The record-union., 1896-10-25

(New York; has from the outset been an
international undertaking, the contrib
utors including writer's in the United
States, Great Britain, Germany France,
Hungary, Bohemia and Italy. The series
is issued in London as we'll is in New
York, and of number of the Volumes
authorized continental editions have
been published or arranged for in Leip-
sic, Paris, Lisbon and elsewhere. For
two of the volumes, The Story of the
Saracens,' by Arthur Gilman of Cam
bridge, Mass, and THE Story of Rome"
by the same author. arrangements were
made for the publication of authorized
editions in the Gujerati dialect, and the
Gujerati editions have now been pub
| lished. The province of Gujerat (Which
is in the Bombay Presidency is re-
porteda as havinga population Of six mill
! ions. 1t is probable, however that not
quite all of the inhabitants will be in
| terested in perusing The Story Of the
Nations Series Mr.. Gilman is prob
! ably the only American author who has
thus been complimented by the pub
fishers and the literary public of Gu
! jerat.
| A volume of interest not only to anti
| quarians, but to the increasing number
/ of Americans who visit England, is to
4 be published by The Macmillan Com
pany (New York; under the title of 1.-The
/ Castles of England, Their Story and
| Structure" by Sir James Mackenzie,
Bart 1t will be fully illustrated with
full-page plates and illustrations in the
I! text beside many plans. The author
aims to produce a book of reference in
which will be found a trustworthy ac-
count of every fortress, defensible and
I castellated dwellings built from the
! Conquest to the reign of Henry VIII.
There were in all about 600 such castles
Of stone in England. Views of many are
| included in the work.
The announcement is made that in
| the November number Of the Atlantic
Monthly CBoston) will appear the
first of a series of exceedingly interest
| ing "reminiscences covering the last fifty
years Of Colonel Thomas Wentworth
Higginson's life under the apt title of
Cheerful Yesterdays" Colonel Hig
ginson's career as writer, soldier, pub
| lie servant and man Of letters covers
the last half century, and there is hard
ly man or movement of that time
that he has not come into intimate re-
lations with. These photographed
papers, in a cheerful tone, really cover
much Of the important history of this
long period.
Dodd, Mead & Co. (New Yorlz) will
publish Immediately THE Cure of
Souls by Ian Maclaren Rev. John
Watson). This work is composed Of his
Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching,
recently delivered at Yale University.
Among the contents we note chapters
on the following subjects: THE Gene
sis Of the Sermon" THE Technique of
the Sermon ',.Problems of Preaching" :"
Theology the Theory of Religion"
''The New Dogma" THE Machinery of
Congregation, The Work Of Pas
tor, THE Public Worship of God"
"The Minister'S Care of Himself"
These lectures were received with the
greatest possible Interest by those who
heard them at Yale University, and
aside form their value as literature,
they will commend themselves to cler-
gymen and aymen alike, because Of
their practical value in the religious
| life.
4 Every one knows how eager and act
| i've children are in finding out what
they want to know, and how listless
oftentimes in learning what their
teachers want them to know. Pro-
fessor Edward r. Shaw of New York
University has prepared an article for
the November Popular Science Month
ly' New York; on THE Employment
! l,a Act in TEACHING -
in which he will show how much bet
ter it is to direct these activities in
stead Of trying to repress them.
|
One of the serial stories which "St.
Nicholas" CNew York; will publish dur
ing the coming year has an unusually
unique plot 1t is tale of three Union
/ soldiers, members of a signal corps,
who get news that the entire Union
army has surrendered, whereupon they
decide to hold out TO the end. They cut
bridge across gorge and become
soldier Crusoes, exiled from civiliza-
ton, and for many months they believe
themselves to be the only loyal Union
soldiers who have not been obliged to
surrender. The author, William H.
Shelton, is a soldier and an artist as
| we'll as writer.
| "The Lotus" for October (Kansas
City, Mo- is made by Editor Harte a
most enjoyable number. Its leading
pages, in addition to its literary criti
cisms, are Rose Marie" Ca story)
! George S. Cottman "a Buccaneer
| Song" Eugene r. White; I'm the
| Street" Herbert Acheson Cox; "To a
I tcl,f fo,,
Ga poem), Elizabeth Alden Curtis; "The
Story of Hadji Yusuf' "a story, Ger
trude Stuart Baillfe; "A Love Story of
the Orient" Sui Seen Far; "A Little
Study of Stephen Crane" Jonathan
Penn.
The superior truth and delicacy of the
old daguerreotype are made manifest
in the November "McClure's Maga-
zine" (New York; by reproductions of
daguerreotype portraits of Calhoun,
Webster, Edward Everett, DR.. Holmes,
Jenny Lind and others. Another richly
/ illustrated paper is Ethel Mackenzie
McKenna's intimate account of the
English artist, -Tadema, in his
luxurious house and studio. But, inev-
itably, the readers first curiosity will be
for the widely announced long story of
American life by Rudyard Kipling, of
which the opening installment here ap-
pears. 1t promises to be as strong and
| fine as anything KipHng has done. The
| illustrations are very close to the real
| life. The other fiction is a clever story
| of a loss and recovery of diamonds:
a Thanksgiving love story, and two
charming dialogues by Anthony Hope.
There is one of Cy Warman's true rail-