The record-union., 1899-01-30

passed to date by the present Congress;
history of the annexation of Hawaii,
and many miscellaneous topics. It IS
mailed for 20 cents.
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An event of the literary year will be |
the great novel upon which Count Toll
stoy has been laboring in order that he
may devote the proceeds to the trans |
portation to Canada of 5000 Russian
.Quakers. It is generally believed by
his friends that this work will probably
mark the conclusion Of Count Tolstoy's J
literary career. Not merely on this
account, but because of the subject |
treated, it will attract the widest at
tention, the world over. 1t is a pro-
found study of the life of man and wo-
man, ard treats of the three phases of
love-that of the youth, that of the
young man, and that of the man in
mature age. The Cosmopolitan Maya
zire' (New York; announces that 1T has
secured the sole right of publication
God is Good to the Irish" was the mot
to Inscribed over a pipe crossed on a
whisky bottle, which the witty Dion
Boucicault invented for the coat OF
arms of the ''Shaughraun Club" This
interpreted ton of the purposes of Divine
Providence would seem to be borne out
by an article in the January "Cosmo-
politan' treating of the Irish leaders
of the nations and showing that not
only. has England a Lord WOlseley,
Lord Roberts, and a Kitchener, but that
Spain has a Duke of Tetuan Russia
General Obrutscheff, and Hungary a
Viscount Taafe, not to mention an end
less array of other Irishmen who have
reflected honor upon their native land.
The January number of the Annals
of the Americans Academy (Philadel-
phia) contains the following: THE
Growth of Great Cities in Area and
Population" by Professor Edmund J.
James; THE Final Report of the None
tary Commission" by F. A. Cleveland;
Wealth and Welfare" Part H., by
Professor H. H. Powers; "A Unit in So
Geology" by Professor Albion w. Small,
and "A Reply to Professor Small" by
Professor S. NJ. Lindsay. Besides these
papers there are the usual departments
of Personal Notes." Sociological
Notes, Notes on Municipal Govern
ment," and the Book Department."
The New York World Almanac and
Encyclopedia for 1892 is quite all it's
title implies a veritable encyclopedia
of valuable information. 1t contains
very full history of the American-Span-
ish war besides. 1t is a volume of
nearly. 600 pages. These contain mass
of political, commercial, census, educa-
tional, national, State, civil service, Eu-
ropean, and other statistics, with di-
rectories of patriotic societies, CONTRA
ternal organizations, secret orders, rec
ords of games and sports, papers on
game laws of all the States, records of
sporting events, tables of telegraphic
and other tariffs an index of railroad
system, platforms of parties, Congress
sional directory, and host of other
interesting reference matter. 1t is, in
deed, an encyclopedia. 1t is mailed to
any who apply for a small price.
The "Woman's Home Companion
for the opening of the New Year
Springfield, o. is a brilliant number,
rich in illustration, chaste and choice
in matter, and varied enough to meet
every taste of the refined home circle.
It is a magazine we can cordially
commend to the homes of California.
The February number of st Mich
olas" (New York; is one young folks
will hugely enjoy 1t is one of the
most handsomely Illustrated numbers
the Century Company has ever sent
from press, and Mrs. Dodge, the ac-
complished editor has made it's matter
informatory, entertaining, humorous. /
interesting, instructive and SO varied |
ho ic n he A.
logued here.
The Ladies Home Journal for Feb
ruary Philadelphia) is a seasonable
and charming number of one of the
most famous of home magazines. 1t
is fully and handsomely illustrated and
the matter Is abreast with the high
standard Mr. Box set for the publica- |
ton long ago. In this number begin
two great serials, Outside of One
Hundred Homes and Inside of One
Hundred Gardens.
The story of the great transconti-
mental mail train race of January z,
1899, is told in most graphic way in
the current issue of "Harper's Week |
ly" by Cy Warman, who made the
journey in the engine cab. The estab- |
lishment of this fast mail service has
brought the North Atlantic and Pa
cific Coasts thirteen hours nearer to-
gether and is a most notable event in
the history of railroading. Mr.. War
man is already famous as writer OF
railroad stories, and 1.-THE Black
Fliers'' reads like a page out of a
novel. Kipling is not the only writer
who knows how to put life into cogs
and rivets
Among the best features of the cur
rent number of "Harper's Bazaar" are
four Nibelungen sonnets by the we'll
known musical critic, E. l. Stevenson.
The sonnets are entitled, respectively,
..Das Rheingold," die Walkure."
.Siegfried" and Die Gotterdammer-
ung.'' and are Illustrated in most
artistic fashion from the scenic designs
for the original production of Wagner's
"Tetralogy' at Baireuth, In 1876. The
four sonnets and their four Illustrations
make a very notable page in the "Ba-
zar.''
The complete novel in the February
issue of ''Lippincott's" philadelphia
is For the French Lilies" by Isabel
Nixon Whitley. The action is chiefly
in Italy in 1511-12, and in this remote
period the author shows herself at
home Warden Allan Curtis tells ''The
Tale of the Doubtful Grandfather" and
most extraordinary tale it is, such
as surely was never told before. In "a
Nioht in Devipc Gl1l1y'' Owen Hall rec /