Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
TEE BoY TRAVELLERS IN SIAN AND JAVA By Thomas
W. Knox New York: Harper & Bros. San Fran
cisco a L. Bancroft Il Co. VOL; quarto. IL
Illuminated covers cloth, red, orange and gold


This is delightfully."- interesting and richly.
illustrated volume. Tor which young America
ought to give thanks. Mr. Knox is we'll
known journalist, and in that capacity has
Travelled much in foreign parts. This is the
second volume he has given to press for the
youth Of the land. His style is graceful,
simple, clear, and to the youthful mind he
adapts the text with great skill. His habits
OF observation, highly cultivated, gave him a
great advantage in his travels He saw all
things-noshing escaped him worth seeing.
BIT he did not sit down to tell what ne saw
to his readers in the usual way. He invested
his recital with all the charm OF the accom-
plished story teller's art. He brightens his
pages with scores of anecdotes, and he carries
on his recital through the medium of two
youths, who are supposed to be making a
tour through Siam and Java. In this vol
ume there are 10 less than Jag Illustrations,
and not one of them is mediocre. We know
of no better way in which to interest boys
and girls in geography and history than to
induce them TO enter upon the reading Of such
works as this now under notice
Tue LOVERS OF PROVENCE. Manuscript Romance
Of the XI Century Cloth, gilt s3 so. New
York Fords, Howard Hubert Sacramento
w. A. x C. 5. Houghton.
An elegant holiday volume handsomely
illustrated. The manuscript version of this
work, called "Aucassin and Nicolette," has
been famous among the antiquarians and
literary men of Paris as one of the very few
perfect remaining productions of the days of
| 1t. L.
minstrel song-story, composed to be alter
nately chanted and recited, and called
chaattable. ''The very existence of the
name" says the learned CASTOR Paris. in his
preface to the modern French edition OF the
book, "implies that of an entire class, of
which only this specimen has come down to
u.s. The old story is pearl reset by modern
art in rich setting, and is, In points OF
beauty and interest, and In paper, printing
and the quaint binding design with diaper
ground work OF harps, in gold and ink, and
rich, antique lettering ornamented with lutes
and roses and other romantic reminders of
the days of minstrelsy, altogether delight
fully fresh and unhackneyed fern OF gift
book.
How l FOUND IT NORTH AND SOUTH Together with
Mary's Statement. Boston Lee Shepard.
Sacramento: w. A. & c. S. Houghton. l vol,
Svo., muslin.
This is brief bat exceedingly interesting
and very homely story of the adventures of
New England family in efforts to work farms,
first in Massachusetts, and last in Florida.
The trials of the amateur farmers were severe
enough, but quite as ludicrous as pitiable.
There is not bit of romance in the story. 1t
is all sober fact, and told in the most dis
ingenious manner. The writer saw the de-
lights of Boston suburbs and the orange
groves of Florida through most prosaic eyes,
and Invested all things of poetry and romance.
The little volume is full of suggestive in
formation and warning, and cannot but prove
of aid TO all who propose to leave city life
and enter upon farming. To farmers the
book will prove amusing, but not uninterest-
ing In other respects.
FRox MApaE TO MARGARET By Carroll Winchester.
Boston, Lee Shepard. vol; muslin svo.
A very charming and simple story.
young physician, cultured in European
schools, marriss simple country girl, whose
transfer to fashionable life sets her head in
whirl, and brings on conflict of judgment
and authority between herself and husband,
which is full of touching suffering on the part
of both. Incidental to the story is the pa
thetic picture of devotion to the wife by her
blind sister, and charming sketch of rural
felicity on the old home farm of the two
sisters. In all, it is one of the pleassntest OF
novels, chaste, helpful and moving on an ell
evsted plane of thought and sentiment.
Mr. BoDLEY ABROAD Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
Co Sacrament W. A. & c. S Houghton.
Quarto; board covers; Illuminated
This is the latest of the Bodley Books"
which are so well known that little need be
said now concerning them. In this volume
Mr.. Bodley goes abroad and writes back to
his family what he sees in Europe. But the
volume is not entirely given up to accounts of
foreign places and people. Much Of the
matter relates to the Bodley family at home.
and in every chapter there is a lesson in a
story. The book is quite as interesting as
any of the series and could be read BY all
little folks with exceeding benefit. 1t is
freely and handsomely illustrated.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have volume 81 of the American
Decisions" compiled by A. c. Freeman, OF
the Sacramento bar. The worth of this series
we have heretofore enlarged upon. 1t now
ranks as a standard which no lawyer in full
practice can well omit from his library
The cases re-reported in this volume will be
found originally reported in the following
State reports Saxton's New Jersey Reports,
Vol l. 1880 Halsted's New Jersey Reports.
Vol. z, 1880; Paige's Chancery New York
Reports, Vol. 2, 1880; Wendeli's New York
Reports, Vols 4, 5, 6, 1899 80; Devereux's
North Carolina Law Reports, Vol. 2, 1880;
Penrose & Watts Pennsylvania Reports.
Vols. l, 2, 1929 so; Rawle's Pennsylvania
Reports, Vol 2, 1880; Bailey's South Caro-
lima Law Reports, Vols. l, 2, 1880; Baileys
South Carolina Equity Reports, Vol. l. 1880;
Vermont Reports, Vols. 2, 3, 1S29-S0
Leigh's Virginia Reports. Vol 2, 1880; Stew
arts Alabama Reports, Vol. 3, 1881 Stew,
art & Porter's Alabama Reports. Vol. /;
1881 Connecticut Reports. Vols. s. 9, 1881;
Blacxford's Indiana Reports, Vol. 2, 1851.
From Harper Bros, New York, and a. L.
Bancroft & Co.. San Francisco, we have
three more of the Franklin Square Library
volumes. These embrace Disraelis new
novel, Endymion," and six volumes OF
Morley's Englishmen of letters, to wit: Me
noirs of Burns, Goldsmith, Bunyan, John
son, Scott and Thackeray. How 1t is that
such standard works can be issued at such
marVelously low prices viii continue to be a
surprise, as each of the volumes named, pub
lishel singly, stand at 81 in the book market,
but the Franklin Square series gives the six
Tor 81 Genus. FeTly ILLS lS INC aye VI ~"
rates in the publishing world.
1.-THE Dental Jairus," a magazine growing
rapidly in favor Or. W. o. Thrailkill, Sac
ramento), is at hand for December. The
number is full one, and presents these in
teresting papers: Cooperative Dentistry"
by Dr.. r. W. Henderson what Is the
Outlook?o by DIR. George A. Mills The
CogswelI College" by w. j. Craig Dent
lists Tools" by Horace u. Pope; Local
and General Ansesthesia by Bromide of
Ethyl by NJ. Terrillon Illinois State
Dentsl Society )" 9 Iowa State Dental So
cietv;' .Collectanea :" 'iPacife Dental
Society :" " Editorial Notes"
"Rev. Mr.. Dashwell is the title of a
small pamphlet novel from the press of the
American News Company. It is the story of
Of fashionable young minister educated to
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