The record-union., 1895-01-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Arena" Boston, B. o. Flower
opens the new year in its January issue
with bill of fare that shows no falling
on. Inc number is especially valuable
ior tne publication of symposium on the
age OF Consent Laws in the United
States" IN which eight of the leading
writers whose names are connected with
the movement for social purity are repre-
Sented: Aaron NJ. Powell, editor of 1.-The
Phllanthropist' Helen Ii. Gardener the
novelist; Frances e. Willard Rev. A. II.
Lewis, ID. d.; DR.. o. Edward Janney, M.
D.; viii Allen Dromgoole, the story
writer of Tennessee life, and DR.. Emily
blackwell of New York. Rev. w. II.
Savage contributes paper on The Re-
llglon of Longfellow's Poetry.' Vir-
chand X. Gandhi contributes an article
on the christian Mission in India" B.
! y. Fowler, the editor, contributes an
analysis of the Factors in immortality in
Legislation" and 1.-The Time OF Sir
Thomas More" the Reformation and
| Some Reiormers." Helen IL. Gardener
in 'Our Little Neighbor in the East" dis
| cusses the war in the East. w. D. Nc
Crackan, a. NJ, writes on Politics as a
| Career" James q. Clark believes that
| the present social instability is working
| for a new and better industrial order
| Walter Black burn Harte has short story
| of New York street life. Adeline Knapp
| a young san Francisco journalist, con-
tributes realistic story called "The
Dignity of Labor" Rev. Frank NJ.
Goodchild writes on "The Sweating Sys-
New" is dealt with by Rev. II. c. Vroo-
man, and Professor Thomas e. viii, 4.
M, furnishes photography for students
who wish to read up the subject with sci
entitic thoroughness. The literary Cau-
serie, or end-paper, for the month deals
with 1ranScendentalism and
New.'
With the first number in January,
"LlttelPs Living Age" enters upon its
two hundred and fourth volume. The
field OF periodical literature, especially
IN England, is continually broadening,
and including more and more the work
of the foremost authors in all branches
of literature and science. Presenting, in
compact and convenient form, all that is
most valuable of this work, "The Living
Age' becomes more and more neces-
sity to the American reader. The open
ing issues of the new year will contain,
with others, say the publishers, valuable
and timely articles in science, politics,
| biography, theology and general liter
ature, from the pens of Prince kropot-
kin, the Duke OF Argyll, Max Muller,
the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Hob
house, Edmund Gosse, Lord Ebrington,
4
Conway and other leading writer's; to-
gether with papers of interest by NJ. Rees
Davies, stephen Gwynn, etc., in fiction,
the choicest of short stories by the best
authors. For a weekly magazine,
which gives an amount of read
| ing matter unapproached in guam
tity and unsurpassed III quality by
any other periodical. the subscription
price, IS, is remarkably cheap. The
publishers also offer to send to all new
| subscribers for the year 1885 the thirteen
weekly issues for the last quarter Of 1884,
forming an octave volume Of S24 pages,
gratis. (Liltell IL Co., Boston,
"Harper's Magazine" for January New
York. is superbly illustrated, and typo
graphically is a delight TO the eye of the
| lover fine printing. Special features are:
The Fortunes OF the Bourbons,' with
portrait OF the late Count of Paris and six
illustrations, by Kate Mason Rowland;
charleston and the Carolinas," twenty
seven illustrations, by Julian Ralph;
! tratiOns, by Hamblen Sears; "Fujisan. -
Japan's famous mountain peak. with
eighteen illustrations, by Alfred Parsons:
New York Slave-Traders," an episode
of Colonial history, illustrated by How
ard Pyle, by Thos. 4. Janvier; "Shakes-
! peare's Americanisms," by Henry Cabot
| Lodge; Hearts Insurgent," Part H. of a
novel by Thomas Hardy, illustrated;
The Princess Aline," Part /. of a novel
ette by Richard Harding Davis, illus
trated. There are five short stories: "A
War Debt" by Sarah Orne Jewett; "An
Adventure of a Lady of Quality" by
Mary jameson Judah; Lin McLean's
Honeymoon" by Owen Wister; The