The record-union., 1894-01-08

Joy.' There is large number of small
half-tone Worlds Fair and other pictures
from photography, and one fuli-page
half-tone winter Scene in Switzerland !"
is by all odds the finest half-tone work
we have ever seen, and we have exam
ined thousands of specimens. Another
fine picture is 'Along the Mountain
Road" Another is in delicate color,
"ChiaDti," and is an example of the pho
tochrome style of engraving. The pa
pers in this fine number OF the photo
graphic Times" are: Astronomical Pho
tography." Hand Camera Composition"
Distinguished Photographers" "ortho-
chromatic Methods" WET and Dry
Process" photography at Il. the Fair
Photography" "a New Use for Old
Plates" photography for Household
Decorative Purposes" notes, news,
poems, stories. questions and answers,
correspondence, book reviews, etc. In
short. it is quarto that no photographer,
amateur or professional, can we'll do
without who wants to do we'll.
The complete novel in the January
number of ''Lippincott's" (Philadelphial
is THE Colonel" by Harry Willard
French. Gilbert Parker supplies the
opening chapters of a serial story, Tine
Trespasser," which will run through six
numbers of the magazine. ''Frenchy"
is a domestic tale by Molly Elliot Sea-
we'll. "A Mother and Her Boy" by
George Morley, is a pathetic sketch.
"The Peninsula of Lower California;"
by James Knapp Reeve, gives valuable
information. Mrs. Sherwood's "Recol
Charlotte Cushman will interest many.
Julian Hawthorne, in "a Poet of Man
hood" pays tribute to the memory of
Daniel L. Dawson. Under "a Juvenile
Revival" Thomas Chalmers celebrates
the "Christian Endeavor" era. Frank
Shelley writes CT Early Marriage Gus
toms," and Charles Morris anticipates
''The Twentieth Century" In Talks
With the Trade" L. NJ. b. answers some
| questions of young writers. The poetry
Of the number is of unusual merit, by
Martha L. Tyler, Celia a. Hayward,
Kathleen r. Wheeler, Edward Oldham,
NJ. S. Paden and the late Daniel l.. Daw
son.
Few exhibitions recently given in
America have attracted more attention
than that OF the Graf collection of Greek
portraits exhibited at the Boston Art
Museum in November and now in New
York. The principal impression that
one has, as one looks at the beautiful re-
productions of these portraits accompa-
nying DR.. Fewkes article on them in the
January number of the New England
Magazine" is the impression OF the mod
ernness of the faces. These people of al
most 1000 years ago, we feel, were our
/ own brothers and sisters. This woman,
even to her dress, her jewels and the ar
rangement of her hair, might be leader
| in our society to-day; this woman might
be the wife of New Hamnshire farmer
! this girl is very girl of theperiOd. The
| whole collection has been remarkable
/ revelation of the power Of the Greeks in
| .f,. ic fNptt of fn hnv on
! we'll described and illustrated as in this
article in the New England" which is
especially attractive in matter and illus
| tration this month. Warren L. kellogg,
D Park Square, Boston.
"Table Talk" announces in it pros
pectuS for the coming year additional ad-
vantages and redoubled effort TO achieve
for il higher standard than ever before.
1t will present in the culinary depart
ment every novelty, all new dishes, both
| foreign and American, together with
| practical menus for each month and the
'Inquiry Department" will be open free
| to all subscribers, and questions en-
swered, recipes given, in the well-known
practical way so helpful to housekeepers.
1.-THE New Bill of Fare" will be replete
with the latest styles of table decorations
and service, decorative meals and many
| points pleasant to know culled from the
social side OF woman's life, old English
! plate (the present popular fancy and it's
''hall marks" as we'll as American pot
teries, will be treated. The fashion arti-
cles and general reading never fail to in
| terest, instruct and will enable the busy
woman to keep up with the times as we'll
as tighten household duties. Table Talk
Publishing Company, Philadelphia.
Among the January magazines, 1.-THE
New Peterson" is one OF the very best.