The record-union., 1895-06-08
new PUBLICATIONS.

new PUBLICATIONS.
The June number of the North Amer
lean Review" offers a table of contents
varied. timely and interesting. Power
and Wealth of the United States'' is by
Michael g. Mulhall, the noted foreign
statistician. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
discusses England. Venezuela and the
Monroe Doctrine; j. Henniker Heaton,
NJ. p, writes entertainingly concerning
"a Cable Post" and the possibilities of
Atlantic submarine communication.
General John Gibbon, U. S. A., asks
"Can West Point BE Made More Useful ?"
"Glimpses of Charles Dickens" the last
days of the great novelist are pathetically
described by Chas. Dickens, the younger.
A valuable contribution on the Military
Lessons of the China-Japan War; by
the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, the Secre-
tary of the Navy" commends itself 10
everyone interested in the recent warfare.
1.-The Silver Question" is treated by
Count Won Mirbach of the Prussian
House OF Lords and German Reichstag,
who considers "Germany's Attitude as
to a Bimetallic UDion," and by the Mex
lean Minister at Washington" who de-
scribes the effects of the 1.-THE Silver
Standard in Mexico" The former Gov
ernor-General of Canada, the Marquis of
Lorne, furnishes ''Soms Thoughts on
Canada" and the sixth installInent OF
Albert d. Vandam's personal History
of the Second EMPIRE" is devoted to
The Renovation of Paris" 'Nordau's
Theory of Degeneration is vigorously
dealt with in a symposium which includes
Kenyon Cox, the artist, Anton Seidl, the
popular music director, and Mayo w.
Hazeltine, the well-known literary
critic of the New York Sum- Other topics
considered are 1.-THE Modern Woman
and Marriage" by Elizabeth Bisland;
Poor City Boys in the Country" by
Alvan L. Sanborn; "Harnessing the
Sum-" by Professor Peter I. Austen, and
1.-THE Silver Question in Ancient Times"
by Plain-Speaker.
The frontispiece of the June "Review
of Reviews" New York )-"Princa Bis
marck in His Home'-is striking rep
resentation of the family group at Fried
richsruhe; it forms an Interesting study.
The editor in his running comment on
"The Progress of the World" reviews
the Cuban situation and England's Mica
raguan relations at some length; he also
summarizes the probable results OF peace
in the far East Other international mat
ters which receive attention in the edito-
rial pages are the relief of Chitral, Ger
man and Austrian politics, France and
the Nile. the new Speaker of the British
House of Commons, elections in Greece
and Denmark, tho Pope's Encyclical to
England. and the school question in Man
itoba. On the side OF home politics, con-
siderable space is devoted to the silver
controversy, the annulment of the in
come tax and the prospects of civil service
reform. Apropos OF recent important
changes in the management and person
mel of the Chicago daily press Willis J.
A hi ,0f nnr1fF ItOl1fn hn
"Chicago Newspapers and Their Max
erS," graphic account of the past and
present fortunes of journalism in the
Western metropolis. There is an article
on an interesting phase of student life in
the smaller Western cOlleges-the Oratori-
cal contests. The portrait of the success
full competitor in the recent intercollegi-
ate contest at Galesburg, H., is given,
with extracts from his Grafton and from
that of the speaker who won second
place. There is also an account of the
passion play spectacle to be seen this
summer ct Horitz. a striking feature is
the great number of portraits of men of
the day.
The American Historical Register
| (Philadelphia), which is the monthly ga
zette ofthe Patriotic Hereditary Societies,
for June, is beautiful number of over a
| hundred pages. The leading article is on
the siege and capture of Louisbourg, in
1745, by the New England troops under
General Pepperrell, and biographies of
the men who took prominent part in this
heroic expeditions; contributed by Walter
Kendall Watkins of Boston, Rear-Ad-
miral Roe, U. s. N, +. Senter Frisbie of
Boston and others, dedicated to the So
ciety of Colonial Wars, which will unveil
monument at Louisbourg June 18th,
which 1t has erected in commemoration
of the l50th anniversary of the capture of
the fortress. The article is profusely
illustrated with portraits of the COM
manders and others, and fac-similes of
| contemporary maps and views Of Louis
bourg. Other articles in this issue, be-
sides many pages devoted to the proceed
ings and news of the patriotic societies of
which this magazine is the organ, are
The New Hampshire Line at the Battle
OF Bunker Hill" and an account of the
Taylor family of Virginia and Kentucky,
all illustrated with portraits and views.
The only magazine in existence de-
signed primarily as a permanent work
OF reference is Current History" Gar
retson, Cox IL Co., Buffalo, n. " A
little over i've years ago it entered upon
field until then unoccupied, aiming to
supplement all other reading matter by
furnishing quarterly concise and sys-
tematic, yet at the same time readable
and attractive. summary of all current
affairs of Importance. 1t has continued
TO be, In our Judgment, in every sense
high-class, timely and useful publica-
ton. For reliability of statement and
! freedom from offensive bias of every
kind 1t is a model. In its treatment
of affairs the due proportions of events
are maintained, their relations to one
another are clearly depicted and the
causes and significance of important
movements are portrsyed-the whole be-
ing characterized by impartiality. The
current number contains 256 pages of
reading matter. and is illustrated with
forty-four portraits of persons of promi-
nent interest in all parts of the world.
The illustrated articles in "Home and
Country" New York, for June, are as
follows: 'Art and the People," by Henry
Mann; "The DEVILS Frills,' by Arlina
Hale; art in Being Married. by Ma
rion 4. Blanchard; tom Reed of
Maine.n by Rufus r. Wilson; Life
Among the Cowboys" by Captain Jack
Crawford; "Westward the Star of EN-
pire Takes Its Way; Salt Lake, by
Wentworth Rollins;. 1.-The Soldiers
Story.n by James L. Kenway, and. "a
Chautauaua in the Wjlds Of Western
Florida" by l.. B. George. Accompa-
MED with text matter worthy the illustra-
tons, the foregoing articles are made
very attractive. Especially is this true
of "Art and the People," which contains
dozen reproductions OF some famous
paintings from the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art, New York, and other we'll
known galleries.
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