The record-union., 1899-03-22
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Book Buyer" for March (New
York; opens with timely article on
Stevenson, Kipling and Anglo-SaXon
Imperialism in which is outlined the
remarkable influence these brilliant
writers have eXerted upon the public
sentiment of their time. both in Eng
land and America. There is series OF
reproductions of the remarkable por-
traits by Ficquet, the French engraver
of the last century. accompanied by a
scholarly article upon the subject by w.
L. Andrews, in whose famous collection
the prints are now kept. Also, full
page portraits of John Burroughs and
William F. Apthorp, the music critic,
are among the illustrations. Other new
portraits are those of E. w. Hornung,
Miss Mary Johnston, Miss Estelle NJ.
Hurll and General Shafter, and interest
ing portraits are reproduced from Mr..
Costers collection, of William Cullen
Bryant, John S. c. Abbott Professor
Bach and Leonard Bacon. Drawings
by George Cfuikshank, Hablot *.
Browne and Robert Seymour are re-
produced in an article by F. Weiten-
kampf of the Aston Library upon
COIIlc llluSlIdtOIS VI 0fthSIS l.
Garland writes an appreciative sketch
of Frederic G. Kitton, the English au-
thor and artist, whose new book Dick
ems and His illustrators" is just out.
Reproductions of several pencil sketches
by Mr.. Kitton, and his portrait add to
the interest of the article.
The great novel on which Count Toll
stoi has been spending the last three
years, has been secured for the "Cosmo
politan'' New York;, and will appear
in the April number. 1t is story Of
three kinds of mans love, and is said
by those who have been permitted to
see the manuscript to be by all odds
the most powerful novel ever written by
Tolstoi. 1t is illustrated by PasternaK,
famous Russian artist. 1t will I'M
questionably be. the literary event OF
1899.
In his weekly letter to the current
issue of "Harper's Weekly (New
York; Arnold White discusses. financial
corruption in English politics. The let
ter is of exceptional interest, since the
Hooley revelations have drawn pubic
attention to the fact that prominent
public men allow their names to be used
as bait on the front page of prospec-
tus to draw in the gullible and investing
public Mr.. White discusses in partlcu-
lar the undesirability of ministers OF
the crown holding directorships in COR
porations. The present facts OF the
case are as follows: Forty-four minis
tiers of the crown constitute the present
administration, and twenty-five of them
hold forty-one directorships in pubic
companies. The annual salaries OF
Cabinet. Ministers amount in the aggre-
gate to S4611, $50; the pay of ministers
not in the Cabinet amounts to $5to,Ojo.
1t is the rule in the civil service that
no member shall hold a dictatorship in
a public company, and it is generally
felt that ministers of the crown VINO
control the civil service should not be
placed in any situation where they
would be exposed to the; necessity of
choosing between public and private
considerations "a temptation from
which their stats are compulsorily de-
barred.
'.Harper's Bazaar (New York;, al
though pre- eminentlyi the best fashion
periodical in America, always gives
much space to valuable special articles,
serials and short stories. In the cur
rent number, for instance, there IS
special article by the noted muslcal
critic. e. Irenaeus Stevenson, which