The record-union., 1897-04-04

'sLippincott's Magazine for April
(Philadelphia) has these leading feat
ures: Rays Recruit" Captain Charles
King; "Oyster-Planting and oyster
Farming Calvin Dill Wilson; Two
Chinese Funerals Beulah Carey Gron-
lund; Joe Riggler's Romance, Elsie
A. Robinson; Animal CannoneerS and
Sharpshooters,' jeans Weir, Jr.; Mat
rimonial Divinations," Alice Morse
Earle; "a Glimpse of Old Philadel-
phia," Emily P. Weaver; Goethe in
Practical Politics. F. P. Stearns; "An-
swering His Letter." Mary B. Good
win; politics on the American Stage,
J. Harry Pence; "A Plea for Our
Came" Fred Chapman Mathews; 1.-The
Gentle Art of the Translator" Caroline
w. Latimer.
Dore's famous painting, "Christ's En-
try into jerusalem first meets the
eye in the April Midland Monthly"
Oes Moines). ON the Western Edge
of the Andes with beautiful pictures.
Professor c. F. Holder has a profusely
illustrated paper on Living Homes I'm
der the Sea" 1.-The Valley Beautiful
is the title of H. A. Crafts prize de-
scriptive sketch. Miss SCOTS Across
Country in VAN invades Indian Ter
ritory. Colonel Emerson's Grant
takes the hero through a thrilling adj
venture. A striking piece of realistic
work is Shadows of Spotsylvania' by
Mrs. Faville "Cubra Libre' is a group
of stirring sonnets by w. V. Lawrence.
The literary paper is Our Later Liter
AZURE and Robert Browning" by Louis
Worthington Smith, with portrait.
Two Social Science themes are treated,
one, a plea for the Village Improve
ment Club" by Mrs. Jessie Mallory
Thayer; the other How to Relieve the
Poor and Prevent Poverty" by Mrs.
Ada Knight Terrell. Mrs. Townes Club
Department includes an interesting
sketch of the Missouri Federation with
portraits. Mrs. Shuey, the California
poet, contributes a noble poem, THE
Light of the New Era" The Editorial
Department includes a spirited reply
to Hamilton w. Mabie on the narrow
ness of villargers, also a plea for free
mail delivery in the country.
An interesting feature of 'Harper's
Weekly (New York; Of April Sd is a
double-page illustration of the new
Chicago lake front, now in course of
construction, together with a view of
the present lake front and an anthor-
itative article describing the progress
and scope Of the work.
"McClure's Magazine" for April (New
York; has these leading papers and
many fine illustrations: Have 1 Not
Loved Thee?" a drawing by Henry
McCarter; "A Century of Painting
Decorative Art" Will H. Low; THE
Strange Story of the Emily Brand"
Andrew Hussey Allen; st Ives" the
adventures of a French prisoner in
England, chapters Ill, ", Robert
Louis Stevenson; Grants Horseman
ship" Captain Alfred NJ. Fuller; The
Makers of the Union-Hamilton,' the
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge; Life Por-
traits of Alexander Hamilton" Charles
Henry Hart; Grants Life in Mis-
souri, Hamlin Garland; Captains
Courageous chapters TX, X, Rud-
yard Kipling; THE Spellbinder," a
story, Octave Thanet; THE Men in the
Ranks" Major Philip Douglas; True
Railroad Stories" Cy Warman; "A
Story in Series of Unpublished Let
ters by General Sherman" Ella Fraser
Weller; THE Retiring of Domsie," Ian
Maclaren.
The April number of "Godey's Mag
azine New York;, richly illustrated
and most profusely, has these more
prominent features: Frontispiece, THE
Despot of April; Beautiful Women"
Caldwell Sherman; Common Sense in
Rose Culture Eben E. Rexford; THE
DAILY Stock Company" Beaumont
Fletcher; ''Tbe Development of the
Reed Organ" fRupert Hughes; "Edel-
weiss love tale, Frederick w.
Wendt: ''Old-time Easter" Gabrielle
Marie Jacobs; THE Uncommon Expe-
rience of a Common Girl" Everett Nc