The record-union., 1895-12-20
new PUBLICATIONS.

| In a dainty booklet printed in light
blue, salmon-pink and gray tones-a
| splendid illustration of the beauties OF
art applied to printing-the Ladies
Home Journal announces some of its
leading literary and artistic features
! for 1896. There will be a series of pa
pers upon the domestic and social side
of Washington, by General A. w. Gree
| ley, u. S. A; another by eX-President
Harrison, on This Country of Ours
a third by Mary Anderson de Navarro,
who writes of her stage experiences. In
a lighter vein, Mary Z. Wilkins Will
present a series of "Neighborhood
| Types papers, pen pictures of quaint
and familiar perSOnageS-NeW Eng
landers; and Jerome K. Jerome will re-
fleet old England life in number of
Stories of the Town"-stories of Lon
don-in his inimitable, crisp style,
William the Conqueror," Rudyard
Kipling's most fascinating romance, is
also among the features for 1896, and
Julia Magruder's delighting serial, '"The
Violet" will continue through consid-
able portion of the year Beside these
two popular authors there will be short
stories by Bret Harte, Lillian Bell, Ian
Maclaren, Sophie SWEET, Frank r.
Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, r. c. v
Meyers, Will n. Harben, Caroline Leslie
Field, Jane Austen (posthumous), DR..
Parkhurst, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney,
Edith n. Thomas, James Whitcomb
Riley. In it's musical offerings the
Journal will be unusually replete: A
minuet by Paderewski, waltz by John
Philip Sousa, compositions by Sir Ar
thur Sullivan, Reginald De Koven, Ed
ward JakoboWski, Bruno Oscar Klein
and others. There viii be instructive
musical treatises by Nine Melba, Nine.
Blauvelt, Nine. Clementine de We're Sa-
pio, Mrs. Hamilton Mott, Miss Maude
Powell, Benjamin Davies, Charles Ad-
ans, Thomas a'Becket, Frederic
Peakes, George Chadwick and others.
The Arena for December Bostom is
ar hand and besides being rich in illus
| trations of distinguished people has
these leading papers by prominent
| writer's: Rev. Minot J. Savage on "A
Morning With Lowell; Rev. John W.
Chadwick, A NJ, on Emerson; Ed
ward Everett Hale, D. D., on "Oliver
| Wendell Holmes; Mary B. Claflin on
John Greenleaf Whittier; Henrietta
| S Manner on William Cullen Bry-
ant; Henry Gaullieur on THE Won
ders of Hypnotism"; Professor George
D. Heron on Opportunity of the
| Church in the Present Social Crisis ;
Professor Richard T. Ely and Justice
| Walter Clark, LID, on Control of
the Telegraph; Professor Joseph Rodes
Buchanan on Scientific Theosophy" ;
| Helen H. Gardner on Shall Women
| Vote??" James L. Cowles on Equality
of Opportunity: How to Secure it,; Pro-
fessor Frank Parsons on Municipal
Lighting; B. O. Flower on Life of Sir
| Thomas More "a biographical sketch)
Hon. John Davis on Napoleon Bona
| parte"; Will Allen Dromgoole in a
story, THE Valley PATH the opening
| chapters of a serial of Tennessee life.
Donahue's Magazine for December
| (Boston) is essentially a Christmas
magazine, with a fine new and artistic
cover and wealth of illustrations within.
| 1t is just thef sort Of book to sit with for
a delightful hour in an easy chair be-
meath the library lamp, or in the glow
of an open fire. Every article is read
able and enjoyable. The Holy Child
hood in Art Qllustrated) is by Henry S.
Hallett; Mound Builders of America,
! by Marquis de Nadaillac; "Dramatics
| in American Colleges; THE Real Ruler
| OF Russia" S. Millington Miller
Brother Basil" poetical sketch, by
Bernard Morgan; What the CrOupieT
Avignon," by Warren Simmonds; Ma
dame La Duchesse," a story by Bessie
Boyle O'Reilly, and sketches poems and
| stories by Charles Freeman Fits, +.
Matheson, J. Torrey Connor, Madame
| de Cidoncha. D. J. Donahoe, Eleanor G.
Donnelly and Frank H. Sweet
From the plum pudding on its cover
| to the last page the Christmas number
| of Harper's Round Table fairly
breathes Christmas. Ruth McEnery
! Stuart writes a story entitled The
Frys' Christmas Party" giving pict-
ure of a Christmas dinner in a Southern
! boarding house; Thomas Dunn English
! the author of the famous song Ben
Bolt" contributes a long story entitled
The Little Giant" which is SO in
| tenseIy interesting that it will capture
all readers, both young and Old
| Christmas on the Majuha Coast" a
story by Richard Barry, carries the
reader to the far-away African land
and tells how a boat-crew of a United
| States man-of-war narrowly escaped
capture by the savage natives on
Christmas Day; "The Magic Stocking,
a little Christmas play, is an excellent
thing to rehearse for the evening enter
! tainment These are but a few of the
good things.
International Trade for December (6t
| Pond street New York; is the Brazilian
number. 1t is the third issue Of this new
magazine, and which promises to take
a first place among the economic and
1
are we'll pleased with this new candi-
date for reading favor. 1t fills a want
and the ability with which it has thus
| far been conducted commands our ad-
miration THE Working Energy OF
| America" is a leading article in this
number. and deserves the widest read
| ing. There is a wonderful amount OF
useful commercial, statistical and his
tOrical information III the number The
quotations of volume of shipments are
/ of especial value, and well supplement
! the other varied matter.
McClure's Magazine go Lafayette
Place. New Yark) is at hand for Christ
mas 1t is handsomely illustrated. and
is fatter than ever with good literary
matter. Among leading articles are
Second Paper on Lincoln" with a por-
trait of Lincoln taken in 1858, and
MANY other Illustrations; "A Zenda
story" by Anthony Hope; Madonna
and Child in Art" with some fine repro
ductions of old paintings; Story OF
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps" with a fine
portrait: Life and Work of Hall Caine, y
with portrait and other Illustrations
Through the Dardanelles,' with illus
trations. Then follow stories, poetry
and the usual departments.
Emma D. Mills 90 Fifth avenue, New
! York; has issued a large volume enti-
| tied The Mills Book of Typewriter
| Forms" 1t gives business and legal
forms. with cross-section lines, showing
| how to space the machine for all such
work. There is a great quantity also
of typewriter exercises, phrases, alb
breviations, law book abbreviations,
I ,.f- III fC.e Of "a folk