The record-union., 1896-05-17

t1nent pictures, on dengnIIul tour
of inspection shakespeare Author
ship and Religion are treated in the
form of dialogue by Hon. 1gnatlus
Donnelly and Rev. John Conway, A. M.
Joseph c. Drum writes on the Revival
Of the Olympic Games. There are
stories by Sara Trainer Smith, Edlth
May Norris and Mary c. Todd. Several
short stories, poems, sketches and re-
views fill out the number
The "Bostonian" for May (S3 New
bury street, Boston, is at hand. 1t is
profusely and richly Illustrated, and
presents this appetizing list Of choice
and original papers: Our Coast De-
fense," by Lieutenant James A. Frye;
IAN Old Puritan Chair" Mrs Kate
Tannatt Woods; "Rambles in Stage
land" Atherton Brownell; THE Sal
walton Army and the Volunteers, Ben
ia min A TarbeIl D. D.; THE lnsurrec-
ton in Cuba" Frank Z. Coombs;
Home Surroundings of Ex-President
Harrison and His Bride" Calvin L..
Payne; Massachusetts State Fedora
tfon of Womens Clubs" Mrs. Abby
Morton Diaz.
The Bond Record for May GO Mas
sau street, New York; is at hand. 1t is
one of the most voluminous CONNER
cial and business publications in the
world Indeed, we doubt if there is any
other quite so exhaustive and elabor-
ate. It's contents, which embrace many
sheets of diagrams, tables and illus
trations, treat of these economic and
Tnr~vif of
Alaska" Frederick Funston, late of De-
partment of Agriculture; THE People s
Money" Professor J. Laurence Laugh
lin, University of Chicago; Currency
Delusions," Alfred L. Ripley, Vice
President of National Hide and Leather
Bank, Boston, Mass; Anthracite Coal'
OII). William Griffith with maps,
charts and tables; "Perishable Charac-
ter of Bills Discounted" William G.
Cornwell, President City Bank, Buffalo,
n Y. In addition, there are depart
ments of railroads, sundry corporations,
finance, currency, statistics and vast
array of bond and stock quotations.
The May number of the American
Journal of Sociology" (Chicago) has
this table of contens: Recent Legisla-
ton in Restraint of Trade" Charles F.
Beach, Jr.; THE German Inner Mis-
sion," Charles R. Henderson; Profit
Sharing in the United States" Paul
Monroe; "The Michigan System of
Child Saving" c. D. Randall; Dis
tribution of the Sexes in the United
States" Walter F. Wilcox; THE Data
of Sociology" Lester F. Ward; Social
i,-,-
christian Sociology" Smaller Mathews.
Electric Power for May (27 Thames
street, New York; is it's historical
number. 1t is a fat number freely il
lustrated and overflowing with infor-
nation of the most valuable character,
as this partial list of its papers will in
dicate: Electrical Stage Effects" by
Theodore Waters; THE Relations of the
Underwater to the Electrical En-
gineer," by Captain William Brophy;
THE Mothers of Eminent Electricians,
by Max Loewenthal; ''The Middle Age
of Electric Lighting" by Ralph w.
Pope; Some Interesting Features" (;
Investments in the Republic of Mex
ico," by A. A. Knudson "Systematic
Treatise on Electrical Measurements, y
by Herschel c. Parker; Systems of
Units,' by William Hallock, Phi. D.;
Storage Batteries by Charles Biz
ard, and all the usual departments.
The american Magazine of Civics"
for May (5S Park Row, New York; is,
indeed, a journal of practical patriot
ISM Among it's papers, and aside
from it's full editorial and news de-
partments, are these: National Cur
rency and Hard Times" H. Fl. Trim
BILE; Does Maternity Preclude Poll
tics?'' Frances Fuller Victor; 'The True
Citizen Egbert L. Briggs; Finance
and It's Influence Upon Industrial
Progress" QI), Arthur Kitson; THE
Struggle for Equal Suffrage in North
Carolina" John S. Bassett; "a Cabinet
Secretary of Labor" Morrison l. Swift:
THE International Statesman" Will
lam B. Chisholm; Are We a Nation of
Rascals? A Rejoinder," Joseph Oker;
The Ethics of Single Tax" George
Bernard; New Commercial Alliances" "
Julian r. Elkins; qualifications of Cit
izenship," NJ. B. c. True; True Indi-
vidulalism," w. E. Brokaw.