The record-union., 1897-07-04

portrait-the first to be published, we
believe. Another interesting illustration
is a portrait of the late George du Maui
rier, drawn from life, four months be-
fore his death by Charles Dana Gibson.
The Lounger objects to the charming
little habit English critics have, of
claiming all our best writer's as really
English. This was recently done, for
perhaps the thousandeth time, by the
London Publishers Circular" Com
menting of this, the Lounger says:
''The only writer's whom English critics
seem to consider typically American
are Mrs. Gertrude Atherton and Ste
phen Crane They call their books racy
and say they are the sort American au-
thors should write, instead of those
that show cultivation and decent re-
gard for grammar. What have such
barbarians as we to do with litera-
ture? Let us describe American life
as the English believe it to be-then
they will applaud. They would praise
cowboy poets, they abuse Mr.. Lowell
(as the "Athenaeum" did recently, and
they would no doubt pat us on the back
for Blind Tom, While they would let
Mr. MacDowells musical genius go
unnoticed."
The magazine women need is Table
Talk" an acknowledged American au-
thority upon culinary and household
topics The July issue contains de-
scription of Some Pretty Luncheons,
by Mrs Burton Kingsand; gives Sea
sonable Canning and Preserving" as
we'll as other recipes and menus by
an article on Summer Vegetables,
by Miss Cornelia c. Bedford, one on
"Chutneys and Foreign Sauces. by
Mrs. Parker; "A Word Over the Tea
Cups" by Rose Crosby, as we'll as very
full and interesting New Bill of Fare, :"
and "Housekeepers Inquiry depart
ments. Send for a sample copy of this
unique housekeepers guide, which is Of
fered free, to any of our readers who
send their name and address to Table
Talk Publishing Company, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
'Harper's Magazine" for July has
in the rich illustrations these special
features: "Sheridan's Ride" four il
lustrations, by General George A. For
syth, L. S. A; THE Modern American
Mood" by w. D. Howells; The Celeb
rites of the House of Commons" part
=, ten illustrations, by T. p. OConnor
NJ P; white Mans Africa" part II,
Natal" a Colonial Paradise" thirteen
illustrations" by Poultney Bigelow;
The Century's Progress in Physics"
part 1, the 'Imponderables,' by Henry
Smith Williams, M. D.. The Military
Academy as an Element in the System
of National Defense" by Captain
! James Parker, U. S. A.
The number also contains the first
instalment of THE Kentuckians, a ro-
nance, by John Fox, Jr., illustrated by
Smedley; the second installment Of
Frank r. Stockton's latest novel, The
Great Stone of Sardis, The Marian" :"
George Du Maurier's last novel, reaches
its final installment. The short stories
are Miss Eurita F'leason's Relaxa
tion," by e. A. Alexander, Illustrated;
"A Portrait by Cabanel' by Robert c.
V. Meyers, illustrated; and THE Love
of an Ideal,' by Laura Spencer Por-
tor. The poems are Two Sonnets,"
by Helen Hay, and Beneath the Veil"
by Alice Archer Sewall; The Editors
Study is by Charles Dudley Warner;
The Editors Drawer opens with
THE Judges Burglar by Hayden
Carruth.
With the exception of the noted
Worlds Fair number of The Cosmo-
politan" Qrvington, New York;, which
reached a price Of five dollars a copy
of loo ali haI wi ha CT
ed, no stronger number of this maga-
zine has ever been issued than that for
July, 1891 The report of Julian Haw-
thorne, the special Commissioner sent
by The Cosmopolitan to India to in
vestigate the horrors of the plague and
famine, is of an extraordinary charac-
ter, and will open the eyes of the world
to conditions which were scarcely sus-
pected. The same number contains
what is probably the greatest poem of
this quarter of the nineteenth century.
This new rendering of Omar Khay-
yam's Rubaivat, which departs entire
ly from Fitzgerald's, occupies four
pages Amelia Rives reappears as a
story-teller for the first. time since her
marriage with Prince Troubetzkoy. One
of the cleverest stories yet from the
pen of Robert w. Chambers is given.
The remarkable story of the War of
the Martians, by Wells, which is at
tracing the attention both of the scien-
tific and non-scientific good d-story-lov-
ing public, is continued, and there is a
fourth story by a a'Becket, elaborately IL
Illustrated by the humor of Peter Newell
The educational discussion-this time
by Professor Peck of Columbia-the
story Of The Everyday Life of a Sis
ter of Charity elaborately illustrated;
THE Genesis of a Comic OPERA given
by Reginald de Koven; President Gill
man of the Johns Hopkins University,
on THE Bankruptcy of Science" and
an interesting story by the Greek who
conceived and brought into existence
THE Streets Of Cairo at the Worlds
Fair"-these are some of the contents
of this ten-cent magazine.
While three short stories of unusual
merit are distinct feature of the July
Atlantic (Boston). still this issue con-
tains aside from excellent fiction arti-
cles of permanent interest and value
Professor Woodrow Wilson. of Prince
ton University, contributes an article
upon The Making of the Nation" An
other political paper of Importance is
by Z. L. Godkin, on "The Decline of
Legislatures. Following other studies
Of Rural New England, Alvan F. San
born, who has made a speciality of this
subject, writes interestingly of social
conditions in a decaying New England
town. A distinctly literary flavor is
added to the issue by the printing of
hitherto unpublished letters of John
Sterling and Emerson. Edward Waldo