The record-union., 1898-09-12

Vne opening article III the ocpISiii
Der number of the New England
Magazine (Boston) is devoted to the
career Of Robert Gordon Hardie, the
well-known portrait painter, ana is py
William Howe Downes With the ar
ticle are reproduced many OF Har-
dies best known paintings, 1ncludlng
Hkenesses of President Eliot OF Har-
ward University, Hon. David Dudley
Field, Chief Justice Marcus Morton,
and other prominent men. Monhe-
gan, Historical and Picturesque Is
treated by A. G. Pettengill. A history
of Fire Insurance in New England is
contributed by Charles w. Burpee.
George Sheldon writes of certain
Little Brown House on the Albany
Road" in Old Deerfield, Massachu-
setts. Under the spell of his remlnls-
cent mood the reader is carried back
to earlier days, and the old house Is
re-peopled with those once prominent
in Old Deerfield's history who have
long since passed on. Sons ana
Daughters of the Revolution Will feei
a sympathetic interest in Rev William
E. Barton's account of his Quest OF
an Ancestor Rev. George Willis
Cooke contributes an admirable ac-
count of the doings of the Saturday
Club, which for SO long held monthly
meetings in Boston. Raymond l..
Bridgman is fearful that if the policy
of annexation is pursued by the Unit
ed States the interests of the country
and of mankind at large will suffer.
Among Friends is an interesting ac-
count of the Quakers in colonial times
by Alice Morse Earle. There are two
good stories, one by Alice Brown en-
titled "a Last Assembling" and the
other by Florence Tinsley Cox en-
titled 1.-The Rising of Caleb Ballard
and the usual amount of poetry.
'"The Travellers and Shippers Guide"
for September dhe Denborn Company,
San Francisco) is at hand, and like the
former number is the best and COM
pletest guide book known to the coast.
1t is unique in design and exhaustive
in detail.
Admiral Colomb's paper upon "The
Essential Elements of Modern Sea
Power" which leads 1.-THE Engineering
Magazine for September New York;
is most interesting and important at
this time The great expansion in our
naval construction which is now a
certainty demands the most careful
consideration of the conclusions which
have been established. by our own war
and the experience of foreign navies,
regarding armor. armament, and types
of vessels To this study such an au-
thoritative review, by the foremost
professional naval critic of England, is
contribution of supreme value. And
no less significant is the following pa
per by the great inventor Hiram Max
i'm. on Engineering Lessons of the
TIispano-American War" clearly ex-
hibiting the mechanical supremacy. in
which America justly rejoices. Illus
trated articles in the same number are
'"The Underground Railways of Lon
DON" by F. f. Cooper, who was asso-
ciated with Sir Benjamin Baker in
their construction; European and
American Bridge Building" by Gustav
Lindenthal, the eminent bridge engin-
eer: Bacterial Processes of Sewage
Publication" by Rudolph Herring, one
of the foremost sanitary experts of
the United States; and THE Baku Pc
troleum Fields of Russia" by the dis
tingushed English geologist. David A.
Louis. C. II. Davis and II. c. Forbes
review an important movement in
electrical engineering-"The Applica-
tion of the Alternating Current to
Electric Traction" J. Sinclair Fairfax
discusses international Patent Laws"
Henry Roland continues the exposition
of EFFECTIVE Methods of Finding and
Keeping Shop-Costs:" and w. o. Web
ber treats the Comparative Cost of
Steam and Water Power" In addi-
tion to the leading articles. the GUS
tomary complete review and index OF
the Engineering Press make 1.-THE En-
gineering Magazine" invaluable
The metropolitan Magazine" CNew
Yory) for September is superbly illus
trated Among it's leading features are
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