The record-union., 1899-05-07

anonymously as a serial in 1.-THE Living
Age" (Boston) since the first of Janu-
airy, is now disclosed. The letters are
the joint work Of Mrs. Fuller Maitland
and Sir Frederick Pollock, a combina-
ton which goes far to account for their
range and cleverness. The publication
in The Living Age is by a special ar
pangement with the authors. The Ger
man appreciation of Kipling, which
THE Living Age has translated from
the "Englische Studien," is keen, just
and discriminating. Kipling is widely
read, and to judge from this estimate,
is well understood in Germany. People
who find a good deal of current fiction
somewhat too grewsome and CORY Will
appreciate Mr.. Robertsonsi essay on
1.-THE Murder Novel; which forms the
leading article In 1.-The Living Age for
April 10Th. Henri Lavedan's story of
"A French Courtship," which 1.-THE Liv
ing Age translates from the French
and publishes as a two-part novelette,
in it's number for April 22d and 18th,
has very delightful humor and mai
vete.
The NORTH American Review" for
May (New York; is at hand With this
number George B. M. Harvey assumes
editorial management of the North
American Review" Our attention is
drawn to the contents of this issue, as
illustrating the clear purpose of the
new editor to conduct the Review"
on the lines of its highest traditions
The size of the magazine has been
enlarged, and certain other material
improvements have been made all
which will crafty the reading public.
The contents for May are: THE War
With Spain Q), Major General Mel
son A. Miles; China and the Powers"
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford;
THE Religious Situation in England"
Ian Maclaren; THE Nicaragua Ca
nal," Hon. Thomas B. Reed; What
Spain Can Teach America" Nicolas
Estevanez, ex-Minister of War of
Spain; England in Egypt and the
Soudan,'' Colonel Charles Chaille Long;
THE New Poetry" William Dean
Howells; Conditions and Needs in
Cuba" Major General Leonard Wood;
Court martials in England and Amer
ica," Right Hon. Sir F. II. Jeune; THE
Curse in Education" Rebecca Harding
Davis; Work of the Joint High Com
mission" a Canadian Liberal; Origin
and Development of Wireless Telegra
ply" G. Marconi; Wireless Telegra
phyllis Scientific History and Future
Uses," j. A Fleming, F. r. S.
In the current issue of "Harper's
Weekly Franklin Matthews discusses
Sanitation in Havana" the article be-
ing the sixth in his series dealing With
the reconstruction of Cuba. 1t is in
teresting to know that since the Ameri-
can authorities assumed control of the
city that the death-rate has been cut
almost exactly in half II January,
1898, the deaths in Havana numbered,
according to the imperfect accounts of
the Spanish authorities, 1901: in 1899,
under the accurate system of records
made by the Americans, the deaths
We're 800. 1.-THE figures for February"
says Mr. Matthews, had not been made
up when 1 left, but the indications were
that the death rate would be even lower
than in January"
Among the contributions to the four
May issues of THE Youths Compan-
ion" will be four-chapter serial by C.
A. Stephens, called THE Old Minister'S
Girp'; Mrs. Stowe as a. Mother" by
Susan Munroe Stowe; Some Memories
of Famous Authors by Justin McCar-
thy; In An Arctic Hurricane" by
Lieutenant r. E. Peary; ION Their
Wedding Journey" a North Carolina
mountaineer story by Alice Morgan;
and THE Parshley Celebration" Me-
mortal Day story by Sarah Orne Jewett.
ular Science Monthly CNew York; has
these papers in addition to the full reg
ular departments: Alaska and the
Klondike. I. In by the White Pass and
Out by the Chilkoot," by Professor An
gelo Heilprin Gllustrated); THE Origin
of European Culture" by Professor
William u. Ripley Qllustrated); Liquid
Air" by Professor Ira Remsen Qllus-
trated; 1.-The Physical Geography of
che West Indies. II. Birds,'' by DR.. f.
l.. Oswald Gllustrated); Insane Char
acters in Fiction and the Drama" by
Professor c. Lombroso; Colonial Elk
pansion and Foreign Trade" by Jacob
Schoenhof; 1.-THE Interpretation of Ma
ture," by Edmund Noble; From Serf-
dom to Freedom" by Edward Bicknell;
THE Behring Sea Controversy Again."
by Professor 7. c. Mendenhall; Causes
and Prevention of Insanity by Smith
Baker, M. D.; Sketch of William PEN
pp11v with Dnrtraitl