The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-18

Ex-President Harrison will concluoe
lis series of papers on life in the White
House in the Nav Ladies Home Jour
nal" (Philadelphia) and take respite
from his literary labors which have so
probably and congenially occupied him
for more than a year General daIll-
son is the first President to show the
public through the White House, up
stairs. downstairs etc. and to detail
the Presidents daily routine ana the
social and domestic phases Of life in the
Executive Mansion He is also the III -
Chief MAGISTRATE to crystalline mis-
knowledge and the experience saiieu
as Chief Executive in a series OF lucia,
instructive and interesting 1naedziife
articles on the functions of our Govern
ment, such as were This country VI
Ours" papers.
Sir Martin Conway's important book
on tSpitzbergen" will be brought out III
this country by Charles Scr1bner sons
simultaneously with j. NJ. Dent q 20.
of London Sir Martins unusual oppoT-
tunities in his journey across Spltz-
bergen, which was the first ever I'M
dertaken, and his record OF ms expe-
riences, together with the new facts ne
finds bearing upon geology, the ACTON
of ice upon the earth'S surface, the nora
and fauna of that region. and other SCI
entific facts, combine to make MS DOOR
one of the most important, as Wen as
one of the most interesting BOOKS on
the Arctic region which has appeared
1t will be illustrated by numerous pic
lures in color as we'll as plain
The New York Critic" of April 10th
announced the result of it's prize com
petition for the best list of the best
twelve American short stories Inc
prize has gone to J. w. George OF st.
Louis. who has selected two stories by
Hawthorne. two by Irving, two by POE,
and one each by DR.. Hale C'The Man
Without a Country" of course). Bret
Harte, Frank r. Stockton, Thomas
Nelson Page. Thombas Bailey Aldrieh
and Mary E wilkins. The editors add
that they do not offer this as an ideal
list. be it observed, but merely as, on
the whole the best of those submitted
Some 500 lists were received, and they
publish. also. another list, containing
only one story by a single authorize
authors selected being T. B. Aldr1ch, ii.
c. Bunner, F. r. Stockton, Mary T..
wilkins Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Bret Harte, Mark Twain.
E E. Hale, G., w. Gable and Richard
Harding Davis The paper deVotes
over nine pages to reviews of new
works of fiction, and prints, also, an
essay on American Themes in Ffc-
ton" by William 3. Chisholm, which
deals with the possibilities of the flu
ture, rather than with the achieve
ments Of the past. An excellent appre-
citation of the late Johannes Brahms
should also be mentioned among the
contents of this number.
Until hansen reached Sc degrees IA
minutes north, 90 degrees east (within
226 miles of the Pole, General A. w.
Greedy had held the record of Arctic
exploration, with SO degrees "a min
utes north, Al degrees west, made by
his expedition in 1882. 1t is really
pleasing TO our better selves, therefore,
to find the American explorer paying so
hearty a tribute to his more successful
Norwegian colleague (who beat him by
just 40 miles,. in the April Month
(New York;. General Greely's review
in that periodical. Of Nansen's Far
thest North" is as generous as it is
scientifically authoritative; yet we can
still fatter ourselves with the fact that
although magnificently distanced by
Norwegian efforts, there remains to
America the credit of the most north
erly known land, Cape Washington.
The April Lotus" CKansas City,
MOI, is trimming over with the re-
freshing fragrance of spring flowers
new writer's, with new ideas, themes,
and each with an individual manner Of
expressing him or herself. The claim
of the Lotus is, it does not present in
every issue the same old voices and
faces The contents for April includes
contributions from almost every State
of the United States and shows the de-
velopment of literary interest and tai
ent in every quarter OF the country
particularly the Western States and
California II contains, among other
attractive titles and features, the fol-
lowing generous bill of fare: My Pipe
of Dreams" by Ralph Alton; 'Macedo-
MAN Sketches"-just at this moment
very true and timely, with Greece and
Europe by the ears to save the Greeks
from the Turks-by an unknown but
clever Western journalist who has been
on the scene, Harry ]. Haskell; over
heard" by Plato G. Emery; Fatal Con-
centration," a story, by Charles Sloan
Reid; Song of the Sea Wolves" a buc-
cancer ballad, by Walter Haas-Brouck
Griffin; A Child of the Desert a pa
thetic and unique story Of a Mormon
boy, by Frank Bailey Willard: a roman
tic story, THE Law of Compensation, -
by Lucy S. Orrick, and The Battle of
the Horses strange moonlight pict-
ure. by Eleanor b. Caldwell. A big
budget of bubbles is blown by Walter