The record-union., 1898-04-11

The "Rookman" (Dcdd, Mead & Co,
New York; for April, besides the reg
uIar departments, has these ieadlhS
features: Chronicle and Comment
American. English, Miscellaneous,
with portraits: poetry" Spring-Tlde III
the South" by William Hamilton
Hayne: The Return" by Francis
Sherman: The Audience" "a Reply,
by Francis Churchill Williams; MI
Israel Zangwill.'' an interview, with
portrait from a pastel by Miss Amy
Stewart" by IsidoTe Harris; Tenny-
son and Musset once More, with por-
trait. by W. P. Trent; What Is Good
English?" by Harry Thurston Peck;
"Kipline's View of Americans by
George Harley Mcknight; "Contem-
porary German Literature" Q.-'MaX
Halbe's Mother Earth'O, by kuno
Francke; Spanish John vs. Mr.. Viii
lam McLennan," by William McLen-
nan; John Splendid Ga noveD, by Neil
Munro; Paris Letter by Alfred Mall
iere; Among the Libraries" by George
II. Baker; The Book Hunter, By Il.
S. Livingston.
The April number of the Journal of
Medical Hypnotism" Chicago con-
tains among a number of interesting
leading articles. translations from the
"Revue del Hypnotism" and Revue
de Psyschologie" of Paris. The arti-
cles are by Dr. Liebeault, founder OF
the Nancy School of Hypnotism,
France; and Or. Paul Hartenburg, a
weu-known French psychologist.
Touching the power of the operator to
stop pain in a hypnotiZed person. the
opinion is advanced by the editor that
the power to inhibit pain is a natural
human endowment, which might be
cultivated to such a degree that the
human being could at any time render
his body impervious to painful sensa-
tions.
"Godey's Magazine" for April (New
York;, richly illustrated and with n
long table of contents, has these lead
ing features: ''Velasquez at His Work, .
Mary E. J. Kelley; Genus Carex,"
Charles Francis Saunders; How the
Century Plant Got It's Name Mary
Z. Murcey; "Triumphs in Amateur
Photography (VD, Marmaduke Hum
phrey: Church and Church Boats Of
Dalecarlia" Lillian Sparrendahl Gore;
THE New England Primer" Elizabeth
Graves Neel; American Concert Sing
ers," Rupert Hughes: The Army Med
ical Library and Museum" Joanna r.
Nichols Kyle; Postage Stamp Collect
ing" Charles =. Jenney; The Wives
of Great Men" Minna c. Hale: ''Dia =
mOnd Talk" George Ethelbert Walsh
The fiction is rs follows: "A Field Of
Poppes" Martha McCulloch-Wil Williams;
THE Four Co-Kings of Hofbraun-
stein" Henry E. Harris: The Death
Beautiful" Edwin Lefevre; Charity
Up to Date" Sydney Sharp; The Clint
Of the Gold" Edwin L. Sabin; "Aprils
Lady" Martha Young; The Justice Of
Colomare," Jeanie Peet; Under the
Shadow" Frederick Schwed.
The metropolitan Magazine" for
April CNew York; is beautifully illu-
minated with fine pictures and has
these papers, among others: "The Art
of Irving r. Wiles," Theodore Dreis-
ser: - Domesticated Oriental" Ralph
E Bicknell; Paul Jobert, Official Ma
rine Painter of France" NJ. Vaughan
Wilde; Artificial Ice Making" J. l..
Warren; THE Manhattan Chess Club -
w f. Morse; ''Notables of the Month; ;
''Alice Barber Stephens" w. B. Crane;
Helena Modjeska and Camille DAT
vile" Adelaide Louise Samson; Re
cent Work of earle ]. Blenner" Jane
Marlin; Scientific Hybrids, Allan G..
Lawton Billiards as a Fine Art. >"
Ora c. Morningstar; "Amalia Kussner,
the Miniaturist of Royalty and Socie-
ty," Margaret Reynolds; stage of the
Month" Leander Richardson. Fiction
sticks" Alexander Mackenzie; 1.-The
Inspiration" Maurice Montegut." and
His Eyes" Marcel Provost.
Golfers Weekly" for March 26th
CNew York; has a mass of naval infor-
nation, verbally and pictorially. A full
page is given to views of the Terror,
which is the type of all of our war ves-
sells of the newer monitor class, and a
page to scenes in League Island navy
yard, where the twin fliers," Columbia
and Minneapolis" the ram Katahdin.
and the monitor Miantonomoh have been
prepared for sea. The frontispieca is Il
drawing, made at the Elswick shipyard,
of the cruiser AmaZonas, which the Uni
ted States purchased from the Brazilian
Government a few days ago. Another
page is covered with illustrations of the
interior of the gun foundry of the Wash
ington navy yard: the article describing
these is by a naval expert. Golfers"