The record-union., 1896-09-13
Hon. Richard p. Bland:

Miller and Hon. Richard p Bland:
George Parsons Lathrop; "The Truth
ander; Roman and Anglo Saxon Grim
inal Jurisprudence" E. L. Felsenthal
and the Mexican Minister
''Harper's Magazine (New York; for
September, profusely and handsomely
illustrated, has. besides poems and the
departments, these leading features:
First in Peace" fourteen illustrations,
Woodrow Wilson: The Art of Driv-
ing" Henry Childs Merwin; Tom Saw
yer, Detective, as Told by Huck Finn
a story. (Conclusion) Mark Twain; "A
Picture of Saint Cloud" a story, Ger
trude Smith: "A Summer Among the
Cliff Dwellings," T. Mitchell Prudden;
The Mortuary Chest" Alice Brown:
Where Had John Been?" story,
Helen II. Gardner; "Old Silver Theo-
dore S. Woolsey; 1.-TWO Mormons From
Muddlety," story. (Conclusion) Lang
don Elwyn Mitchell; The Death of Es-
partero," Royal Cortissoz; Among the
Trees" Anna c. Bracket; His Duty"
a story, Octave Thanet: Musical Celeb
rites of Vienna" William Won Sachs;
Editors Study" Charles Dudley War
ner.
The overland Monthly" (San Fran
cisco) for September, with many illus
trations, has these leading papers: AS
Talked in the Sanctum,' by the editor;
1.-The Good Roads Movement" Charles
Freeman Johnson; The Quicksands OF
Pactolus," concluded, Horace Annesley
Vachel: Catalina" Sylvia Lawson
Covey: Municipal Pavements," George
W. Elder; "A Revolution in Weaving,
S. G. Wilson; Under the Headin' of
Truth. I.-Cusack's Ghost" Batterman
Lindsay: The League of American
Wheelmen in Politics. f. H. Kerrigan:
I'm Summer Woods" Herbert Bash
ford: '.The Water Supply of a Great
CITY" Rounsevelle Wildman; Ocean
Commerce Driven From California By
Law" Charles E. Naylor; AS Seen
over the Handlebars," Phil Weaver,
Jr.: .'The Law and the Miner" TREY l..
Ford: "Argentiae; or the Silver Prob
lem" J. c. Levy; "Napa Soda Springs,
ROunsevelle Wildman; "A Californian
Principality," Melville NJ. Vaughan.
The September Ladies' Home Jour
naP' Philadelphia), in cover giving a
dainty suggestion of early autumn,
onens with an interesting chatty paper
on ..The Personal Side of Dickens" by
Stephen Fiske. A new study or the
novelist by Alice Barber Stephens illus
trates the article. A feature is the last
letter written by the late Harriet
Reecher Stowe. Jane G. Austin is re-
called in the publication of the opening
charters of THE Experiment in the
CIoister." Biographical sketches Of the
daughters of George William Curtis,
Joseph Jefferson and Charles Kingsley,
and sketches also of Grace King, Ruth
McEnery Stuart and Elizabeth w. Bel
lany. all with portraits, appear. Ex-
President Harrison writes of his This
Country of Ours" paper Of the Secre-
tarv of War, Postmaster General and
Attorney General. THE Young Man as
a Citizen is the title of Dr. ParkhurStS
naper. Edward w. Box expresses
hearty Endorsement of more wide
snread enactment and enforcement of
the "Curfew Law J. William Fosdick
contributes a practical paper on THE
Fire Eteher and His Art" and Helen
Mar Adams has a kindred article on
"F,mbroidering the California Violet"
Mrs. Whitney's letter to girls gives
wholesome advice in response to the
widespread query, What am to do in
the world?' and one of Mr.. Burdette's
humorous teachings, Marketable Men
and Women" are features of special
interest. There are also articles upon
dress the coiffure, the floral bay-win-
dow, China cabinets, seaweed designs
for needlework, mourning costumes,
and the usual departments.
"Harper's Round Table" (New York;,
September s. 1896, is a very interesting
number. Among it's contents Is an en-
tertaining and instructive article on
Bird d-Catching and Tanning" by w
Warren Browne; a strong story by
Frances McElrath, entitled elk and
Bluebird''; an article by Jane f.. Rob
bins on 1.-The East Side Girl of New
York City at Work and Play; Install
ments Of Molly Elliot Seawelrs serial
story entitled "a Virginia Cavalier
of Hayden Carruth's serial story, The
Voyage of the 'Rattletrap' .; and of
Ellen Douglas Delands serial story, In
the Old Herrick House."