The record-union., 1897-07-12

Laughlin, professor of political econo-
my in Chicago University; why Spain
Has Failed in Cuba" Thomas Gold AL
word Jr.; johannes Brahms" Gustav
Kobbe; "a Radical Defect in Our Civil
Service Law Duncan Veazey, Chair
man Executive Committee National
Civil Service Association; Sugar BOun-
ties and Their Influence DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley; THE Evolution of the Edu-
cational Ideal.-I," DR.. Friedrich Paul
sen, professor of philosophy in Berlin
| University; Have Americans Any So
cial Standards?" Frances NJ. Abbott;
| William Wordsworth, - A. P. Peabody;
victorian Greater Britain and Its Fu-
ture," Professor Thomas Davidson.
| THE Church at Home and Abroad"
| Phila.) for July is published by the
| General Assembly of the Presbyterian
! Church in the United States. The num-
| Der has a full page portrait of Rev. Dr.
| T. L. Janeway, news of missions and
their vicinity, of Elm College, of scenes
! in a Chinese printing establishment,
/ and text matter in broad variety relat-
! ing to church and mission work, church
news, etc.
| In "Harpers Round Table" pub
lished July 9th, there are short stories
THE Last of the Janizaries," by w. D.
/ McCrackan, and "A Desert Comedy"
! by Hugh Wakefield; an article by Ag-
nes Carr Sage, entitled Where Some
/ Old Nursery Friends Come From an
essay by Brander Matthews on "Ameri-
canism"; short article by Spico on
Target Practice at Night on Our Moo
| ern Battle-ships": and installments of
the serial stories-''The Rock of the
/ Lion" by Molly Elliott Seawen and
/ The Painted Desert" by Kirk Munroe.
THE New England Magazine" for
July o Park Square. Boston) is richly
and profusely illustrated, more pro-
/ fusely we think than has been any pre-
ceding number. The papers on Col
! lege Architecture, ''Martha's Vine
yard, The Casa Grande, Arizona, ;"
mo Mans Land Submarine Cables. /"
Lakes of New England" John Lang
dom and The Birds Petition are
| freely illustrated by pictures. There
are stories, poems sketches and other
matter full of timely charm and gem
| eral interest.
!
! From George Spauldng & Co, San
/ Francisco, publishers, are at hand part
/ two of Fifty Years of Masonry in Cali
fornia," the initial number of which we
noticed at length last month. The pres
ent number has a fine steel portrait of
! Thomas Caswell, 33d" a picture of
! The Green Dragon Tavern the Dan
I iel Vose Home Milton, Mass and a
reproduction of the celebrated painting
| Death of General Warren, Grand Mas
/ ter; views of Washington, Elm, Cam
/ bridge; Of Bunker Hill Monument and
The Old North Church. The text
/ is of Masonry in the Revolution, and
of Builders of Masonry in California"
The Overland Monthly (San
Francisco for July has many
illustrated pages. The features of
the number are: Frontispiece, Col
lege Beginnings in 1857: frontis-
piece, Fort Winfield Scott; ;
/ frontispiece, The Meteorological Sta
tion on the Santis": frontispiece, will
liam Lord, Governor of Oregon: .As
| Talked in the Sanctum,' by the editor;
Alexander Baranoff, Arthur Inker-
sley; "Barcaola,'' Elliott Reed: THE
Honorable Jerry" Peter Studley:
| '.Mendocino," Lulu McNab; THE Arid
Lands" Herbert Bashford. Illustrated: !:
Peculiar Rubricas Attached to Various
Early Spanish Signatures Willard NJ.
Wood; Mountain observatories, . Ed
| ward S. Holden, illustrated; Last