The record-union., 1896-08-23

York; is at hand for August. 1t is very
freely and handsomely Illuminated with
engravings. Four complete stories ap-
pear. AN American Artist in Paris
is by Clara McChesney; a paper on
Whist and it's masters is by r. F. Foster,
and a paper on stephen Cranes Col
lege Days is by Clarence Loomis
Peasler. There are numerous other at
tractive features.
"The Penny Magazine for September
(Philadelphia) has the complete novel
cite, 1.-The Vocal Nocturne," by Her
bert D. Ward, Swing Low Sweet Char
iot," by Myrtle Reed, when the Gar
is Crowned" by Francis Aymar
Mathews, IF a Woman Viii" by Jean
nette Benton, Through a Glass Dark
ly," by Melville Phillips.
''The Engineering Magazine" for Au-
not the less welcome. Editor Dunlap
has given us in this number a most in
viting table of contents, and the text
bears out the promise. Besides the ten
departments from architecture to rail-
reading, and from electricity to metal
lurgy, these pepers apear: THE Rela-
tions of Finance to Industrial Success, .
Henry Clews; The Fallacy of Municipal
Ownership of Franchises" Frank NJ
Loomis; First Principles in Railroad
Signaling" George B. Paine; ''The Era
of Extravagance in the Electrical Busi-
ness Burton E. Greene: "The Archi-
lecture of Bridge Building" E. c. Gard
ner; Are the Cyanid Patents Valid" j.
s. c. Wells; Natural Wealth and In
dustrial Possibilities of Cuba" Raimun-
do Cabrera; Modern Machine Shop
Economics Horace L. Arnold; THE
Important Future of Producer-Gas," A
Humboldt Sexton; British Railway
Stocks as Desirable Investments, w. j
Stevens.
With the number for July, 1896, the
tenth volume of the Quarterly Journal
OF Economics is brought to a close. An
index of writer's and subjects for the
series thus closed has accordingly been
prepared for the convenience of sub
scribers, and for the greater ease OF
consultation by students. A copy is al
hand and it proves to be of exceeding
value as an open sesame to the riches
of the series of this review. George II
Ellis, publisher, Boston.
"Macmillan's Magazine for August
Macmillan & Co., London and New
York; has these articles: 'The Secret
of Saint Florel,' "A Prince of Wales,
"Rahel Levin and Her Times" THE
Long Vacation Shall We Return tc
the Land?'' An Execution in India,
ION the Antiquity of Tobacco-Smok-
ing THE Story of His Life" THE
Pavilion"
''McClure's Magazine for September
contains a paper on DR.. w. T. G. Nor
ton, the discoverer of anaesthesia, by his
wife There is a short sea story of quite
unusual quality and interest, by new
writer, Morgan Robertson, once a sailor
before the mast, and stories by Mrs
SpOfford and Clinton Ross. Will H. Low
has an article embodying his recollec-
tions of French painters and painting
There appears also the first report ever
published of Abraham Lincoln's famous
Lost Speech" delivered at Blooming
ton, before the first Republican State
Convention held in Illinois. Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps contributes interesting
chapter of personal experiences among
the Gloucester fishermen. One Of the
most witty and picturesque men that
ever lived is Whistler. the painter, and
of him there is a short personal study
exhibiting him in the full flower of his
whims and graces.
'"The Formulation Of Normal Laws
is the subject of d paper by Professor
Simon n Patten of the University OF
Pennsylvania, recently published by the
American Academy Of Political and So
cial Science Philadelphia). The paper
contains an analysis of the changes
which the theory of marginal utility has
brought about in economic science with
especial reference to the old idea of a
normal man and of normal laws. In the
course of the discussion the author
shows how the theory of marginal utility
is derived from the old utilitarian theory
Of utility of Bentham and Ricardo, and
explains the concept of "a normal man
He also makes plain the various steps
in the development Of the new theory.
Nance; A Story Of Kentucky Feuds,
by Nanci Greene, issued in the Popular
Library Of F. T. Neely (New York;, is
a romance of love and vindicated honor
which will interest every reader who
has heard of the Blue Grass regions and
the tempestuous character of the one
time natives.
For more than half a century Lit
tells Living Age" tPoston) has been
republishing the best and most impor-
tant papers. biographies. reviews. sto-
lies, verses and sketches of travel, tc
be found in the foreign ESPECIALLY the
BTitish) magazines, quarterlies and lit
erary weeklies. During this long period
il has been priced and commended for
the judgment and taste exhibited in its
selections. Hardly one of the eminent
British authors of the past fifty years
can be named who has not been repre-
sented in these pages. Its latest issues
contain many articles of present inter
est and permanent value. The follow
ing are worthy of special mention:
"Czar and Emperor" by Karl Blind
'Slatin Pasha and the Sudan" by Cap
tain +. d. Lugard; Matthew Arnold,
by Frederic Harrison; Mature in the
Earlier Roman Poets" by Evelyn Mar
tirego Cesaresco; Jean Baptlste and
His Language" by Howard Angus
Kennedy; Stray Thoughts on South
Africa" by Olive Schreiner; "A Heroine
of the Renaissance" by Helen Zim-
mern; "A Winters Day in Mid-For-
est" by Fred Whishaw; and ''The Story
OF an Amateur Revolution" by a Jo-
hannesburg resident. In fiction, short
story, by Mary E. Mann. is particularly
readable, with its mixture of pathos
humor and SuperStition.