The record-union., 1899-01-16

fine stories from his own experience IN
the fight for Santiago; and Hamlin
Garland tells fine true Indian story
in the veritable words of Rising Wolf,
the Ghost Dancer Another of Mr..
Kipling's stories of school-boy life and
several other stories make the number
very interesting also on the side OF
fiction
In last weeks issue of "Harpers Ba-
zar'' (New York; appears the second
part of "Martha's Responsibilities. a
story by H. G. Paine. Another feat
ure of the "Bazar's" fiction is a beauti-
full and pathetic short story by Caro-
line B. Burrell, entitled IA Belated Fun
eral." Lille Hamilton French, in an
article with the caption, .'The Portrait
Show" discusses the art exhibition
which is being held in New York at the
Academy of Design. The article is IL
Illustrated with portraits at present on
exhibition at the Academy. Among
other valuable features are poems of
unusually high quality by Mrs. Marga-
ret Sangster and Albert Bigelow Paine.
The fashion column gives a great deal
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winter fashions for both men and wom-
en-, and the regular departments are
full of bright hints of very general
utility.
'The Bookman' for January (New
York; has for frontispiece a fine por-
trait of Theo. Watts-Dunton, the au-
thor OF "Ay1win." Chronicle and Com
ment'' treats of a large number of re-
cent works, of literary news, of au-
thors, of criticism, Of literary successes
at home and abroad, of curiosities, of
letters, etc. In addition to these feat
ures and to novel notes, the Book
mans Table, and Book Mart" there
are: "A Ballade of Petition" Carolyn
Wells; THE Drama of the Month";.
Norman Hapgood; .rAt Sea- John AL
bert Macy: "a Century of American
Illustration. Arthur Hoeber; Peace"
Benjamin F. Leggett; "The Poet of
Absinthe," Howard Lyndon; Beside
the Western Sea-" Clarence Urmy;
Omar Khayyam at the Caxton Club.
Chicago" W. Irving Way; Omar
Khayyam," Arthur J. Stringer; ''The
Plays and Poems of Richard Hovey,''
Curtis Hidden Page; "a Literary Gu
riosity From Charles Lambs Library"
Luther S. Livingston: .'Song Flight"
May Olcott: "A Visit to Whittier" Ed
mund Gosse; "Mr. Theodore Watts
Dunton's Romantic Novel; w. Robert
son Nicoll: "Otto Won Bismarck" Harry
Thurston Peck; "A Precursor of Real
/ m, Fred ric Tab r Cooper: "All Ways
of Love-" Curtis Hidden Page; Exile, -
Virginia Woodward Cloud; ''Kipling's
Women" Arthur Bartlett Maurice
Literary Paris" Adolphe Cohn: Lit
erary London" W. Robertson Nicoll
Captain Mahan, in the Engineering
Magazine (New York; for January,
gives worldwide interest to "The Re-
lations Of the United States to Their
New Dependencies" He depicts the
two great colonial policies of recent
times-Spanish extortion, decline and
disaster, and British beneficence, devel-
opment and strong federation. Mr..
Going follows with clear presentation
of the pre- eminent interest of the en-
gineer in every problem of economic
or national policy. These are the tao
tics of the industrial battles of the day
in which the engineer is both leader
ard principal Mr. Warren has STIR
ring paper on 1.-The Fighting Engineers
at Santiago" disclosing startling facts
The foresight of the chief engineer on
one United States ship changed the re-
suits of the battle and the conclusion
of the war; It will aid powerfully in
establishing proper relations between