The record-union., 1899-07-10

MED by a sketch of the artist who
made them, followed by detailed and
authentic account of the romancer:s
unhappy love affair. Mrs. James T.
Fields tells of a visit to George Eliot.
| Stevenson in Samoa" contains such
| "reminiscences as might be expected
from the story-teller's stepdaughter
and secretary. 1.-The Making of Rob
inson Crusoe,'" gives the true story of
Alexander Selkirk. sVictor Hugo as an
Artist" is by LIE Cocq de Lautreppe
| Bret Harte in California was well
known by Noah Brooks, who fills sew
eral pages with entertaining gossip.
Critical articles on famous fction-mak-
ers are Henry Rutgers MarshalPs study
of "Rudyard Kipling and Racial In
| stinct' and Montgomery Schuyler
| 'sThe Canonization of Stevenson The
! original fiction in this story -tellers'
number includes Marion Crawford s
Via Crucis," "A Day in Wheat by
| Will Payne; ."rhe Monkey That Never
Was" by the author of 1.-The Cat and
| the Cherub"; "A Romance Invaded p
| by Gelett Burgess: 'The Pianos Of
killymard," by Seumas MacMapus, sand
new chapters in the life of Mr.. Stock
Z W.. IL.
| ornithologist, writes of Bird Rock, in
the Gulf of ST. Lawrence; Professor
Wheeler's Alexander the Great" shows
the conqueror in anger and in love.
Mr.. Ford's Many Sided Franklin is
seen in his intimate and interesting re-
lations with the fair sex.
s"rhe Atlantic Monthly for July
Boston) has these papers, the number
being unusually full and notably strong
throughout: English Imperialism, !"
William Cunningham: 1.-The Plot of
Much Ado About Nothing Horace
Howard Furness; 1.-THE Tenement: Cur
ing it's Blight" Jacob A. Riis: '.The
True American Spirit in Literature, =
Charles Johnston; "A Virtuoso of the
Old School, Leon H. Vincent; Chin
ese Sketches Elizabeth Washburn;
1.-THE Right Approach to English Liter
ature,," Mark H. Liddell; sAn English
Writer'S Notes on England" Vernon
Lee; "The Autobiography Of Revolu-
ZIONIST" P. Kropotkin; "The Lame
Boy" Will Payne; Unmarked, Clio
ry,' r. Whitmore; Letters of Bayard
Taylor and Sidney Lanier' QI), Henry
Wysham Lanier.
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In 1884 General Frederick Funston,
the hero of the Twentieth Kansas Vol
unteer Infantry, made journey of
several hundred miles to visit the
whalers on the ice-foes about Herschel
Island. The story of his experience,
as he tells it in the July number OF
"Harper's Round Table (New York;.
shows that the doughty Western Col
onel, besides being a good fighter, is
a very entertaining writer The July
number contains also five first-class
short stories, and several special arti-
cles of great practical value to the
average American boy. Canoes and
Canoing." by J. Macdonald Oxley, is
a timely article on a sport that is
growing more popular every day. This
article gives many valuable hints on
camping and travelling
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In "Harper's Weekly are now ap-
pearing four of the most valuable
series of special articles of the year.
Under the title, IAN American Sover-
eigf,' Julian Ralph writes Of India,
and of Lord and Lady Curzon in their
new empire. Hawaiian America, by
Caspar Whitney is series that is
invaluable to very american who is
interested in Hawaii, in a commercial
or industrial ways Franklin Matthews
description. Of The Reconstruct tfon Of
Cuba is admirably ciear and Interest
ing. The same may be- said the
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