The record-union., 1899-09-11

Who but can remember the time
when their appetite has been stlmu-
lated by the odor of aromatic herbs!
And again this pleasant sensation is
theirs while reading "A Talk About
Herbs" in the September issue OF Ia
BILE Talk, and all manner OF good
things crowd the memory and lmagl-
nation, and they will Immediately de-
eide that thyme, sage, sweet marJoram
and the host of others shall be IN more
common use in the kitchens of to-day.
Other timely and helpful articles in this
issue are: "The Evolution of a Single
Sauce" 'The School Lunch Basket, "
Friends in Need or easy and salts
factory cake baking; Household Meth
ods,' The Early Training of Children,
etc. A sample copy of the magazine
free to any one of our readers who send
name and address to Table Talk Pub
fishing Co., Philadelphia.
1.-THE Overland Monthly for Septem-
Der (San Francisco) freely illustrated,
has these leading features: Frontis-
piece, 1.-THE Canal, Folsom, Cal. .; from
tispiece, "A Rose Cottage, Christmas,
California: Greater California and the
Trade Of the Orient" n. ?. Chapman;
AN American Swordsman,' Hal Har-
ris; "a Summer Trip to Mount Adams, .
Louisa O'Huenty Nash; Campaigning
in the Philippines-IIL, Pandia Ralli;
The Temptation of Anthony" Geral-
dine Meyrick; '"The Trouble at Wash
ington Gulch,' Z. Lincoln Kellogg;
1.-The State Prisons of California Fol
son." P. B. Elderkin; "DOna Dolores,
Kathryn Jarboe; whispering Gallery, =
Rossiter Johnson; Nemesis" Wallace
A. Gorham.
In his "Recollections of Bryant and
Emerson" printed in the, September
18th issue of ''The Youths Companion"
(Boston) Justin Mccarthy says Mr..
Bryant was a delightful host and a
charming companion. He was not a
large and impressive man in sgure,
but he had a superb and Jupiter-like
head. His reading was immense and
varied He had Travelled much and
remembered what he saw. He knew
several languages, and could make an
eloquent speech in French, Italian,
German or Spanish. Before going to
America had the impression, got from
English writer's on America, that no
American could ever learn to speak
any language but his own. Bryant
impressed me almost terribly by his
knowledge of trees and plants. While
we were driving together round and
about his country home he often en-
barrassed me by asking whether this
or that tree or plant fourished in Eng
land. and if so in what particular part
of England Well, I think I know an
oak when | see it. but I am not al
ways quite sure. I knew poplar
everybody knows a poplar; l know a
birch, and l know a palm, but there
my knowledge ends. With Bryant
felt nightly ashamed of my igno-
rance
The New York World has engaged
a number of popular songwriters, such
as Howard and Emerson, authors of
Hello, Ma Baby" Max S. Witt, au-
thor of Moth and Flame" etc., to
write for it a series of ten songs.
The songs the "World" has advertised
that it will give away with its Sunday
paper, one each week. This is a new
piece of newspaper enterprise. 1t will
involve, we are told, a free distribu-
ton of over five million pieces of sheet
music among regular readers alone,
during the ten weeks. This number,
no doubt will be raised materially, as
the offer is made by the World to
send the ten songs by mail along with
ten weeks subscription to its Sunday
paper for fifty cents. London start
ed Sunday papers a few months ago
and couldn't make them pay Amer
ica's metropolis supports Sunday pa
pers so materially that they are ena-
bled to go into enterprises that cost
enough to swamp an ordinary estab-
lshment.
The subject of a very interesting ar
ticle in the September number of the
American Illustrated Methodist Mag
azine" est Louis. MOI is General Rob
ert Edward Lee" by ]. William Jones
d. D. The author was Chaplain of the
army of Northern Virginia and follow
ed General Lee through all his cam
paigns to the surrender at Appomattox
He was afterward Chaplain of Wash
ington College at Lexington, Va, while
General Lee was President of that in
stitution. He was Lees intimate friend
and spiritual adviser. and certainly
none could be more competent to write
of the religious and domestic sides of
the character of the famous Confeder-
ate leader. The article barely touches