Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-22
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IAe reaulnS Worlu Will very cordially well
come this work. Any means of becoming
better acquainted with the character of the
great explorer are agreeable to the reader of
the wOndrous accounts of his African re-
searches. His discoveries and expiorat ions have
been given to the public in his own books, but
his modesty led him to say little in these of
himself, aud those who knew him best, as DIR.
Blaikie well says, feel that little is known of
the strength of his affections, the depth and
purity of his devotion, or the intensity of his
aspirations as q Christian missionary. The
growth OF his character and the providential
shaping of his career are also matters of re-
narkable interest, Of which not much has
yet been known. DR.. Blaikie has presented
more complete history of his life than has
yet appeared. Many chapters OF it are
opened up of which the public have hitherto
known little or nothing. He has not
deemed it necessary to dwell on events
recordedin his published travels, exception the
purpose of connecting the narrative and max
ing it complete. Even on these, however, it
will be found that not little new light and
color has been thrown from his correspond
ence with his friends and his unpublished
journals. DR.. Blaikie's work is scholarly
production, and a fitting setting for the life
record of Livingstone.
HISTORY OF STOCKTON, from its organization to the
present time, including q sketch OF San Joaquin
comfy. By Geo. Ii. Tinkham. ! vol. $40 +;
muslin PIP. 397. San francisco: W. Ii. Hinton
Co. IS.
This is very pretenticus volume. It is
neatly printed, and freely illustrated with
steel, Photographic, photographic and wood
plates. 1t is certainly a very complete work
in the sense of its bearing affirmative evil
depces of hard labor and dilligent research
having been expended upon it. The style of
the writer is simple, clear and concise. He
treats his subjsct as a friend of the city, and
some partisan statements appear to be very
strongly put. The claims and advantages of
Stockton he presents boldly, and he
compares them, in certain respects, with
those of other cities. Inc chief value
of the work is found in its very
elaborate history of pioneer California,
the struggles of the early immigrants, the
contests as to rulership, the conquest of the
country, accounts of the Indian tribes. the
California grants, the condition OF society and
trade OF the country just prior to tie dlscoT
cry of gold, the Territorial Government, the
organization of the State Government, ETC.
The work is creditable to the industry and
skill of the author and should, we think, be
priced by the people Of our neighboring city
as book that presents the history of their
municipality and much of that of the State
in a clear and orderly manner, and is full of
valuable data and statistical cleaning
ZIze 20 JOURNEYS IN CLASSIC LANus Boston {:
Estes & Lauriat. Sacramento: W. A. & c. 8.
Heughton. Quarto; PIP. SlS.
We can scarcely conceive of better or
moro attractive book to place in the pos
es5ion of boy as an incentive to the read
ing of history or works of travel in foreign
lands This volume, in boys way, takes
the boy reader into Italy, Greece, Spain and
France Hezekish Butterworth knows his
readers, knows how to interest them,
and how to awaken their curl
osity without satisfying it to the
extent of checking the desire to drink deeper
at the spring of knowledge. The volume is
richly illustrated, there being scarce a leaf
without a fine illustration either of modern
city. ancient town, historic sketch, portrait
or view of wonderful ruins or great art works.
SooTcH SERMoNs; 1885, D. Appleton & Co, New
York; l vol Svo muslin
The volume in hand is a collection of ser.
mons of the clergy of the Scottish Church,
intended to present specimens of the style of
teaching in that religious body, but it does
not claim to represent either the full extent
of that teaching or the range of subjects in
which, in their public ministrstions, its authors
are in the habit of discoursing. But it serves
to indicate growing tendency and to show
the direction in which thought ia moving.
There are in the volume twenty-three SER
mons by Revs. Story, Stevenson, Temple,
Rain, Menzies, McFarian. Macintosh,
Knight, Nicoll, Card, Cunningham and
Ferguson.
From the publishing house of Oliver Ditson
& Co., Boston, we have new sheet music as
follows: "Don't be Sorrowful, Darling, " 40
cts by j. P. Webster; very attractive
title, and apparently a good song, as is
=" Fairer Still" 40 cts.) by Giro Pinsuti. and
also ave Parted by the River Side" 40
ot= song and chorus, by viii S. Hays.
The lively g Bernhardt Schottiscie, (f0 cts
with picture title; Les Aninos Schotsische."
(35 cts) by @. II. Wib0ur: and Witches
Dance" $50 cts.) by C. Ausgabe, make
pleasing trio OF piano pieces. There is
also good number of 1.-THE Mu-
steal Record" with its usual two
pieces of sheet music. In addition are these
pieces "The Old Love and the New" 40
cents), by Frank AIusgrave, with . fine pic
ture title sacred song, by j.. o. Emerson,
The Land of Light Afar" go cents) /;
Waiting (35 cents, by Blumenthal, with
words by Helen Burnside. With these come
also fue new French quadrille, "Ls Polo !"
go cents), by Charles d'AIbert; a bright
galop, by j. j. Pound, called 6 Illusions y
and a march in honor of the President elect,
called General Garfeld's March to the
White House 40 cents), by c. Hauschild.
The Merchants Legal Guide is the
tisle of compact volume by Douglass i
Minton, OF the mercantile agency of Dun,
Wiman & Co., New York It is issued by
D, Appleton & Co., New York. It contains
q brief synopsis of the collection laws of all
the States of the Union aud Canada. The
is given in the form of questions
and answers. Il is urquestionably a useful
book and supplies real want, but should
not be mistaken as a law book, or one that
relieves the business man from the necessity
of counsel in case OF disputed or neglected
obligations.
From d. Appleton & Co., New York, we
have of Appleton's new Handy Volume Sc
ries, "Mashallah p' a fight into Egypt by
Charles Warren Stoddard, the well known
correspondent. Also, "Poverina," an en-
trancing story translated from the French of
Madame La Princesse o. Cantacuzspe-
the most prominent of the many cheap forms
of publication, by means of which popular
fiction and sterling standard literature are
placed within easy reach OF the people.
From I. B. Peterson & Bro, Philadelphia,
we have the Autobiography of Vidocq, the
French Detective" with an Introductory
chapter by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie. vi
docn uas in his day the most lannon's of de-
tectives. His personal deeds and perils as
depicted in this volume are so marvellous as
almost to surpass belief, but it is asserted
that. though his book appeared when most
of the people named in it were living, none
of his recitals were ever contradicted.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have of Harper's Franklin Square
Library series, series of fixed popularity,
undoubted. worth and marvellous cheapness,
white Wings" novel, by B. II. Buxton /;
Three Recruits" a novel, by Joseph Hut
ton, and He That viii Not When He May,
a novel, by Mrs. Oliphsnt; Horace Nc
Lean" by Alice 0'Hanlon Early History
of Charles James Fox" by George Otto
Trevelyan, NJ. P.
From A. L. Bancroft L Co., San Francisco,
we have from Harper Bros press, New
York, copy Of Harrington's Graded
Spelling Book : Part l." by III. f.
Harrington, Superintendent of Public
Schools. New Bedford, Mass. It claims to
be based on laws which govern the growth Of
child's intelligence and his acquisition of an
available vocabulary, and that the true meth
Cd is to train the eye in spelling, as we'll as
the memory.