The record-union., 1897-04-04

BostonS experience with direct work
in various municipal departments to
show the superiority Of that method
over the contract method, while George
E. Hooker Of Hull House, Chicago, ex-
poses the inadequacy of the contract
system as applied to street cleaning in
that city President Thwing Of the
Western Reserve University at Cleve-
land writes on How to Choose Col
lege." His article deals with practical
questions Charles S. Bernheimer pre-
sents a rapid survey of the different
agencies for the National Jewish Ed
ucational Work in the United States"
'Sothorons', for April Philadelphia),
one of the very best of the cheap short
has, with many illustrations, East
err" Joseph Dana Miller; Miss
Merryviews Summing" Beatrice
Sturgis; "a Decare of Clev-
err Women" Eugene L. Didier;
THE Old Journal Charles Sloan Reid;
1.-The Answer of the Soul William
Sidney Hillyer; Psychic Phenomena"
F. G. Odenheimer; Independence Hall
and It's History" Francis Churchill
Williams; THE Answer" Elizabeth
Harman "a Study in Black and
White Jane Marlin: "Hypnotism as
an Implement of Education" S. Mill
ington Miller, M. D.; The Making of
Tramp" p V. Mighells; THE Pas
senger for Lincoln w. G. Eggleston.
"Harper's Magazine for April pro-
fusely illustrated, opens with a popular
L. l., nd \,
French Craze of 3d. by Professor John
Bach McMaster. The illustrations, in
Guiding the frontispiece in color, are in
Howard Plye's most forcible and virile
manner. In archaeological Progress
of the Century, the third of series of
illustrated papers describing the history
of modern science, DR.. Henry Smith
Williams traces the development of our
knowledge of fossils. George du Maui
rier's romance of reincarnation. 1.-The
Marian" continues to present, under
thin disguise, much Of the authors own
life and personality. From Home to
Throne in Belgium" by Glare de Graf
fenried, describes the domestic and po-
litical institutions of one of the most
primitive, individual, and at the same
The third paper of the series on the
Mexico Of to-day, by Charles F. Lum-
Minis, is entitled THE Awakening of
Nation The sixth paper in the series
on white Mans Africa" in preparation
of which Poultney Bigelow spent many
months of travel, describes the opening
of the Cape Colony Parliament, one of
the most characteristic and impressive
incidents of British colonial empire
wild Things in Winter is a sympa-
thetic study of bird life by J. H. Ken
nedy. Our Trade with Brazil. and the
River Platte Republics" by Richard
Mitchell, U. S. N, describes commercial
conditions in South America favorable
to the investment of capital from the
United States. In the leading short story
of the number, THE Wisdom of Fools, )"
Margaret Deland raises the question of
personal responsibility in the existing
social order. Other stories are: "A
Realized Romance by Mary M. Mears,
and "a Solo Orchestra" a sketch of a
New York street musician, by Brander
Matthews. In THE Editors Study"
topics of general and current interest
are discussed by Charles Dudley War
ner. The Editors Drawer" opens with
Beauty Hath Charms" a story by
Henry Gallup Paine, illustrated by A. B.
Frost, and contains the usual variety of
anecdote and verse.
The Cosmopolitan Illustrated Maya
zine" for April Qrvington, New York;