The record-union., 1896-12-28
new PUBLICATIONS.

OF the Questions of the Day Series"
we have from the press of G.. P. Put
nam's Sons two neat volumes. One is
Municipal Reform in the United
States" by Thomas c. Devlin, and the
other "A General Freight and PasSen-
ger Post, or Practical Solution of the
Railroad Problem by James Lewis
| Cowles of the Conencticut bar, author
of Distance Not a Factor in Railway
Traffic" II is held that railroads are
postroads and subject to State and in
terstate regulation under the eighth
section of Article /. of the Constitution
of the United States; that trains are
post wagons and subject to the Postal
Department. The other volume is a
treatise on reform efforts in municipal
matters, of American conditions, mu
nicipal elections and politics, civil serv-
ice in cities, cost of city government
city officers and their duties, the Off
cial, the press and the people. 1t is a
concise strong and valuable treatise.
Mrs. Rorer's magazine, Household
News has been absorbed by the La
dies Home Journal in order to make
it possible for Mrs. Rorer to form an ex-
elusive editorial connection with the
latter magazine. All of Mrs. Rorer's
literary work viii hereafter appear ex-
clusively in the Journal" of whose do
mestic department she Will have entire
charge. Several pages of the magazine
will be given her each month, and in
| these she viii begin by giving a new
series Of simple cooking lessons, to be
followed by domestic lessons treating
separately the care and arrangement Of
each room in the house.
General Andrew Jackson, shortly af-
ter the battle of New Orleans, wrote an
account of the enga agement in a letter
to James Monroe, afterward President
This letter will be published, it is be-
| lieved for the first time, in an article on
"Napoleons Interest in the Battle of
New Orleans" in the January Cen
tury' In this battle, although the op-
posing forces We're about equal the
English lost 2,117 killed and wounded
while the American loss was only six
killed and seven wounded. Mr.. Monroe
showed General Jackson's letter to Ma
pOleon, and when the latter learned
that the victory was mainly due to the
deadly aim of the Americans, he
planned the formation of troops of
sharpshooters. armed with guns of the
American pattern. Waterloo prevented
| the carrying out of the scheme.
Echoes of Battle" is a handsome
volume from the pen of Bushrod Wash
ington James; Press of Henry T. Coates
4 Co. Philadelphia. The text is half
poetry, half prose. The illustrations are
very numerous and are all finest half
tones. and mainly views from historic
scenes of the revolutionary and the
late war and landscapes and views of
places of prominence because of their
relation to the great events of the re-
bellion and the revolution. The poems
are ON Antietam after the battle, Get
tysburg, the battle of the Brandywine
Valley Forge and the Sunset Gun, A
Broken BayOnet, etc. The prose is all
| descriptive of battlefields of American
history and scenes of great events
These descriptions are lucid, detailed
and in dict;on that is smooth, easy and
well chosen. There is in these deScrip-
tions a good deal Of valuable informa-
ton, historical and otherwise especial
ly is this true of those pages relating to
great events of the American revolu-
ton.
Of the stable Money Series" we have
from the Stable Money Publishing Com
pany, Chicago, George Fl. Sibley's large
work ON The Fifty Per Cent. Fall in
General Prices, the Evil Effects, the
Remedy. Bimetallism at 16 to / and
Governmental Control of Paper Money
in Order to Secure a Stable Measure