Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-30
TIE WEEKLY UNION
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From A. l.. Bancroft & Co. San Fran
cisco, we have Harper & Bros issue of John
Swett's new volume entitled "NIethods of
Teaching; Handbook Of Principles, Di-
rections and Working Models for Common
school Teachers" It is intended for use in
normal schools ard normal classes as basis
for instructing in methods Of teaching for
the use OF those who intend to become teach
ers without taking q course OF professional
training, and for experienced teachers who
believe there is something to be learned from
the suggestions OF others. The characteristic
features claimed for this manual are: Its
strict limitation 10 the essentials CT common
school instruction its condensed and specific
directions its working models for beginners.
MIR. SWEET thus speaks of the volume: So The
attempt to reduce teaching methods TO con-
densed statements and bird's-eye views Is be-
set with many difficulties readily appreciated
by practical educators. But what the young
teacher most needs is a definite direction or
method; ne will learn to make for himself all
necessary qualifications and exceptions in
schoolroom practice. My chief purpose
has been, therefore, to make, not
an exhaustive treatise on educa-
ton in general, but a volume of
principles, directions, and working models tor
the practical guidance of the rank and file in
the great army of common-school teachers "
From a cursory examination Of the book 1t
appears to be all its author claims for it. By
extended use only can 1t be freely tested.
Scribner's Monthly Magazine for No
vember comes to US in new covers, as it en-
6ers upon its twenty-frst volume and eleventh
year 1t is a very fully and freely illustrated
number. Its leading papers are: "The
Sewer y "Peter the Great" by Eugene
Schuyler; i" Bordentown and the Bona
parties" by j. B. Glider Walt Whit
man" By z, c. Stedman; . The Secret OF
Second Sight" by an ex-conjurer, Henry
Hatton 1.-TWO Singers, by Susan NJ. Spald-
ing Tiger Lily" by July Schayer; - The
Thought of Aslyanax Beside lulus, by Mrs.
S. NJ B. Piatt; Zervia Hope" by Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps q" The Lost Hellas," by
Hjalmar II. Boyesen "a Chapter on
Tableaux," by Philip O'Sullivan Jean
Francois AIillet, by Alfred Sensier; s. Elihu
Vedder," by Chas. DeKay; MIR. Glad
stone-Leonard Woods, by r, H. Dana !;
g Artemus Ward" by E. S. Nadal, and the
regular reviews and editorial departments.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have Volume XN. of g The
American Decisions" completed and anno-
tated by A c. Freeman of the Sacramento bar.
This series has from time to time been freely
noticed in these columns. The cases re-
reported in this volume will be found origin
ally in the following reports Stewards
Alabama Reports, volumes 2 and 3, 1880;
Connecticut Reports, volume s. 1880; Black
ford's Indians Reports, volume 2, 1880;
J. J. Marshalrs Kentucky Reports, volumes
5, 4, 5, 1885: Martins Louisiana Reports, \.
s., volume 6, 1880; Louisiana Reports, vol
umes l, 2, 1880; Greenleafs Maine Reports,
volumes 9, Z, 1880 BANDS Chancery Mary
land Reports, volume 2, 1929 80; Gill & John
sons Maryland Reports, volumes 2, g. 1880;
chickering's Massachusetts Reports, volumes
Q, 10. 1880 New Hampshire Reports, vol
ume ), 1929 80; Halsted's New Jersey Re-
ports, volume 6, 1880; WendelPs New Y ork
Reports volumes 2, 3, 1928 30.
The g American Catholic Quarterly Re-
view for October Hardy & AIahoney, Phil
adelphia) presents these leading papers ::
I" Free Thought in England" by Arthur f.
Marshall "Our Great Goddess and Her
Coming Idol, by John Culinary Shea, LII. D.;
g How to Find the Truth" by DR.. Daniel
Cans; - Notes on Spain" by st. George
Mivart, FRS, etc.; American Influence
on the Democratic Movement in Europe,
by John MacCarthy e" Catholicity in Ken
tucky-The Elder Family" by Benedict j..
Webb; " Bishop Stevens on Auricular Con-
fession and Private Absolution," by Rev. j.
John Gray Influence Of the Sun on Ter
restrial Magnetism" by Rev. J. NJ. Degni,
S. J.; "Beza as a Translator and Perverter
of Gods Word" by J. A. c.; . Dante, by
John Z. McAiahon.
The Popular Science Monthly" Cd. Ap-
pleton & Co., New York; has these chief
papers in its November number, in addition
to the usual editorial departments THE
Development of Political Institutions" by
Herbert Spencer; 1.-The Suns Heat" by
Professor G. A. Young; Education as a
Hindrance to Manual Occupations, by Pro-
fessor SYlvanus 7, Thompson; The Glacial
Man in America, by B. F. De Costa a" A
Flock of Neurological Crows" by w. ID.
Gardner, NJ. D.; The Electric Burglar
alarm y Mental Imagery" by Francis
Cation, f. R s.; g Henry aud Faraday. by
Professor Alfred NJ. Mayer; The Evolu-
ton Of Organic Form" by Charles Morris
The Profusion Of Life, by Arabella B.
Buckley "Criticisms Corrected" by Her
bert Spencer Hypnotism," by George J.
Romanes; Sketch of Lewis II. Morgan, u
byJ W. Powell
White Wings is a yachting romance by
William Black 1t is from the press Of
Harper Bros, New York, in an octave
volume in cloth, and is for sale by A. l..
Bancroft & Co, San Francisco. The scenes
are nearly all laid on board the yacht of q
pleasure party on a long cruise about the
shores of Scotland 1t is a love tale told with
an air of reality, and in a naturalness OF
tone that makes the reader forget it is fiction,
as he follows up the details Of the coustshir
of Mary Avon and the doctor on board the
White Dove, and beneath the fraternal bu,
short-sighted watchfulness of the big-healteC
old Scotch Laird The novel has been run
ming as a serial in Harpers' Weekly, and ha.
been admitted generally to be one of Mr.
Blacks best efforts.
From G. T. Beauregard, manager of tn,
Hood Orphan Memorial Fund. New Orleans
we have large vo. volume. entitled "Ad
vance and Retreat; or the Personal Expe
riences in the United States and Confederate
States Armies" by J. b. Hood, Lieutenant
General in the Confederate army. This worl
consists of General Hoods own MS. accoun
of his military career. 1t is freely illus
trated with maps and plans OF battle-ground
of the rebellion. The most significant chap
ter in the entire work is the last, whereof
General Hood criticises the policy OF Genera
johnson with vigor and cutting emphasi
that is an admirable example of polished an
bitter military criticism. The work is pull
lished for the benefit of the Hood 0rpha
Memorial Fund.
From Cassell, Peter, Galpin & Co., Me-