The record-union., 1899-04-07
tie; Wheat Production. From Farm
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tie; Wheat Production From a Farm
ers' Standpoint, g. A. PARCEL.
The first chapter of new serial by
Amelia E. Barr is the leading feature
of the April st Nicholas Century
Co., New York;. 1t is a story for girls
written in Mrs. Barr's. most attractive
manner, and bearing the pleasant and
suggestive title, Trinity Bells" The
scene is laid in New York, and when
the tale opens, "a young man named
Napoleon Bonaparte is making the
French behave themselves" The mas
cot of the ResoIute, fox terrier be-
longing to the gunboats captain, Com
marder J. Giles Eaton is the hero OF
:" Prince in the Battle of Santiago,
and the dogs owner is the au-
thor of the sketch. This is fol-
lowed by 1.-The True Story of 'Cristobal
Colon" pet cat that was rescued
from the destroyed cruiser of that name,
and presented to Captain Clark of the
Oregon. Lost in Russia is a good
story of boys adventures while ca
noeing on the German Russian border,
and Poultney Bigelow who writes it,
knows pretty much everything about
canoeing and good deal about Ger
many and Russia; he also knows how
to write "The Rabbit Woman OF
whom George A. Williams tells the boys
and girls, is a familiar figure in Broad
way, New York, where shra has followed
her calling. on the sidewalk near Twen-
ty-third street, for many years. The
popular serials of Mr.. Henty, Miss
Carolyn Wells and Mr.. House are con-
tinued, and as usual the magazine
abounds in pictures and verse, includ-
ing the amusing ''Goops" of Gelett Bur-
CESS. The frontispiece, April, is
dainty drawing of dancing child, by
C. NJ. Relyea.
1.-THE Bookman" for April Oodd,
Mead & Co., New York;, besides the
full and extended Chronicle and Conn
ment,' a book of current review in it
self, has THE Uninterrupted Dream, :"
from an incomplete picture by Sir f.
Burne-Jones as the frontispiece. THE
Drama of the Month"; with portraits,
Norman Eapgood; "Marche aux
Fleurs," William Aspenwall Bradley;
April" Benjamin F. Leggett; Janice
Leicester Ford: Inviting on Facts
Ray Brown; Eugene Field and Bill
Nye," Leon Mead; 1.-The Art of the
Month";" with illustrations, Arthur Hoe
ber; "Oliver Goldsmith's Little Sup
pers," Charles Woodward Hutson;
Literary Sculpture Gallery" No. ,,
Perriton MAXWELL George Meredith
and Thomas Hardy; DR.. Henry van
Dyke and the New Chair of English
Literature at Princeton with a new
portrait of DR.. Van Dyke; "Edouard
Rod with portrait. Frederic Taber
Cooper; "Intimation," Virginia Wood
ward Cloud; "Retouches,'' Harry
Thurston Peck; "Where'er Thou Art"
Virginia Frazer Boyle; THE Love Let
ters of the Brownings," Alice Meynell;
THE Child of the Slums in Literature" :"
Grace Isabel Colbron; Paris Letter"
Adolphe Cohn; I'm the Ranks" James
Macarthur; "A Literary Causerie," :"
Clement K. Shorter
The April Overland (San Francisco)
contains several articles of more than
passing interest and value. Among
these is a paper by DR.. John S. White
of the Berkeley School of New York
on the requirements for admission ex-
acted by American colleges. He pleads
for a uniform standard, showing that
the present miscellaneous requirements
subject the secondary schools to an
enormous expense and loss of energy,
and the students to much loss of time
The remedy he suggests and backs up
with cogent arguments is raising the
standards in secondary schools to some
thing like the German gymnasium level,
thus enabling the higher institutions to
become universities in fact. 1t is an
article that will provoke much discus
sion among school men. DR.. R. W.
Shufeldt has scholarly article upon
Chinese Pagodas and Other Architec-
ture." Herbert Bashford, State Librar-
ian of Washington. contributes a paper
on THE Writers of the Northwest
Captain John A. Lockwood, U. S. A,
tells of the experiences of the cavalry
in patrolling the Sierra forest reserva-
tions. Lou V. Chaplin writes about
The Last Days of Old John Brown, .
having obtained much valuable ma
terial from the daughter of the old alb
clifton leader, who now makes her
home in California. The Overland
stories by Jack London in the January
and February number attracted so
much attention among readers, who
recognized that Mr.. London has found
new vein in the rough Alaskan life
that it has arranged for a series of sim
liar stories. That in the April number
is called THE Son of the Wolf" and is
story of a rough northland wooing.
The illustrations are many and good.
"AinsIee's Magazine for April New
York; has a distinct flavor of original
investigation and discovery. The edit
ors have thought it timely to present
to the public the man who built the
fast-sailing Oregon, Irving NJ Scott.
How he rose from poverty to wealth,
and how he turns out vessels like the
Oregon is related in narrative fashion
and illustrated profusely. In the same
number is a curious articls on some In
dian picture writing recently discov-
cred, which tells the story of the Gus
ter massacre as it appeared to the In
dams. The matter is most conservative
in its nature and makes, as written by
j. r. Nichols Kyle, a most interesting
paper. The strange and intricate work
ings of the United States Secret Service
have been studied and mastered by Ar
thur Henry, who contributes to the
magazine the story of this great sys-
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