III the hands OF recognized author
tiles, complete this unusually interesting
| number OF the magazine. The En-
gineering Magazine" is founded upon
the idea of excluding technicality from
its leading articles, and hence it appeals
directly to the interest of the general
reader. For this reason it is valuable as
a source of information for the general
reading public.
The North American Review New
York for May has: 1.-The Way to Regu-
late Liquor Selling" by Governor Till
man Of South Carolina; Successful Pub
lie House Reform" by the Bishop of
Chester; "A National Health Bureau"
| Surgeon.GeneralS Sternberg; Lord Rose
bery's Administration" Sir Charles w.
Dixie. NJ. p; Helping Others to Help
Themselves" Nathan Straus; ''rhe
| Hostility to Roman Catholics" by
George Parsons Lathrop and the Bishop
of Albany; England III the Mediterra-
nean," Admiral Colomb: "The Unknown
Lie of Christi Edward Everett Hale;
Anarchy and the Napoleonac Revival" T"
Karl Blind; The New Woman" by
Ouida; 1.-The Man of the Moment" by
| SdTdu OIdHu, opdulSu IuGdloTS anu
Actors" Dulcinea del Toboso: Bargains
in Parliament" Edward Porritt; TX os-
suth's Predictions" T. l.. Oswald; "Na-
tional Bank Examiners Criticised" j..
NJ. Gray ybill; 1.-The Value of Dialect"
Professor A. Wauchope.
1.-The FORUM for May New York..
edited by Walter Fl. Page. has these
papers: "A Year of Democratic Admins
tratior," Ex-Governor VIM. e. RUSSELL;
"A Year OF Democratic Administration. -
Senator S. M. Cullom; Current Plans
for Reforming Society-The Cry for State
Help: (d) Necessity for State Aid to the
Unemployed DR.. Stanton.Coit; (6) 1.-The
Dangerous Absurdity of State Aid" D..
McG. Means: "Universities and the
Training of Professors President G. S.
Hall; 1.-The Meaning of Farm NJ ortgage
Statistics" Edward Atkinson; ''The Dill
atory Senate and Depression in Trade.''
the House OF Lords,'' j. Castell Hopkins;
"Child-Study: A Teachers Record Of
Her Pupils" Mary e. Laing; Home
Life, English and American" Price Col
lier; president Eliots Twenty-Five
Years of Service" President Chas. +.
Thwing; 'Why Church Property Should
| be Taxed" Rev. Madison c. Peters; rs
Faith in Future Lie Declining?' Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps.
The Atlantic Monthly'' for May (Bos-
tom has this table of contents: '.Philip
and His Wife, tseriaD, Margaret Deland;
From Blomidon to Smoky" Frank
Bolles; "The Henry,"s I. G. Mendenhall;
Achilles in Orcus.' Elizabeth Stoddard:
'Three Commandments in the Vulgar
Tongue" Gilbert Parker; Talk at a
Country House," Sir Edward Strachey:
;'Behind Hymettus." part one, j. Irving
Manatt: "Egotisme in Contemporary
Art" Royal Coriissoz; "Where?o r. II.
Stoddard; The Queen of Clubs.u Eliza
| Orne White: Francis Parkman," L.,
Justin Winsor, H., John Eiske; "The
| William Frederick Slocum, Jr; "Henry
Vaughan. the Silurist," Louise Imogen
! Quincy; ''Tne Encyclicals of Pope Leo
/ NIII.'i; Poetry in General and in Par
ticular"; "The Contributors Club"
The "Catholic Quarterly Review for
the April quarter (Philadelphia) has
these leading papers: The Coming
Kingdom OF Christi Rev. Augustine II.
Hewitt; Transfer of the Indian Bureau
to the War Department" General John
Gibbon; "The Age of the Human Race
According to Modern Science and Bib
iical Chronology" Rev. j. A. Zahm:
Rev. Reuben Parsons, d. D.; Irish
Saints in Italy," Ellen NJ. Clerke; s.Sci-
entitic Education, Exact and Inexact,' y
| Rev. Thomas Hughes; ''Gounod and
Church Music" Rev. Hugh L. Henry;
Marshal MacMahon, the Soldier and
the Man." Very Rev. J. Hogan; "LAn-
Glen Regime" second article), Prof st.
George Mivart: The Study of the Sacred
Scripture" Pope Leo MIL, "The Pope
liz act