The record-union., 1896-11-29

prising that the publishers of this ex-
cellent ssmi-monthlys- can give such
good material for the price. A woman
understands woman's needs better than
q man. The "Housekeeper'' is edited
by women. and the material given
within its columns twice month is
just the quality and quantity the
housewife and homemaker desires.
Women are interested in their sister
housekeepers, and the "Housekeeper"
is filed with ideas contributed by its
readers-ideas that will smooth the
rough and ragged path of housekeep-
ing. Covering every branch of home
life as it does. the ''Housekeeper" is an
ideal womans paper. 1t is ably edited
and is easily the best housekeeper's
magazine of the present day In point
of circulation the "Housekeeper''
claims to be the strongest periodical
published in the West or South, and if
there be any virtue in high character.
good quality and low price it will con-
tinue to grow. The publishers will send
a sample copy free to applicants
The contents of Magazine of Art for
December (Cassell & Co., New York;
are-main features: I'm My Studio"
by L. Alma Tadema, r. A., photogra-
vure; Study of a Head by Sir Ed
ward Burne-Jones, Bart; u. ]. Shanno,
Painter" by Alfred Lys Baldry, with a
portrait Of j. J. Shannon by Prince
Troubetskoy, and five illustrations
THE Della Robbia' Pottery Industry"
with ten illustra tons; Aubrey Boards
ley and the Decadents." by Margaret
Armour. with portrait of Aubrey
Beardsley by himself and six nlustra-
tions; Art and Electricity" by Robert
JopeSlade. with twelve Illustrations
Street Arcades in North Italy," by H.
E. Tdmarsh, with nine Illustrations;
Giovanni Segantini'' by Helen Zim-
mern, with "a portrait by Segantini, and
six Illustrations: The Art Movement"
with twenty-one illustrations; 'Lau-
renee Alma -Tadema, r. A, a SKETCH"
by NJ. Fl. Spielmann, with a portrait of
Alma -Tadema by Herr Waail, and six
Illustrations; Notes and Queries with
two Illustrations; THE Chronicle of
Art" with eight Illustrations.
The Atlantic Monthly" for December
(Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston) has
this table of contents: Social Glasses
in the Republic timely and instruct
i've study of social inequality and of
the remedy proposed for it, by E. L.
Godkin, editor of the Nation" New
York; Classical Studies in America,
by Professor B. L. Gildersleeve of the
Johns Hopkins University; Professor
Child an estimate and "reminiscences
Of he lx-D
L. Kittredge Of Harvard; THE Art of
Public Improvement" by Mary Caro-
line Robbins; Landscapes With Fig
ures," experiences in a crowded city,
by j. X. Paulding; Cheerful Yester-
days" CID, a child of Harvard, by
Colonel James Wentworth Higginson;
William Morris-the Man and His
Work." by William Sharp; THE Last
of the First" story of Virginia. by
A. NJ. Ewell; "A Colony of the Unem-
ployed," by Josiah Flynt; THE Jug
gler." Gil, IIID. by Charles Egberr
Craddock; 'Thoreau." the man and his
work, by Bradford Torrey; ''Sir
George Tressady," Comment on New
Books and the Contributors Club"
'Macmillan's Magazine" for Novem-
Der (New York; has these papers: THE
Secret Of Saint Florel." chapters 21-22;
French and English" "A College Pro-
gress,'' The Surprise of Boyey Ira
cey," THE Man From Stalybridge,''
British Honduras" 1.-The Story of Sell
borne Priory," Cupid the Fiddler" "A
South Sea Trader with Burgoyne a.
Saratoga"
"Harper's Weekly" for November
2Sth Thanksgiving number) has full
page drawings by A. B. Frost Frederic
Remington, w. A. Rodgers, Alice Bar
Der Stevens and F. c. Yohn. There are
interesting articles suggesting changes
in the White House, the better to adapt
it to the needs of the President, with
full-page illustration and plans, show
ing how the desired end may be at
tanned by a simple extension of the
present building.
A paper entitled 1.-The Wonderful
Island showing the source of the CEN
tral idea in the plot of Shakespeares
comedy THE Tempest" is feature of
'Harper's Bazar" for November 18th.