Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-04

! CNddl1l QlfllC blc bDiultlc. anu. tbrCbL-Cl
make up most valuable contribution t
scientific history.
From Scribner & Co, New York, we hay
handsome quarto entitled a Selection {
Spiritual Songs, with Music. for the Sunday
School" 1t is by Rev. Charles s. Robinson
ID. d. The publishers say that becaus
) among the churches of nearly all denomina
lions there is widespread dissatisfaction
. with the ephemeral character of both hymn
and music in most OF the compilations Tor us
in the prayer-meetipg. there came a genera
and urgent appeal for more substantial
book at q low price, and this persuaded DR.
Robinson to prepare volume for this pun
pose, which should be mainly compiled froa
the pages of the larger work, so that It's US
in the social meetings might prepare the way
for more intelligent and hearty participa
| ton in the Sabbath services. This work con
tains 553 hymns rnd $50 tunes. with page
aud type of the same size as in "Spiritla
Songs.p A few valuable additions have beer
made to the material taken frop the fnl
volume, which are especially attractive fol-
the prayer and conference meeting.
From D. Appleton & Co., New York. We
have the " Popular Science Monthly" fol
September. The contents, in addition to the
regular Departments, are: The Science Of
Comparative Ju.isprudence, by William IL
WINS Estate Eiucation a Help or Hin
drance ?" by Auberon Herbert How Ami
mais Digest, by Herman L. Fairchild; :. The
| Solar System and its Neighbors, by Z. b.
Warning, PHI. D.; Legal Prosecutions of
Animals, by William Jones, Z. S. A;
. Psychogenesis in the Human Infant, by
Professor w. Preyer; " Climbing Plants, "
by Francis Darwin, f. L. s.; Esthetic
Feeling in Bids" by Professor Grant Allen
ELECTRICITY and Agriculture, y by DR.. Paget
Riggs g Geological Education" by PROBES
sor w. S. Barnard ''1he English Precur-
sors of Newton )" " Night-schools in New
York and Paris" by Alice H. Rhine
Sketch of Joseph Leidy, N. D."
From Oliver Ditson & Co.. Boston, we
have new common school and juvenile class
singing. book, entitled g Song Bells" 1t is
by L. o. Emerson, most successful music
writer. The work contains complete and
attractive course of elementary instruction.
Song Bells has PIG pages, of which about
fifty are devoted to the . elements" thirty
six pages to easy and pretty melodies in ell
the usual keys, l04 pages to the usual school
songs, including some unusually popular ones,
as 'Blue Alsatian Mountains" Nancy
11E6, anu lHlCbe4il4-tl &itef WHICH
twenty pages contain sacred music for open
ing and closing. - Graded" singing books
are now in use in q number of cities and
towns, but genial general collection ike
this is not out of place, even there, az an ex-
ira book, while it is just the thing for thou
sands of schools that are but partially graded.
From D. Appleton & Co., New York, we
we have two more numbers Of Appleton new
Handy-volame series. The frstis French
men of Letters" by Maurice Mauris Mar
quis of Dicalenzano) In this volume he
presents TO Us peu-pictures and personal
sketches, drawn with free and graceful
hand, of Victor Hugo. Alfred de Musset,
Theophile Gautier, Henri Murger, Sainte-
Beuve, Gerard de Nerval, Alexander Dumas,
fls, Emile Angler, Octave Fsuillet, Victor
len Sardou, Aiph0nse Daudet and Emile
lola. The other volume is Julian Sturgis'
Little Comedies. consisting Of these plays
g Apples" g ire Flies, ;" g Picking Up the
Pieces, +" Halfway to Already" labels
Holy Day" and 6 Heather"
From A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, we
havea $40. page volume in stiff covers, entitled,
4" Life and Public Services of james A. Gar
field" by Major J. NJ. Buniy. The work
contains fine steel engraving of General
Garfield. and complete and elaborate ex-
position of the alleged frauds in connection
with the Credit Mobiiier and DeG0llyer mat
ter. making these matters as clear as light,
and showing General Garfeld's position in
the matter beyond any question of doubt to
be that OF the honest, pare, conscientious and
high-mindeG man.
From a. L. Bancroft & Co, San Fran
cisco, we have Harper & Bros. edition of
George T. Fish's American Manual Of Par
liamentary Law, or the Common Law of
DeIiberatiye Assemblies. It's systematically
arranged for the use OF the pariamentarian
and the novice. One of the advantages Of
the book is the readiness with which any sub.
ject may be found, through the use Of side
index cut into the pages after the manner of
an index book. 1t is e very complete work,
compact and condensed TO the smallest posi-
bic space.
From the Leonard-scott Publishing Com
pany, New York, we have . Blackwood's !
Magazine for August. The CON
tents are: s. A Reindeer Ride Through lap |
land, A Talk about Sonnets, The |
Blackbird, . Hans Preller, Legend of the |
Rhine Falls, Bush Life in Queensland !
Part k" Central Asia-The Meeting |
Place.of Empires, :" In the Dser-Forest-A /
Day Bswitched, +" DR.. Wortles School
Part W." Irish Distress and its Origin,
: Ministerial Progress"
From A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, we
nave the international Review for Sep.
.enber, with these leading papers. " Money"
by Professor Bonamy Price; The Myth Of
he Virgin in Painting and Sculpture, - by I
d. G. Hubbard George WhiteheId, by |
William Myall Bamennais," by August /
Laugel; Nubar Pacha and the Armenian
Christians" BIZ Edwin De Leon Henry /
Iimrod," by Henry Austin '.The Presi-
lential Election, by John Jay.
From D. Appleton & Co., New York, the
. North American Review ia received for
with these articles "The Ruins
If Central America-Part T., by Desire
Jharnay The Perpetuity of Chinese IDsti-
utions." by S. Wells Williams, LII. D.;
The Trial of Mrs. Surratt, by John w
jlampitt; The Personality of God, by
William t. Harris, LII. D.; Steamboat
Disasters" by r. b. Forbes Iusincerity
II the Pulpit, by the Rev. Edward Everett
Hale; Recent Works on the Brain and
Nerves, by George NJ. Beard, II. D.
THE Sanitarian for September a. n.
Bell, of New York; is at hand, and presents
hese leading papers in addition to the regu-
at departments: Laws of Inheritance, BY
Nathan Allen, MD. Man Destroys, Ma
ure Economics EpideInics, by Sir
Joseph Fayrer, K.CS.L, LID, MD,
RS; London Fogs," by DIR. Frank
and "a Female Crusoe, y by Absalom h.
stuart, ND; "What kills; 'Preven-
ion of Syphilis, by Z. Honeman, MD;
The door Of Sanctity-W Whining in Prayer"
From A. l. Bancroft & Co, San Fran.
isco, we have three other volumes OF
he Franklin Square Library, entitled, re-
pectiyely, THE Dukes Children" by
AnthonY Trollope; Miss Bowverie," by
hrs. Molesworth, and "The Queen, by Mrs.
)hphant The latter volume has forty-four
and is sketch of the life Of
queen Victoria Of Great Britain.
From D. Appleton & Co., New York, we
ave their annual edition of the Summer
Book for the Woodside and Seaside Ii is
brilliantly illustrated work on the various
umuer resorts of the country and the promi-
ent hunting aud fishing grounds Of the East.
t is supplemented by several short stories
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