The record-union., 1899-02-06

..Frank Leslie,s Popular Monthly LOT
February (New York; is very a1trac-
tive number freely and handsomely IL
Illustrated and overlooking with cnaste
choice family reading matter. Cnlel
among the papers besides the nctlon
and poetry are: 'West-lndlawaro,
Ho!" by Champion Bissell; An Ola
Spanish Colony" by f. VIII
hanson; Colonial Danes and Liberty
Tea" by Ruth Titus; Campaigning
With Gomez" by Thomas r. DaWley,
Jr.; lice Yachts and Yachting, by
Wilt. P. Pond; sSons and Daughters OF
the Revolution by Flora Adams OAR
ling; ITO Make a Spanish Holiday, by
Mrs Frank Leslie: Ice, Snow and
Frost" by George H. johnson.
"McClure's Magazine for February
(New York; opens with notable poem
by Rudyard Kipling, in which the
white Man. is urged to take up his
burden and go forth and fulfill his di-
vine office of master and teacher to his
.'new-caught sullen peoples, half devil
and half child" There is an account
by Frank Matthews, of an actual des-
cent in the Holland diving torpedo boat.
Hamlin Garland contributes a descrip-
ton of the daily life of the trail Cap
tain Brady relates some more good sto-
ries from his own experience as a tele-
graph operator and train dispatcher.
Stephen Crane depicts some striking in
stances of bravery on the part of ma
rines to whom it fell at Guantanamo to
signal from shore to the ships under
f,,ll 70 ic1 oh, y~y,S hnn r.
ers. A second series of Broweres life
masks of historic Americans is given.
Miss Tarbell's "reminiscences and anec-
dotes of Lincoln in all the complexity
and panic of the outbreak of the war;
E. w. Harden's character sketch of
Dewey at Manila. giving his own OBJ
servations and personal impressions;
and Captain Mahan's account and esti-
mate of Admiral Cervera's movements
in the recent WARFARE all both enter
tanning and valuable. There are also
three excellent short stories-one of
them a story of American political life
by a new writer, and one a vigorous,
joyous tale in Kipling's series of stories
of school boy life. The number is pro-
fusely and handsomely illustrated.
THE North American Review" (New
York; has this table of contents for
February: Imperial Responsibilities
National CAIN by Sir G. s. Clarke
K. c. NJ. G., F. r. S.; High Explosives
in Large Guns" Hiram s. Maxim;
Some Aspects of Luxury" F. Spencer
Baldwin. Professor of Economics in
Boston University; "Old War Prisons
in England and France" Major Arthur
Griffiths. H. NJ. Inspector of Prisons;
Russia as a World Power" Charles
A. Conant; America and the Wheat
Problem, John Hyde: Capture of En-
envy Merchant Vessels" Commander c.
II. Stockton. U. S. N, President Of the
Naval War College: Tuberculosis in
the United States" S. A. Knopf, M. D. :
The Evolution of the Colored Soldier -
DR. w. Thornton Parker; THE Awak-
ening in China" the Rev. DR.. Judson
Smith, Foreign Secretary A. B. c. F.
NJ; "Our Merchant Marine Hon. Sc
reno E. Payne; The Existing Court
Martial System, Earl NJ. Cranston;
How Holland Helps the Helpless
Bessie B. Croffut; Our Fish Supply
and It's Deficiencies" A. H Gouraud.
The recent number of "Harper's Ba-
Ear" is especially valuable to women
because of the tasteful gowns it dis
cusses and its many interesting fash
ion notes. Four pages are devoted to
this subject. Kit Kennedy" the serial
by S. r. Crockett, has already attract
ed attention, and bids fair to be the
best novel Mr.. Crockett has written
since 1.-The Lilac Sunbonnet." Among
the special articles there are two
which deserve special mention: "The
Holy Isles of Russia by Montefiore
Brice. and Women and Men-A Sweet
Enemy" by Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson.
In the February number of the
american Monthly Review of Re-
views" New York; the editor seeks to
apply the lessons of our national fail
ures in the South during the recon
struction period following the Civil
War to the present problems of sim
liar nature in Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines. His deductions are in
teresting and instructive. He says:
The true way to restore the South to
the Union after the war was to restore
the South to its own people," The
same principle applies to-day in the
new territories just coming under our
control. The editor warns us against
new type of carpet Dagger who is
threatening to invade Cuba-namely.
the franchise grabber. A large proper
ton of space in this number of the
Review" is given up to editorial and
contributed articles on the management
of foreign dependencies. Sylvester
Baxter contributes an interesting study
of the Dutch rule in Java, and DR.. Dan
lei Dorchester makes a statistical ex-