The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

table of contents, in addition to the
departments-"Sel Culture" having
now attained to the rank of one of the
foremost magazines of the age: "A
Unique London Chapel" Charles Mil
ford Robinson; 'Yuletide Customs. :"
Elizabeth T. Nash; What Is Our Jew
elry?" William E. Webster; THE Pro-
posed Tunnel to Ireland" Anna Erwin;
Colonial Life in New England" Pro-
fessor c. w. Tooke; THE Gold and
Diamond Mines of Africa 1.-The Cen
tennial of the Death of General George
Washington" w. Dudley Mabry; Our
Spanish-American Fellow Citizens"
Mary Virden Shut; Fort Ancient"
Frazer Ellis Wilson; Religious, Politi-
cal and Economic Freedom" Professor
Frank L. McVey; 1.-The Bronte Sisters"
Amelia Wofford; 1.-The Conflict in South
Africa" G. Mercer Adam; Greenwich,
It's Kings. Queens and Heroes >"
Alice D'Alcho; 1.-THE Manatee-A Land
of Palms and Orange Blossoms" Fran
els Omeis and F. w. Fitzpatrick; "An
Enjoys Wife on Japan the editor;
"Nubia of Saracenesco-I" translated
by Hettie E. Miller), Richard Voss;
Lecky's Map of Life-Conduct and
Character" Elford E. Treffry; Betting
and Gambling Frederic B. Hodgins.
Trained MOTHERHOOD for December
New York; is rich in matter of special
value to mothers and those having the
care and culture of children upon them.
The number is especially full, and it has
as Christmas feature the music Of
a new and beautiful Christmas carol.
1.-The American Methodist Magazine"
for December est. Louis) is the most
profusely illustrated number that has
come to hand. The magazine Is un-
usually rich. also, in choice matter, the
chief paper being "Rambles in Nor
mandy" which is richly illumir ated
with fine half-tone pictures.
Table Talk" for December (Phila-
delphia) is at hand rich in receipts,
suggestions to housewives. menus for
home and set table occasions. matter
adapted to the Christmas season,
Christmas table, book reviews, table
serving, ETC., and a charming novelette,
"Ev'ry Month" for December New
York; has fourteen pages of music and
unusual quantity stories, poetry,
number of good pictures and some of
them Of California forest scenery, etc.
1t is notably attractive number.
The "Sanitarian" for December
(Brooklyn, N. ", is at hand. For
over twenty years we have enjoyed the
visitations of this journal. and have
never yet had occasion to speak of it
in other than words of warm common
dalton. Drs. Bell and CORDIALLY have
made 1t service to all men and all
nations. 1t is at once the boldest most
just and least sensational and yet most
advanced sanitary periodical of which
we have knowledge. There are other
excellent magazines, devoted to the
science, certainly, but none that get to
the meat of things better than this;
none that deals with this foremost of
sciences (since it relates to good health,
the greatest good on earth) so simply
and so satisfactorily for the layman.
The contents of the December num-
Der are varied. full of interest and adj
vanced thought.
The Christmas number of Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly" (New York;
is one of surprising beauty and liter
airy distinction. The cover. in colors.
invites to the seasonable banquet set
forth in the table of contents: Room
Ferty-five." farce, by William Dean
Howells illustrated; Paste" COM