The record-union., 1895-09-28
BOOKS and MAGAZINES.
Current Literature of the Day and
Age.
Late riodicals-Irrigation Farming
A Forty.Niner's Book-Story
OF a Queen.

With the October number "The Gen.
tury" New York; closes its twenty ifth
year and its fiftieth volume, but. not
withstanding this venerable age among
magazines, its contents show youthful
vigor and particular timeliness. This
month marks the centenary of Keats, and
there are several articles on the poet.
Kenyon West writes of keats in Hamp-
stead" The article is accompanied by re-
productions of the death mask of the
poet; Severn's portrait and sketch OF him,
and the beautiful bust which was re-
Gently erected by American admirers in
a church at Hampstead. Henry Van
Dyke furnishes a study of 1.-The Infiu-
ence OF Keats" on American and English
poetry. There are also several tributes
to L. J. Glave, the young explorer who
died few months ago in Africa. Rob-
ert Howard Russell contributes paper
on Glave's career, quoting Stanley's trib-
ute to him, and Richard Watson Glider
makes his untimely death the subject OF
a sonnet Professor Cesare LombrosO
has an essay on IN Nordau's Degenera-
tion,' Its Value and Its Errors," in which
he takes exception to many of the con-
clusions of his follower. There is sec
ond and concluding paper by Miss Anna
L. Bicknell on "Liie in the Tuileries I'm
der the Second Empire" Professor
Sloane's Life of Napoleon" reaches the
period of the execution of the Due d. Eng
hien. There is a study of 1.-The Marriage
Rate of College Women" by Miss Milli-
cent w. Shinn. 1t is reinforced with
carefully compiled statistics. and is in a
line with recent discussion. Mrs. Anna
Bowman Dodd writes of IA Cruise on
the Norfolk Broads," a delightful yacht
ing experience in England, for which Jo-
seph Pennell has drawn a number OF
illustrations. Besides the concluding
chapters of Marion Crawford's dramatic
novel, Casa Braccio," the fiction of the
number is contributed by George A.
Hibbard, Ruth McEnery Stuart, and
George Wharton Edwards.
Most appropriately for the season, the
September number of that splendid
French magazine, monde Moderne,"
gives large part of its contents to travels,
taking the reader from Montenegro to
America, and to the northernmost point
OF Russia. Exact accounts of interesting
voyages are given by persons who knew
how TO use their eyes, and who have ex-
empliiied their vivid descriptions by
sketches wherein art is skillfully COM
bined with photography. An article
upon sardines is quite apropos at time
when their delay is a grievous disap-
pointment on the Breton coast. Twenty
other articles complete this numb Der,
many OF them beautifully illustrated and
all varied and instructive. including:
'Yanossik," story, by Mara Cheliga;
lie Bonnet des Hollandaises." by Jean
de Convey; ia photographic du
Louvre" by Henry de Chennevieres
Coup deil sur le Montenegro" by
jacques Bertillon; LA Telegraphie Mill
taire," by Louis dor; LES Ouragans
dams les lies de PAtlantique sur la cote
des Etats-U MIS-" by Henry Nogressan;
G. de Burgratf; ''Le Psautier Fleuri," by
Rene Lorrain; LES sSainte-Amaranthe,"
by g. Lenotre; "EGuvre de Berloz,"
by Julien Tiersot; ''Deux Petites Cspi-
tales Germaniques," by Georges Ser
vieres; Lies Grandes Conquetes de la
Chirurgie Moderne," by DR.. Marcel
Baudoin; "a la Fortune du Pot" by
Cotton; "Lo Movement Litteraire," by
Leo Claretie; 'Jeux ct Recreations," by
g. Beudin; LA Mode du Mois"; Con
naissances Utiles," III. Mouse de Corse.
BaEoit. Paris, France.
"Her Majesty" is one of the most
charming fancies in the short story line
we have met with in many day. 1t is
the tale OF young. inexperienced queen
of ''far Distant land. who went among
her people incog., fell in, in her ad-
ventures, with a nobleman also incog.,
whose sympsthies were all with the
people, and all for the belterment of
social and political conditions. Neither
knew for long time the rank of the
other. Both pretended TO be poor and of
the lower orders, and both landed in
prison, and as the result of tyranny. The
queen WAS restored, only in time, how
ever, to be ousted from her throne by a
revolution, and to fly in company with
her old friend, whom she married. When
the revolution ended and corruption had
been overthrown, the queen and her con-
sort were recalled by the people, and,
having learned true lessons OF life, ruled
wisely and well. and all was peace and
happiness. All in all, delightful story,
with a fine vein of political and social
philosophy. 1t is from the pen of Eliza
beth knight Tompkins, and is from the
press of q. z. Putnam's Sons, New
York.
Lincoln's apprehensive distrust of mar
riage is revealed In some extremely in
teresting letters from the great President
in the October Ladies' Home JournaV
(Philadelphia), in which John Gilm er
Speed discusses ''Lincoln's Hesitsncy to
Marry" Edward ). Martin presents a
review of the various theories advanced
by scientists in the effort to definitely
locate the Garden of Eden. DR.. Park
hursps article treats of Religion in the
Family" The Woman Who Most In
fuenced Me" series of papers is enriched
by a contribution from Thomas Went
worth Higginson. Edward w. Box dis
cusses Whore American Life Really
Exists" Robert J. Burdette contributes
1.-The Strike III the Choir" How to fit up
and furnish "a Japanese Room" is told
and illustrated by +. Schuyler Mathews.
Elizabeth W. Bellamy's serial, The
Autumn Costumes" by Isabel A. Mallon:
Novelties in Dress Designs" by Emma
NJ. Hooper, appear. In the same issue
are suggestions for evening parties and
church festivals, helpful, practica BILE
papers, guide to scrap book making,
etc. Ruth Ashmore discusses "The Girl
and Her Church." and Maria Parloa
"Ihe Science OF French Cooking"
"Harper's Magazine for October has,
with many beautiful illustrations and
the usual departments, these special
features 'Hindoo and MosIeni," four
teen illustrations, by Edward Lord
Weeks; "At the Sign of the Balsam
Bough," Henry Van Dkye; Queen Vic
toria's Highland Home, illustrated. J. Il.
Hunter; Three Gringos in Central
America, illustrated. Richard Harding
Davis: The Future in Relation to Amer
lean Naval Power" Captain a. T. VI ahan,
L. $. N; "The German Struggle for
Liberty" illustrated, Poultney Bigelow:
Hearts Insurgent." Thomas Hardy;
personal Recollections of Joan of Aro;"
The Coupons of Fortune" Mary Stewart
Cutting; "Alone in China" illustrated.
Julian Ralph; Jamie the Kid" illus
trated, Josiah Flynt. Besides these feat
ures, the Magazine" contains "The Gift
of Storytelling" an essay by Brander
Matthews; Romano" chapter of per-
sonal "reminiscences, by MoDsignor Ber-
nard O'Reilly. and ''Bookra," a sonnet
by Charles dudley Warner.
Poet Lore" for August-Septemb Der
Q96 Sumner street. Boston, is such a
of letters as real lovers of
good literature admire. At once finished,