The record-union., 1899-02-06


by Charles F. Holder; "A Short History
of Scientific Instruction: H." by Sir T..
N. Lockyer; 1.-THE Series Method: a
Comparison by Charlotte Taylor;
1.-THE Earliest Writing in France" by
Gabriel de Mortillet; sketch Of Gabriel
de Mortillet'' with portrait); Scientific
Literature" and Fragments of Sci
ence."
The midwinter number of 1.-THE Cen
tu1y'' (New York; is remarkable for the
variety and interest of its articles on
other than military subjects, yet It
finds room for no less important a
contribution to the history of the late
war than an account Of thei part played
by the army in 1.-THE Capture of San
ti2go de Cuba" the historian being
Major General William r. Shafter. The
General writes with force and spirit.
The current installment of Lieutenant
Hobson's fully illustrated story de-
scribes wildly but with becoming mod
esty the experiences of the writer and
his men after the sinking of the collier
Merrimac, giving interesting details
hitherto unpublished. Walter Wellman,
commander of the Wellman polar ex-
petition, writing under date of August
2, 1888, from 1.-The most northerly in
habited house in the world" describes
the experiences of his party thus far
| ION the Way to the North Pole" The
opening paper, entitled Harvesting the
| Nile" is ex-Consul General Penfeld 8
account of the proposed creation of
vast reservoir at the first cataract, hav-
| ing two or three times the superficial
area of Lake Geneva, its object being
the irrigation of agricultural Egypt.
What Charles Dickens Did For Child
hood with full-page. illustrations by
Albert Steiner, is the title of very
interesting paper by James L. Hughes,
Inspector of Public Schools, Toronto,
| showing that Dickens was one of F'roe-
bei's earliest supporters in the English
speaking world. Professor Wheeler's
Alexander the Great recounts this
| month the conquest of Asia Minor, and
Paul l.. Ford's Many Sided Franklin"
shows the philosophers attitude toward
religion. Boutet de Monvel. the distin-
guished French portrait painter and il
illustrator, now visiting America, is the
subject of an article by Miss Marie
Van Worst, illustrated with a portrait
of the artist at work, and reproduc-
tons of several of his paintings. How
Other Countries Do IT. summarizes the
results of an inquiry by the State De-
partment into the Consular system of
other nations. Marion Crawford con-
tinues in Via Crucis" his fascinating
romance. The frontispiece of this num-
Der is Coles engraving of Opie's por-
trait of Mary Wolstonecraft.
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The February st Nicholas (New
York; transports the youthful reader
from the SHOWS of the so-ealled tenn
the tropics, though the storm at Apia,
hardly tempts one to exchange
York and Boston for the hurricanes Of
the Pacific. The story has its back
ground the Samoan storm of ten years
ago, that ground warships to pieces as
if they We're made of pasteboard IL
effective contrast to this tale of rack
and ruin is Leonard Bruen's Sleepy
Little Story" THE Don's Boots form
the subject of song by Tudor jerks
Mistress Cinderella by Miss Marga-
ret E. Wilkinson, recalls an incident of
one of Lord Fairfax's New Years balls
at Greenway Court, in the good old
colonial times. Lieutenant Peary re-
counts some of his experiences in a
paper on Polaris' and 'Cassiopeia,'
and Other Bears" and George A. Henty
continues his American story, "Thes Sole
Survivors. :" The Jungle Book in the
Jungle" is series of humorous pic
lures without words by Oliver HEREFORD.
Nothing in this number is more inter
esting than Ida Rose McCabe's illus
trated account of the achievements Of
An Invincible Horse Tamer"-John S.
Rarey. THE World Upside Down. is
one of the themes discussed in Mr.
Houses serial, Bright Sides of His
tory" The magazine is especially rich
in poems and pictures. Among other
things its readers are treated to is THE
Latest News About the Three Wishes
the newsbearer being Rupert Hughes
The frontispiece shows WASHINGTON
firing the first gun at Yorktown
The more striking features of the
February Critic (New York; are
"Thackeray at Charterhouse," with or
iginal sketches by Thackeray and re-
productions of his schoolboy manu-
scripts. No collector of Thackerayana
can afford to miss this number of the
Critic" The frontispiece of this issue
is a medallion of w D. Howells and his
daughter, Miss Mildred Howells. the
Lasts work that Augustus ST. Gaudens
did before he sailed for France Both
licensees are admirable The Febru-
airy Critic would be worth preserving
for this medallion alone, but there are
many more illustrations as we'll as spe-
cial articles that give it unique value
In the February number of "Harper's
Round Table, New York; the hero of
Kirk Munroe's serial story of the late
war is carried through Cuba, and at
last reaches Santiago after many stir
ring adventures and hairbreadth es-
capes. Ensign Yates Sterling, who was
on a United States man-of-war off
Cuba, contributes a story entitled "An
Incident of the Santiago Blockade"
Henry Fischer writes about brave
Russian soldier under the title, wolves
vs. Discipline" Among other features
are another Little Portergee" story,
and a golf story by F. H. Spearman,
entitled The Caddies' Tournament"
Reginald Gourlay is the contributor of
an interesting paper entitled AN I'm