The record-union., 1896-08-03

The August issue of the Century"
(New York; is the midsummer holiday
number, and appears in dlst1ndtlVe
cover. The opening paper, IAN Island
Without Death,' by Miss E. r. Scid-
more, the author of "Jinrikisha Days,
gives an account of a visit to Miyajima,
q sacred island in the Inland Sea, one of
the three great sights of Japan. A paper
on "The Viceroy Ii Hung Chang" is
contributed by the Hon. John w. Fos-
ter, who, it will be remembered, was
lately confidential adviser to the EN-
peror of China, and in that capacity ac-
companied the Viceroy to Japan, where
the treaty of ShimOnoseli was negotl-
ated. General Foster, who is to be the
host CT Ii Hung Chang in September,
and is one of his most intimate friends,
by this relation and by intimate expe-
rience of Chinese affairs has had unique
facilities for the preparation OF this
paper. There is printed the first of
group of articles from the journals of
the late E. j. Glave who crossed Africa
In the service of the Century" in eX-
ploration of the slave trade. The article
deals principally with British Raids on
the Slave Traders" and is fully illus
tra'ted with photographs and drawings
by the author. Professor Flinders Pc
trie recently uneanthed an historical
tablet in Egypt containing what is be-
lieved to be the first monumental record
by the Egyptians of the Children of
Israel. In "Pharoah of the Hard
Heaut" Professor Petrie describes the
finding of the tablet and discusses the
character and reign of Merenptah, who
erected it. Pictures of the tablet and of
a splendid bust of the King, found at
the same time, accompany the article.
Marion Crawford contributes the fourth
and last of his group of papers on
Rome the subject being THE Vatican" p"
This is fully illustrated with pictures of
Castaigne, including some notable
sketches from life of Pope Leo XIII.
There are four short stories, one of life
in the Chinese quarter of San Fran
cisco, by Chester Bailey Fernald; one of
a Minnesota frontier town, by Marion
Manville Pope: one of the Maine woods,
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and
one of the New Orleans Creoles by Kate
Chopin.
The midsummer holiday season is full
ly observed in the August "St. Nicho-
las" (New York;. "An August Outing"
is a full-page picture drawn by NJ O.
Kobbe, and I. w. Taber sets forth the
minuet at "The Grasshoppers' Ball"
THE Little Duchess and the Lion Tam
er" is a Russian story by Fanny Locke
Mackenzie. Ernest Ingersoll. in 'The
Tricks of Torpedo Boats" describes the
night practice of these dangerous little
craft Harry M. Hay shows the posi-
bilities of "A Sand Pile in the way Of
III IL G., I,e-4f1 hot
graphs. Two papers are full of kindly
"reminiscences and anecdotes of Eugene
Field, by Mary ]. Reid, Henrietta Dex
ter Field and Martha Nelson Yeno-
wine Mrs Elizabeth Robins Perlnel
in The Palio at Sienna" tells of the
annual horse race between the different
quarters of that quaint old Italian city.
In "The Swordmaker's Son." serial by
William o. Stoddard, the hero starts on
his travels. 'Sindbad, Smith & Co.,"
the queer people of Albert Stearns' Sc
rial, admit a new partner to their firm.
"A Bunny Romance" a poem written
and illustrated by Oliver Herford, tells
how the rabbits competed for a prize.
"A FOOLS Wit" is a ballad of the olden
time by Zftella Cooke. There are a
group Of poems by Margaret Frances
Mauro, remarkable in view of the fact
that the author was only II years of age
when they were written.
"Harper's Magazine" (New York; for
August has these special features: THE
White Mr.. Longfellow. eight illustra-
tions, by William Dean Howells; poem,
by F. Whitmore; Peeps Into Barbary,"
ten illustrations, by j. f. Budget
Meakin; THE Strange Days That
Came to Jimmie Friday" eight illustra-
tons, by Frederic Remington; Door
step Neighbors," eleven illustrations, by
w. Hamilton Gibson 1t contains the
first of a two-part story by Mark Twain,
entitled TON Sawyer. Detective" illus
trated by A. b. Frost; the second in
staIlment of Langdon Elwyn MITCHELL IS
novelette,, ''The Two Mormons From
Muddlety," five short stories, and a fine