The record-union., 1896-02-05

ing the current year. The Feb
ruary number of this magazine,
Just out, contains the initial arti-
Gle of the series, entitled "The Ancestors
of General Robert E. Lee and the Times
in Which They Lived, :" written by Mrs.
Roger a. Pryor, embodying many rare
portraits, coats-of-arms, etc. This
same February number Of Frank Les
ne's'' also contains beautifully illus
trated articles upon "a Roman Festa, "
by Theo. Tracy; Sardinia" by Charles
F,dwardes; "The Social Settlement in
America by Rufus r. Wilson; West
Point" by Carl J. Becker; art Stu
dents in Paris and stories, sketches
and poems by Howard Paul, George
Edgar Montgomery, DR.. J. H. Porter,
]. F. Sullivan, Ella Rodman Church,
Lena L. Pepper and other popular con-
tributors.
The contents of Magazine of Art
for February (New York. Cassell Pub
fishing Company, are: 'The Water
melon,'' by E. Won Blass, photogravure;
"Charing Cross Bridge, a study, by j.
PennelI; Golden Light" by Ernest
Parton; Mr. Humphrey Roberts Col
lish artists, by F. G. Stephens; "There
is Nothing Like Leather" by Lewis f.
Day, with six Illustrations; Current
Art" by r. Jope-Slade, with six illus
trations; "It Was a Lording's Daugh
ter" poem ascribed to Shakespeare,
with an Illustration; "Mildew in Draw
ing Paper" by w j. Russell; sport
in Art, Shooting by John Guile Mil
lais, with five illustrations; Recent
Illustrated Volumes" with four illus
trations; "Adolphe Willette,' by Prince
Bojidar Karageorgevitch, with a por-
trait; "a New OId-Master," by r.
Temple-Barre, with an illustration;
THE Chronicle of Art" with five illus
trations.
The Midland Monthly for February
(Des Moines, Iowa) is very profusely
and handsomely Illustrated. The lead
ing articles are: Iowa Soldiers and
Sailors Monument James Harlan;
Havana as it is,' Ed. l.. Sabin; "a
Day in Edinburgh: The Editor
Abroad; "Bohemias Struggle for
Home Rule L. J. Palda; "How 1 Open
ed Up Corea," John c. Werner; "A Ro-
nance of Old Fur trading Days. r.
W. Calkins; "a Questionable Ruse, .
Richard Sake Jones; "A Whitney Girl, -
Katherine Bates; 'Women's Clubs of
Michigan" Hattie Sanford Russell;
THE Famous Charge at Fort Donel-
son." w S. Moore; Where Our Coun-
try's Flag Was Designed" A. L. Shat
tuck; "The New Orleans Mardi Gras,'
Alfred L. Flude.
In the advance sheets of the Review
of Reviews" for February (New York;
we find especial attention given to the
Venezuelan boundary question. the
bond call and the financial situation,
Cecil Rhodes, President Kreuger and
South African affairs, with many illus
trations; illustrated articles on THE
Story of Cripple Creek" by Cy War
man; "That Flood Of Cold" by Carl
Snyder, and 1.-THE New Poet Laureate" !;
an elaborate character sketch of Joseph
the man of the month in
British imperial politics; articles on the
question from opposite points of
view, and an account of massacres in
Turkey during the last three months of
1895 The frontispiece of the number
is a view of the Venezuelan Commits
sion at work.
"Harper's Round Table" for January
Dist had: "The Story of the Wreck of
the Maria Helena" by Rear-Admiral
7. H. Stevens, u. S. N; THE Buffalo
Doll Show" by Elizabeth Flint Wade,
a description of how large city made
all of its poor little girls happy; rid
dies in Flowers" by William Hamilton
Gibson, illustrated by the author; How
Rufus Trapped the Burglar" a story,
by William Hemingway; THAT Bit
of Loose Flagging," a story of a boy
who dreamed that he dropped into the
treasury vaults of the United States;
and installments of the serial stories
"The Middle Daughter" by Margaret
E. Sangster, and For King and Coun-
try" by James Barnes.
"Lippincott's Magazine" for Febru-
ary Philadelphia) has these papers:
The complete novel is "Ground-sweIls,
by Mrs. Jeanette H. Walworth; Eff
teen," by Marjorie Richardson, a tale
of a highminded cash-boy; DR.. Harvey
of geology; "The Aerial
of Greece" by Charles
James Knapp Reeves
What Men Drink; E. S. F. on DO
mestic Service on the Pacific Slope;
'The Child and His Fictions," by
Elizabeth Ferguson Seat; Frederic M.
Bird on "Paralyzers of Style. The
poetry of the number is by Joseph
Charles G. D. Roberts and
Clinton Scollard.
"The Atlantic Monthly" for February
has these papers: Glasses"
Henry James; Some Memories of
Rose Hawthorne Lath-
rop; "A Tear Bottle" Frank Dempster
Sherman; ''The Seats of the Mighty"
Gilbert Parker; "Some Tennessee Bird
Notes." Bradford Torrey; "The Bib
liotaph," Leon H. Vincent; ''The Cara
R. H. Stoddard: "a Little
Domestic" Mary Hartwell Gather
wood; Pirate Cold lin three parts).
part two, Robbery, F. J. Stimson; I'm
claimed Estates" H. Sidney Everett;
"The Presidency and Mr.. Reed; Don
Quixote. Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr.;
few stories. well-made books, six books
Of verse, the Contributors Club.
The last number of the journal of
Sociology" University of Chicago has
these papers: Business Men and So
cial Theorists, c. r. Henderson; "The
State and Semi-Public Corporations"
Albion w. Small; Anti Monopoly
Legislation in the United States" J. d.
Forrest; Sociology and Anthropology,
Lester F. Ward; "The Scope and
Method of Folk Psychology, w l.
Recent Sociological Tenden-
1ies in France" James II. Tufts;
Christian Sociology-III, The Fam
ly." Smaller Mathews; THE Province
IF Sociology" George E. Vincent
The number of "Harper's Bazar' is
sued on January 25th was rich in ma
.l,..ial ara1ar1ar.r.ia II the