The record-union., 1896-03-04
new PUBLICATIONS.

The Century (New York; for March
opens with a timely article by F. Hop
kinson Smith, "A Personally Conducted
Arrest in Constantinople, with dainty
| Illustrations; three stories by Vibert, the
French artist, accompanying his fa-
nous pictures: an article by Professor
H. G. Mercer of the University of Penn
sylyania; an article on John Randolph
OF Roanoke, by Powhattan Bouldin,
consisting of new recollections together
with unpublished letters. An article of
popular character is a sketch of the
elder Dumas by Mrs. Emily Crawford.
Entertaining also is the fiction of the
number, including the fifth part of Mrs.
Humphry Wards new novel; 'Sir
George Tressady''; the fourth and con-
sluding part of Hopkinson Smiths Tom
Grogan,' and short stories by Chester
Bailey Fernald and Mrs. Burton Har-
rison. On the more serious and import
ant side comes "The Life of Napoleon, =
by Professor Sloane; Stamping Out the
London Slums,' by Edward Marshall,
Secretary of the New York Tenement
House Commission. Another article of
Importance is William E. Smythe's
which the accomplishments of irriga-
tion are set forth, with Illustrations by
Mrs Foote, Harry Fem and Orson
Lowell. A piece of high-class literature
by Professor woodrow Wilson of
Princeton is "On An Authors Choice of
Company" while short essay by DR..
| Allan McLane Hamilton has the novel
title 1.-THE Perils of Small Talk"
The great Lee of Virginia series, in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (New
York;, is continued in the March num-
Der with picturesque and superbly il
| lustrated paper devoted to Major-Gen-
eral Henry Lee of revolutionary fame.
This is 1.-The dashing dragon and splen-
did orator, the chosen of Patrick Henry
and the beloved of Washington, classic
scholar and impassioned patriot, brill
liant scion of gdistinguished race,
| Governor of his native State, and per-
| feet type of the Virginia gentleman,
rearing his sons in religion, morality
| and learning, solicitous above all that
they should be taught to ride, shoot and
| tell the truth-General Henry Lee, the
| Light Horse Harry of his soldier con-
| temporaries, and the father of General
Robert E. Lee" Other illustrated arti-
| cles in the March Frank Leslie's" are:
1.-THE New South" by Hon. John Y.
Foster; I'm Old Virginia" by Kate
! Mason Rowland: "a Winter in Lom-
bardy," by Lena L. Pepper; 'Woman's s
Work and Ministrations," by Alvan S.
Southworth; "The Memory of Robert
| Burns" by Margaret E. Leicester Ad-
dis; Society Plays Golf by Diana
| Crossways; and "A Winter Vagary,"
by William Potts of "Underledge." "
Among the contributors of fiction and
poetry are Anna Katharine Green,
Cleveland Moffett, Frances Swami Will
Jams, Charles Edwardes, Henry Tyrrell
and Georgia Roberts.
"Godey's Magazine" (New York; for
] March is a handsome number freely IL
lustrated. Among the leading papers
are these: numbering in the Adiron-
dacks,' Lee f. Vance; 1.-THE Wizard of
/ the Nile" Beaumont Fletcher; "A Win
ter on the Riviera" Jean Porter Rudd;
Great Singers of This Century" Albert
/ L. Parkes; 'The Senorita of the Sword, .
| Claxton Wilstach; 1.-The March of the
Miggses," Edgar Fawcett; THE Life of
| Cecil Rhodes" George Montfort ST.
monson; "a Dutiful Falsehood," Fred
eric Leigh Seixas; Talks by Success
| full Women Mary Proctor; Club
houses for Women" Kathryn Staley;
''The Franks of Nature" Marmaduke
| Humphrey; Music in America: John