The record-union., 1897-07-04

the pictorial features in the same num-
ber of the Weekly are a double-page
| drawing, by Zogbaum, of the reading
of the Declaration of Independence to
| the American troops on the New York
Common, on July 19, 1179, and an Illus
| tration of the celebration of Veterans
Day at the Tennessee Centennial Ex-
| hibiton.
| The Century Magazine (New York;,
richly illustrated has these features for
July: 'Garrick and His Wife" frontis-
piece; William Hogarth'' (Old English
Masters-Cole's new series), John c.
| Van Dyke, with three engravings;
| Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" S. Weir
Mitchell; Play in London" CThe Gar
DEM Elizabeth Robins Pennell; Cam
paigning With Grant" (Winter Cam
paigns), Horace Porter; After Big
Game in Africa and India" H. w. Sc
ton-karr; Hunting the Jaguar in
Venezuela" William Willard Howard;
! Sports in the Seventeenth Century"
W. A. Baillie-Grohman; ''An Argo-
naut, Marie Frances Upton; Inherit
ance," Mary Thacher Higginson; Such
Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of" Thomas
| w. Higginson; The Days of Jeanne
| dare" QV), Mary Hartwell Gather
wood; "Romola" (The ''Century's"
American Artists Series), painted by
| Sarah G. Sears; THE Churches of
Poitiers and Caen," Mrs. Schuyler Van
| Rensselaer,, with pictures; i Have
called Thee Many q Night" Louise
| Chandler Moulton; THE Defense by
Resurrection with picture, Maurice
| Thompson; up the Matterhorn in a
! Boat" Cd, with pictures, Marion Man
| Vile Pope; Before a Closed Door"
John Bennett; IAN American Citizen"
| (the late Henry L. PIERCE, t. 7. Mum
ger; AT Rest" Martha Gilbert Dick
inson; Are the Bosses Stronger Than
the People?" Joseph E. Bishop; The
| Sunrise of the Poor" Robert Burns
| Wilson; Dangers and Benefits of the
| Bicycle" A. L. Benedict, NJ. D.; How
Napoleon Impressed Foe at ST. He
| lena," a letter from Sir George Cock
| burn; General Grants Veto of the In
f1ation Bill" II. General Grants Ci-
gar OBJ; THE Social Menace of
Specialism.' Arthur Reed Kimball;
| The Century's" American Artists Sc
ries: Sarah C. Sears" w. Lewis
Fraser; Mis- Dances Buryin'," Flor
| ence Hayward; Rapid Transit Real
| lied" Charles Battell LOOMS; THE
| Watcher" Theodore Roberts; why
Sammy Left the Farm" with pictures
by Frank Verbeck, Albert Bigelow
Paine.
From the White City Ad. Company
| Chicago, we hear of The Art Idols of
| a oil hpT
! of this high class quarterly periodical
each part containing six large pictures
| of female nude figures which have
been exhibited at the Paris Salon, has
been issued, bearing date of July 1897
The pictures of this issue include:
| THE Sculptors Studio,'' representing
model and the clay figure side by
side, with the sculptor putting the fin
ishing touches on the latter. Apple
Blossoms" representing a finely
| formed woman under an apple tree in
the full bloom of early spring. The
| Interrupted Sitting showing
sprightly model, with a shawl hastily
thrown about her. hiding only part of
her figure. Sleep a nude figure re-
posing behind a wealth of delicate
drapery. "Parquerette," representing
| nude young girl lying on her back
amid a wealth of parquerettes MAR
guerites), preparing to count off the
leaves with He loves, he loves me
not" etc. Virgin Love-" an exceed
ingly graceful figure scarcely passed
! sweet sixteen" represented as hav-
ing just been touched by the wand of
| Cupid. The first named picture is by
| the world-renowned Gerome, and the
! others by the lesser known but quite
as virile painters of the younger school.
The text is by the editor, Earl Marble,
the well-knOwn art critic, who de-
| scribeS the last mentioned picture in
| a dainty poem.
The perfection of the printers art
is manifest in this elegant publication.
From an artistic standpoint this work
is abreast with the higher achieve
ments of the age in transferring from
canvas to printed page the efforts of
light and shade under the hands of
skill and genius. A collection of these
beautiful works constitute in them
selves an art library.
The Review of Reviews" for July
(New York; is profusely and wisely il
lustrated and exhaustive in news and
review of the progress of the world
and the chief political activities of the
day. In portraiture the number is no.
tably speaking. Among the special
papers and features are Baxter's re-
view of Bellamys book of the new
democracy; character sketch of Seth
Low by Edward Carey; Higher Deaf
Mute Education in America" by Gen
eral Greedy; The Revival of the
French Universities" by the Baron
Prerrede Coubertin; the Current His
tory in Cartoons; Record of Current
Events" and leading articles of the
month in the foremost magazines and
reviews, and the editors Progress of
the World" are notably full and in
teresting departments.
The Arena for July (Boston) is va
ried, full, crisp and vigorous. It's lead
ing features are: 1.-The Citadel of the
Money Power" by Henry Clews and
John Clark Ridpath; Does Credit Act
on Prices?" by A. j. Utley; French
and American Constitutions Compared"
by Niels Grou; Honest Money a
symposium, by w. J. Bryan, NJ w
Howard, Wharton Barker, Arthur I.
Fonda and A. J. Warner; Natural Sc
lection, Social Selection and Heredity."
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