The record-union., 1897-01-10

| called the DdiIy SldnudrU, ana VIII
be run in connection with the highly
successful weekly of that name. Among
other features, it will contain letters
from all over the country. Leander
Richardson will be the principal writer
on stage events, and is now organizing
| the force of correspondents.
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Modern Literature and the Pulpit"
the leading article in The Critic" New
| York; of January I'd, is brief but sug-
gestive essay on the Rev. Stopford
Broke's new book, THE Old Testament
and Modern Times" by Gerald Stanley
Lee, author of THE Shadow Christ"
| Mr. Howell's Impressions and Opin-
IONS" Miss Thompson's new poems. DR..
Eggleston's Beginners of a Nation"
| and Augustus j. c. Hare's STORY of
My Life" are amongst the many books
| reviewed. There is a portrait of A +.
Jaccaci by the great Spanish draughts-
man Vierge; a letter from Mr.. Lang
poem by Richard Burton. and a repro
duction of THE Stone Man of Sorrows
an extraordinary natural medallion
picked up near OberaInrnergau. With
| this number THE Critic" begins its
| seventeenth year.
The American Journal of Sociology
for January university of Chicago
| Press) has these papers: THE Smoky
| Pilgrims QlluStrated), a notable paper
that should be widely read, by F. w.
| Blackmar; AN American System Of
Labor Pensions and Insurance, Paul
Monroe; Eccentric Official Statistics"
II. p. Bliss: Social Genesis" Lester F.
A a
Alsworth Ross; The Present Status of
Sociology in Germany" o. Thon; "Prin
ciples of Public Charity and of Private
Philanthrophy." E. Muensterberg.
|
| The Review of Reviews" for January
| New York; has besides its regular de-
partments, reviews, criticisms and ex
| tracts from current literature. many
special features. notably these: A brief
article by Theodore Roosevelt entitled.
How Not to Better Social Conditions
an account of the connection of Mr..
kohlsaat of Chicago with the making
of the Republican platform at St. Louis.
| written by Walter Wellman; Some
| Practical Suggestions from Students of
Finance" on the duty of Congress in
the present emergency contributed by
well-known university professors from
Massachusetts, to California: Some
Regulations in the Crucible of 1896"
| by w. I. Stead; "A Typical English
man." as a patron of athletic sports. by
Baron de Coubertin: Voice Photogra-
ply and Rational Voice Production" by
Laura c. Dennis. and an account of the
new Mills lodging houses in New York
City.
The editorials in the department en-
| titled The Progress OF the World" deal
with all the important events of the
past month at home and abroad, and
particularly with the Cuban and Turk
ish situations
The Midland Monthly" for January
| (Des MoineS, Iowa) is very profusely IL
! lustrated, and is we'll filled with choice
| original matter. A leading paper is on
Mark Hanna and his family, and an
other is ''Rosetti," with drawings and
portraits by the artist-poet himself An
| interesting article is The Truth About
Ben Bolt and Its Author" and still an
other is of Grants life in the West and
his Mississippi Valley campaigns.
| There are stories, poems, reviews and
| criticisms.
''Harpers Weekly for January I'd
CNew York; presented the first chap
ter of the new serial, "Jerome-a Poor
Man." by Mary 4. wilkins 1t has
many illustrations of scenes in the
Philippine Islands, a view of the Hol-
land submarine torpedo boat in action:
views in the grounds of the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition: critical editori-
cleaning and sprinkling; literary mat
ter in variety and other interesting
features.
''Sothron's Magazine" for January
Philadelphia) has several grotesque il
Illustrations and some of gravity. Its
contents embrace a poem by May E.
Lowthorp and twelve short stories by
writer's of ability. 1t is a charming
cheap magazine, of much higher val
ue, however, than its low price would
seem to Indicate
The holiday number of "The Chalk
Book" Nansing, Mich.,) is vividly and
quantity illustrated, and has an artistic
colored supplement. There are many
pages more than in former numbers,
and with poems, scholarly criticisms.
new poster designs, short stories, and
excellent ones, by the way, it is one of
the most striking of the low-priced
magazines of the day.
The Black Cat" for January (Short
Story Publishing Company, Boston, has
these stories: The Purloining of Ruth
Allen Elizabeth Flint Wade; "The
Scoop of the Scarlet Tanager," Edward
B. Clark; THE Honeymoon at Candle
stand Mountain" Grace MacGowan
Cook; ''The Man Without a Name"
Frances NJ. Butler; Denny" Lands
Mills
In 'Harper's Bazar," published on
January 9th, there is an article by Mrs.
t. P. O'Connor of London on ELLEN
Terry's Gowns and the Woman Who
Makes Them; also a paper on House
keeping in England and the Cost Of
Living There" The serial publication
of "Lochinvar," a story by S r.
Crockett, with illustrations by T. de
Thulstrup, is begun in the same num-
Der of the "Bazar.''
The Musical Courier" (New York; for
December Both had a fine full page
portrait of George Liebling the emil
nent Berlin pianist; a grotesQue and
satirical colored supplement, much
news, music text, criticism and report,
and foreign and home correspondence.
1T was indeed a model of music news
and critical music journalism.