The record-union., 1896-11-03

licott, U. s. NJ, in The Plimsoll Mark" !"
tells of the lives and property that have
been saved by this device. Walter
Camp writes of a bicycle race. ]. Ed
mund v. Cooke has told in humorous
verse Of THE Labors of Hercules" and
Oliver Herford describes and pictures
"The Lions Tour" The Russian Over
land Telegraph and the Atlantic Cable
Companies had hard fight, years ago,
to see which could first establish tele-
graphic communication between this
country and Europe. Jane Marsh Par
ker describes the struggle in "A Race
for a Girdle," while George Kennan tells
How the Bad News Came to Siberia" !"
The Atlantic Monthly" for November
| Roston) has these papers as chief:
Causes of Agricultural Unrest" Pro-
fessor j. Laurence Laughlin; Cheerful
Yesterdays" Colonel Thomas Went
worth HigginsOn; "The Juggler" Ca
vivid story Of the Tennessee Mountains)
serial, Charles Egbert Craddock; Utah
| as an Industrial Object Lesson" Will
lam E. Smythe; Marin Lisa "a story,
Kate Douglas Wiggin; Dust" Lafcadio
Miriam Coles Harris; THE German and
the German American" Josiah Flynt:
| Stony Lonesome" Ga story Charles D.
G.. Roberts; "Early Recollections of
Bret Harte,' Charles Warren Stoddard;
''The History of the Gift of Painless
| Surgery DR.. Edward Waldo Emer-
son; Labor Unions in Great Britain" !"
J. NJ. Ludlow; "Out of the, Book of HUI
| nanity," Jacob A. Riis; "The Young
Shakespeare: A Study of Romeo" John
Jay Chapman
THE Bookman" for November Dodd,
Mead & Co., New York; has. beside the
| usual departments of poetry and re-
views, these papers: Among the Lii
blaries," by George H. Baker; "Ameri-
can, English, Miscellaneous Comment" ;"
with portraits; writ in Book of Gel
tic Verse. In Spring." Lizette Wood
worth Reese; THE Awakening" John
Albert Macy; Browning" Robert Ad-
ger Bowen; Living Critics. X Edmund
| Gosse, with portrait, Arthur Waugh;
Some Notes on Political Oratory" first
paper). Harry Thurston Peck "Kelms-
colt Press Work and Other Recent
PRINTING" Charles F. Richardson al
eXander Kielland," with portrait, Will
lam HI. Carpenter; American Provin-
cialism," Caroline M. Beaumont; Kate
carnegie" "a novel;, Ian Maclaren; !;
London Letter." w. Robertson NicolI;
Paris Letter." Alfred Maniere.
|
Inc Macmillan Company will shortly
ADD to it's remarkable fine line of
| biographies and editions of collected
works an entirely new edition of the
Works and Letters of Lord Byron" ed
lied by w. E. Henley. 1t is to be com
pleted in twelve volumes, of which the
letters, diaries, controversies. speeches.
ETC., VIII be contained in four, and the
verse in eight volumes of medium size
with portraits. The first volume con-
| tanning his letters from 1904 to 1913.
with a portrait after Phillips will be
published very shortly, and will soon be
followed by the first volume of the
poems with portrait after WestalI.
There has been a long period of neglect
| OF Byron's poetry, 50 that we are al
ready beginning to feel a reaction in its
favor which promises to be steady. and
1T is agreed that Byron's letters, public
and private, with their abundant spir-
It's and easy charm, are among the most
delightful In English. Moreover they
contain the comments Of one who, be-
| side being great English poet, was
also prfncipar element In the esthetic
evolution Of the modern Europe which
we know
q. T. Putnam's Sons (New York; have
in press a new edition Of "The Last
Lays OF Knickerbocker Life in New
York." by the late Abram C. Dayton.
To be fully illustrated, "a Romantic
Voyage to Venezuela and the West In
dies" by Ira Nelson Morris, twenty
FIVE Illustrations; international Law"
simple statement Of its principles.
by Henry Walcott Bowen, United
States Consul at Barcelona "The God
Idea of the Ancients, or Sex in Re
| ligion,'' by Eliza Burt Gamble, author
of Evolution Of Woman" and "House-
| hold Economics" by Helen Campbell.
| author of ''The American Girls Home
Book of Work and Play" etc.