The record-union., 1897-04-26

In his article on the principles OIL
Taxation in "Appleton's Popular Sci
ence Monthly" for May (New York; the
Hon. David A. Wells traverses the
right of Government to stimulate spe-
cial industries by means of bounles,
and discusses the limitation OF the
mower of taxation to articles exclusive
ly within the territorial jurisdiction or
the taxing power, and uniformity of
rate as to all subjects of immediate
competition. Professor w. II. Ripley
discusses the stature of the populations
of Europe as related to race anu other
factors. and presents maps showing the
precise locations of communities Oh long
and short people The history of the
bubonic plague is told and It's nature
described by Professor Victor c.
Vaughan, of the University OF Mlchl-
gan. is there danger of the plague
being imported to this country? Yes
Professor Victor c. Vaughan answers,
there is danger, but this, being fore
seen, may be easily avoided" In the
growing preponderance of the scientific
work of the Government bureaus and
the great universities there is danger
that the more modest but hardly less
important studies of our local societies
may be overlooked. To secure recogni-
tion for their efforts is the object of
series of illustrated papers to be pub
lished in the Monthly by Professor
Frederick Starr. The first, in the May
number, relates to the Davenport Aca
DENY of Science. Korean customs are
peculiar, and some of them are very
curious. Some of the most peculiar of
them are described in Korean Inter
views" by Professor E. S. Morse, who
obtained his accounts by questioning
Koreans in official position.
THE Magazine of Art" for May CThe
CasseH Publishing Company New York
and London) has these features: The
Harvest Moon''-original lithograph by
George Clausen, A. r. A; Original
Lithography: the Present Revival in
England" by NJ. H. Spielmann, with
eight Illustrations The Wallace Col
lection. I. The Objects of Art by the
editor, with twelve Illustrations: AT
the Sign of the Dial: Mr.. Ricketts, as a
Book-Builder." by Gleeson White, with
eleven illustrations; The Wanderings
of the Tamar," by Annie Groser Hurd,
with six Illustrations; THE Collection of
W. Cuthbert Quilter NJ. P.-IV. The
Deceased English Masters: Low Coun
try Painters" by F. 6. Stephens, with
six Illustrations; THE King Renes
Honeymoon Cabinet" by John P. Sed-
den. with an illustration; The Art
Movement: Applied and Decorative Art
in Germany" by Paul Schultze-Naum
berg, with nineteen Illustrations: Art
in Tnc
tute and the Scottish Academy" with
four illustrations: "A Hospital Decora-
ton" with an illustration by W. Gra-
ham Robertson; "Opaline Glass" with
an Illustration; Notes and Queries"
with an Illustration; Chronicle of Art"
with eleven illustrations.
"Macmillan's Magazine" for April
(Macmillan & Co, London and New
York; has these papers: The Prince of
Wales Hospital Fund" by c. S. Loeb;
"A Leaf From the Journals of Land
scape Painter" by Edward Lear; I'm
written Books; 1.-The Black Dog; a
Tale of the Tay"; The Remaking of the
Army" by Stevinus; The Famine in
India" by Colonel Trevor. c. S. I. Gate
Agent to the Governor-General in Raj
putana).
The Quarterly Journal of Economics"
for April published for Harvard Uni
versity by George H. Ellis. Boston, has
these papers: The Safety of the Legal
Tender Paper Charles F. Dunbar;
THE Birth-Rate in Massachusetts,.
1S50-90," F. S. Crum; "Co-Operative
Stores in the United States Edward
Cummings: The Steadily Approaching
Standard c. NJ. Walsh: The Taxation
of Sugar in the United States, 1889
1851 Charles S. Griffin; The Differ
ent Meanings of Cost" Arthur Twin =
ing Hadley; California and the Direct
Tax of 1861" Bernard Moses; recent
publications upon economies.
Modern Methods in Church Work
The Renaissance" by Rev. George
Whitfield Mead, with an introduction
by Rev. Charles L. Thompson. d. D, is
volume from the press of Dodd. Mead