The record-union., 1896-03-04

Knowles Paine" Rupert Hughes; "The
Bookery: The Ambrosia of James
Whitcomb Riley" Chelifer; Fashion,
Fact and Fancy" Countess Annie de
Montaign.
The Arena" for March is at hand
Boston), opening with portrait of
United States Senator Butler, followed
by many beautiful half-tones of views
in Mexico, illustrating a paper on Mex
leo in midwinter by Justice Walter
Clark, LID. There is a freely illus
trated paper on Mayor Pingree's sue
cess in having the poor cultivate veg
etabIes on vacant town lots in Detroit.
Then follow articles as follows: By B.
o. Flower, "a Successful Experiment
for the Maintenance of Self-respecting
Manhood; John Clark Ridpath, LID,
on "The Bond and the Dollar Hamil
ton Osgood, NJ. D., on "Maeterlinek and
Emerson; Rev. Frank M. Goodchild,
on 1.-The Social Evil in Philadelphia;
Professor Frank Parsons, on ''The Tel
egraph Monopoly; j. Heber Smith, M.
D., on ''The Desirability of Disposing
of Infected Bodies by Cremation" Mar
ion Foster Washburne, on "The Edu~
cational Crisis in Chicago; Abby Nor
ton Diaz, on THE Human Problem
According to Law; United States Sen
ator Marion Butler, on why the South
Wants Free Coinage of Silver; Profess
sor George d. Heron, on HThe Social
Value of Individual Failure; Marga-
ret Noble Lee, on Bishop Doane and
Woman Suffrage; George b. Waldron,
A. NJ, on Wealth Production and Con-
sumption by the Nation; Mrs. Calvin
Kryder Reifsnider, serial Between
Two Worlds; Will Allen Dromgoole,
serial, "The Valley Path"
The Cosmopolitan Magazine for
March (New York; comes with a new,
unique and beautiful cover in colors,
a colored frontispiece and a host of
fine half-tone Illustrations. The lead
ing papers of this charmingly varied
and original periodical are "The God
mother" by Harriet Prescott Spofford;
Empire Building in South Africa by
Albert Shaw; 1.-THE Mystery of Grant
by Adam Badeau; 1.-THE True Story of
the Death of Sitting Bull" by Major
E. G. Fechet; The Two Sacrifices
(poem) by Sir Edwin Arnold; "The
Last Mass, a Recollection" by Maurar
Jokai; "Old English Silver" by S.
Leverett Johnson; Upland Pastures"
by Ninetta Eames; ''The Art of Max
ing-Up," by Sara Bernhardt; Butter
flies, a Tale of Nature" by James Lane
Allen; Brief History of an Ideal Re
public" by Sir Robert Harton; Prog
ress of Science" examples of recent art
with illustrations and beautiful pict-
ures. There is one thing of which we
have to complain concerning the Cos
molitan: Why does it eliminate the in
dex from it's pages?
The Atlantic Monthly" for March
(Boston) has these papers: THE Irish
in American Life" Henry Childs Mer-
win; IAN Elegy." Louise Imogen
Quincy; '0The Country of the Pointed
Firs" (seriaD, Sarah Orne Jewett; "A
Seminary of Sedition. John Fiske; "A
Holy Island Pilgrimage" Eugenia Skel-
ding; Pirate Cold (part three), f. j.
Stimson; French Roads, Mary Hart
we'll Catherwood; 1.-TWO New Social
Departures, John M. Ludlow; "A Pub
lie Confession" Ellen Maekubin; Some
Memories of Hawthorne" CID, Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop; Footprints in the
Snow" Frank Dempster Sherman;
1.-THE Presidency and Secretary Nor
tom; New Figures in Literature and
Art QV.), E. A. MacDowell," Edith
Brewer: ''The Case of the Public
Schools I'D The Witness of the Teach
err" G. Stanley Hall; "a Chapter in
Huguenot History" Matthew Arnold
in His Letters" Comment on New
Books THE Contributors Club"