Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The October issue Of 1.-THE Californian
is a very satisfactory and readable number.
w. W. Crane, Jr., opens with the first in
stallment of ga Winter in Berlin" followed
by Henry D. Woolfe in " Cruising in Chi
nese Man-of-war." Professor E. r. Sill
gives an entertaining Private Letter." which
proves to be a disguised lecture on certain
grammatical mistakes of frequent occurrence.
Philip G. Galpin contributes memorial
paper on Governor Haight; Henry S. Brooks
has "a Scrap of Frontier History" Alex
ander Del Mar gives the railroad side of the
controversy between "Our Road Builders
and the State;" and Captain Edward Field
has some interesting Incidents of the Seven
Days" Robert Briggs has been to Shoshone
Falls, and draws vivid picture of their
grandeur. Some one in semi humorous,
semi prophetic article entitled 1.-The Battle
of the Wabash" shows the result in the year
20S0 of the unlimited influx of the Chinese.
The usual departments are added. We
notice some able book reviews, written, by
the way, ~ distinguished specialists. Car
lotta Perry, Seddie +. Anderson, and Charles
FL. Shinn contribute the poetry.
"Harper's Magazine for October contains
these leading papers, interspersed with host
of rich illustrations "The Ascent of Full
yama," by c. F. Gordon-C Cumming Art
Needlework, by Lucretia P. Hale; )" Keats, !"
by John Tabb; "reminiscences of John
James Audubon" by Thomas M. Brewer !;
" A Romance of the Hebrides." by Amelia
E. Barr; An Autumn Holiday" by Sarah
o. Jewett; ga Demon Hunt With st. HUI.
bert in Touraine, by M. d. Conway; t Does
Farming Pay pa poem, by Henry S. Good
ale; "The Metropolis of the Prairies," by A.
A. Hayes, Jr.; "White Wings: Yachting
Romance" by VIM. Black The Throck
mortons," by Mary N. Prescott "Some
Peculiarities of Turkish Politics )" "Wash-
ington Square" Part ", by Henry james,
Jr.; "Is 1t All There Still?' by z. B. Gus
I fASr PA Buddhist Vision VI By frances
l.. Mace; Modern Bee Culture" by M.
Rowland Morning and Evening by the
Sea-" by James T. Fields The Sophia
Walker" by Captain John Goldman.
The October "Scribner," the closing num-
Der of the twentieth volume, opens with an
article, in the series on American Sports
on Porpoise.shooting," by Charles G. Ward.
The biography of "Jean Francois Millet-
Peasant and Painter" which appears here in
advance of its publication in France, is con-
tinued. H. c. Bunner contributes descrip-
ton, assisted by numerous sketches, of that
feature of New York city known as "Shanty-
town." The history of the early life of
Peter the Great" concludes in this number.
II. G. Hovey gives an account of his trips
of "One Hundred Miles in Mammoth Cave, +"
aided with illustrations by Barton; and
Samuel Parsons, Jr., writes of Seaside
Lawn. planting" There is timely paper on
the present condition of affairs, especially in
agriculture, in "The New South" by Sid
ney Lanier. There is an article on the
privileges of suffrage, under the title of !" To
Bolt or not to Bolt" by Washington Glad
den, and the final chapters of George w.
Cables novel, ''The Grandissimes." The
editorial departments, as heretofore, are full
and interesting.
The popular Science Monthly" for Oc-
tober ID. Appleton & Co., New York; pre-
sents these leading papers Fashion in De-
formity," by Professor w. II. Flower, F. r.
s.; "Co-operation in England" by George
lies Modern Aspects of the Life CUES
tion," by Professor George F. Barker ''The
Australian Ornithorhynchus :" 1.-The Mystic
rious Sounds Of Nature, /" by Robert Springer !;
"The English Precursors of Newton !" Crit
icisms Corrected" by Herbert Spencer !;
India. Rubber Industries" by Thomas Boz
las g On the Production Of Sound by Light, 4"
by Alexander Graham Bell Education as
an Aid to the Health CT Women" by Eliza
beth Cummings "On the Destruction of In
fictitious Germs, by DIR. A. Wernich; Pos
sible Efficiency of Heat Engines, by Professor
w. A. Anthony g Sketch of George Boole."
"Appleton's Journal Cd. Appleton & Co.,
New York; has these leading papers in its
excellent issue for October: "All Alone, :"
by Andre Theuriet; "The International
Tribunals of Egypt-I.," by the Hon. P. b.
Morgan /" Curiosities of Wills :" A Talk
About Sonnets !" Romance of Literary
S. B. Russ A Perished Kernel" by Alex
ander c. Ewald; The Bradlaugh Contro-
versy AN Englishman's Protest. by Cardi-
nal Manning; Mr.. Bradlaugh and his Oppo.
nents, by Leslie Stephen; Brain and Mind; :"
Modern Italian Painting and Painters" by
James J. Jarves; " Health and Home" by
B. w. Richardson, M. D.; Smiling and
Mourning" by Alfred P. Graves.
From the Leonard Scott Publishing Com
pany we have Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine - for September American edition)
These are the titles of the leading papers /:
''The Pillars of the State )" "Dr. Wortles
School :" 1.-The Bayard Of the East !" "A
Week in Athens :" !" A Lasting Memory
bush Life in Queensland"
est. Nicholas y for October (Scribner & Co..
New York; completes Volume VII. 1t is
handsome number, full of brilliant illustra-
lions and admirably prepared matter for the
youth of the land.
"The Wide Awake ID. Lothrop & Co.,
Boston, is at hand fer October. It is one of
the brightest and happiest of the issues OF
that excellent journal for the boys and girls
Of the country.