The record-union., 1898-01-31

| airy issue Of 'Lippincotts' (Phllauel-
phia) is "A Trooper Galahad,' by Cap
tain Charles King. 1t contains some
close and vivid sketches of character
and life at an army post in the South
| west; the warlike excitement is fur-
nished by prolonged pursuit Of a dan
gerous band of outlaws. His Last
Appearance, by Jean Wright, and "A
Literary Success" by Willis Irwin. are
very brief tales "Outwitting a Griz-
| zly" is one of William Thomsons true
| stories of Western adventure in old
times-as far back as 1880. r. G. Rob-
! inson, who is an authority on his chos-
en subject, supplies some information
upon Florida, THE Land of the Winter
| Cucumber" Fakirs, adventures, and
! swindlers of various kinds are the
theme of Dora E. w. Spratt, in How
They Live on Nothing a Year" The
| Poetry of Shelter is one of DIR. Chas
c. Abbott's very best nature-papers.
Robert Timsol, in Back From Altru-
ria sets forth some of the attractions
and drawbacks of Mr.. Bellamy's mill
! lennial state. Samuel Nj. Warns writes
briefly of "Odors," William owbridge
Larned of Insomnia" Ellen Duvall of
| Opportunity" and Nj. a. De Wolfe
Howe of The Other Side of Letters y
The third paper Of DR.. Theodore F..
| Wolfes series, Some Literary Shrines
| of Manhattan deals with ''The Latin
Quarter and It's Environs." There are
| couplets by Carrie Blake Morgan and
| Clarence Urmy.
| "Godey's'' for February (New York;
| is very handsome number indeed, full
of choice illustrations. Among leading
| features are: "Triumphs in Amateur
| Photography" Marmaduke Humphrey;
The 'Celestals' of the City of ST. Fran
cis," Gordon Poynter; American Con-
cert-Singers," Rupert Hughes; "Old
Blue and White" specimens of rare
pottery, Jane w. Guthrie; "Some Beau
ties Of the Lone Star State," Pauline
Inez Buck; The Preliminary Period of
the American Revolution George c.
Lay; The American Jewish Minister
and His Work" Charles S. Bernheimer;
Miss Brennan's Romance" Laura j.
Rittenhouse; For Riches Babies, :"
Rose Osborne Sell "a Warrior in the
Church Militant Frank f. Anderson;
I'm the Patio of Miguel" Annetta Hal
lidayAntona; "A Daughter of DOOM"
Wilbur Finley Fauley; The Wimpled
Maid of Nantucket" Stanley Edwards
Johnson.
On the cover of the February Ladies
Home Journal Philadelphia), Charles
Dana Gibson, the illustrator pictures
the ideal American baby, an infant as
interesting and lovable as it's peerless
older sister-the American girl. A
reminiscent article on With Washing
ton in the Minuet' is given place. Fur
ther light is shed on washington
| through an unpublished letter written
by a guest at Mount Vernon a hundred
years ago. The Flower Fetes of Cali
fornia'' and Getting Good Pictures or
Children are striking pictorial features,
and Inside of Hundred Homes is
full of artistic suggestions. Edward
w. Box protests against the niggardly
contributions of a penny to church col
lections Lillian Bell finds much TO ad
mire in the French women, and some
deSpicable traits. The Inner Expert
ences of a Cabinet Members Wife, in
creases in interest, as does Hamlin Car
lands serial, The Doctor A valu-
able service is rendered by Mrs S. T.
Rorer. who tells What Indigestion Re-
ally Means" in addition to her cooking
lesson Saint Valentines Day is hon
ored in verse and music-a march-and
the seasons needs in dresses, jackets,
etc, and the housewives fancy in home
decoration, furniture, etc, are fully an
ticipated.
"Harper's Magazine" for February
(New York;, beautifully Illuminated by
spirited engravings. has these leading
papers: Social Pictorial Satire part
-. nine illustrations, including frontis-
piece, from original drawings by John
Leech, by George du Maurier; Projects
for an Isthmian Canal by the Hon.
David Turpie; Roam Barbary," a nov
! elette. by George Hibbard Some
Americans From Oversee" nine illus
trations from drawings by Fernand H.
Lungren and Harry Fem, and from
photographs by the author, by Kirk
Munroe; THE Due d'Aumale and the
Conde Museum" eight Illustrations.
| from a Mural painting by Luc Olivier
Merson in the Chateau of Chantilly, and
from documents in the museum by
Henri Bouchot; "Undercurrents of Po-
| litical Life in India, by f. Fl. Skrine;
Recent Development of Musical Cult
| ure in Chicago" by George p. Upton;
second installment of Henry Seton Mer-
riman's novel "Roden's Corner" illus
trated second article on Stuttgart"
treating of The Modern City" by
Elise J. Allen. The short stories are:
"A British Islander" by Mary Hart
well Catherwood. illustrated: Martin
Farroner," by Marguerite Merington,
illustrated, and AN Incident" by Sar-
an Barnwell Elliott, illustrated. The
poems are by Aaron Mason, Harriet
Prescott Spofford. Margaret +. Sang
ster and Madison Cawein. In The
Editors Study" Charles Dudley War
ner discusses "Fiction-Old and New,
the Comparative Literature Society"
Pill After Pie" and structure in Po-
etry." THE Editors Drawer opens
with ''The Snoring Beauty" a story. by
Anne Douglas Sedgwick. illustrated.
Albert E. Sterner and Oliver Herford
contribute other illustrations to the
Drawer
THE Arena" for February (Boston)
has a portrait of Hon. George w. Ju-
lian. with paper by him and DR.. Rid
path on the politico-financial contro-
NtTSS. 1neFt are DdpsdS DS JuSSiSc
Clark of North Carolina, Henry NJ.
Williams. DR.. w. r. Fisher and others;
a story by Zoe Anderson Norris. several
poems, and a paper on phase of
Gutter Journalism by j. b. Mont
gomegy McGovern, and one on Secret
| Societies and the State,' by J. M.
Foster.