The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-12

German and English war vessels at
that place, has furnished two pages Of
photographs of notable Samoan scenes
for the current issue of the weekly
Among these is an especially fine group
which represents the new King, Male
toa, surrounded by his guards.
+ The March number of the Critic
(New York; is in many respects the
most notable Of that magazine yet 1t
contains among other attractions
frontispiece portrait of Washington
painted from life by Rem brandt Peaie
in 1895, when the latter was lad OF
II. The Critic has the honor OF re-
producing it for the first time. THIS
number contains. a.-portrait of Thack-
cray. from photograph taken by
Quincy in New York in 1853, and
never before published, as well as sew
eral sketches made by Thackeray when
he was a pupil at Charterhouse. A
portrait from scarce Autograph OF
Dickens, made by Sol Eytinge, Jr.,
when he was in this country, is given,
together with a. number of reproduc-
tions from original sketches by CrulK-
shank, Leech, H. x. Browne (Phlz),
Seymour and Buss. No collector OF III
erary portraits can afford to miss
single number of the Critic" Secre-
tary John Hay says that he found IN
the first monthly number seventeen that
he wanted to keep.
From the author, Miss Mae Gleason,
S31 M street, Sacramento, we have her
song, Hail Once More the Flag OLD
Glory" 1t is set to music by Joseph
B. Carey, and is dedicated to Mrs. May
Milliken Ross of Sacramento. The
words are spiritedly patriotic, and have
special reference to the justifiability of
the United States in intervening in Gu
bas behalf The music is lively, has
a martial movement and is Of the quail
| ity that attaches to the memory.
The Midland Monthly for February
| (Des Moines, Ia.) comes late to hand,
| but is as welcome at the end as at the
beginning of month. 1t. is sterling
and thoroughly good magazine. and has
won a place in the front rank. The
leading papers. with many fine illus
trations, are: "a Visit to Charlecote
Hail." A. D. Abbott; THE First Cont
mental Congress of North American In
Louise Of Prussia and Her Posthumous
Portrait Countess de Montaigu;
Grants Vicksburg Campaign Ca his
tory, Colonel John w. Emerson;
''Anglo-Saxon Colonization Willis G..
Clarke; yellow Fever, a sBugaboo,"
Colonel Ben E. Green; s'Walt Whitman
and the West Johnson Brigham; "A
Hero and His Wife" Short story),- Clara
H. Holmes; 1.-The Old Bachelors Story
(short story, Matte A. Curl; THE Way
of the World (short story, Duff Reed;
Edith" (short story, C. H. Roberts;
THE Stairway of Fate (short story,
MaIinda CIeaver Faville; Tommy Tay-
lor's Ambition short story. Amelia
Wofford; 1.-The Helioscope-In Love"
(short story, N. H. Crowell; THE Chi
nook" (short story) c. L. Andrews.
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1t has been estimated that there are
at the lowest count 10000 American
women who are directly interested in
some form or other of club work For
a long time there has been a growing
demand for a thorough discussion of
the interests of American clubs in the
pages of some leading periodical. That
such a demand has existed is fully
proven by the wide favor which has
greeted Club Women and Club Work, ;"
| the department conducted for 'Har-
per's Bazar'' by Margaret Hamilton
WEIGH. 1t is enough to say, that in
no other journal can so complete a
discussion of this important subject be
found
| The Radical" the new California
monthly, is all that its name implies. 1t
treats of political. religious and social
topics in a plain talking way that will
make it some admirers and many enc
mics. The sex problems are dealt with
in too plain language. 1t is published
at Stockton by the Radical Publishing
Company.