Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

"The Western (G. 1. Jones & Co., st.
Louis) for January-Fe February, 1880, is an in
teresting number of magazine rapidly grow
ing in popular favor The contents are "My
Lorelei," by Octave Thanet "Women as
Architects. by Martha N. Mckay 1.-THE
Spelling Reform" by N. B. G. True ma
gananda," by VIM. NJ. Bryant; Book Re-
views "Current Notes."
From the Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,
New York, we have Blackwoods Edin.
burgh Magazine" The table of contents in
cludes Theatrical Reform The Merchant
of Venice at the Lyceum; Reata; or
"Bush-L in Queensland Part l.; "Old
Squires and New" 1.-THE Breads and Rivers
of Norfolk and Suffolk !" "A Liberal Ad-
dress :" Political Babies )" 1.-THE Late
John Blackwood."
''St. Nicholas" for January (Scribner &
Co., New York; is fine number, and sure
to delight the boys and girls of America, with
all whom it is great favorite. The table of
contents is very long and includes an appe-
tizing variety of solid and interesting matter,
with wit, information, poetry, story and his
tory. Even the very little folk are remem-
bered, and section of the magazine is given
up wholly to matter suited for infantile
minds The illustrations are many. bright,
and full of spirit.
From A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, we
have the international Review" for Janu-
ry, 1880. It presents the following valuable
papers: "Rubens," H., with portrait by
Flaneng, by Philip Gilbert Hamilton "The
Islands of Okinawa," by Charles Lanman
1.-TWO Poems," by +. w Bourdillon Vel
low Fever" by John S. Billings, M. D.;
1.-The Service of Francis Lieber to Political
Science and International Law" by DIR. J. G.
Bluntschill; Current Literature in France"
by E. De Pressense; William Goblet" by
Henry Cabot Lodge; William Kingdom
Clifford" by John Fiske; " Contemporary
Literature Recent English Books
"The Wide Awake" ID. Lothrop & Co.,
Boston, is upon our table for January, 1880.
1t is bright and welcome number Ella
Furman, the editor, has catered most success
fully to the tastes of the young people. The
illustrations are especially good this month.
The number comes with enlarged pages and
a very choice list of articles, story, song, an
ecdote, and q useful chapter on art. The
opening paper, "Us Boys and the Other
Boy." is by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and
among the contributors are Mrs. S. NJ. B.
Piatt, S. G.. w. Benjamin, John Brownjohn,
Clara Doty Bates Louise Stockton, and
other popular writers for the youth
of the land, with whom the wide
Awake is deserved favorite.
'The Brooklyn New Monthly Magazine, y
(W. w. Swayne, Brooklyn, N. ", is the
title of new candidate for favor in the mag
azine world, which presents its claims with
the first month of the year. 1t is edited by
Henry Morford. The first number is credit
able to the taste and skill of the editor. The
magazine evidently does not aim to move in
so high plane as the standard monthlies.
1t is lighter In tone, mole gossipy, devoted
more to modern fiction and chat than to
science, metaphysics or progress in the arts.
Its title page presents it as devoted espe-
cially to literature, art, fashion and So
ciety." Its editorials are bright and cheer
full, without being laborious, and possess that
are: Brooklyn" by John Hay Furness
ga Deep Delusion. by Benz. P. Shillaber
" Common Sense Applied to Living" by NJ.
H. Cobb "Much Ado About Nothing Ex
traordinary-A Parlor Drama" by Augusta
de Bubna 1.-The Siamese Twins-A Chap
ter of Biography" by William Linn Reese
paul Dubois Runaway Daughter" by
Mrs. Anna M. Pierce g An Album. Rhyme
of Color" by John Y. Harris; at the
Morgue,' by Mrs. E. G. Foster; almost a
Countess-A Romance of the Prince of
Wales Visit to America, 1860" Paddy's
Content" by Lawrence Kyrle Donovan
Checking and Guiding-A Study in Nor
ais, :" by the Grey-Bearded Boy; IAN AL
pine. Crystal Romance" by the Editor
1.-THE Tarpey Cause Celebre," by the Gov
ernor.
"The American Art Review is the title
of new art journal devoted to the practice,
theory, history and archaeology of art. 1t is
from the press of Estes & Lauriat, Boston.
New York aud Chicago. s: r. Koehler is
managing editor, with William q. Prime,
LII. D., New York. and Charles C. Perkins,
A. NJ, Boston, as associates. 1t is quarto
of As pages, elegantly printed and accompa-
MED by etchings of high order. 1t pub
fishes as its list of contributors a column OF
names Of the most prominent artists. art edu-
Gators and art patrons and critics in the land.
The articles in the opening number are
1.-THE Works Of the American Etchers, by
S. r. Koehler 1.-The Washington Monu-
ment,7 Henry Van Brunt The Public and
Private Collections of the United States"
William Macleod :" Ancient Literary Sources
of the History of the Formative Arts among
the Greeks" Charles c. Perkins "Prax
ilstes' Herrnes with the Infant Dionysos,"
Thomas Davidson The Material of Ameri-
can Landscape" w. Mackey Laffsn; I'm.
prsssions in France !" photography u
. American Art Chronicle" The illustra-
lions embrace three 6ne etchings by Clifford
Smillie and Rajon, with twenty-eight en-.
cravings in the text, heliogravures, wood