The record-union., 1897-07-12

Mob Mind" by Professor Edward A.
Ross; Are Scorpions Matricides and
Suicides?" by Dr. Juan Vilaro; 1.-THE
Duke of Argyll on Evolution-A New
Social Problem" by the editor; Sci
Science There are numerous Illus
uationS.
1.-The Lotus" that halls every month
from a Western city (Kansas City,
Mo-, that is only associated in the
minds of most boolzish and reading peo-
pie with purely commercial interests,
has in the last few months became
an interesting and significant periodical.
1t is the only important chap-book in
the West, and is the most varied and
characteristic bibelot in contemporary
periodical literature The July num-
Der IS good summer reading, and it con-
tains many short bits of interesting
fiction, poetry, and a piquant COM
mentary on all sorts Of things that
yield amusement without any strain.
The contents contain, among other
features, the following varied bill of
fare: "Ballade of a City Bower" by
Edward w. Barnard 'Pawn-Ticket
1899, by Ingrom A. Pyle; "A La
ment," in memoriam of G.. Frederick
Russell by a fellow craftsman, Har-
vey G. Watts; False" a poem Of the
emotional life, by Miss Adeline Knapp,
the we'll known California writer; THE
Hand of Angelo" by Miss Lulah Rags
dale; The Countess and the Monk
story of love and a vampire, by Mrs.
Edmund Nach n Woman n Pro-
poses" a barrack story by soldier,
F. T.. Clayton; "Salutation to Death,
by J. c. l. Clark: Transition,
sketch by Harriet Howe; Loves Fal-
conry," by Eugene r. White; and the
wind-up is a paper on Catching Ideas
on the Wing" by Walter Blackburn
Harte.
Captain John Goldman, whose article
on The Upbuilding of a Marine Car
ngTrade" leads the July number Of
The Engineering Magazine" (NeW
York;, is a powerful and leading advo-
cate Of free ships, and the present pa
per is a vigorous statement of his pol
icy. He ably reviews the rise of Amer
lean shipping, the injury caused by the
war, the decadence of wooden vessels
and the rise of iron. With the dawn
Of the new era, there were three courses
open to us-to build vessels, buy them,
or do without. Economic conditions
temporarily forbade the first, Congress
prohibited the second, and so we were
forced to the third, and we have sent
and are sending abroad thousands of
millions of dollars in freights. Captain
COdman's remedy is full American
register for all vessels of over 5000
tons, wherever built" until we learn to
build ships, as we build locomotives, in
competition with the world. In the
same number the eminent English ar
chitect H. Fl. Statham, draws signifi-
cant lessons from THE Paris Fire and
the Building of Temporary Structures"
Titus Ulke has a richly illustrated pa
per on Characteristic American Metal
Mines" Louis Bell on Electricity in
the Modern Machine Shop" and F. H.
Kimball on the Architectural Rela-
tions of the Tall Building" Colonel
H. G. Prout gives the first complete re-
view yet made of THE Development of
the Steel Rail in America" There are
four other leading articles and the
usual full review and index of the en-
gineering press.
A summer breeziness and wild west
ern thrill Of adventures pervade the
stories in the July Midland Monthly
(Des MoineS). Our Inland Seas"
written and pictured by F. w Fitz-
patrick, gives the reader a delightful
voyage over our great lakes, and much
interesting information on the trip
Grants Life" by Judge Emerson, this
month, develops six new views, taken
for the Midland at old Fort Vancou-
yer, on the Columbia Miss Scott CON
cludes her Across Country in a Van"
with we'll illustrated sketch of the
City Of Mexico. Booker T. Washing
toms Tuskegee school is freely pictured
The 'Midland's' July prize paper, by
Professor Carothers of Galena describes
and illustrates the discoveries of a
party of scientists in the caves of the
prehistoric cliff-dwellers of Arizona
Mrs. J. S. Clarkson, wife of General
Clarkson, contributes an able paper on
Iowa politics, recently read before the
Society for Political Study of New York
City. a beautiful picture of Mrs.
Clarkson adorns the frontispiece. Nu-
merous other interesting features are
included in the number
The Living Age" (Boston), for all its
fffty-three years of life, was never
fresher, more vigorous or more valu-
able than now. The following partial
contents of recent issues will give a
slight idea Of it's worldwide scope and
variety: Some Changes in Social Life
During the Queens Reign by Sir AL
gernon West; The Apotheosis of the
Novel Under Queen Victoria" by Her
bert Paul; The Integrity of the Otto
man Empire as a Diplomatic Formula"
by Wemyss Reid and ]. Guinness Rog-
ers; The Statesmen of Spain,' by En-
lila Pardo Bazan; Among the Liars"
account of a visit paid to Crete; Rus
sia on the Bosphorus" from the pen of
an English naval officer. Captain J. w
Gambler, r. N; "Henryk Sienlxiewicz
the Polish Tolstoi," by Edmund Gosse;
''149T-1SJ1: East and West" by Ed
ward Salmon; A Common Citizenship
for the English Race" by A Y. Dicey;
"Recollections of Frederick Denison
Maurice" by Edward Strachey: The
Twentieth Italian Parliament" by
"Ouida": The Birds of Tennyson." by
Edgar Valdes: Brahms and the Clas-
sic Tradition by w H Hadow: THE
Position of Conformity: The