Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26

new series. 1t is large and voluminous
monthly magazine of general literature, and
one which is very attractive in form, as also
in the character of its matter, as the following
synoptical table will show: "a Stroke of
Diplomacy" from the French of Victor Cher
buiiez (conclusion); The Comedy Writers
of the Restoration !" Miracles, Prayer and
Law" by j. Boyd Kinnear; Life in Brit
tany:" 'sThe Seamy Side, " BY Walter Besant
and James Rice, Chapters XXVII.=XXIX.;
Teaching Grandmother = Grandmother's
Teaching" by Alfred Austin; The Russian
Gypsies," by Charles @. Leland g First I'm
pressions of the New World" by the Duke of
Argyll; ''The Worlds Paradises; THE
Pulpit and the Stage :" "Trees in Cities !"
Symonds' "Studies in the Greek Poets :"
''The Print Collector y Nora Perry's Her
Lovers Friend" and Other Poems Mary
Mapes Dodge's "Along the Way :" Anna
Maria Fay's "Idylls and Poems, etc.
The American Law Review for Janu-
airy is the beginning of a new volume and
series, in which Little, Brown & Co., of Bos-
ton, the publishers, will issue the magazine
monthly instead of quarterly, as heretofore.
This change is great impl ovement. The
rapidity with which the Courts of the coun-
try are rendering decisions, the multitude of
new questions arising, make monthly issue
of the "Law Revew" Indispensable, 1t being
the leading critical law journal of the CONT
nent. A. L. Bancroft & Co., of San Fran
cisco, are agents of the journal on this coast.
The contents of the present number OF the
new series embrace the following leading pa
pers ''Trespass and Negligence" O. w.
Holmes, Jr.; g Trustees as Tort-teasors, A.
G. Sedgwick "Weld VS.. Walker-The Law
of Burial, with notes" F. l.. Wellman. Be
side these are the usual digests of State and
English reports, reviews, law news, etc.
The "Catholic Quarterly Review" Hardy
& Mahoney, Philadelphia) fer January pre-
sents, among other interesting and scholarly
papers, these leading articles: Pretended
Unity of Modern Philosophy" by Rev. J.
Ming, S. j.; Vacations to the Priesthood, "
'iSocialism at the Present Day." by Rev.
Aug. J. Thebaud, S. j.; 1.-THE Necessity for
Infallibility," by DIR. Daniel Cans arch
bishop Gibbon and His Episcopalian Critic,
DR.. Stearns," by A. de e.; English Man
ners," by A. Featherstone Marshall, B. A,
Oxon; SIS Froude Historian" by j. Gil
mary Shea, LII. D.; Insanity as Plea for
Criminal Acts Insanity as Emotional or At
fective, and Whether Insanity Can Be of the
VIII Alone, by Rev. Walter Fl. Hill S. j.;
1.-The Stack 0'Hara Case, by S. l.. M.
"The Popular Science Monthly" for
February is at hand, from D. Appleton &
Co., New York the publishers. This stand
ard work presents the following table of con-
tents: "rhe Origin of Criminal Law, by
William w. Bllson; "Saporta's World of
Plants Before the Appearance of Man" (illus-
trated); How Typhoid Fever is Conveyed"
by DR.. T. J. Maclagan; s. Hanoverian Vii,
lage Life, by Walter Nordhoff; Maps and
Map making Before Mercator," by Charles
P. DAILY, Ii. d. Gllustratedl Ancient
Methods of Filtration" by Professor H. Car
rington Bolton. Phi. D.; John Stuart Mill, "
VI, by Alexander Balm, Ii. D.; "lmper-
fections Of Modern Harmony" by S. Austen
Schoolroom," by NJ laval; Hygiene in the
Higher Education of Women" by A. Hughes
Bennett, NJ. D.; "Artesian Wells and the
Great Sahara" by Lieutenant Seaton Schroe
der, U. S. n, etc; Popular Miscellany.
''The Dental Jairus" is the title of
neatly printed monthly magazine just issued
at Sacramento, edited aad published by w.
0. ThrailkiIl, Doctor of Dental Surgery. 1t
is journal devoted exclusively to dental
news, practice and advancement, and APP
pears to ill useful field. Beside editorials,
reports, etc, it has these leading papers fer
y he L TtltSSlpH Ou UuE opdSI,
by w. H. Robinson, D. D. S.. Evils Arts
ing from the Daily Use of Astringent Mouth
Washes" by J. N. Farrar, NJ. D.. D. D. s.;
dental Surgery and Medicine, by E. A.
Brewster, NJ. D.; 1.-The Dental Chair. by
Geo H Chance, D. D. S.; The Feigned
Insanity of Troy Dye" by G. l.. Simmons,
NJ. D.; 1.-THE Dental Spy-Glass and Eye
Witness; Z" Too Many Professional Men,.
"The Earl of Mayfeld" (T. B. Peter
son & Brothers, PHILADELPHIA is novel, in
cloth binding, duodecimo. It deals with
scenes in real life, ard largely draws upon
historical records for its characters. The
story is well told, but not brilliantly. The
writer has facile pen, but does not move
upon high plane of thought. As a mere
story it is a good society, semi-sensational
novel of the order which the mere novel-de-
vourer loves 1t has some superior passages,
and the incidents and scenes are wildly
sketched. The dialogues are especially well
made up, and are more natural than is usual
in this class of books.