The record-union., 1899-02-06

European Superstitions,' President
Gilman on TocqlHville's Democracy in
America" and Professor Sloane en-
Bismarck" in Mrs. Van Rensselaer, on
"Old New York and ambassador
White on a famous Russian states
man, though the past of DIR. Whites
and Professor Sloane's articles is very
recent one. Fiction is abundantly and
brilliantly represented by DR.. Mitch
els Francois Mark Twain's THE
Austrian Edison Fernald's THE yell
low Burgee," Longs Purple Eyes,
the American Winston ChurchilPs by
Order of the Admiral" etc. Six full
page wood-engravings continue Coles
great series of 'Old English Masters,
and three by Wolf and one by Aitken
reproduce as many of Gilbert Stuarts
Portraits of Women But these are
only a few of many large and smaller
illustrations on which the resources OF
the "Century's" art department have
been lavished. Nor have we done more
than hint at the variety of matter in
the magazine during the half-year in
question, saying nothing of the mis-
cellaneous essays and travel papers, nor
of the manifold oddities of pen and
pencil in the pages In Lighter Vein.'
The two bound volumes of st Mich
olas'' for young folks for the year end
ing October, 1898, show successful
effort on the part of Mary hlapes
Dodge and her associates to miEgle in
struction with amusement. Rudyard
Kipling's Just So Stories" alternate
with illustrated articles ON American
warships and guns and armor. and
Frank r. Stockton's buccaneers and
Pirates jostle Tudor jerks Boys in
Armor,'' and emphasize the peaceful
tone of the verses of Miss Edith Thorn
as and Miss Mildred Howells. 1t was
in these numbers of est Nicholas that
such of this seasons favorite books ap-
peared as Mrs. Jackson's Denise AMI
Ned Toodles." Trowbridge's 1.-TWO Bid
dicut Boys" Hughes 'Lakerim Ath-
letic Club. Fezandie's Through the
Earth" and Miss Clouds Down Dur
ley Lane The variety of the maya
zines contents might be easily illus
trated Mrs Stuart's darky stories
contrast strikingly enough with papers
on natural history, on the bell towers
of Italy and on candle-making IN
Sweden; and THE Story of the Wheel,
for bicyclers, is as far removed as pos
sible from James Whitcomb Riley's
| Mister Hop-Toad" and Gelett Burgess
"Purloined Christmas" and "A Giant
Baby Then there are comical
pictures and letters from young read
ers and pages upon pages of puzzles, to
say nothing of "Truzzles" with ex-
planatory diagrams.
OF THE Old South Leaflets" (Boston)
we have Nos. 81 and 50. The second is
entitled Letters of Washington and
Lafayette" and the first Lafayette IN
| the American Revolution" The name
| of Lafayette will be on American lips
during the next two years more than
| for many years past. A Lafayette Day
has already been observed in the pub
| lie schools; and the movement to rear
/ in Paris next year, as tribute from
/ the American people, a noble Lafay-
| cite monument will keep constantly
/ before our public the thought OF our
peculiar obligations to this great friend
| of America in the day when America
need of friends was Sol urgent. A good
1 service to this end is rendered oppor-
timely by the publication at this time
| of these two new Old South leaflets de-
voted to Lafayette and his relations to
America.
i OF that delightful series issued by
I G. p. Putnam's Sons (New York; Lit
tie Journeys to the Homes of Eminent
Painters. Statesmen, Patriots and
/ Scholars ,, ett1. we have No / of Vol.