The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-20

The return of Julian Hawthorne, the
Special Commissioner sent out by the
"CoSmopolitan" CNeW York; to mVeStl-
gate the famine and plague in lndld'
confirms the worst fears. British OIL
Gals in India were not anxious to have
Mr.. Hawthorne risk his life by close
inspection of the horrors of the plague
and famine but he is typical Amer
ican and having undertaken to see the
real conditions, was deferred by no
dangers Eight and a half millions OF
people have already persisted, and the
reading Of Mr.. Hawthorne's description
will open the eyes of the world to
condition of affairs that is almost in
conceivable in this year of jubilee.
The Garfield-Conkling fight is told for
the first time in the June "Cosmopoll-
TAM by Thomas 3. Connery, who was
at the period described James Gordoh
Bernett's personal representative. Thefe
are many of the chief actors IN the
events of this time still alive, and TINS
new page of the secret history IS re-
ceived with greatest interest.
The discussion of Does Modern Eo-
ucation Educate in the Broadest ana
Most Liberal Sense of the Term Is
being widely read. It is a radical ques-
ton, and reaches in the nearest way
nearly all classes of men and women
The contribution to this months Cos
mopolitanp is by President Morton, who
is at the head of great college oil
technology established on modern lines.
Current History buffalo, N. Y,
Garretson, Cox & Co., publishers; AL
fred Sidney Johnson, editor. Quarterly,
sin D
This magazine is the pioneer in an i'm
portant class of literature which has
arisen in recent years. It was the first
periodical designed with a view to re-
cording the worlds history in form
convenient for reference, to be useful
to students of our times not only IN
this day, but in later years. With the
present number DIST pr, 1890 it enters
the eighth year of its record with every
evidence of that regard for accuracy
and breadth of view which have eStab-
lished and long maintained its reputa-
ton as the most complete handbook
published of the history of our own
times. The present number is the
largest ever issued, having 216 pages
of reading matter, seventy portraits and
two maps The opening article is
review of the reign, character and IN
fluence of Queen Victoria. 1.-THE Crisis
in Southeastern Europe takes up thir-
ty pages, with special map, and reviews
the origin and full international bear
ings of the Cretan and Graeco- Turkish
trouble. All the rest of the world comes
in for its due share, the subjects of
some of the most important articles be-
ing as follows: THE Arbitration
Treaty" Cuban Revolt" South At
rican Situation" Currency Reform"
Tariff in the United States and Can
ada" Venezuelan Question" Oriental
Situation President McKinley's In
auguration,' with portraits of the new
Cabinet; 1.-THE Work of Congress"
Business Situation Labor Interests
in America and Europe" Trusts and
Antitrust Laws" Greater New
York, - New ambassadors, - THE May
flower Log Manitoba School Cues
tion," Political Situation in England,
Germany and France" etc.; Famine
and Plague in India" japanese,
Chinese and Australian Interests"
philippine Revolt" Geographical Ex-
ploration,' Color Photography" Dis
coveries and Inventions in Physics, Me-
chanics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Arch
aeology," ETC.; art, Music and ORA
ma" THE Mothers Congress. - "Relig-
ious Progress" Railway Pooling and
Other Logical Decisions Statistics of
Southern Progress Gold Production"
Merchant Marines" ETC.. mississippi
Floods and Other Disasters: Reviews
of Leading Books" and full biograph-
teal sketches of prominent people who
have died.
The Jubilee celebration in England,
this month, gives special timeliness to
the leading article in the New York
Critic" of June 18th, in which Sir Hen
ny Irving and a number of eminent
Americans consider the advisability of
establishing in London an Anglo-Amer-
lean Club, to be composed mainly of