The record-union., 1898-06-08

Municipal Engineering for June
kIndianapolis), besides its many fun de-
partments, has these leading papers:
Where Water Works Men Will Meet
"A Convenient Pocket Record of Loca-
zion of Water Gates and Hydrants,
Laboratory Tests of Asphalt" A. w.
Dow. Inspector of Asphalt and Ce-
ment, Washington, d. c.: Filtration Of
Sewage Through Coal" Kenneth Allen
C. E.; THE Constitution of Hydraulic
Clements, Interpretation of Water
analyses" Professor Floyd Davis. E.
IM., Phi, D.; Automatic Drinking
Fountain" James Hamilton, Jr.. c. E.
| ''The Bookman'' for June (Dodd, Mead
e Co., New York;, in addition to Its
correspondence. poems, literary notes,
reviews. etc., has these papers and
many Illustrations: Thomas Ser
eeant Perry with portrait and auto
graph, by M. c. S.; AN Interesting
Manuscript Find" with fac-similes Of
some Of the original manuscripts. by
Sherman A. Cuneo; James Payn";
"A Presentiment" (translated by II. T.
Pack, by Marcel Provost; "A Genuine
Book on Cuba Of To-Day" by James
T.. Ford: About the War;" by Harry
sThurston Peck; John Splendid" the
tale of a Poor Gentleman and Little
WARS Of Lorn, a novel. by Neil Munro.
s'The Critic" CNew York; has asked
Its readers to decide on what branch
of contemporary French literature they
would like to read an essay by M.
Brunetiere. When the distinguished
critic was in the country a year ago.
he promised to write out for THE
Critic" his five Lenox Lyceum lectures,
but has never found an opportunity OF
doing SO. and now proposes instead
that he be asked to write a single es-
say in place of the five papers prom
Used. The choice of subjects lies be-
tween history. the drama, poetry. criti-
cism and the novel. The polls will
close on June 30th.
The American Monthly Review of
Reviews" for June (New York; is a we'll
illustrated war number" The maga-
zine opens with the editors review of
the first months campaigning in our
contest with Spain. This is followed
by the detailed account of the struggle
an the Record of Current Events" and
s'Cartoon Comments on the war.
chiefly from foreign journals. The con-
tributed articles include character
sketch of Admiral Dewey by Winston
Churchill. two articles on the Philip
pines and one on Spain and the Caro-
line Islands" from a missionary point
of view. The department of Leading
Articles of the Month also deals with
many questions growing out OF the
war. Altogether there are more than
Eighty pictures of subjects related to
the present crisis. 1t is a remarkably
strong and especially interesting and
timely number.
.'The Forum" for June CNew York;
has these papers: Our War With
Spain; It's Justice and Necessity" Sen
alor Joseph B. Foraker; THE Hull
Army Bill" Hon. John A. T. Hull:
"Cuba. and its Value as a Colony" r.
Il. Hill The War for Cuba" Joseph
Z. Chamberlain; Social Conditions in
Our Newest Territory" Helen c. Can
dee; Textile War Between the North
and the South" Jerome Dowd; THE
Little Kingdom of the President"
Henry Litchfield West; '"The School
System Of Germany; it's Merits and De-
Training of the American Girl" Pro-
fessor Thomas Davidson; "Some AS
poets Of the Teaching Profession" VIM.
H Burnham; "A French View Of the
American Workingman," Professor
Theodore Stanton; Have We Still
Need Of Poetry?" Professor Calvin
Thomas.
The metropolitan" New York; for
Uune is richly illustrated. Notable Is
the tint half-tone of Lady Patricia, the
A,ortrait of Phoebe Davis. in character,
Of Gladstone, of CharmiOn, the Sacra-
mento gymnaSt, in many poses; OF
Margaret Mayo. Effie Shannon, Eva
Tanqueray. Carlos Duran. Nine. Klatz.
Lucille Flaven. Madame Navarro. and
many others. There are also many Illus
krations of summer sports, art works,
athletics, famous jewels. scenes In Gu
ba the greatest of American art mu-
6eums, war views. naval scenes. The
text Is rich in narrative, poetry, story,
current history, art and dramatic pa
pers, athletics. Cuban sketches. etc. 1t
as far and away the finest OF all the
tine numbers this splendid magazine
has given US. :.
The Par1Slan Tor June (NeW Iork)
Is freely illustrated and handsomely so.
IN art criticism, biography, history and
fiction 1t is well filled. It's leading fea-
&ures are: 1.-The Palais de Justice" by
Constant; Second Love-" by Bourget;
sLove's Miracle" by Maizeroy: Nan
4as," by Zola; Animals in History"
by Rodocauachi Barcelona" by
11aine; without Love-" by Marie Es-
chenbach; An American Heiress." by