The record-union., 1895-02-04
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.

A. Pace, d. D.; "a Negative View of the
Encyclical, 'Providentissimus Deus -
Rev. A. J. Mas; 'The Treasures of the
Church." William Barry, D. D.; 'Scien-
titic Chronicle" Thomas ]. a. Freeman,
s. J.
The Midland Monthly's." (Des
Moines) supply of good reading is boun-
teous. The February number contains
nlnety-six pages of deeply interesting
| reading, including a Mississippi River
sketch by Hamlin Garland, delightful
stories, choice poems and the following
profusely illustrated papers: "A Bit of
Holland in America" Cyrenus Cole;
ter Taylor; "SaunteriDgs III Summer
land" j. Torrey Connor; "Joseph KEEP
pier, Caricaturist," Charles +. COLLISION;
The Land of Ophir: a Word Picture"
Ben al Hassan; "Underground Railroad
Adventures" G. w. E. Hill; "Women
Writers in Washington" Juliette NJ.
Babbitt; The Mystic Shrine" B. w.
Blanchard.
There is charmingly illustrated arti-
Gle on ''Snowshoeing in the North wesp'
IN the February number Of "Demorest's
Family Magazine" New York.. There
are other interesting things to learn
through the same medium. There is a
paper entitled "a Glance at Hinduism"
valentines from Famous People" iu-
". II. Gibson, Cheiro, Miss Elizabeth
Marbury, Mrs. Sydney Rosenteld and
others. "Ar Cross Purposes is a comedy
| i'll two acts; "Recitations for Children"
Will afford amusement for little ones;
An Evenings Amusement" offers ex-
cellent suggestions for entertaining a
house party. Every department is COM
plete, and the issue as a whole of high
order.
'LippincotPs Magazine" for February
(Philadelphia) has these contents: 1.-The
Chapel Of Ease" Harriet II. Davis: 1.-The
Back Terrapin," David b.
Fitzgerald; "Quong Lee" Francis Lynde;
The VT; Pleasures of Bad Taste" Annie S.
G. Abbott; with Weyman in Old
France, (poem, Richard S. Powell;
The Fate of the Farmer" Fred. p.
Powers; "a Precedent" Alice NJ. Whit
lock; Corpus Christi in Seville" Caro-
line E. White; The Beginnings of a
Cavalry Troop" Kenneth Brown; IAN
ldyl of the Forties," Champion Bissell
Lingo in Literature" William C. ELAN.
Table Talk" (Philadelphia) for Feb
ruary is well filled with matter of inter-
est TO housewives, caterers, and any at
all interested in dietetics or furnishing OF
the table. Among the topics are: "a
Character Sketch-Sophie, - Rare China
in American Homes" The New Type"
"a uSA1 1OoIiS anu IOduSlCO4S, ne
Worry Club,'" "Housekeepers' In
| quiries," The New Bill of Fare" I'm
! Woman's Line" "Innocents Abroad :"
Novelties" menus for February"
'The Market List" The Dietetic Les
! son-Nilrogenous roods,' Questionable
Luncheon and Tea Toilets" "Capricious
| Washington"
"Romance" for February (Romance
! Publishing Company, New York. has
these crisp short stories, not one of which
lacks strength: "A Sacrifice to Minerva"
by Alice NJ. Gardner; 1.-The Crosses of
the Legion" by George d'Esparhe; "A
Faded Bridal Bouquet" by Elsie Polka;
| The Discovery of a Tenor" by
"Chardy"; "a Niolin," by Ernest Daw-
son; The Sorrow of a Singer" by
! Charles Foley; LAS the Clock Strikes, !"
| by Florence Z. Moliere, mir. Wander
nests Valentines" by Mrs. Spofford;
| The Pirates of the Persian Gulf" by
! Lieutenant G. r. Lowe; Hung Him, 4"
by Ivan Tourguenetf
| John De Witt Warner contributed to
| "Harper's Weekly' for January 18th an
article which contains the results of per-
sonal inspection of sweating-shops, and
marks an important advance in the dis
| cusslon OF the tenement-house system.
In the same number Julian Ralph has an
article on the cruelties to which Ameri-
can missionaries have been subjected in
! China; and another important feature
was Professor w. NJ. Sloanes paper
which accompanied the bird's-eye view of
the college buildings at Princeton.