The record-union., 1899-11-09

English masters appear Lawrence
Duke of Wellington" and 'Old
Crome's Household Health and a
Windmill" Nor does this exhaust the
list of full-page. pictures. There is a
hitherto unpublished poem by the late
James Russell Lowell oversees Written
in a Copy of Shakespeare'); the true
and terrible story of the adventures OF
a boatload of castaways on the Pacific
is told by Mark Twain; Governor Roose-
welt writes with forcefulness of Mill
tary Preparedness and Unprepared-
ness; a poem, THE Golden Crown
Sparrow of Alaska" is by John Bur-
roughs, and a humorously grewsome
piece of realistic fiction by DR.. Weir
Mitchell turns for us the first leaves
of THE Autobiography of a Quack. -
In the life-story of a Maine farmer and
'longshore sailor, President Eliot OF
Harvard resumes his occasional con-
tributions on The Forgotten Millions.
Captain Slocum continues his single
handed cruise around the world. Fic-
ton in short story form is furnished
by Abraham Cahan, Ella darcy and
Seumas MacManus, and verses, grave
or gay, bear the familiar names Of
John Vance Cheney. Lila Cabot Perry,
and Charles Battell Loomis
The New England Magazine (Bos-
tom for November contains among Its
important illustrated articles a graphic
account of 1.-The Great Boston Fire OF
1872" by Robert G. Fitch of the Bos-
ton Transcript The series of articles
on New England cities and towns is
continued with a history of Franklin
and Wrentham. The author, DR.. J. c.
Gallison, prominent resident of
Franklin, has impaired life and color
to his narrative. The illustrations in
clude views in both towns A. F. Web
er's paper on American Economists of
To-day" attests the value of our schools
of economic and political science Por-
traits of General Francis A. Walker,
Henry C. Carey, Henry George, David
A. Wells and other leading economists
appear. The life-work of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy receives sympathetic treat
ment by Mrs. Henrietta H. Williams in
chapter entitled "The Founder OF
Christian Science ''The Romance OF
Pioneering" by E. p. Powell, is a por-
trayal of the New Highlander in his
westward march a century ago. w.
Henry WinslOw's chapter on John Rus
kin is a careful and critical estima tie
of Ruskin. The fiction in this number
is of unusual excellence, including a
story by Anna Garlin Spencer entitled
Jane Simmons, Trustee, and Ada
Elizabeth Herrick's How Betty Spoke
the Governor, and there are also many
good poems. The Editors Table takes
up the subject of the true teaching OF
patriotism and good citizenship in the
schools, with some severe reflections
upon false and mischievous patriotism
The latest portrait of w. d. Howells
is given as frontispiece to the Novem-
Der Critic" New York;. 1t was taken
by Miss Ben Yusuf a few days before
Mr. Howells started out on his lectur-
ing tour There are three articles In
this number dealing directly with How
ellis and his work. In the third, Wal
don Fawcett tells of the pleasant rela-
tions existing between Mr.. Howells and
his brother Joseph, who conducts a
small printing office in a Western town,
where all of Mr.. Howe1rs's novels are
put into type. In this number VIII
also be found an article on Historic
New York, by Joseph B. Glider, one
OF the editors, of THE Critic Shakes
pearean scholars will read with inter
est DIR. w. J. Rolfe's exhaustive history
of The Shakespeare First Folio" There
is an article on Gilbert Hubbard, with