The record-union., 1894-06-28
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Popular Science Monthly" pre-
sents a varied table of contents in its July
number. The opening article by Logan
q. Mcpherson, is on ''rhe Meaning of
Corporations and Trusts" Professor
Byron d. Halsted has an illustrated paper
under the title Sunshine Through the
Woods" Alexander McAdie describes
ga Colonial Weather Service" Professor
James Sully contributes the first of half "A
dozen papers on "Studies of Childhood"
Some curious structures are described
and illustrated by l.. n. Badenoch under
the title Homes Of Social Insects" In
Latitude and Vertebrse" Professor David
Starr Jordan presents study in the evo-
luton of fishes. 1.-The Great Bluestone
Industry" is described in an illustrated
article by Professor Henry B. Ingram.
In Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and
Modern Bacteriology' the Introduction
OF incubation and vaccination for small
poX in England is described by Mrs. II.
NJ. Plunkett. .. S. Whitmore gives an
account OF early trials in .Kiin-drying
Hard Wood" DR.. Louis Robinson dis
cusses Acquired Facial Expression"
bringing out some very interesting facts.
Under the title "Savagery and Suryivals"
Professor j. w. Black shows that many
ofour ceremonies, fashions, habits and no
tionS have come down to us from savage
forebears. There is biographical SIX etch
VI W 0O Qlett dt LDe age Vi
81, after making some of the most Won
derful researches of recent years on light
and electricity. The death of Professor
Billroth of Vienna is also noticed, and
there are portraits of both men. New
York D. Appleton x Co., publishers.
"What Constitutes Good Husband"
is discussed by Mary Hallock Foote,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, The
Duchess" "Grace Greenwood" and
al - I'LL .
Home Journal" ''The Thirty and One'
is a short story by Charles D. Lanier.
Will n. Harlem contributes 1.-THE Heresy
of Abner Calihan.'' The biography of
the number consists of sketches, with
portraits, of Mrs. Wayland Hoyt and
Mary Hartwell Catherwood. Frank r.
Stockton gives two more of "Pomona's"
characteristic letters to her old ''Rudder
Grange mistress, and Mr.. Howells' lit
erary "reminiscences under the title ''My
Literary Passions," grow in interest.
Robert j. Burdette is happy in his MAX
ing a Suburban Home" the editor gives
a most interesting review of a new and
unique Southern story, and the Rev. /.
De Witt Talmage writes of when Things
are Against U.s." Miss Scovils paper on
Feeding a Baby in Summer will be
found valuable to mothers. Women will
be charmed with Miss Parloa's House
Furnishing in Paris" Cora Scott War
ing's Graceful Lunch Set." Mrs. NAL
Ions "The Art of Dressing in White"
Eliza r. Parker's receipts for 1.-The APP
pie, the Peach and the Pear" Miss
Hooper's ''Styles in Household Linen"
the page of DAINTY Luncheons, Tea and
Dinner," Little Summer Belongings"
"Up-Stairs and Downstairs useful
Things Worth Knowing" and Harriet
Ogden Morison's exquisite page of
Ecclesiastical Embroidery" The Cur
tbs Publishing Company of Philadelphia.
A superb work is the fine quarto
printed from the ILLUSTRATED American"
Is East Sixteenth street, New York; con-
tanning twenty-five full-page half-tone
portraits OF distinguished dramatic artists
of America and England, and 100 lesser
sized portraits of the twenty-five actors
in character. Each picture is accompanied
by biographical sketch. The editor of
! the work is Austin Brereton, and his ac-
complishment of the task does him
honor. 1t is a beautiful book, and is No.
l of series to appear, We should think
that every lover of dramatic art would
wish to possess all the numbers of this
"Gallery of Players" the comprehensive
title of the quarto. 1t sells at twenty-five
cents number, low price for such a
work.