The record-union., 1898-09-12

Day." by S. B. Weems; Columbia /
University by Frank S. Hackett; |
Luxury of Driving by Bertram E.
Douglass; New Yorks City of Boats,
by Frank L. Blanchard; wv. Granville
Smith" by A. L. Samson; Beauties
Of the Austrian Court" by Teresa
Bruseli; River Front, New York
| Midsummer, Coney Island" by George
M. Wood; poem, Love and Honor" by
Harriet Osgood Lunt; Roof Garden
| Restaurants by r. j. Woodbury.; THE
Theatrical Season of 1S9S-99,'' by Le-
ander Richardson; "A Speedway Cost
| ing Millions" by r. H. Hicks; story
THE Jointure of Fate by Alfred Rup-
| pin; story, Loves Strategy by I.
| G. Knox.
| "The Bookman'' Oodd, Mead & Co.,
New York; for September has in its
| Chronicle and Comment very many
reviews, sketches and analytical notes
on new books. Besides the departments
there are also these papers: Mrs. Lynn
| Lynton" with portraiD, by Beatrice
| Harraden; Bismarck as a Phrase
maker" by Munroe Smith: AN Inter
view With Mrs. Robert Louis Steven
son." by Gelett Burgess; "A Mad
Philosopher" by Harry Thurston Peck;
AN Inquiry as to Rhyme" by Brander
Matthews; only These" by l.. S.
Livingston; THE Light That Burns
! Upward" by James Macarthur; THE
| Specter Knight" by Fred, M. Ranken;
! "Brunetiere and French Literature by
Annie Macdonell; The Cook Stove in
| Poetry" by H. T. P; 'Sudermann in
/ English by Marie l.. Van Worst The
| Scarlet Foot by George Merriam
! Hyde; AN Ingenious and Suggestive
| Speculator," by Edward M. Collie; "A
| Dispassionate View," by c. M. Fran
els; Literary London" by W. Robert
son NicoH; Literary Paris by
Adolphe Cohn; Loves Perfect Dawn"
i by Charles Hanson Towne; John
| Splendid" a novel, chapters XIII.
and XIV; Love Looked Back" by
| Virginia Woodward Cloud.
The North American Review (New
York; for September has these papers
, of interest and variety: "The Prob
lem of the Philippines" by the Rt. Hon.
Sir Charles w. Dixie, Bart, M. p, and
the Hon. John Barrett, late United
States Minister to Siam, and Hugh H.
Lusk; Literature for Children by
Richard Burton; THE Latest Reform
! in Ireland" by John ]. Clancy, M. P;
"Leprosy and the Hawaiian Annexa-
ton" by B. Foster, M. D.; AN Anglo
American VS.. a European Combina-
tion," by the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard
Temple, Bart, G. c. S. l.; What Is
! to Be Done With Cuba?" by Mayo W.
lHazeltine; The Economic Basis of
fImperialism,' by c. A. Conant; THE
Exploration of the Sea- by DR.. c. NJ.
| Blackford, Jr.; Prince Bismarck"
by Emilio CASTELAR,; Bismarck and
Motley with correspondence till
now unpublished), by j. P. Grund;
Great Teachers" by Professor T. w.
Hunt; Capture Upon the Sea-" by
Daniel Chauncey Brewer; Cash VS..
, Glory by Edward p. Jackson.
In McClure's Magazine" (New York;
for September George Z. Graham de-
scribes the destruction of Admiral Ger
vera's fleet as he himself had the good
fortune to see the work done from Com
modore Schley's flagship, the Brook
lyn, and w. A. NJ. Goode describes it
as he, too, saw it from Admiral Samp-
sons flagship, the New York Together
the two papers give a vivid account OF
what was undoubtedly the most pic
turesque event of all the war; and, be-
ing illustrated with portraits of all the
commanders, pictures of all the ships,
and views of all the wrecks, largely
from photographs taken by the authors,
they Leaves nothing to be desired Some
very interesting "reminiscences and let
, ters of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of
President Lincoln, are given in an arti-
Gle by her sister, Emily Todd Helm.
The Indian chief Two Moons story of
General Clusters last fight, as taken
down by Hamlin Garland. has. besides
its value as being the Indians version
of a famous battle between him and
the white man, that of a charming
quaintness and ingenuousness. An ex-
position, by George B. Waldron, of
THE Commercial Promise of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines pre-
. sents the possibilities of our recent
conquests in most eloquent figures.
ether features of the number, in addi-
tion to several short stories of unusual
, interest are a fully illustrated article
giving some marvellous facts regarding
the action of volcanoes, by Cleveland
Monett. and an account of How the
News of the War Is Reported" by Ray
Stannard Baker.
The SELF Culture Magazine for Sep
tember (Akron, o. presents new and
attractive features, the character of the
papers being notably higher. Among
the articles are these: Prosperity
Present and Future c. Wood Davis;
An English Journal on the President"
G. NJ. A; The American Volunteer and
His Achievements, Joseph NJ. Rogers:
THE Klondike and Alaskan Gold
Fields" Qllustrated), the Editor: Israel
and the Monuments of the Nile" Gllus-
| trated), Professor j. II. Breasted. Phi.
D.; THE AngloAmerican Situation"
Henry Davies. Ph. D.; Guatemala; a
Central American Republic of To-day"
ID. O. Kellogg; I'm the Home or Far
Afield," |. r. Turner; School or Busi-