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ard, Boston, and is for sale by w. A. l. Z. 5.
Houghton, Sacramento. It is an excellent
book for boys. 1t presents no impossihie nor
fictitious character. but where success IN lie
was not the result Of some felicity of position,
neither due to any Of those opportunities that
war, speculation, or some peculiar contin-
gency in society at times presents to aspiring
minds. We are called. on the other hand, to
follow step by step the progress OF lad VINO
leaves home barefoot and penniless,
but with one definite purpose kept
steadily in view and pursued with patient,
unf1nching toll, and who conquered success
by improving those ordinary means to which
most Young men would not stoop and others
would pass by unnoticed. By performing the
work that first presented itself he succeeded.
while others, waiting to obtain something
better, suffered shipwreck. The self-sacri-
fcing woman who cut from the loom that
web of cloth so sorely needed because it was
all she had to give her boy going to seek his
fortune among strangers, had impaired like
spirit to her offspring.
Harper's Magazine" fer July presents
these leading papers, many of which are brill
iantly illustrated "a Neglected Corner OF
Europe" by Lizzie w. Champney !" Old
Dutch Masters" by E. Mason THE White
Mountains" by Samuel Adams Drake
"Life at Rideau Hail." by Annie Howells
Frechette "Anne. A Novel" by Con-
stance Fenimore Woolson THAT Faded
Braid. A Story" by Arthur Hastings; A
Day in Africa. l.. by B. I. Aldrich 9 The
Parsons Daughter; A Poem" by Julia 9 9.
R. Dorr 1.-THE Bracelet to Julia" by K.
Herrick 'Thomas Blanchard, the Invent
or, "by Asa HI Waters; Hawthorne Among
His Friends" by George H. Holden Law
and Gospel. a Story" by Edward Everett
Hale; First Appearance at the Odeon.
Pcem," by james T. Fields; Railroads in
Mexico, /" by f. T. Prendergast "A Bicycle
Era" by Edward Rowland The Music of
the Spheres by S. Austin Pearce; " A Lao
dicean. A Novel," by Thomas Hardy My
June Boy. A Poem" by Christine Chaplin
departments.
From Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston, we
have the Atlantic Monthly for July, with
departments mischief in the Middle
Ages, +" by Elizabeth Robins .' Trial by Jury
in Civil Suits" by John c. Dodge; Am
drew's Fortune" by Sarah o. Jewett; -Four
Days With Sanna," by II. H; Wounds"
by Edgar Fawcett The Portrait of a
Lady" by Henry James. Jr.; What is
Mythology ?" by John Fiske; " Friends
duet, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; The
Greek Play at Harvard" by Charles Eliot
NOTtou III nculOTys ny couu OiCouicai
Whittier; "The Gentlemen's Contribution
to the Ladies' Deposit" by M. A. Dodge
"Sympathetic Banking" by Henry A. Clapp;
"Philip's Death Cell in the Escorial," by A.
A. Adee
"Appleton's Journal %. Appleton 4 Co.,
New York; for July is very complete maya
zine. It's contents are: "Saints an / Sinners p"
from the French of Victor Cherbuliez):
''Arab Humor p Babies and Science =
"The Two Prisoners from the German of
Professor Riehl) The Fortunes of Litera-
ture Under the American Republic" by
George Edward Woodbury.; Mrs. Lambs
History Of New York City;" "a Dialogue
on Poetic Morality" by Vernon Lee;
School," "At Home in Fiji" French
Family Life and Manners" ~ by Karl
Hlllebrand; "Old Dreams" IA poem).
"The Sunday Magazine Frank Leslie's
publishing house, New York;, is at hand for
July. 1t is very full, embracing nearly lao
very large pages. Its contents are altogether
too great to be enumerated here, embracing
some eighty-seven distinct articles. The
magazine is profusely illustrated. The lead
ing paper for the month is The Crusader"
by Alfred H. Guernsey.
From d. Lothrop & Co., Boston, we have
the "Wide Awake for July. 1t is essen
TALLY a youths vacation number, and redo
lent of the country and the wildwood. 1t is
q superior number, and the Illustrations are
simply charming in their freshness, clearness
and beauty. The boys and girls of this day
are greatly favored in being able to avail of
such publications as the Wide Awake.
"Tigers and Traitors" is the second part of
Jules Verne's latest imaginative work, and
is one of the volumes of the Steam House"
1t is translated from the French by Mrs.
Agnes ID. Kingston, is fully illustrated, is
hardly up to Verne's best, but is strikingly
interesting nevertheless. 1t is from the press
of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and is
for sale by A. l.. Bancroft i Co., San Fran
cisco.
OF the Franklin Square Library Harper
& Bros, New York; A. L. Bancroft, San
Francisco W. A. & G. S. Houghton. Sac
ramento), we have "a Child of Nature" a
Offer" and other stories, by Mary Cecil
Hay "The Chaplain of the Fleet" by Wal
ter Besant aud james Rice; "The Miller's
| Daughter" by Anne Beale.
From f. A. Belcher, Marysville, we have
piece of new sheet-music by him. 1t is
grand march, dedicated to the National
| Guard of California. 1t is the finest piece Of
music ever written for the Guard. 1t is a
march which has the quality that will make
| it popular with the military. 1t is from the
press of Gray, music publisher, San Fran
/ cisco.
"The Amazon is the title of one of the
Transatlantic Novels" 1t is from the press
of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, aud is
/ for sale by A. j. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
| CISCO 1t is picture by Franz Dingelstedt
of society, at once truthful and humorous.
The author is witty, sparkling and artistic in
plot and diction.
| From d. Appleton & Co., New York, we
have Pref. II. NJ Monsanto's manual of
| Commercial Correspondence in French" 1t
| is intended to show at glance, by practical
| illustration, those technical forms of express
| sion and idiomatic phrases which constitute
! the chief difference between the two Ian
guages.
From w. a. & c. S. Houghtop, Sacra-
mento, we have "A Nameless Nobleman,"
bound novel of the Round. Robin series,
! from the press of james h. OsgCod & Co.,
| 30 ton. 1t is an attractive and admirably
wri item fiction, and has already been noticed
in these columns.
| From A. l.. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco. we have G.. z. Putnam's Sons Civil
| Service Reform Association pamphlet No. 8,
| ice Reform in the Custom house and Post
| office at New York." by Dorman B. Eaton,
Chairman of the Civil Service Commission.
From w. A. & C. S. Houghton, Sacra-
nento, we have another of Roberts Bros.
| (Boston) No Name Series 1t is a novel en-
| titled "Manuela Paredes." 1t is sold at
| 81 So 1t adds to the attractiveness and
value of this popular series, and is a story of
| fascinating interest.
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