The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-12

Rev. Burt Estes Howard; 1.-THE Present
Aspect of Experimental Psychology
Professor Edward Moffat Weyer, Phi.
d. Geipsic); "Savonarola," Rev. H. H.
Peabody; "A Day on a Trout Farm, or
the Story of Handy's Folly" B. o.
Flower; THE New Education Joseph
Rodes Buchanan; "A Contribution to
the Study of Psychic Phenomena, w.
G. Todd; ''The Social Ethics of Jesus, %
Professor Jean du Buy, Phi. D.; why
am Baptist" w. c. Biting, D. D.;
Social Democratic deals and the
Church. Rev. R. e. Bisbee; "Our Trop-
ical Garden in the Pacific" B. O..
Flower; Dreams and Visions. Mrs.
&c. K. Reifsnider; "Silvam Church Fes-
tible" Ca story, Will Allen Dromgoole;
Who Hath Sinned?" the story of a
scientist.
Municipal Engineering" for May
Qndianapolis) is up to it's own high stan
dard in all respects. 1t has often been
pronounced in these columns the most
useful practical magazine of the age,
and we adhere to that Judgment Pity
that it is not taken and studied by
every municipal officer in the land
how much better and more economic
government we would have in cities if
this were done. For we cannot con-
ceive of such study being fruitless. In
the current number are these features:
ingredients of Cubic Yard of Con-
crete, and the Cost" l.. c. Sabin, U. S.
Assistant Engineer; Landscape Engi-
neering," w. K. Eldridge, City Engineer
of Lafayette, Ind. Data on Asphalt
and Brick Pavements in American
Cities" S. NJ Gray, c. E.; Restriction
of the Waste of Water" Allen Hazen,
C. E.; 1.-The Utilization of City Refuse .
w. F. Morse; Objections to Municipal
Ownership OF Lighting Plants"
=
Trained Motherhood" for May CNew
York; has among others these features:
Our Nursery Rhymes" Katherine
Louise Smith; Some Matters Relating
to the Physical Care of Children" l..
Emmett Holt M. D.; Childhood of the
Nineteenth. Century Ellen Lee Wy
man; Distinction" Edwin Rosenthal
M. D.; THE Baby's Diary" Mrs Rob-
ert Watson; Hints to Mothers on over
coming a Bad Inheritance" Ellen A.
Wallace, NJ. D.; Tied to His Mothers
Apron Strings" Minnie c.. Dinsmore;
Have Girl Friends" Claire K. Alden.
1.-The Overland Monthly for May
(San Francisco has these features and
papers freely illustrated: Frontispiece,
THE California State Capitol''; frontis-
piece "Malemute Kid halted him.;
"vailima: The Place of the Five Riv-
ers," A. r. Rose-Soley, "At Pa,a Mis-
sion," Charles A Keller; THE Men Of
Forty-Mile," Jack London; 1.-The Uni
versal Boon" c. l. Story; "Negotia-
tons for Cession of California" Will
berforce Bliss; THE Flowers of San
JUAN" Katharine Lansing; Redwood
Blooms" Viola L. Boardman; Tile
Pale-Green Alder Way" Ella Higgin-
son; "A Successful Pacific Coast writ
er: Ella Higginson," Elizabeth A. We're;
In Springtime, the Only Pretty Ring
Time" Mazda Castelhun 1.-The Ending
of the Watson Case" Susan Lord Cur
rier; THE Training of Teachers Thorn
as ]. Kirk; THE Old Home in Butte -
Lillian Shuey; His Story: A Tale of the
Sixties" Kate T. Tilden; Camping or q
Government Forest Reservation" John
II. Barber; college Life at Mills, .
Frances Smith; Shall There be a
Woman's College in Californian" Jane
Seymour Klink; Man and the World -
Theodore c. Williams; The Cry of a
Soul" Saidee Louise Gerard; "a Sol
dier's Sweetheart L. T. Adaven; THE
Whispering Gallery Rossiter Johnson.
The much-heralded thousand dollar
story, Queen Cophetua and the Beg
gar-Man," by K Murray Eliot, is pre-
sented in the current issue of 1.-The
American Queen (New York; together
with another short story, entitled 1.-The
Intermediary" by Mrs. Herbert, both
being profusely Illustrated; THE Story
of Fashion" for the spring and summer
of 1899 comprises hints and suggestions
upon dress and millinery and a veritable
picture gallery of the latest creations,
by Abby E. Underwood, and Casfmfr Of
Paris; DO Mothers in-Law Deserve
Their Reputation?'' and Should Girls
Be Sent to Boarding SCHOOL," are the
subjects of couple of symposiums ably
discussed by wellknown writers, while
THE Charm of Children and ION
Leaving School" are other articles
which attract attention The usual de-
partments-Emp1oym for Self-Sup-
porting Women, Beauty and the Toilet,
Domestic Science, Embroidery, Puzzles
and host of other interesting and
helpful subjects complete the May issue
and make it one of the best numbers
put out by THE American Queen"
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