The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-02
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


The January Atlantic (Boston)
opens the new year and the new vol
ume brilliantly with careful and dis
eliminating comparison between the
Destructive and Constructive Energies
of Our Government, by President Eliot
OF Harvard University. DR.. George
Bird Grinnell, out of a long Indian ex-
perience, pleads for a better under
standing of the red man, whose nature
he claims is wholly misunderstood:
and he draws a picture of the old-time
Indians, their lives, homes and charac-
teristics, which will be a revelation to
all who have not like DR. Grinnell,
lived with and among this people, and
| learned to know them as they really
are. LeBaron R. Briggs, Dean of Har-
ward College, arraigns frankly and
sharply many parents for sins which
are visited on their children, or COM
mitted by them in their college courses.
Such college misbehaviors are SO be-
cause their parents have so formed
them, or because their fathers look
with indifference, or even approval, up
On conduct which they ought to con-
denim. Professor Briggs believes that
college is no place for those who
abuse or misuse their privileges The
pleasant and peaceful tenor of Mrs
Howe's "reminiscences of her happy
youth, and of the refined, cultivated
and distinguished people who gathered
in and around her quiet home. again
stands in sharp contrast with the rest
less, ominous and stirring youth of
Prince Kropotkin, whose narrative of
his early years now approaches the
crucial point Of his dramatic career,
by his graduation from his military
school and his taking service in a ST.
berian regiment. Professor Hugo
Munsterberg discusses the various
forms of mysticism in their psychology
ical aspects. Chalmers Roberts "A
Mother of Martyrs gives a thrilling
and pathetic description of his own
actual experience, of the terrible
Turko Armenian massacres at Con-
stantinople two years ago. including a
touching story (taken down from her
own lips) of one mother whose sons
killed themselves before her eyes to
escape worse fate at the hands of
the 'unspeakable Turk" Bradford
Torrey's F'ranconia experiences deal
with the autumn beauties of the won
derful White Mountain region, in his
well-known picturesque and delightful
way, while more than usual interest
is added by his personal descriptions
and his feeling tribute to the memory
of former tourist companion of his
rambles. Mrs Phelps-W Wards epoch
making poem Of "Salutation to Mich
olas H." with number of shorter
poems; Norman Hapgood's trenchant
criticism of the modern stage in his
sketch Of 1.-THE Actor of To-day; sew
eral entertaining short stories, dis
eliminating review Of the novels of
the year, and a. Contributors Club" of
unusual attractions combine to make
a notable opening for the Atlantic"
for 1890
.Lippincott's'' for January (Phi1adel-
phia) has these entertaining papers:
1.-THE Mystery of Mr. CAIN" Lafayette
McLaws; Poor Car1otta," Lucy C.
Lille; 'At Low Tide" (poem), Arthur
D. F. Randolph; The Other Mr..
Smith, Ellen Douglas Deland: 1.-THE
Great Debate of 1888" Charles Cotes-
worth Pinckney; John Rutland's
Christmas" Henry A. Parker; "At the
Drinking Fountain (Sextain),' Charles
G. D. Roberts; Liberty" an interna-
tional study" Felix L. Oswald: "The
Human Heart" (Quatrain), Dora Read
Goodale; BLACK Feathers Throw" Jo-
seph A. Altsheler: why Did Not
Become a Smuggler," L. G. Bradford;
"a Roman Race (Sextain), Harrison
S. Morris; "a Reporters Recollections,"
J. L. Sprogle; Parting Comrades"
(sonnet) May Riley Smith; Fin de
Steele Individualism," Gertrude Evans
King.
Perhaps the most welcome feature of
tHarper's Bazaar" (New York; for jan
uary will be the opening chapters of
new serial by S. R. Crockett, entitled
Kit Kennedy" a delightful story in
the authors usual style. Among other
features are short stories by Annie E.
P. Soaring and Maude H. Ohl Dr. Muir
rays articles on Life and Health" will
be continued, and there will be great
variety Of special articles in addition
to the regular departments.
"Harper's Weekly" New York; for
1899 announces a new serial by H. G.
Wells, entitled when the Sleeper
Wakes" Another important feature
was the Christmas number of 1898.
This issue contains appropriate stories
by Frank Stockton, Hezekiah Butter
worth and John Kendrick Bangs. The
number consists of forty pages and
cover in colors, and is especially val
liable from an artistic point of view.
Howard Pyle has a double-page in col
ors, and drawings by Albert Steiner
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