The record-union., 1897-09-05

ture about the September Century
(New York;. What Stopped the
Ship" H. Phelps Whitmarsh, is a story
setting forth a mid-ocean mystery.
tale of peril in Alaska, called AN Ad-
venture With Dog and a Glacier" is
by John Muir. Prisoners of State at
Boro Boedor" is an illustrated article
on the experiences of two ladies in an
out-of-the-wayr region in Java, by Miss
E. r. Scidmore. There is another in
stallment of the extravaganza by Mrs.
Marion Manville Pope, up the Matter
horn in a Boat" Cruelty in the Free
Congo State" with striking photo
graphs and notes of travel, made by the
late L. ]. Glave. Adventuresome are
the s5rials Hugh Wynne," DR.. Weir
Mitchells American novel, and 1.-The
Days of Jeanne dare" Mrs. Gather
woods study of the maid of Orleans.
brow ning's Summers in Brittany" by
Mrs. A. NJ. Mosher, is an Illustrated pa
per of travel. The variety is further
increased by "Glimpses of Gladstone,
by Harry Furniss. "A New Note in
American Sculpture" by Arthur Hoe
Der. The next to the last installment
of General Porter's Campaigning With
Grant" and a knowing article by the
Baron Pierre de Coubertin on Royal
lists and Republicans of France" There
is an editorial article on Good Men
and Fad City Government" a note by
the editor on Glave's last letter and his
death.
"Appleton's Popular Science Month
ly'' edited by w J. Youmans, and
/ MI hlfClaA Inv q,
York; is at hand with these valuable
papers: Spanish Experiments in
Coinage" by Henry Charles Lea; THE
Hawks of New England" William E.
Cram Gllustrated); Principles of Tax
alton. X" Hon. David A. Wells; THE
Racial Geography of Europe, VIII, the
Basques," Professor William z. Ripley
Gllustrated); objects and Results of
Polar Research" Georg Gerland The
Giant Cactus" Professor James w.
Tourney; Eskimo Bows and Arrows"
John Murdoch when Character is
Formed" Professor NJ. V. O'Shea illus
tratedJ; THE Scope of Botany" George
j. Pierce, Phi. D.; Alchemy Redivivus."
Alexander E. Outerbridge, Jr.; The
Forces in an Air Bubble" NJ. G. Van
der Mensbrugghe; THE Discovery of
the Sun Spots" NJ. A. Lancaster:
Fourteenth Century Doctors NJ E.
Nicaise: Sketch of Samuel Lockwood"
w. S. Snyder with portraiD; the de-
partment store; a woman on suffrage;
the dictum of a philosopher; scientific
literature and fragments of science.
Julien Gordon Mrs Van Rensselaer,
Cruger) has used for her last novel
study of New York, Newport and Bos-
ton life, which promises to be read with
wide interest by all who are interested
in American fashionable life. No one
knows the society of these three CEN
terS of fashion better than Mrs. Cru
ger. From her girlhood up she has had
every opportunity to observe, and We
have had no American woman of more
brilliant powers, not only of reading the
human heart, but of putting her i'm
pressions in delightful fashion. A
charmingly fresh Massachusetts girl is
sacrificed in her youth to the ambition
of a rich marriage" Deprived of love.
she throws herself into the race for So
cial leadership, and we follow for TWEEN
ty years, with ever-increasing interest,
the career of this beautiful and able
woman as she captures outpost after
outpost, falling in Boston only to
change her base of operations to Eng
land. and then attacking the main
works of the enemy at New York. and
so on TO Newport, and finally beholds
the capitulation of Boston itself The
first chapters open in the September
Cosmopolitan" (New York; which is
richly illustrated and has papers on
Catherine de Medici" Real India"
The War of Worlds art in Dress"
Photographic Art" "a New Univer-
sity." and on music halls and popular
singers.