Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-21
FAREWELL TO BUFFALO BILL.


SONGS FROM THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF ALFRED
TIN YsoN. Set to music by various composers.
Edited by W. G. Cusins. New York Harper Il
Brothers. San Francisco: A L. Bancroft X Co.
One large quarto volume Illustrated.
This work, on being opened, possesses
every one who glauces at its pages and has
particle of music in his soul with strong de-
sire to become at once the owner Of the vol
ume. 1t is an attractive book, one that
promptly and most amiably introduces itself.
The illustrations are by Winslow Homer, G.
S. Reinhart, A. Fredericlls and Jessie Curtis.
There are printed In this quarto fOrty-tve
songs, and thirty-tive OF them are new and
original works, composed expressly for the
volume. Z" In accordance with now all but
universal custom" says the editor, the
songs have been printed in the treble clef.
Some of the pieces, which were evidently
better suited to polyphOn9us treatment, have
been set as part songs. The music IN nearly
all cases is arranged with piano accompanl-
ment The composers, whose music frames
the poems, are John FIancis Barnett, j. L.
Hatton, r. Jackson, w. G. Cusins, Giro
Pinsuti, Walter Macfarren, Joseph Joachim,
Joachim Rolf, Sir Herbert 0akeley, Fran
cisco Berger. Florence A. Marshal, f. H.
Cowen, Franz List, W. H. Cummings. John
Hullah, A. Bandegger, Arthur Sullivan,
Henry Leslie, Sir j. Benedict George Hen
schell, &. Hubert, II. Parry. Xaver Schwar-
wenka, f. Gordon, q. Villlers Stanford,
Emily J. Troup, Oh Gounod, Francis Hueffer,
J. Massenet, Jacques Blumenthal, q. A.
Macfarreu, Joseph Barnby, Otto Goldschmidt,
Camille Saiut-Saens, Il. Silas, Berthold
Tours, Harold Thomas and a. MAINS. The
volume is an eminently lit oue-it was
happy thought, indeed, which first conceived
the idea of collecting gems from Tenpysoa
and adjoining them by the graces Of music.
AltsRlcAy DECISIONS. Volume XIV Comp led and
annotated by A. c. Freeman of the Sacramento
Bar San Francisco A. L. Bancroft Co.
Bancroft & Co. have issued the fourteenth
volume of this valuable work. the scheme
and scope of which we have heretofore fully
noticed and analysed. The present number
embraces 81 pages, and the cases re-reported
will be found originally reported in the fol-
lowing State Reports Litteljs Kentucky
Reports, vols. 3, /, 1S2S-lS24; Martins y.
S. Louisiana Reports, vols. l, 2. 1S23-lS24 /;
Greenleaf's Maine Reports, vol. 3. 1924 1925 ;
Harris & .Johnson's Maryland Reports. vol.
6, 1S23-1S25; Missouri Reports, vol. l, 1924
1927 New Hampshire Reports vol ), 1928
1926 Halstead's New Jersey Reports, vol.
3, 1S25-1S26; Governs New Y rk Reports,
vol 2, 1S23-1924; Hopkins Chaacery New
York Reports, vol. l, 1923 1926 Hawks
North Carolina Reports, vol. 5, 1S24-1S25
Sergeant & Rawle's Pennsylvania Reports.
vols. II, IL. 1924, 1925; Harper's Equity
South Carolina Reports, vol. l, 1S23-lS24 ;
Peck's Tennessee Reports, vol. 1, 1S21-lS24 ;
Randolph's Virginia Reports, vol ?, 1928
1924.
THg AMERICAN L'AssoaNolR. parody on Zolas'
'sL'SssommOr." by Joseph Sidney. Philadel-
pbia: T. g. Peterson & Bros. san Francisco
Billings. Hsrbourne s. Co.
The only surprise about this book is that
Sidney should have written. and the Peter
sons should have published it. 1t is miser-
able failure, without particle of wit, a ray
of humor, or a line Of wisdom. It is in no
sense parody. 1t is poor in composition,
trashy. unnatural, and by all odds the most
worthless production Of the day. 1t is pitt
ful to contemplate that in any one the greed
of money is so great as to induce him to pre-
sent such trash as makes up this volume FOL
people to purchase Sidney knows better than
to claim merit for the book, and the Peter
sons know better than to offer it to their
patrons with even the pretense of giving a
consideration the price of the book exacts.
HAWTHORNE. By Henry James, Jr. New York
Harper Brothers. san Francisco A. l. Ban
croft & Co. VOL; Svo.; muslin boards
Mr.. James has given US in this little vol
ume an admirable critical essay, with some
thing of the character OF biography. Haw-
thorne's career was not an eyentfI one, and