The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-30

The complete novel in the May issue
of 'Lippincott's" Philadelphia) is The
Uncalled," by the colored poet, Paul
Laurence Dunbar. Though understood
to be his first essay in extended fiction,
it is an extremely strong and thorough
ly readable story NO. 81, 617 Colt, "
by George Bridges Rodney, recounts
the experiences of a small party of
Americans in Cuba during a former in
surrection. Theodore Gallagher de-
scribes one phase of a very wild West
ern town in 1.-The Election at Cayote."
'Woman's Work and Wages" are dis
cussed by Eleanor Whiting, who claims
that matrimony is the most appropriate
and profitable business for women in
general, and that they had better not
attempt direct wage earning. DR..
Charles c. Abbott has a brief paper on
''Blunders in Bird Nesting" meaning
those of the birds. James Weir, Jr.,
writes on The Faculty of Computing
in Animals and William S. Walsh in
quires, do Animals DRINK" He re-
plies that they do, on occasion, and be-
come intoxicated like their betters. The
ways Of THE Indian Afoot," and his
extraordinary abilities as a pedestrian,
are set forth by William TroWbridge
Larned BY THE Sacred Flower"
Marvin Dana means the rose. People
in-Law'' form the subject of a little
essay by Alan Cameron. Frank G.. Car
penter deals with THE Book Loves of
Statesmen"-i. e., some of them. THE
Literature of Japan" is briefly discuss
ed by Joselyn Z. Smith. The poetry of
the number is by Florence Radcliffe,
Grace f. Pennypacker and Lee Fair
child.
Part of Fifty Years of Masonry in
California" has a fine steel plate por-
trait of Thomas Flint, Past Grand High
President, and interior views of the
hall of Illinoistown Lodge, Colfax; Sui
sun Lodge, Santa Rosa Lodge, Blue
Lodge hall, Oakland; Natoma Lodge
hall, Amador Lodge, Forest Lodge, Blue
Lodge hall, Stockton; Enterprise Lodge,
Bear Mountain Lodge, Masonic Hall,
Petaluma Calaveras Lodge, Humboldt
Lodge, Rising Star Lodge, with mem
bers seated; one Of Vesper Lodge, Ma
sonic Hall, Vallejo, and of Quitman
Lodge, and portraits of Frank RAIDER.
thirty-third degree; Joseph Maier, thir-
M; Henry P. Dalton, P. NJ; w. S.
Wells, P. NJ; Lewis A. Splitter and
Daniel Ream, P. M.
Field and Stream is a magazine of
sport and adventure published monthly
by John P. Burkhard (New York;, is a
handsome magazine, full of variety and
freely and handsomely illustrated. The
current number treats of "a January
Hunt in Mesquite Country Value of
Outdoor Sports" Alaskan Dog Teams -
Quail Shooting in Michigan" Coyote
Hunts in the Big Bend Country" and it
has stories, sketches, new notes, etc,
besides articles on the bear hunt, still
hunting the fox, etc. It is crisp, lively,
clear headed sporting magazine, and we
welcome it as valuable to our uses.
Among the notable features Of the
May Ladies Home Journal" are an
Illustrated article on Joseph Jefferson
at home, After Dinner Stories" a page
of brightly told anecdotes of prominent
personages, and Rudyard Kipling's ia
nous Jubilee hymn, "Recessional," set
to music by Reginald de Koven "a
Cabinet Members Wife" gives further
interesting glimpses of Washington So
cial official life, and another view In
side of a Hundred Homes" is afforded.
The second installment of Julia Ma
gruder's novelette,, "a Heaven kissing
HILL" and His Children" give an in
teresting variety of fiction. Robert J.
Burdette's MY Kindergarten of Fifty
Years" is the first of a series of three