Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-11-24
OALAVERAS CHRONICLE.
MOKELUMNE HILL:
SATURDAY: NOVEMBER "a. 1866.
New Books.

We have received from H. H. Bancroft
Co., publishers and book sellers, San Fran
cisco. the following books which have been
recently issued from the press:
The GOVERNMENT AND LAWS OF THE UNITED
STATES: Comprising complete and COM
prehensive view of the rise, progress and
present organization of the State and Ma
tional Governments. By Prof. William
B. Wedgwood, LID. Schermerhorn,
Bancroft & Co., New York. H. H. Ban
croft & Co.. San Francisco.
Prof. Wedgwood has supplied want that
has long been felt by the entire business COM
munity. The valuable knowledge which
this volume contains. although of the utmost
importance to those engaged in every branch
of industry, is with difficulty obtained by the
careful student, and has hitherto been entire
ly inaccessible to the masses. Commencing
at the earliest period in English history, the
author gives short, succint account of the
formation and progress of the Governments,
both of this and the mother country. 1t is
a compendium of the laws and most import
ant facts connected with our Government
from the date of our national existence, down
to the present time, presented in language
readily understood, and in such form as to
be easily comprehended by the masses. 1t
contsins description of the Legislative, ju-
dicial and executive departments of our Gov
ernment, as well as the laws relating to the
business transactions of everyday life: such
as promissory notes, attachments, executions
injunctions. assignments, etc., etc, and it
also contains forms which will enable any
business man to draft notes. receipts. wills
bills of sale. etc. 1t is. in fact, law library
complete within itself. and no business man
can afford to be without it. While designed
more expressly for the use of citizens at large,
the author asserts that the law student who
can promptly answer the five thousand ques-
tions which follow the several chapters, will
find no difficulty in passing an examination
for admission to the bar. 1t is one of the
most valuable books ever issued from the
press, and should be in the hands of every
business man and student throughout the
country.
SEXUAL PHYSIOLOGY: A Scientific and Pop
ular Exposition of the Fundamental Prin
ciples of Sociology. By IL. 7. Trail, NJ. D.
Miller, Wood & Co., New York. H. H.
Bancroft & Co., San Francisco.
There is. perhaps. no subject upon which
people are so lamentably ignorant. and still
none which so directly interests mankind, as
physiology. That man is .'fearfully and
wonderfully made" most people are aware;
but very few, comparatively speaking. are
acquainted with the structure and anatomy
Of the body in which they live. The partic-
ular branch of this important subject to which
the work before US is devoted. has, especially
been ignored by the public as indelicate, or
as too intricate to be comprehended by any
except those medically educated. DIR. Trail,
the author, one of the most celebrated prac-
titioners in the United States, has endeavored
and succeeded in producing work which
while it treats the subject in thoroughly
scientific manner, is so SIMPLE in its style and
clear in its calculations, as to be easily un-
derstood by all. The book is exceedingly
well written. handsomely illustrated, free
from medical technicalities and contains in
formation which cannot be too widely difused
Although but recently issued, it has already
reached its third edition. No library is COM
plete without it.