The record-union., 1897-11-12


many years of commencing in these
columns, has changed to monthly
from weekly issue. The November
number is the first Of the new series.
1t now comes in a cover and is of forty
eight pages and is more freely illus
trated than heretofore. There is an
increase in departments and general
Improvement all around, though one
would think that to have been hardly
possible, so excellent, cleanly helpful
and attractive a journal it was in the
first place.
The North American Review for
November (New York; has these papers:
The Life of Tennyson,'' by Edmund
Gosse; THE Commercial Value of the
Shipyard,' Lewis Nixon; Effect of the
New Gold Upon Prices Charles A.
Conant; THE United States and the
Spanish American Colonies" the Mex
lean Minister; Thirty Years of Ameri-
can Trade" NJ c. Mulhall, F. S. S.;
Leprosy and Hawaiian Annexation, .
DIR. Prince A. Morrow; "The Present
Railway Situation H. T. Newcomb;
"Woman's Political Evolution" J. Ellen
Foster, President Woman's Republican
Association of the United States; "A
Review Of the Cuban Question" by the
Hon. Hannis Taylor, late United States
Stable Currency E. J. Sanford !;
Beautiful EVIL" Edward C. Jackson;
American School Histories on the
Revolution" A. w. Savary.
Carroll D. Wright, the United States
Commissioner of Labor Statistics, is
charged by 'The New Time (Chicago)
IN its November number with having
deliberately distorted facts and figures
III order to show an increase in wages
which does not exist H. l.. Bliss, makes
the charge, and adduces testimony The
November issue contains articles by
William Dean Howells, John Wana-
maker, DIR. Lyman Abbott, Henry D..
Lloyd, Mrs. Helen Campbell Herbert
N Casson, Professor Frank Parsons,
the Rev. J. Stftt Wilson and score of
others. portrait of Henry George a
new illustrated story by ]. w. Sullivan,
cartoon by Walter Crane, and some
stirring editorials by Frederick u
Adams and B. o. Flower are features
of this magazine
The BooBman" (New York; an il
lustrated literary journal, has these
contents for November: Chronicle and
comment. American, English. miscel-
iaheous. With portraits of Mary Hart
well Catherwood, Mrs. Richmond
Kltchle, the late Lord Tennyson. Lady
Iennyson and their son; Bret Harte.
Maude Adams as 'Babbie;' Silhouette
OF burns "Clarinda," and reproduc-
tlons OF cover design and illustration
from All the Way to Fairyland:' poe
Try, Within the Walls by Alice Ward
Well 'Poppies Red" by Thomas
Nalsh; Tantalus." by Harry Thurston
Peck; 'Launcelot and Gawaine." bv
richard Hovey; '"The Oak in Autumn y
oy Benjamin F. Leggett; "OId Lamps
FOR New Ones sketches and ESSAYS bv
Charles Dickens, with portrait by Sol
f-ytlnge. caricatures of Dickens. by
James Macarthur; '"The Progress of
Fontelk Refawrm,' by Harry Thurs
ton Peck; Emerson and Concord. ;"
With fac-simile autographs and por-
traits OF Emerson, Thoreau, A. Bron-
son Alcott and Margaret Fuller. by M.
A. De Wolfe Howe: AN Epoch Making
Lexicon with portrait of Eduard Won
Wolffiin. by John C. Rolfe; London
Letter" by W. Robertson Nicoll; Par
is Letter" by Alfred Maniere; THE
Bookman's Letter-Box"; Reviews of
New Books; Novel Notes; Tine
Bookman's' Table
The Arena" Boston) for November
brings a great array of contributions.
The frontispiece is a portrait of Gov
ernor John r. Rogers of Washington.
His paper Freedom and Its Opportu-
mites sets forth the bottom conditions
of freedom. the menaces thereto. Gif-
fen's book, THE Case Against Bimatal-
lism," has never been more severely
and successfully answered than by
Judge George H. Smith. Elihu F. Bark
er sets forth the advantages of a more
direct and popular system of legislation.
Professor Frank Parsons continues his
arraignment of The Telegraph Mo-
nopoly.' One of the most valuable
symposiums of late is that entitled The
Laborer's View of the Labor Question. y
to which three laboring men are the
contributors, Herbert NJ. Ramp, W.
Edwards and William Emory Kearns
B. o. Fowler's article is on Practical
Measures for Promoting Manhood and
Preventing Crime. THE Demand for
Sensational Journals" is discussed by
John Henderson Garnsey. The editors
article is the second of his historical
series entitled rs History a Science?"
The Plaza of the Poets contains six
pieces. In "The Editors Evening" the
r.a ol,,e a,,I
tunities," THE Man in Bronze" and
Franklin" sonnet. The Book Re-
view is devoted to Maurice Thomp-
sons Ethics of Literary Art"
Appleton's Popular Science Month
ly," edited by w. ]. Youmans, pub
lished by D. Appleton & Co. (New
York;. has these contents for Novem-
Der. 1897: Principles of Taxation" :"
XII by Hon. David A. Wells; Sc
mons Scientific Researches in Austral-
ia by Professor E. p Evans; The
British Association at Toronto by
Professor Daniel S. Martin: "The Ra-
cial Geography of Europe. X. Germa-
ny" by Professor William o. Ripley;
''Burs and Beggars Ticks by Pro-
fessor Spencer Trotter; Expert Testi-
mony in the Behring Sea Controver-
sy," oy Professor T. c. Mendenhall;
Natural and Artificial Perfumes. by
NJ. Jacques Passy; Archaeology and
the Antiquity of Man., by Sir ]. Evans,
X. c. B.: An Experiment in Citizen
Training" by Winifred Buck; Sketch
Of Carl Vogt' with portrait); Are the
American People Civilized?" "Abstrac-
tions in F.ducation:n .Political Boss