The record-union., 1896-04-06


| minister, made famous in His Mother s
Sermon" Gin Beside the Bonnie Brier
Bush'). The reviews of new books,
novel notes and bookman's table in
ciude the latest books. Chronicle and
Comment is replete with news and
notes about books and authors, and
there are some dramatic notes about
Duse and her acting N ''Magda," with
a fine portrait of the actress in the part
and about the new opera on .sThe Scar
let Letter." with portraits. of the COL
laborators, Walter Damrosch and Geo.
| Parsons Lathrop. Among other Illus
! trations in this number there are fac
| SMILES of Anthony Hopes hand-writ-
ing; also one of Landor's; some proof
sheets of Dickens and two drawings by
Thackeray in an entertaining article on
'Landor, Dickens, Thackeray," by Mrs.
Lynn Linton; and portraits of Robert
Barr, Hermann Sudermann, Paul Lie
cester Ford, Viola Allen, of the Empire
Theater, and w T. Hornaday
The British magazines and reviews
contain great deal of interesting and
instructive matter of which no reader
can afford to be ignorant 1t is the mis-
/ sion of "Littell's Living Age" to select
the very best of all this literature and
Sc rye 1T fresh to it's readers every week.
This thin, modest, fawn- covered weekly
volume of sixtyfour pages, is in fact
| the largest as well as the richest OF
American magazines. A single year S
| issues aggregate 1898 double column
! pages, forming four octave volumes of
IA pages each-more than double that
| OF the most pretentious monthly, and
Its quality is as good as it's quantity is
| abundant. The March issues gave the
usual feast Of good things, brought
| from the fields of history discovery,
| biography, travel, romance and poetry.
Among the many valuable papers which
| appeared in these numbers may be
| mentioned: John Stuart Blackie," by
A II. Miller; "Our Limited Vision and
the New Photography" from the Lon
don Lancet; Reflex Action, Instinct
and Reason" by G. Archdall Reid; "A
Sister-in-law of Mary Queen of Scots, -
from BLACK wood; 1.-The Two Dumas, y
| by c. E. Meitkerke; "The Evolution of
Editors by Leslie Stephen, and "Flo-
rian," by Augustus Mansion. The sub
scription price of S6 a year, instead of
SIS, brings the magazine more easily
within the reach of all who desire to
keep abreast of the best, but who can
not afford to pay for ALL Littell & Co.,
Boston, are the publishers.
Popular Astronomy for April
| (Goodsell Observatory, Mortified,
Minn) has these contents, with a map
OF Mars and pictures of the Baird gla-
D1o, 81 M
1.-The Spectrum of Mira illustrated,
H. c. Wilson; Astronomical Work of
DR.. w. l.. Elkin," S. c.. Chandler;
Alaska Boundary Survey" Otto j.
Klotz; "The Variable Star S,59S. U
Pegasi," with chart, Paul S. Yendell;
Observation of Short-Period Varia BILE
Stars" w. E. Sperra; "Galileo's Work
on Saturn's Rings-A Historical Cor
rection,' E. A. Partridge and H. c.
Whitaker; "The Graphic Construction
of Eclipses and Occultations-IV., Oc-
cultations of Clusters illustrated,
William F. Rigge, S. j.; 1.-The Planets
and the Consultations for April" with
chart, H. C. Wilson; comet notes.
The Engineering Magazine" for
April C'Times" building, New York;
very fat number, rich in Illustration
and full of interest. Among the leading
articles are these, in addition to which
are the departments of architecture,
| electricity, engineering in many divis-
| lens, machinery, industrial sociology,
mining and metallurgy and railroading:
Industrial Conditions and the Money
Markets, Maurice L. Muhleman;
l Cnrporo
Politics." Cy. Warman; Pump Irriga-
tion on the Great Plains," H. " Hinck-
Hey; Future of the Elevated Railway"
Eugene Klapp; "The Relative Value of
Different Goals" H. M. Chance; 1.-The
Present Status Of Aerial Navigation %
Octave Chanute; Modern Machine
Shop Economics" Horace L. Arnold;
Pure Water for Drinking and Cook
ing" S. P. Axtell; THE Architecture of
Modern Bank Buildings" R. w. Gibson;
determining the Value of an Iron
Nine" Nelson P. Hulst.
The April number of the Quarterly
Journal of Economics (published for
| Harvard University by G. II. Ellis.
Boston) will contain articles by F. H.
Haynes on the New Sectionalism and
the General Significance of the PopuIist
| Movement" by Professor A. E. Ross.
| on The Location of Industries" and
| by G. 0. Virtue, on THE History and
Effects of the Anthracite Coal Combi-
| nations" Professor Willard Fisher re-
views number of recent American
books on money, and John Graham
| Brooks gives an account Of schemes in
| Germany and Switzerland for COM
| pulsory insurance of the UNEMPLOYED.
| There are shorter notes and memoir
anda on current topics, and the usual
| photography Of recent economic pub
lications.
| Godey's Magazine" for April is rich
| ly and copiously illustrated Among
| its chief features are: Frontispiece
Compensation by Guy Wetmore Car
ryl; The Bicycle in Military Opera
tions," by Major General Nelson A.
| Miles; The Evolution of a Sport" by
F. A. Egan; The Work of Wheelmen
Tor Better Roads," by Isaac B. Potter
Mrs. Huneker. Sculptress,' by V. Ro-
bard; "Chimmie Fadden on the Stage. .
Beaumont Fletcher; "A Cycle Show in
Little" Marmaduke Humphrey: "A
! Burglar a Bicycle and a Storm" by
| Cleveland Moffett; "Woman's Cycle, ;
| Mary l.. Bisland: "Rosalind A-wheel. >
fiction, by Flora Lincoln Comstock
rs Bicycling Harmful?' by Arthur
Bird, NJ. D.; "A Night on a Wheel" by
Wilder Grahame; Talks by Successful
| Women" by Alice Severance. .arhe