The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-20

professional men and women of Eng
land and America, either resident in
England or visiting there. The pros
and cons of the question are consid-
cred from all points of view. Among
those who approve of Sir Walter Be
SAINTS proposition are Professor Eliot
of Harvard, Colonel T. W. Higginson,
Frederick R. Coudert, Henry George,
Theodore Thomas, the sculptor D. c.
French, Dr. Weir Mitchell. Henry B.
Fuller, DR.. c. H. Parkhurst, John
Vance Cheney, Stanford White, D. H.
Burnham. the Chicago architect, and
w. NJ r. French, Director of the Chi
cago Art Institute. Those who look
upon it with less favor are Chauncey
NJ. Depew, Theodore Roosevelt, Hamlin
Garland, Lillian Bell, Brander Mat
thaws and Charles Dudley Warner.
"Harper's Weekly for June 10Th
contains an elaborate description of the
new American navy by Lieutenant
Commander j. d. Jerrold Kelley, Unit
ed States Navy. accompanied by an ex-
tensive Illustration giving a view of
all the ships Other features of par
the celebration at the Tennessee Cen
tennial Exposition of Ohio Day, and the
visit Of President Mckinley, and an ar
ticle by Thomas Robinson Dawley, Jr.,
the "Weekly's' special correspondent in
Cuba, on Cuban Food Supply and the
Government Workshops of the Insur-
gents"
1.-The History of Currency" by w. A.
Shaw the third edition of which was
recently published by G. P. Putnam's
Sons CNew York;, has been translated
into French by NJ. Raffalovich, and is
to be issued in Paris by Guillauman.
The favorable reception which this
work has met with at the hands OF
students of political economy, in Eu-
rope and America, has led to its trans
lation into Japanese by Professor }.
3hinobu, Principal ofsthe Kurume Com
lnercial College in Fuknoka-Ken (kiu-
Ghiu).
The Public Libraries Division of the
University of the State of New York
has recently published very interest
ing list entitled THE Best Fifty Books
of 1896" 1t is not given as the opln-
ion of any one man, but list of near
iy 800 of the leading books of 1896 was
recently submitted, to the librarians
Of the State and others to obtain an
expression of opinion respecting the
best fifty books of 1896 to be added to
a village library" From the 200 lists
a final choice is indicated. 1t is no
ticeable that the book which received
next TO the highest number of votes is
Mrs. Humphrey Wards Sir George
Tressady'' published by The Macmillan
Company. A considerable list of 9TH
tr books is also given, which, though
not entitled to be included in the nifty,
| received many votes from the contn-
butors to the list.
New Occasions for June (Chas.
II Kerr & Co, Chicago, edited by D.
O. Flower and Frederick Apham
Adams has these features: b. q.
Flower and the New Time "A Bond
ed World" 1--WE Are to be Educated;
THE Terrible Referendum Relic of
Rarbarism;" why Was It?' "A Cor
rected School History of the United
States" by Frederick Upham Adams;
"a Thrilling Passage in History-The
Siege of Leyden," by B. O. Flower;
Shall We Have New Party?" by
CONGRESSMAN James Gum; "Intermedi-
ate Cooperative Associations" by
Charles O. Boring; How to do Bust
ness Without Money" by Charles H.
Kerr; Spirits of '76, viii, ix,' by Fred
erick UpI1am Adams; Socialism, Cor
respondence, Humor," William Morris.
1.-THE kindergarten News Spring
field Mass.) for June has a large num-
Ter of very interesting and valuable
papers, chief among which are kin
dergarten and Higher Education" by
Nina c. Vandewalker; Spirit of the
kindergarten" by Harriet L. Coolidge;
1.-The Greater Kindergarten" by Pat
terson Dubois; Are the Occupations
Superior to the Games?" by Mrs. j. B.
Wylie The departments are very full
ly supplied and the number of articles
and communications great
Harper & Brothers published on June
18th the new volume of "A History of
Our Own Times" which Justin McCar-
by has brought down from 1880 to the
Diamond Jubilee, making the third vol
ume in the complete work; Georgia
Scenes which won great popularity
when first brought out in 1910, and on
its republication in "Harper'S Franklin
Square Library"
Intelligence" for June (New York;,
is at hand from the Metaphysical Pub
fishing Company, SOB Fifth avenue. 1t
is the first number of the sixth volume
under the editorial direction of Lean
der Z Whipple. The leading papers
are Man and Nature" c. Standard
Wake; Modern Astrology," Alan Leo;
Philosophy of the Divine Man ID"
| Hudor Genone; "Mazdaism and Being,