The record-union., 1898-10-10

chorus are spirited and melodious, and
the chorus full of patriotic ardor.
Self Culture" for October, from the
| September number of which we quoted
so freely recently on the question of
women in business, is at hand from the
publishers, The Women Company.
Akron, Ohio. The number is hand
somely and profusely Illustrated This
magazine has taken high rank as a
journal of knowledge, and operates in
an important field, by devoting its ener-
gies to induce American citizens to
| calmly study political and social ques-
tlons. But it is not thereby devoid of
| interest, because of literary merit, for
| it presents art topics, considers the ac-
tivities of the world, biography, current
history, finance, science, discovery, rei-
gious thought and opinion and music
and the home, as we'll as civics and So
ciology. The contents of the October
number present a great variety of sub
jects, treated by b large number of
able writer's. including Professors
Laughlin. Davies. Alvord and Mackay
and Goldwin Smith, e. A. Vinton, Ella
A. Vinton and Rupert Hughes.
The New England Magazine" for
October Boston), richly illustrated and
bounteously so, has these leading fea-
lures: Montreal from Mount Royal"
frontispiece; THE Arnold Arboretum,'
William Howe Downes; "A Scion of the
Covenant" Ca story, A Edwin Crock
EFT; THE Home of Sophia and oliver
Smith" Giles B. Stebbins; 'The Great
Shell Mounds of Damariscotta," George
Stillman Berry; "a Forgotten Friend
of America: Henry Seymour Conway,
Edward Mortimer Chapman; Forest
Preservation in the State or New
York." Cuyler Reynolds; 1.-THE Deep
That Lieth Under" John White Chad
wick; Beast or Brother?" Ga story OF
the reservation) Charlotte M. Vale;
Montreal w. D. Lighthall; early
and Late With the Birds" Edith NJ.
Thomas.
''The Municipal Engineering Maga-
zine" for October Indianapolis, lnd.),
is at hand, a periodical that we esteem
greatly, as one Of the most practicai
and useful of all technical magazines.
In addition to the departments the
number contains valuable papers on;
THE National Capital; its Pavements
and Parks, and it's Form of Govern
ment": Assessments for Sewers and
Water Mains" Charles Carroll Brown,
NJ Am. Soc. S. E.; practical Legisla-
ton for Better Roads, William I.
Beatty; "A Comparison of the Com
bined and Separate Systems Of Sewer
age" G. P. Collins, c. E. Park
Bridges" Oscar Same, Mem. W. S. E;
"The Sewerage Problem in Baltimore,
Kenneth Allen: THE Creosoted Wood
Block Pavements in Galveston and In
dianapols," F. A Hetherington; Con
crete Aggregates" Warner H. Jenkins,
c. E.; Action of Concrete on Lead
Pipe" Combination Water and Elec-
trio Light Plants: John Ericsson (por-
trait); "F w. Cappelen" (portrait);
Captain Lansing H. Beech" CportraiD;
Meeting of the American Society of
Municipal Improvements" New Sani-
tary Regulations in New York" "Rav-
ages Of Electrolysis." Equitable AS
sessment of the Cost of Pavements."
"The Los Angeles Water Works Liti-
CATION" Public and Private Water
Works" when Municipal Authority
Cannot be Resisted" Machinery and
Trade Notes"
THE Bookman" for October Oodd.
Mead & Co., New York; is freely illus
trated with portraits. In addition to
the very extended Chronicle and Com
ment" and the departments, ''The Book
man" has these leading features: "Af-
the Month";" Norman Hapgood; HUI