The union Democrat., 1869-01-23
sayope. CALIFORNIA.
aturday Morning, Jan. 23, 1869
Literary Notices.

pAcIrrc co.sr ALMANAC AND YEAR Book or FAcrs ron
lsc3. sau Francisco Henry q. Langly, No. el2 Clay
Street.
We are indebted to compiler for the above
excellent Almanac and collection of valuable
statistics. II is fully up to the standard OF
the Pacific Coast Almanac for previous years,
and should be in every house on this coast
Price so cents.
The LrrlE CoHPors An original Magazine for Boys aud
Girls. Chicago: Alfred l.. scwell.
The January number of this meritorious
publication is before us. 1t is, like its pre-
decessors, filled with choice juvenile litera
ture. 1t is published at the low price of one
dollar n year.
Tnr' NEW EclIc1ic M.oAuSE. Baltimore Turnbu
Murdoch
No. !, of volume 4, for January 1869, OF
this Magazine is on our table. It's contents
are we'll selected and embrace articles from
leading Americans, rs we'll as European peri
odicals. Art, science, bellies lettres, poetry,
literary criticism aud choice light literature
are duly proportioned in its pages. The
magazine "a n whole cannot fail to be accept
able to persons of cultivated literary tastes
The subscri ption price is 81 90 per annum.
Tux San FR,vcrsco FAIRY; tale of Early Times. San
Francisco: c. T. Kimba Co..
This little work is tolerably fair modern
attempt at fairy tale making, and the story is
told in passable verse 1t is founded upon a
~ Enl1on
damned up with rocks, and the whole Valley
was great inland sea with its entrance to
the ocean down near Monterey. Notwith-
standing its apparent simplicity, it is diff
cult matter to write good fairy tale, there
fore we do not care to critcise this effort too
harshly. 1t is probably as good as could be
expected in a country like ours, where the
genius and spirit Of fairy literature are so
little understood.
EXPLORATION NILE TRtBurARIEs OF AnYssINIA, by
Sir S. W. Baker NJ. A., r. q. s. Hartford o. d. Case
4 Co. San Francisco Francis Dewing Co
This work completes the solution of that
great geographical mystery-the source, or
rather sources of the Nile. A former work
Of Sir Samuel Bakcr-"The Albert N'yanza
NTeut Ddslh VI tuC NiiS PUp''ebCd IA ANOp'
has given an account of the equatorial lake
system from which that river derives its
source. In his preface to The present work
the author says: at has been determined
hy The joint explorations of Speke, Grant and
myself, that tho rainfall of the equatorial dis
tricts supplies two vas. lakes, the Victoria
and the Albert, of sufficient volume to sup
port the Milo throughout its entire course of
thirty degrees of latitude" This work dem
onstrates that while the Nile is fed by the
equatorial lakes. the annual inundation is
caused by the rainy season floods of the two
great Abyssinian arteriss--the Blue Nile and
the Atbara. This work is n narrative Of
twelve months exploration, during which the
author examined every river that is tributary
10 the Nile from AbysSinia. Judging from
the sample pages before US, the work is IN
tcnScly interesting. The interest felt 10y the
reader IL enhanced by knowledge of the fact
that Lady Baker shared with her husband
the hard>hipS and priya,ionS Of this explora-
tun OF terra iRco1Ri,. The work is for sale
by subscription. The ageat, Mr.. JAS. Dewiug,
has hceu in eur county during the past week
anl has had great success in getting sub
scrihets.