The record-union., 1896-04-01
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dress daily for dinner or come in her
ordinary costume (Which it is we'll un-
derstood was not suited for company,
TO the modification of himself and his
wife, or she must live in her own rooms.
which would be trying to her There
was no suggestion that she should not
visit him. On the contrary, the letter
urged that she should live with some
Of her children, and, if she preferred
it, at Mount Vernon"
While so many of the monthlies are
publishing the pictures and biographies
of the painters of the century, Go
dey's" (New York; is the only one which
is regularly serving up useful and en-
tertaining essays on musical subjects
The twelfth installlnent of Music in
America" by Rupert Hughes, appears
in the April issue, and is devoted to the
subject of our local singing societies in
general, and the compositions of w. W.
Gilchrist in particular. The full page
of music which is published in this
series each month is of itself a great
attraction to music lovers This num-
ber includes also stories of Pappenheim
and Garster, under the head of Great
Singers of This Century, by Albert L.
Parkes, an operatic and theatrical man
ager of long experience. Robert Cow
erley has written a Wheeling Glee"
for this bicycle number of "Godey's, y
which is easy to sing and pleasant to
hear. 1t has an irresistible swing and is
sure to become popular among cycle
clubs.
"Lippincott's" for April Philadel-
phia) has these papers: 'FIotsam,"
Owen Hall; Holy Week in Mexico" o.
L.: Penal Administration in Pennsyl-
vania," Isaac j. Wistar; Between Re-
liefs,' Thomas H. Wilson; 1.-The Drama
of One Hundred Acres" Calvin Dill
Wilson; Life and Death" (quatrain),
Madison Cawein; Dreaming Bob"
Charles c. Abbott; Easter Contrition"
tpoem), Susie M. Best, 1.-THE Vivisec-
tionist," Carolyn Wells; "An Expensive
Slave" r. G. Robinson; "a Violet
(poem), Mary Bradley; ''On the War
path With Kit Carson William
Thompson; Paris Swindles," Cleveland
Moffett; ''The Washingtons in Virginia
Life" Anne Hollingsworth Wharton.
THE Atlantic Monthly (Boston) for
April contains the opening chapters of
'"The Old Things" four-part story, by
Henry James. DIR. T. c.. Mendenhall
contributes an article on '"The Alaska
Boundary Line" Lafcadio Hearn seeks
to set forth the great consequences of
the Chinese-Japanese war; The second
paper in the series of Race Character
istics in American Life" is by Pro-
fessor Shaler of Harvard University.
THE Scotch Element in the American
People" 'The Presidency and Senator
Allison is the third paper in the series
upon Presidential Candidates" Some
Memories of Hawthorne" by his
daughter, tell of Hawthorne's life in
Italy. Alice Brown gives a charming
account of a visit to the town which
stood for Crawford Gaskelrs tale. The
second paper upon "The Case of the
Public Schools is by Fred w. Atkinson,
Principal of the High School, Spring
field, Mass. Other features are IAN
Archer's Sojourn in the Okefinokee.',
by Maurice Thompson; "a Son of the
Revolution" a short story by Octave
Thanet; poems by ]. Russell Taylor and
Stuart Sterne.
The seven photographed sketches
of Gibbon, which have never been pub
lished, but which have been the basis
OF the well-known biography of him,
will be printed entire in the forthcom-