The record-union., 1897-06-06

from the Great Lakes to the Sea- by
A r. Davis; Characteristic American
Metal Mines" by j. Wyman Jones;
Engineering Problems of the Tall
Building" by c. O. Brown; and THE
Cure for Corrosion and Scale from
Boiler Waters by A A Cary. Ru-
dolph Hering's ''Vexed Question of
Garbage Disposal is a very valuable
contribution to a leading problem in
municipal engineering. There are
three other leading articles, and the
customary review and index of the en-
gineering press.
The New York Critic" of MAY Doth
opened with a paper on current Italian
notion, by Henry b Fuller, the author
OF The ChevaIier of Pensieri- Vani, -
The Cliff Dwellers," etc, who is at
present in Europe. He deyotes himself
particularly to the recent work of Fog
azzaro, Capuana and MatIde Serao-
writers who are less known in this
country than is d Annunzio. The paper
prints, also, ambassador Hays address
at the unwilling of the memorial bust
OF Sir Walter Scott in Westminster Abb
hey, on May 21st-an address that well
deserves Dean Bradley's praise, as
wise, eloquent and truthful A por-
trait of Colonel Hay, made especially
Tor the Critic Company, accompanies
this paper. His predecessor, the Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard. is welcomed home
by the Critic" with a reprint of the
remarkable paper on the Ebassador
published in the Saturday Review -
Mrs. Humphrey Wards address on the
occasion of the laying by her of the
foundation stone of a free library at
Edmonton, England, is also reprinted in
part. We learn also from this number
that professors and students of the
University of Virginia purpose to erect
in the university library a memorial 10
Poe, the institutions most illustrious
a1umnus.
The National Magazine for June
(Boston) is richly illustrated and has
these leading besides many other inter-
esting features: "Antitoxin, a Modern
Triumph" H. B. Boulder; Christ and
His Time" Dallas Lore Sharp; Ship
ping Pacific Coast Halibut East" Ed
ward H. Miller; AT the Curve of the
Road" Henry C. Wood; "A Romance
of Old Paris" Jennie B. Waterbury
Pretty Rose" Minnie Moffat; Some
Recollections of the Century" DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale; The True Story
of Mary and Her Little Lamb E. A.
Warren; Uncle Billy on Ozone" Win
throp Packard; Some Railroad En-
gineering in California Mabel C.
Craft; rs the French Republic a Fail
ure?" Lew Vanderpoole; "A Restored
Ideal" James Buckham; How Mar
thy Disappointed Kilo," Ellis Parker
Butler; The Other Man, Emil o. Pc
terson
"Appleton's Popular Science Month
ly'' for June Cd. Appleton & Co., New
York;, has these leading features, and
all the usual full departments: ''Evolu-
ton of the Modern Heavy Gun" by Pro-
lessor w. LIE Conte Stevens illus
trated); THE Silent City of the Muir
Glacier" by President David S. Jordan
Qliustrated); Principles of Taxation,
VIII" by Hon. David A Wells: Sui
eide and the Environment" by Robert
Europe, V The Three European
Races" by Professor William a. Ripley
illustrated; Globe Lightning" by NJ.
Hagenan; Worlds Biologists at ST
Petersburg" BIZ w. H. Ballou illus
trated); Woman Suffrage and Educa-
ton" b. Helen K. Johnson; The His
tory of Alcohol, L. by c. E. Pellew, NJ.
D., Qlustrated); THE Public and It's
Public Library" by John Cotton Dana;
Science AS An Instrument of Educa-
ton" by NJ. P. E. Berthelot; Sketch of
Richard Owen" by President David S.
Jordan with portraiO; scientific litera-
ture and fragments of science.
THE Arena" for June Boston) has
these papers: Municipal Conditions in
California" James D. Phelan, Mayor of
San Francisco: Railway Financiering
as a Fine Art Hon w. P. Fishback;
The Ultimate Trust Cure" Gordon
Clark; How to Reform the Primary
Election System" Edward Insley; Fl
deity in the Social Compact" Judge
Charles r. Grant: Reading the Bible
in the Public Schools Elizabeth Cady
Stanton; The Children of the Other
Hail. Professor w. I. Hull: THE Tale
of Two Horses" Hubert M. Skinner;
80 Life, 0 Beyond" James Whitcomb
Riley; "A Ballad of Sweethearts," Mad
ison Cawein; ITO Madeline James
Newton Matthews; "Ayesha to Kali
crates" Winwood Watt; Betrayal"
Helena NJ. Richardson: The Heredity
of Richard Roe DR.. David Starr Jor-
dan; The True Evolution the Editor.
THE Forum (New York; for June,
has these ESSAYS: THE Trans Mis-
souri, Decision George r. Blanchard,
Commissioner Joint Traffic Association;
"A New Form of Government" ]. B.
Bishop; The Futility of the Spelling
Grind, H." DR.. j. NJ. Rice: "A Propa-
gator of Pauperism; the Dispensary,'
DR., George F. Shrady; American Ex-
cavations in Greece; Plataia and Ere
tria," J. Gennadius; The Case of Cap
tain Dreyfus," Vindex; When Did Ca
bot Discover North American Henry
Harrisse; The Grievance of the West,
Professor ]. H. HysloD; Contemporary
American Essayists," Professor Benja-
min w Wells; Paul Bourget," Yetta
Blaze de Bury.
F. Marion Crawford's new novel, "A
Rose of Yesterday is soon to be pub
lished in book form. His readers will
reeollect a scene in an earlier novel
where his feeling toward divorce is
shown, and will feel special interest in
book in which divorce has become the
main motif. The characters impress one
with an unusual sense of rea lity and
with strong sympathy for the heroine to
whose mind argument presents itself in
favor of securing the liberty which pub