Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-22
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

l. K. Funk & Co., of New York, some
time since entered upon what may well have
been considered doubtful undertaking, in
view of the very many cheap popular series
issued by old houses. 1t was the publishing
of what is entitled as the STANDARD Series"
per page of clear type. The object was to
present some Of the choicest specimens of
English literature in volumes at Is, 20, %
and 80 cents EACH However doubtful the
undertaking at first, there is now no que stion
of its success. We have noted the receipt of
several of the Standard Series, all works of the
highest character, such as g Macaulay's Es-
says, 4" Prof. Blackie's Self-Culture, " Life
and Works of st. Paul. " by Canon Farrar,
and several of Carlyle's best books and essays.
We are now in receipt of "Town Geology"
by Charles Kingsley; Life and Anecdotes
of Rowland Hill, i" and "Tennyson's Idyls of
the King" Recently the firm has entered
upon still broader field and is now publish
ing " Knights Popular History of England
at so cents per volume. It is the cheapest
edition of the work ever issued and comes
within the means of the poorest, enabling
family to possess the history for less than So,
which has hitherto sold at S1S This new
system of cheap forms of standard literature
Is one to be approved, and of all the series
now published none have taken up better
class of works than the STANDARD"
The contents of "Appleton's Journal y
ID. Appleton & Co., New York; for June are
as fellows: 1.-The Shakespearean Myth"
concluding paper-Extra Shasespearean The
cries, by Appleton Morgan Herr Drom-
mpI'S ~ hv Victor ttharhnltcz
fin Two Parts-Part First); Burton's ''Anat
omy of Melancholy y " Hearth and Home,
Part Second, by 3. W. Richardson, Al. D.;
Seniors Conversations" second series of
selections; "Siberia, a chapter from Rus
STA and England, from 1876 to 1880" A
Swiss Novelist !" Dreams - internal Ma
chimes )" ''The Spanish Theater." Editors
Table" The Dilemma of Connoisseur =
Mental Aptitudes Western Tomatoes.
Books Of the Day-Herbert Spencer's Ger,
emonial Institutions ;" Captain Fracasse :;
Wards Chaucer )" Sister Dora )" {" De-
mocrscy p "Studies of Irving" 'Recollec-
tons and Opinions of an Old Pioneer"
duchess d'Abrantes' Memoirs of Nspo-
leon"
1.-THE Californian" for June (the A. Roman
Publishing Company of San Francisco pre-
sents these leading papers; 1.-The Inter
oceanic Canal and Geographical Congress-
by Ferdinand de Lesseps; "A Practical
View of the Indian Problem, by Guy How
ard I; "Shoshonee,n by Joaquin Miller
1.-The Hawaiian Islands, by j. III. David
son 1.-THE Nemesis of Fraud, by Nj. How
land "A Summer in the Saddle, by Chas.
II. Shinn The Nest in the Oak, by 5. Il.
Anderson Carmelita, T" by Mary w. Giss-
cock /; "a Cycle" by Milicent W. Shinn,;
Shelley and the Revolution, by Josiah
Royce "a Duel in the Backwoods OF Ala
bama," by James Wilton The Unchosen
in the Market-place, /" by Margaret A. Brooks
"Our Schools" by Henry nj. Fiske "A
Visit to the Samoun or Crocodile Caves, py
E. w. Pailhet.
"Morford's Magazine" (H. Morford,, n:
Y, for this month is at hand, and its table OF
contents shows this new journal to be ad-
vancing rapidly to the front ranks OF maya
zine literature.
1.-THE Wide Awake ID. Lothrop L Co.,
Boston. for May, is as fresh and bright as
ever. No more useful magazine can be placed
in the hands of children.
The magazine of Art tCasseli, Petter'
Cabin & CO., N. Y.,) is at hand for May. 1t
il freely illustrated and its leading articles in.
elude II leaves from Sketcher's Note Book.
" Pictorial Elements in English Secular Archl-