The record-union., 1896-05-03

erals of the United States" presents
some very able information about
sources of our natural wealth. Other
papers are THE Vast Importance of the
Coke Industry" ''The Development OF
Electric-Lighting Engines "Elec-
tricity and the Horseless Carriage Prob
lem," Points in the Selection of Steam
Engines" THE Prime Essentials OF
Shop Design" and Restraints Upon
the Practice of Architecture
DR.. Robertson Nicoll says that J. b
Walker did not go in the right way
about his quest of Mr.. Gladstone as a
contributor to The Cosmopolitan y
To offer him a dollar a word for any
thing he might write was munificent
but it was not taotful. Mr.. Gladstone
takes offense at the idea of writing
merely for money. He is not to be got
at in that way. You must, says DR.
Nicoll, find out the subjects that interest
him, and mildly and differentially sug-
sest that he should treat them. If he
is disposed to do so, the question OF
money has to be very delicately han
died. Mr. Gladstone is not exorbitant
but he knows the price that he puts
upon his wares. HE values very much
editorial interest in his subject" adds
DR.. Nicoll, ''and I have known him tc
converse with much affability and
pleasure with the sub editor who took
his proofs, if he found that he had been
following his arguments. For a review
article, Mr.. Gladstone's price is about
20Ol., and he has been known to write
magazine articles for about 40l''
Sir E. Maunde Thompson has given
some figures to show the extent of the
Library of Printed Books at the Brit
lsh Museum, and the rate of increase at
which it has grown. More than half a
century after the foundation of the
museum, the library had not increased
even threefold; in the year 1912 there
were less than 10000 volumes. But
twenty years later these had more than
doubled in number; in 1888 there were
computed to be 23J 600 volumes: in
1888 there were 550, 900 volumes. Hav-
ing once obtained an impetus, the mass
rapidly increased, and at this moment
the number of volumes amounts to
LOO, 600, not counting single sheets or
parts of works that are accumuIating
The space which this mass of printed
material occupies has to be reckoned
in miles," says the Westminster Ca
zette. The shelves of the reading
room and iron galleries constructed
around it, which are knoWnsas the New
Library, all told, extend to more than
ejght-and-tWenty miles; those in the
rest of the department to eleven miles
1t may be noticed that this total OF
thirty nine miles is nearly the same as
that of the shelving of the French Ma
tional Library. The prospect of increase
OF this mileage may be viewed with
comparative eqUanimity in connection
with the storage of the ordinary octavos
OF literature; but when Cne contemplates
the rapid growth of newspapers, the
limits of the available space within the
present buildings are almost within
sight"
Edward King, the journalist and au-
thor, who died in Brooklyn on Marcel
18th, was born in Middlefeld Mass, il
1913. He was for many years the Parf.
correspondent of the Boston journal,
which he representa-, also, at the late
RussO-Turkish war, and wrote much
Tor other papers and periodicals. The
list of his works includes My Paris
French Character Sketches" Ken
tucky's Love- THE Great South.
Trench Political Leaders," "Echoe.
from the Orient" "The Gentle Savagt
A Novel, Europe in Storm an6
Calm, The Golden Spike and a vol
urne of verse, "A Venetian Lover
James Clegg, "Aldine Press" Roch.
dale, Eng), has just published Book.
men: Members of Learned Antiquarian
and Literary Societies in the United
Kingdom" containing 9,45S names O.
buyers and lovers of books, members O.
antiquarian, bibliographical, dialect
folk-lore and other societies, etc.
Mrs. Elizabeth Charles, who died re.
Gently at Hampstead. England. was
born in Tavistock, Devonshire, in 1928
The list of her works is a long one, and
foremost among them stands the ia
nous chronicles of the Schonbers
Gotta Family" Others of her writings
are: THE Victory of the Vanquished-
Tale of the First Century" Against
the Stream-The Story of an Heroic
Age in England" Joan the Maid. -
Three Martyrs of the Nineteenth Cen
tury" Livingstone, Gordon and Bishop
Patterson and Martyrs and Saints of
the First Twelve Centuries.
Professor John Trowbridge of Har-
ward, who is said to have been the first
in the United States to make a success
full Roentgen photograph by the cath
ode rays, gives a full description of
principles and methods in his forth
coming book, What is Electricity?'
which will be published by D. Appleton
&c Co. The work covers the entire
ground of modern electricity.
r. II. Woodward Company, Balti-
more, Md, announce a new book.
STORY of Spain and Cuba" This book
is written by Nathan c. Green, the
well-known author and former resi-
dent of Cuba 1t is beautifully illustrat-
ed with nearly 100 engravings and is
sold by subscription.
'How Women Love" is the rather pc
culiar title of a book about to be issued
from the pen of Max Nordau, by Il.
Tennyson Neely. In this volume the
author attempts to present by romance
his idea of woman's love- Whether that
idea is a historical or a psychological
study is left to the judgment of the
reader. The noted author of "Degen-
Grafton" does not allow his title, doc
tor, to appear in connection with his
name on the authorized editions of his
stories.