The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03

The New York Critic" Of April 24th
opens with timely and moderate Woru
on THE Tariff on Books and Art Kew.
Gerald Stanley Lee follows with pa
per on Harriet Beecher Stowe. HIS
tribute to the Beecher family is espec-
tally eloquent. Whenever" he says,
"a Beeche1 is very indignant about
something, or very much grieved about
it, or stirred with love for it, he follows
his heart into an art that no one can
forget. DR. w. ]. Rolfe has some in
teresting things to say about puns in
Shakespeare: there is a sketch OF Presi-
dent James Burrill Angel of the Uni
versity of Michigan, whom President
Mckinley has made Minister to Turkey,
and Clinton Scollard contributes a
poem, over First Edition OF Love
lace" in the British reading-room
Among the illustrations is a large plct-
ure of the Richard NJ. Hunt memorial,
to be erected in New York.
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The May Month" contains portraits
of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Henry Stod-
dard and their son, Lorimer Stoddard
Cthe dramatizer of "Tess'D, Ferdinand
Brunetiere Nine. Blanc, Henry B. Full
Ter, the Chicago novelist; our new En-
bassadors to England, France and Ger
many, John Hay, General Horace
Porter and DR.. Andrew d. White-a
portrait of ambassador Hay, taken es-
pecially for the Month" forming the
frontispiece; Henry Drummond, ex-
Postma Ster- General William L. Wilson,
who has been elected President of
Washington and Lee University; Oliver
Optic, Nelson, Captain Mahan (whose
Life of Nelson is reviewed by Admi-
raj Luce, L. S. NJ, Alfred Austin, Rob
ert Louis Stevenson, DR.. DVorak, Lat
cadio Hearn, Austin Dobson, Maurus
Jokai Dr. Bourinot and Frederick
Walker (the original of Du Maurier' S
Little Billee"), beside reproductions OF
the May magazine posters and other il
Illustrations.
On the question of how to save the
fur seals the Review. of Reviews" for
May (New York; takes the ground that
President Jordan's recommendations
should be needed at once, and that
the United States should absolutely
prohibit American citizens from engag-
ing at any season of the year in the
taking of seals in the open sea. The
GrecO-Turkish war, the Cuban insur
rection and the sealing question are the
principal topics in editorials, special ar
ticles, and magazine and book reviews,
together with cartoon and other Illus
tration. The editor discusses the out
break of the war between Greece and
Turkey, and the failure of the concert
of Europe" which he ascribes to Lord
Salisbury's process of parley." The
editor declares that the charter of the
Greater New York, as passed by the
Legislature, is "a practical impossible
ity." There is brilliant character
sketch of H. Hanotaux, the French
Chancellor, written by the Baron Pierre
de Coubertin. The Review" devotes
its entire department of Current His
tory in Caricature' to the reproduction
of cartoons Illustrating various phases
of the Turkish question. All who re-
member Stephen Bonsafs brilliant
services last winter as Cuban war cor
respondent of the New York Herald"
will be interested in his statement of
THE Real Condition of Cuba To-Day"
which appears in the Review" Joel
Chandler Harris writes pleasantly
about the Atlanta Constitution" office
and its new chief, Clark Howell.
The Review of Reviews" gives a fore
cast of the important conventions and
other occasions of the coming summer
and early autumn.
The May number of 'McClure's Mag
azine'' New York; is especially abun-
dant and interesting in the matter of
portraits of famous people. In illustra-
ton of a paper by Miss Tarbell on the
remarkable work of G.. c. Cox in pho
tographic portraiture. there are speak
ing likenesses of Donald c.. Mitchell
ok MarveTO, Walt Whitman, Flea
nora Duse, Henry Ward Beecher and
others; and series of life portraits of
Daniel Webster. Some of the Webster
portraits have never been published,
and all have interesting histories. An
article that everybody will read with in
terest is Ray Stannard Bakers account
of the pursuit and capture of Booth,
after his assassination of Lincoln, and
of his death and burial, and it gives,
undoubtedly the fullest and most accu-
rate account of Booths last days and
death that has yet appeared. After ly
ing for a number of years under the
stone floor of the old penitentiary at
Washington, Booths body, Mr.. Baker
discloses, is now buried in Baltimore.
other features of this number of Nc
Clure's" are a most intelligent and
comprehensive review Of the second ad-
ministration of Mr.. Cleveland, by Carl
Schurz; an account of Grants disheart
ening search for service at the begin
ming of the war, by Hamlin Garland,
and fiction of the most stirring and ro-
mantle quality by Conan Doyle, Robert
Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling.
Lincoln Entering Richmond" TIL.
Nast's latest and greatest historical
painting, also Nast's thrilling picture
Defending the Flag" appear in the
May Midland Monthly" ODes Moines),
engraved from copies supplied by the
artist himself THE Dalles of the St
Croix," are beautifully pictured in this
number. Charles A. Gray, the Chicago
artist. well illustrates THE Building OF
a Violin" Mary Avis Scott's Across
Country in Van," invades Texas and
captures the State Capital. The Cluh
Movement in Kansas" by Lillian Wal
ker Hale, with numerous portraits, in
spires respect for the better halves OF
Kansas neighbors Inland Pirates,
by Frank Calkins, is true story. The
fiction of the number includes prize
story, Lieutenant Burton's Wooing.
by Captain Romaines of the regular
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