The record-union., 1897-03-07

and There's a Bare" ''As Talked in
the Sanctum,'' by the editor; THE
White Rajah of Borneo.' Rounsevelle
Wildman; THE District Irrigation
Movement in California John E. Ben
nett THE Wooing of the Senorita." Nj.
Austin; "A Lost Song" Maude Sutton;
In Exile" Marion Hill; Exploring in
Northern Jungles. ii. The Central
Crags of Vancouver" W. w. Bolton
and J. w Laing; Municipal Govern
ment of San Francisco, IL j. II. Stall
lard Under the Headin' of Thruth.
VII-Mr Cusack Tells Bear Stories. ."
Batterman Lindsay; THE Society of
California Pioneers. H." Willard B..
Farwell; THE Haliotis She'll" Warren
| Truitt DIED for Discipline" Frank
Elliott Myers, picture by Edgren; The
Light that Came 10 Gregorio," Kathryn
Jarboe, pictures by Dixon; "a Hello
graphic Trip" Charles j. Evans, illus
trated from drawings by Boeringer and
from photos; Sister Cordelia's Sunday
Race Peter Studley; Philosophy and
| Romance in Farming" j. NJ. Eddy.
The Bookman" the illustrated liter
airy journal Dodd, Mead & Co., New
York; has these papers in it's contents
for March: Chronicle and Comment,
American, English, Miscellaneous
with portraits and autographs of Olive
Schreiner, John Oliver Hobbies" Chas.
c. D. Roberts, silhouette of Lord By
ron and four authentic portraits of
Byron; reproduction of menu card
with autographs; fac-simile of letter
from Browning, and one from Ruskin
on Emerson; American Bookmen. II.
James Fenimore Cooper" seven illus
trations. NJ. A. De Wolfe Howe; Living
Continental Critics. l. Ferdinand Bru-
netiere," portrait, Adolphe Conn;
| Baron Jerome Pichon and His Life of
Count Hoym," with portrait, Robert
| Hoe; How to Write a Short Story" q
symposium, Robert Barr. Harold Fred
eric, Arthur Morrison and Jane Barlow;
I'm Kedars Tents" a novel, chapters l.,
II. and Ill, Henry Seton Merriman;
London Letter. w. Robertson Nicoll;
Paris Letter" Alfred Maniere; The
Bookman's Letter Box; The Works of
Lord Byron" edited by w. E. Henley,
Relation of Literature to Life The
Babylonian Talmud,'' THE Sense of
Beauty" THE Wizard" " "A History of
Life in the United States" the begin
ners of nation), Mathis" Sister
Jane" Sonny Solomon Crows
Christmas Pockets" Stories of Sane
titled Town." The Real Issue" Meg
lMcIntyre's Rattle" Fellow Travellers y
"Phroso," THE Country of the Pointed
Firs," THE Scarlet Coat" THE Pup
pet" The Puritan in England and New
England" The Colonial Parson of New
tr-..
Songs and Part Songs" The Child, the
Wise Man and the Devil "On the Trail
of Don Quixote," Make Believe" The
Flower Seller and Other Poems" Book
man Brevities, Among the Libraries. -
George H. Baker.
The North American Review New
| York; has this table of contents for
| March: THE Famine in India" by Sir
| Edwin Arnold; Prison Labor" Car
roll d. Wright, United States Commits
sioner Of Labor; The. History of a
POEM Edmund Gosse; How to Re-
| form Business Corporations, V. H.
Lockwood; The French Navy" by NJ
Georges Clemenceau; Drink and
| Drunkenness in London" a London
Police Magistrate; The Railway Prob
lem: 1. The Legislative Solution"
The Hon. Lloyd Bryce; =. "a Mercan
tile View" James j. Wait; I'm Defence
of Kansas The Hon. Edwin Taylor
| Kansas State Senate; Works of the
Imagination in the Old Testament" by
| Prof. c. A. Briggs, D. D.; When Con-
| gress Should Convene" The Hon j. f
Shafroth; The Question of Ships"
| Winthrop l.. Marvin; Amenities of
Philology," Prof E. w Bowen; "Objec-
| tions to a Children's Curfew," Wini-
fred Buck.
The Engineering Magazine" (New
| York;, gives the place of honor in the
| March issue to a review of The Finan-
| cial Measures Needful to Industrial
| Stability" by Hon. James H Eckels
| the Comptroller of the Currency Mr.
Eckels' treatment is impressive by it's
| force and clearneSS. Not all the de-
| preston in business can be charged to
| a defective system of national finance;
| extravaganza, and other causes for
| which the people alone are to blame
| are largely responsible; but the time is
| opportune for such action as will les
sen the liability of a return of our bit
| ter experience, while not itself Great
| ing a law made period of prosperity
ending in disaster" Measures should
| be passed to provide for the redemption
| of the greenbacks. for the modification
! of the sub-treasury system. and for the
enlargement of the powers and func-
| tionS of the banks so that they and
| not the Government, may properly be
made responsible for the issuance of
| currency and its redemDtiOn in gold
| Until the people realize that the pros
perity of the banks but reflects the
prosperity of the community, trade
and commerce must suffer, labor be
denied employment, and prosperity Ian
| guish." Geo. II. Paine makes a telling
| exposition of Mistakes and Improve
ments in Railroad Construction" con-
| trasting past recklessness with present
sounder wisdom. a. A. Cary in THE
Cure for Corrosion and Scale from
| Boiler Waters gathers for the first
| time, in satisfying and complete form,
this information indispensable to every
steam j. d. Garrison, presents
startling facts in an illustrated article
! on The Gold Fields of the Porce River
| Colombia Another finely illustrated
paper is by ]. w. Howard, on The
Positive Value of Quiet and Beautiful
| Streets Charles H. Davis has
striking analysis of Comparative
Economy in Electric Railway Opera
ton There are four other leading
articles, and the usual thorough review
and index of the engineering press.
|
/ The March number of the Arena"
/ (Boston) is the initial issue of the mag