The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-24

The February number of 'Harper's
Magazine" (New York; opens with an
article ON THE Coronation" written
by Richard Harding Davis, and illus
trated by R. Cation Woodville. Both
writer and artist witnessed the SPLEEN
did ceremonies at Moscow from the
standpoint of official visitors-Mr.
Woodville with a royal commission
from Queen Victoria. and Mr. Davis as
the representative of 'Harper's Maya
zine" To the same number Charles F.
Lummis contributes the first of Sc
ries of timely articles on Mexico, the
spirit of which is characterized by the
title, THE Awakening of g. Nation"
These papers are the result of a three
months journey undertaken for "Har-
per's." An illustrated paper on "Hygeia
in Manhattan by Richard Wheatley,
describes the work of the Board of
Health in New York City. Poultney
Bigelow's paper, in the series on White
Mans Africa" discusses the remarka-
BILE career of the most enlightened
statesman of South Africa, President
Steyn of the Orange Free State. The
article is illustrated from photographs
made by Mr.. Bigelow during his re-
cent journey The birthday of the au
thor of the Emancipation Proclamation
Will be commemOrated by q paper on
| "Lincoln's Home Life in Washington"
by Leslie J. Perry of the War Depart
ment in which appears interesting ma
terial never before published. Thomas
Hastings discusses the relations of
Architecture and Modern Life and
Charles Dudley Warner, in the Edit
or's Study" chronicles his impressions
of Princeton University as a typical
force in American intellectual life. Be
sides the fifth installment of George Du
Maurier's The Marian" in which
Barty Josselin lives at Bruges and Ma
lines, a chapter out of the life Of the
author, the fiction of the number in
cludes four short stories. These are
Princes I-Would L Wot- Not" a mod
ern love story, by Margaret Sutton
Briscoe; THE Stout Miss Hopkins BIZ
cycle" a humorous romance, by Oc-
tave Thanet, with illustrations by the
late c. S. Reinhart; THE Assembly
Ball." tale of Colonial days by Sara
Beaumont Kennedy, illustrated by
Howard Pyle, and "a Passage at
Arms an episode of American student
life in Rome by John j. a Beckett. The
Editors drawer introduces a humor-
Gus story of domestic economy by John
Kendrick Bangs, and contains a vari-
ETY. of light verses and anecdotes, some
of which are illustrated
The Magazine Of Art" for February
(Cassell Publishing Company, New
York and London) is richly illustrated
The leading features of this foremost
art journal are: "Requisitionists," by
A. c. Cow, r. A, Rembrandt Tntaglio.
frontispiece; 'Persimmon;" The Col
lection of w Cuthbert Quilter, NJ. P:
The Modern English Masters" by F. G.
Stevens, with seven Illustrations; Star
kie Gardner and HiseWork,' by Walter
Shaw Sparrow, with eleven illustra-
tons; The River Ayr" by w. Mat
thews Gilbert, with seven illustra tions
by S. Reid; Drawn with the Mouth:
Bartram Hiles,'' with portrait of Bar
tram Hiles by himself, and six illus
trations; Original TYPOGRAPHY: the
Revival on the Continent" by NJ. H.
Spielmann, with eleven illustrations;
Franz. Stuck" by Paul Schultze-
i Naunburg, with portrait of Franz
Stuck by Leo Samberger and five illus
trations; illustrated Volumes with
six illustrations; Art in the Ballet
with six illustrations; Notes and Quer-
ies.'' with two Illustrations; The Chron-
icle of Art" with eleven illustrations.
A particularly bright and attractive
number of Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly" (New York; is that for Feb
ruary 1t has long list of good articles
and capital short stories, and almost
everything is Illustrated. The opening
paper is a sketch of Life in Russia, .
by Sophie Friedland, describing a
months visit at Little Russian coun-
try house. There is an excellent arti-
Gle on 1.-THE University of Pennsylvania, -
by DR.. Lewis r. Harley, forming the
fourth paper in the "Monthly's" series
on American Universities and Col
leges," which has previously treated of
Yale, Cornell and Bryn Mawr Other
good things of this number are: "A
Visit to the Syracuse Salt Works. by
S. Turner Willis: Ants of the Tropics, -
by A James Miller; the Development
of the Modern Hotel" by John P Rit-
ter; Some Stories of Cats" showing
their habits. characteristics and affec-
tons: THE Character of General r. E,
Lee" by Edmund Jennings Lee; "A
Railway Ride from Edinburgh to Bal
moral" by NJ. f. leicester Adds, etc
There is an installment of Edith SEES
sions Tupper's serial story, Father
john" some interesting matter about
new plays, With portraits; a young
folks department. containing a Cuban
war story, and other things; and COS
sip about the new books.
''Appleton's Popular Science Monthly
for February (New York; opens with an
account of Herbert Spencer, THE Man
and His Work" by Professor William
Henry Hudson" who was at one time
intimately associated with the philos-
opher of evolution in his evolution la
bors. A series of papers embodying
a sociological study of The Racial
Geography of Europe" is begun by
Professor z. Ripley. Professor Ripley
shows in his opening article that while
national and linguistic boundaries often
coincide, racial limits. being governed
by different causes, are seldom the
same as the other two. A discussion
of Tendencies in Athletics for Wo-
men, is contributed by Sophia Rich
ardson. An article on Indian Wam-
pun Records" by Horatio Hale, the
anthropologist whose death in his Ca
madam home was recently reported, ap-
pears. The use of wampum as money
and the recording OF events by means
of the patterns traced on wampum
belts are two inventions which Mr..
Hale rates as evidences OF high in
telligence,