The record-union., 1897-06-07
new PUBLICATIONS.

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Municipal Engineering" 0ndianapo-
lis), the accepted leader in road and
street engineering criticism and news,
including drainage and paving, sew
ering, street cleaning, water works,
etc, it at hand for June It is over
flowing with matter of deep interest to
all who take lively concern in good mu-
nicipal government Some of the lead
ing papers are: '.Softening Agents for
the Production of Asphalt Cement for
Paving and Other Purposes Clifford
Richardson; American Iron Stag Paw
ing" George W. Hayes. C. E.. City En-
gineer, Lebanon, Pa Methods of Ce-
ment Testing-III.,' H w Parkhurst,
Engineer of Bridges Illinois Central
Railroad; Andreas Lundteigen, Chemist
of Western Portland Cement Company;
The Model System of Bookkeeping for
Water Companies; Qualification of
Water" Professor w P. Mason of
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute; 9th
les of the Engineering Profession, -
Charles Carroll Brown, NJ. Am. Soc. G..
E.; California Redwood for Street
Pavements, Ernest Mccullough, C. E.;
''Terre Haute Sewer Plans, New Or
leans Bridge" Sewer Regulation
Cincinnati Water Works. Paving
Street Car Tracks" Sewage Disposal
at Central Falls Sewer Treatment in
Danbury."
The June "Clack Book" Gansing,
Mich) is at hand with these features:
Cover Design" Rob Wagner; anna
Held, ffontispiece, Rob Wagner; THE
Majors Best Room,' David B. Wright;
"a Grain Field" poem, Clinton Scol-
lard; The Scar on the Cheek" Ella
w. Peattie; "A Kodak poem, William
Reed Dunroy; "A Shadow of Dreams .
Anne barrow; 1.-The Ghost of the Bar
rel Organ" Richard Stillman Powell;
Drawing" Clara Cahill Park.
The Review of Reviews" for June
CNew York; is as usual rich in COM
ment, and it is strong and courageous in
criticism, vigorous in statement of con-
ditions and interesting in its variety
and eclectic method. Among the feat
ures are the subjects of the sugar tariff
a sixty years retrospect of the British
Empire, the recent visit to the United
States of M. Brunetiere, the French
| critic; the defective eyesight lately de-
veloped among American children, and
the movement for the pensioning of
school teachers are treated in special
articles. The editorial department en-
titled The Progress of the World"
covers such topics as American inter
vention in Cuba, the relation of Hawaii
to the sugar question, the use of money
in politics by corporations, the enlarged
metropolis of New York, the fate of the
arbitration treaty, European alliances
and the Graeco- Turkish war; the future
of Greece, etc.
The department of Current History
in Caricature'' contains a brief sketch
of Charles Green Bush. the versatile
cartoonist of the New York Herald"
and Evening Telegram who ranks by
common consent as the dean of his pro-
fession in this country. Henry w. La
nier contributes a critical estimate of
The Seasons Output of Fiction -
There is a sketch with portrait) of
Herbert Myrick. the able editor of the
American Agriculturist' Sugar
the American Question of the Day. is
the title of an incisive article by Her
bert Myrick. Mr.. Myrick presents the
farmers reasons for insisting on a
farmers sugar schedule in the Dingley
bill. as opposed to the demands of the
sugar trust.
The Century Magazine" CNew York;
is richly illustrated for June. Among
leading attractions Of the number are:
Queen Victoria's Coronation Roll"
Florence Hayward; The Last Fight"
l.. Frank Tooker; THE Shaw Memorial
and the Sculptor ST. Gaudens": THE
History of the Monument Edward At
kinson; The Sculptor ST. Gaudens,"
William A. Coffin; "Colored Troops I'm
der Fire" T. w. Higginson; Cam
paigning With Grant," Horace Porter;
when the Glover Blooms Again."
Charles G.. d. Roberts; Heroes of
Peace - Heroism in the Lighthouse
Service" Gustave Kobbe; ''The Days OF
Jeanne dare" Mary Hartwell Gather
wood; How Food is Used in the Body"
W. o. Atwater; Home Life Among the
Indians" Qecords of personal expert
ence), Alice c. Fletcher; Hugh Wtnne,
Free Quaker" S. Weir Mitchell; How
Sarah Paid for Peace Margaret SUIT
ton Briscoe: "a Great Modern Observ-
atory (Harvard'S astronomical work.,
Mabel LOOMS Todd; 60 How Riddle of
the Parthenon Was Unraveled," Eu-
gene p. Andrews; Queen Victoria"
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard