The record-union., 1895-06-29
new PUBLICATIONS.

The June number of THE Bookman"
! (DOdd, Mead & Co., New York;, which is
just out, is especially interesting this
month under its department The
Reader" All the departments of this
literary journal are up to the usual high
standard, but this eXcels in the variety
and importance of miscellaneous con-
| tributed articles. Under the "Remin-
iscences OF The Poet Whittier" we have q
second paper. There is an illustrated ar
ticle on 'The Moral Aspect of the Artistic
Poster" and paper on "Stevenson's
Literary Work in College" DR.. Robert
son Nicoll unearths 1.-THE First Pub
lished Writings of Mr.. Ruskin." and DR..
| II. /. Peck celebrates THE Rise of Mr.
! George Moore" Miss Beatrice Harraden,
author of ships That Pass in the Night"
| has placed her impressions of Californian
lite OH record for the first time under the
title Ranch Life in California" Mr..
Mabie continues his literary studies on
Books and Culture" and in his London
! letter DR.. Robertson Nicoll writes of
The Young Poets of England" and Mr.
Sherard OF Daudets visit to London in
his Paris letter. Among writer's. new
and old, we have biographical papers on
James Lane Allen, the author of "a
Kentucky Cardinal;" w. II. Harvey of
Coin" notOriety; Gustav Freytag, the
German novelist who died recently, and
| -
whose wind in the Clearing and Other
| Poems," published last autumn, has been
noted as the most distinctly American
volume Of poetry that has appeared in
some years. These are all accompanied
with portraits and other illustrations.
| The news notes are as fresh and piquant
as ever.
The complete novel in the July issue of
"Lippincotts' is "a Social Highway
| ma ~ hu E'ljzahotb Il
tale of New York society Francis
Iynde furnishes a tale of the West, The
| Strike in Pinon Gulch"; VIII n. Hardin
one of the South, Matt Digby's Med
ding" and Lieutenant Charles Dudley
Rhodes one of the army, THE Recall of
Fathers" Shorter stories are NC
Gheoghan's Lapse" by the late Pro-
-Four to Five" G. X. Z. Charles Morris
gives an account of The Kailroad In
vasion of Asia': J. Kumpei MatumOto
explains the mysteries of The
Tea Ceremony Of Japan" and
Alvan L. Sanborn describes The
Great Market of Paris" THE Whole
! Duty OF Woman. as Understood by Man
in the Fourteenth Century," is paper
by Emily b. Stone. AS pendant to
this. Professor IL. H. Boyesen has a
lively article on The New Woman
hood Our National Extravaganza"
! is exposed and deplOred by Frances
Courtenay Baylor. In Fact in Fiction"
| Frederic NJ. Bird gives reasons for think
ing that the two are best apart, verisimili-
tude, not verify. being what is wanted in
fictitious narratives The poetry, be-
sides couplets by Grace +. Pennypacker
and Calvin Dill Wilson, is by Celia a.
! Hayward, Juliet V. Strauss and Clinton
Scollard.
| The 'MidcOntinent Magazine" for July
! (Midcontinent Press. Chicago and Louis
ville) is very generously and handsomely
illustrated. This magazine is taking a
place In the front rank of current litera-
ture. The contents for July alone indl-
cate that fact. The Cowboys Burial"
/ drawn by K. LorenZ; "Croatans, the Lost
Colony of A AMERICA" Frances Jones Mel
ton; The Defense by Dissolution" Maui
rice Thompson; ''Sympathy," Evaleen
Stein; Chicago Artists Exhibition
with many illustrations, Emma Carleton;
''Toodles on Art" Edward f. Hale, Jr.;
'Iantry Bogus" Virginia Frazer Boyle;
''Localism III Literature" James L. On
derdonk; The Regulation and it's Rela-
tion 10 the Revolution" John Spencer
Bassett; while the Organ Played"
Blanche Carr; 'Inskip: a Story" Ed
ward Cummings; The Negro in Amer
potnene," Margaret Steele Anderson;
THAT Stupid Man, Jean Wright; The
Vigil" Robert Loveman; Mid winter
Travels in Mexico,' with many illustra-
tlons. DIR. August Schachner; IAN Idyl
of section 81 olga Arnold; Robert
Toornbs as Commencement Orator."
Julia Reed; 1.-The Autocrat,' George
Braden.
The current July number of Frank
Leslies Popular Monthly" (New York;
presents splendid art display. 1t con-
tans no less than one hundred and
twenty illustrations, many OF them full
page engrarings, in the best styles OF
modern pictorial art, including the work
of such weli-known illustrators ana
painters rs Carl j. Becker, Nalerian Grt-
bayedoG, Joseph Pennell, Hubert Her
komer. Cecil Lawson. o. Favretto. Ma
kowsky, L. L. Fournier, Lepere, Enrico