The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-25

RosAt BAKING POWDER co., NEW YORK.
sion. a picture of the relic accom-
panies the article. A topic of especial
summertime interest is Carolyn Hal
sted's description of "Onteora." Flea
nor Hodgens tells of a singular expert
ence among the BedOuins; and Mae
Van Norman Long writes of Noun
taineering on the Pacific Coast" The
fiction is plentiful and bright. Special
mention should be made of a story by
Fl. w. Phillips, who tells of "A Modern
God; or, The Miracles of Mumbo-
jumbo; and of Fred Stamper's Birch
Island,' which embodies a legend of
the Indians of the Great Lakes. Sew
eral other interesting tales give the
issue strength. Choice poems appear,
among them a sonnet from the pen of
the Marquise LAMA. The dramatic
contribution of this issue is a criticism
of The Theatrical Review and the
music critique is a study of the work
of Robert Coverly." Fashions fill the
department devoted to this theme; the
editorial notes strengthen some of the
other work; and the new Scrap Book"
contains the best newspaper verse Of
the day. The Cooley Company, La
fayette Place, New York.
The number of Harper's Round
Table" published July Goth, contains
the opening chapters of a new short
serial story by Captain Charles King,
entitled Corporal Fred's Commission;
q second How q Shin TS
Navigated," by Captain Howard Pat
terson; one of the "Old Sailors Yarns
by w. ]. Henderson, entitled 'The
Whale that Swallowed a Parrot; an
interesting article on Kites and Kite
Flying" by J. B. Millet; a short story
by Hadje Bektash, entitled The Peril
of Becoming a Godfather another of
John Kendrick Bangs amusing papers
on The Strange Adventures of Sand
boys" and an installment of the serial
story entitled THE Rock of the Lion"
by Molly Elliot Seawell.
Harpers Weekly" of July oath con-
tains an extremely interesting and i'm
portant article on The Breeding of
Wheat" by w. S. Harwood, and Israel
c. Russell will describe 1.-The Wheat
lands of Washington" Among the
other features is an account, held over
from the previous issue, of THE Chris
tan Endeavor Convention in San Fran
CISCO" and letter from London by
Henry James. 49,, .
Colonel John Hay, our British EN-
bassador, delivered a speech a few
weeks back, upon the unwilling in
Westminster Abbey of a bust of Sir
Waiter Scott. This speech will shortly
be issued as a little book by John Lane,
the authors English publisher It's
publication will bring to mind Colonel
Hays volume of "Poems,' and Cas-
lillian Days" a. book of essays, both
published in this country by Houghton,
Miffiin & Co., Boston.
Frank Mathew, whose '"The Wood of
the Brambles," published last year,
was received as the great Irish novel,
has finished a new story to which he
has given the title, "A Child in the
Temple This will be published soon
by John Lane, New York. All Mr..
Mathews work is distinguished by a
strength and delicacy of style which
is full of charm.
McClures Magazine (NeW York; for
August is a special midsummer num-
Der, with a frontispiece drawn for it
by Boutet de Monvel. Among the con-
tributors are: Rudyard kiplng, Cy
Warman, A. Conan Doyle, Anthony
Hope, Robert Barr, James Whitcomb
Riley, William Canton( author of that
charming study of child life, wv. W
Her Book'O Madame Blanc (of the
French Revue des Deux Mondes"),
Hamlin Garland, Robert Louis Steven
son, John Kendrick Bangs and Albert
Bigelow Paine. 1t has a special cover,
and most of the contributions are fully
illustrated. The magazine contains an
article on c. D. Gibson, the American
artist, by the author Of THE Prisoner
of Zenda,' Anthony Hope, illustrated
with reproductions of a number of Mr..
GibSOn's most characteristic drawings.
1.-The Despotism of the Democracy"
is the subject of an article by Frank
lin Smith in the August number of
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly"
(New York;. While the author recog-
nizes that democracy is a condition of
freedom under moral control, he holds
that as a form of political government
it is despOtic, crushing individuality
and personal independence. The argu-
ment is enforced by reference to things
now going on. DR.. T. D. Crothers con-
siders New Questions in Medical Jur-
isprudence,' concerning the moral and
legal accountability of inebriates espe-
cially for their crimes and their con-
tracts, and in regard to the extent
to which their testimony and their con-
fessions can be relied upon. The ninth
of the series of articles by David A.
Wells on THE Principles of Taxation"
appears, and relates to the definition of
a direct tax, the nature of the income
tax, and the action of the courts upon
the subject Under the heading of THE
Paradox of Diderot," NJ. Alfred Binet
the distinguished French psychologist,
inquiries whether actors feel the emo
tons which they represent in the parts
they play. The authors observations
are illustrated by numerous pertinent
facts furnished him by eminent French
actors. The use of Thyroid Gland in
Medicine is of special and peculiar in
terest. The reasons for the separate
national existence of Belgium, the
various human types in southwestern
France, the spread of Alpine types
through Aquitaine and up the Pyre-
nees, and the persistence of the Gro
Magnon race of Dordogne from pre-
historic times, is among the topics
treated in Professor w. z. Ripleys ar
ticle. A new element has been intro
duced into the problem of the origin of
our cats by the discovery in Brazil of
a tortoise-sheIl wild cat of which the