Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-16

FeuiIlet. T. B. Peterson & Bros, Philadel-
phia is new novel of the upper circles of
aristocratic society in France. Feuillet. il,
this book, takes a girl who has been carefully
nurtured and brought up to be gentle, accom-
plished. and is pure in life and thought and
ADAPTED to a home of love and tenderness.
pride and usefulness, but being mated with q
suspicious tvrant she becomes a haartless
being-a yeritable demon. As Feuillst puts
it. s'The moral of this only too true story is
that monsters are not born God does not
make any, but men make many :. and this is
fact which, nevertheless, ought never to be
forgot.
"What Shall we do win Our Walls?" is
the title of quarto volume by Clarence
Cook. 1t is published oy Warren, Fuller &
Co.. New York, and is for sale bv A. L.
Bancroft & Co. 1t is work devoted to
wall paper, not its manufacture, but to de-
signs alone, to STYLES and to the kind of paper
las to design to be used in given rooms, halls
and chambers. Several full pages are given
up to the reproduction of some exquisite
modern designs, and these are presented with
great success both IN gliding, writing and
engraving. It is intended 30 act as test for
those who NAV enter the lists for prizes for
the designs offered by the publishers.
Who was Paul Grayson?" by John Hab-
berton is book from the press of Harper
& Bros, New York, and for sale by a. l..
Bancroft & Go. This is a book Tor boys,
treating of school life. real bravery, manly
| boys" and is calculated to inspire juvenile
readers with honorable and lofty ideas Of
duty and loyalty to parents and respect for
teachers and superiors, and nigh regard tor
the truth and hatred of all that is mean and
low.
The Berkeley Quarterly "a. L. Bancroft &
| Co., San francisco is at hand for July. It's
papers sre 1.-The Next Generation of Cali
fornians," by Martin Kellogg ;" Henry
George on Taxation" by John j. Dwyer /;
8 Swedish Literature in the Eighteenth
Century" by Bernard Moses +" Present
Status of United States Money" by G. u.
0atman (of Sacramento); "The Chief Nee d
of California" by E. +. Sill "Centraliza-
ton" by w. w. Crane, Jr.
From Taber, photographer, San Francisco,
we have group of pictures showing the u.
| S. Arctic relief-ship Rodgers, and the Off
GERS commanding. Also group of pictures
showing General Grant ard party at Vir-
ginia City, in Toxic, in Hongkong, Bangkok
and Nikko, with views of the reception to the
Grant party in San Francisco.
From A. l.. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have of Harper & Bros. Franklin
| Square Library these new issues: "A Costly
Heritage" novel by Alice O'Hanlon
Visited on the Children" novel by Theo.
Gift; "The Correspondence of Talleyrand
and Louis XVIII. during the Congress of
! Vienna"
Man Proposes is new society novel
from the press of Lee & Shepard, Boston. 1t
is pleasant fiction, not brilliant, far from
exciting, but entertaining enough to be worth
the reading.
Bellah" is love story, by Octave Ecu.
illet. 1t is from the press of 7. B. Peterson
| & Bros, Philadelphia. II is an historical
novel, and full of the interest which attaches
to all of the novels Of Feuillet.