The record-union., 1896-04-12

Iowa. for April, handsomely illustrated
abs these features among others:
Buried Mountains of the Prairie H
Foster Balm, with Illustrations; The
Home of the Duel,'' Elbert w. Rock
wood, with Illustrations; 'Some States
mems Wives in Washington" Juliette
NJ Babbitt, with portraits; Where
Poesy Thrives,'' Barton o. Aylesworth
drawing by Miss S. NJ Newberry: "A
Trip Across New ZeaIand' w E. Clan
vile; Henrik Ibsen's Contribution of
the Age" Ida Cornivus, with portrait:
"Grumbling Realists and Great Story
Tellers,' George Merriam Hyde; THE
Spirit of the Age" Alice ngenfritz
Jones: THE Destruction and Repair of
Our National Resources" John F.
Lacey; Tale of the Black Horse Inn"
George b. Roberts; Aunt Laetitias S
Wedding" Mrs. C. A. Schaeffer; 1.-THE
Trail of the Vampire" May Phillips
Tatro; "Raoul's Easter" Minnie Waite
Rozelle; My First Banquet" T. s. Par
vim; 'Homeward Bound" the Editor
Abroad; The Need of Public Libraries, :"
Frank 1. Herriott; Seeking Back
Door to Nicksburg," s. &. Evans, and
poems by Herbert Bashford, Emma
Playter Seabury. J. II. Harrison. s X.
Macaw, Ellis Parker Butler, Florence
A Jones, Alice Hamilton Rich, William
schuyler. George C. Newman, Ed. L.
Sabin Roy Farrell Greene.
:
The Clarendon Press Macmillan g.
Co, New York; is about TO publish
Revenue Laws of Ptolemy PhiIadel-
phus,' edited from a papyrus in the
Bodleian, with translation, com
mentary and appendices by B. p. Gren-
Tell, and an introduction by Professor
Mahaffy. The papyrus consists of two
rolls, which We're obtained by Professor
Flinders Petrie and Mr.. Grenfell. re-
spectively. 1t is the. largest papyrus
known, and as it is in several places
dated in the twenty year" of
Philadelphus, it is also nearly the old
est. The text is accompanied by port
folio containing thirteen facsimiles.
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The fresh transcription of part of the
Sinai Gospels, which was brought by
the spring of last year. will be published
by the Cambridge University Press
in the course of this month. 1t will be
accompanied by a new and complete
edition of her translation. and will take
the form of a reprint of about 100 Syr-
lac pages hitherto defective; the COM
Elementary portions being in blue
color, to distinguish them from what
was Transcribed in 1898, by Messrs.
Bensley. Harris and Burkitt Each of
these pages will bear an additional
number in brackets, corresponding with
its number in the volume of 1894 for
the convenience of those purchasers
who wish to interleave the two. A list
of the lacunae which still remain, with
the reasons for them, will be included
in the volume
The Monthly Illustrator and Home
and Country for April CNew York; is
at hand more than usually rich in fine
half-tone pictures and reproductions
of old and new works of art Among
the leading articles are these: Eminent
Living Artists" by Sir John Everett
Millais; From Cuxhaven to Constanti-
nople," illustrated, by c. w. Alters;
Butterflies in Eden" illustrated7 by
Violet Etynge Mitchell; Men and
Women of the Hour" illustrated; 4;
Holy Week and Easter Here and
Abroad" by Rev. Joshua Pelham, D. D.,
LII. D.; The Choquard Farm" from
the French of Victor Cherbuliez, illus
trated, by Cecile Bronn; My Pet Sub
ject," illustrated, by Arthur Hoeber;
Modern Schools of Painting" classical
painting in France, illustrated, by Ed
gar NJ. Ward; Some Recent Dramatic
Events" illustrated by Robert Stodart;
The Lost Creek Literary Club" illus
trated, by Captain Jack Crawford :;
"Recollections of General William T.
Sherman" in two parts. by Horatio c.
King; The Prevention of Water
Waste" by Henry Mann; "Is the War
Fever Epidemic?" by Joseph w Kay;
abraham Lincoln" by ST. Clair Nc
Kelway, LII. D.
The American Magazine of Civics"
for April (3S Park Row, New York;
has these important papers, besides
news of civics clubs and good citizen
ship organization: William McKin-
ley of Ohio" frontispiece; "A Legisla-
tive Remedy for Labor Disputes" 3"
Herbert Armitage Drake; Martyrs of
Industry" f. D. McCreary; Morals
and Politics." Cardinal Gibbons: The
Feriodicity of Commercial Crises as
EXernplfied in the United States" E.
" Grabill; 'Woman Suffrage-By a
Bachelor" c. w. Wiley; William Nc
kinley and the Presidency" Ned Arden
Flood; citizenship, Civic and Ecclesi-
t;1'
PERIL Linton Satterthwait; Finance
and Its Influence Upon Industrial Pro
gress. T." Arthur Kitson: The Work
and Needs of the American Institute
of Civics,' w. II. DePuy; Washing
toms Farewell Address -
The Quarterly Journal of Eco
Eomics," published for Harvard Uni
versity by George II. Ellis. Boston. is
at hand for April with these leading
essays: "The Loca tion of Industries. 3"
Edward A. Ross; The New Sectional
ism" Frederick Emory Haynes; ''The
Anthracite Combinations" C. O. Vir-
tue; Recent American Books on
Money" Willard Fisher; Facts About
Money: a Reply" ]. Laurence Laugh
lin; Insurance of the Unemployed, !"
John Graham Brooks,
The School of Politics. is a pam
phlet book by E. Hofer of the DRAGON
Legislature. 1t is from the press Of
Charles H Kerr & Co. Chicago. lit
treats, first, of the primary and spoi
system; second, how primaries arr,
conducted; third, how primaries should
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