The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-18
Blackburn Harte, in the end pages de-
voted to within and fancy.

Blackburn Harte, in the end pages de-
voted to within and fancy.
The Supreme Court is accounted the
bulwark of our institutions, and there
were not lacking those who in the re-
cent campaign dreaded the success Of
the free silver movement, yet consoled
themselves that the Supreme Court
might eventually overthrow a law es-
tablishing it. To those thus minded
Professor C. G. Tiedeman's pamphlet,
Silver Free Coinage and the Legal
Tender Decisions, publications of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science, No. 1874, Philadelphia, 10
cents), offers much encouragement. A
review of the legal tender decisions and
the recent tendencies of the court con-
vinces the author that a free coinage
measure upon review. by that body
would be declared incompatible with
the Constitution of the United States.
The argument is ingenious and if not
altogether conclusive brings strong rea-
soning in support of its position. If
in the heat Of the campaign such con-
siderations did not obtain wide at
tention, they are none the less of the
highest significance.
"Harper's Weekly for April 18th has
much to say of the Greater New
York, considered as a center of popu-
lation, energy and capital so great a
city that it may become a separate
State. There are numerous illustra-
TONS, showing, among features of the
city, aspects of Broadway, the Hebrew
quarter, the Washington Bridge. High
Bridge, Prospect Park, the Washington
Arch, the University of the City of New
York, the Shore Road Brooklyn),
Bronx Park, the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art, the Battery, Morningside
flights, Chelsea, Greenwich and Cen
trail Park.
THE Living Age" Boston) for April
10th is an unusually voluminous num-
Der of the Oldest and best eclectic mag
azine in the world. Some of the feat
ures of the number are: In Kedar's
Tents" by Henry Seton Memiman,
chaps. III. and "; Literary Recoliec-
tions," by F. Max Muller "Cosmopo-
lis; THE Cretan Question by Fran
els de Pressense, Nineteenth Centu-
~ VIZ Centuries National
uments," by E. T. Murray Smith,
"Cornhill Magazine; Life in a French
Commune, by Robert Donald, Con
temporary Review 'Rab Vinch's
Wife, 'Blackwood's Magazine; Hid
den Dangers of Cycling" a reply, by
Sir Frederick Pollock, National Re-
View; "A Nineteenth Century Craft
gild," by L. NJ. Roberts, ''Longman's
Magazine; Castelar, on the Death of
Maceo," translated for THE Living
Age" La Espana Moderna''; wait
ing" Spectator; THE Other Grace"
by Jane H. Ffndlater, National Re
view. Readings from American Mag
azines and readings from new books:
Squirrel Folk" Motor Carriages"
Mark Twain the Typical American"
THE Children of Louis XIV The
Gift to Domsie," "Diaz the Man. The
First Bluebird,' THE Fran in the Ice,"
by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen; Hawthorne
With His Children" by Rose Haw-
thorne Lathrop; American Social
Functions, from America and the
Americans; some recent verse
The May number of "Harper's Mag
azine" will consist of a variety of in
teresting contributions. There will be
an article on Cross Country Riding"
by Caspar Whitney, with illustrations
by c. D. Gibson, reviewing the history
in this country of one of the most in
teresting forms of sport. George w.
Smalley, who for so many years acted
as London correspondent for the New
York Tribune" and has an intimate
contribute a paper on English Coun-
try-house Life Dr. Henry Smith
Williams will discuss the Geological
Progress of the Century; and in The
Hundred Years Campaign Professor
Francis n. Thorpe will present a study
of American political history. The new
installment of The Marian" by
George du Maurier, will be accompa-
MED by characteristic illustrations by
the author
THE Hesperian," a Western quarter
| ly magazine est. Louis, is at hand for
/ May-July with these leading features:
"A Peep at Havana" Glustrated),
Memorial Morn Burroughs on
Whitman Current Literary His
tory" Two Books on Literature, The
Literary Wayside." The Hesperian"
Il a magazine distinguished by brew
ity thous htfulness and the presenta-
ton of matter full of valuable informa-
ton, together with criticisms that are
fair, cool and judicial in character.
Lieutenant General John NJ. Scho-
field will contribute to the Century"
for May a chapter of secret history en-
titled The Withdrawal of the French
From Mexico 1t was intended by the
United States Government that Cen
eral Schofeld should take charge of
Nolunteer troops TO drive the French
cut of Mexico but afterward he was
sent on a confidential mission to Paris
TO induce Emperor Napoleon to order
a peaceful withdrawal. General Scho-
field will give a hitherto unpublished
| letter from General Grant to General
Sherman, then in command of the Mil
! itary Division of the Gulf, showing to
what extremes the Government was
willing to go to accomplish it's pur-
| pose In a supplementary article, Mr..
Romero. the Mexican Minister to the
| United States, will give his view of the
relation between the withdrawal of the
French and the fall of the Second EN-
pire.
Does Modern College Education Ed
ucate, in the Broadcast and Most Liberal
Sense of the Term?" is one of the most
important inquiries that could be set
on foot This discussion, which is to
be taken part in by President Gilman