The record-union., 1898-10-10

Carolina. Professor Newcomb in his
"reminiscences takes the reader to Paris
during the Commune. Woodrow Will
son sketches entertainingly and in
structively as THE Wit and the Seer, P"
the character of William Bagehot, the
noted English publicist: and Irving
Rabbit depicts that of George Sand.
Professor Kuno F'rancke analyses the
personal character of Bismarck. The
interest of the Battle of the Strong"
becomes more intense and the story
rapidly approaches a thrilling and
dramatic climax. Joseph "A. Altsheler
contributes weird and characteristic
war tale entitled "At the Twelfth
Hour" The whole number continues
the steady advance in quality and in
terest which has been SO noticeable re-
Gently
The American Monthly Review of
Reviews" for October (New York; gives
special attention to the developments
of the past month in international pol
itics, and to- the lessons of the Spanish
American war. The editor, in the de-
partment of The Progress of the
World" discusses the attitude of the
Spanish people toward peace condi-
tions, the new relations between Ger
many and England, the Cars PROPOSE
ton for disarmament, the Dreyfus
case in France, Englands reopening OF
the Soudan, and other serious prob
lens confronting the European Pow
ers. Important contributed articles re-
view President McKinley's course i'll
the conduct of the war to a successful
close and the deficiencies in our admin
istrative machinery revealed by the ia
tai delays and breakdoWnS in the med
ical and subsistence departments OF
army management Two of the con-
tributed articles deal with the serious
lessons of our recent war with Spain
DR.. Carroll Dunham presents a calm
and exhaustive survey of the nations
experience of the past six months in it's
medical and. sanitary aspects. He
shows where the failures in army ad-
ministration occurred, and what steps
should be taken to prevent the recur-
renee Of such costly mistakes. Lieuten-
ant John H. Parker OF the Thirteenth
Infantry, who commanded the Gatling
gun detachment at Santiago, explains
from an officers point of view the ma
defects revealed in the course of that
campaign, and also summarizes the ad-
vance in our knowledge of the value
of machine guns in battle as compared
with heavy artillery THE Man at the
Helm is the subject of an article by
General A. B.-Nettleten, in which Pres
ident McKinley's part in the conduct
Of the war is examined. There is
most interesting series of Indian por-
traits made by f. A. Rinehart, the
photographer of the Trans Mississippi
Exposition at Omaha, in connection
with an account of the Indian Con-
Busch's recently published memoirs of
Prince Bismarck are reviewed by DR..
Albert Shaw There is in the depart
ment of Current History in Carl
cature" a remarkable series of cartoons
recently published in the Spanish week
ly Don Quixote," touching various
phases of the war and it's results. It
is believed that this journal reflects the
sentiments of the Spanish people with
great fidelity.
The Cambridge Edition of Tenny-
sons Poetical Works." edited by Will
lam ]. Rolfe on the same general lines
with the Cambridge Editions of Long
fellow, Whittier, Browning" etc, is
promised by Houghton, Miffiin & Co,
Boston. The greatest care has been
taken to have the book on the literary
side as perfect as Tennyson's poems
themselves, and on the bookmakng