Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

OF Harper & Brothers Franklin Square
Library we have from A. l.. Bancroft & Co.
San Francisco, s'The Adventures of kobin-
son Crusoe,n and Mary Cecil Hays AT the
Seaside" and other stories.
From A. L. Bancroft Co., San Fran
cisco, we have another Of Harper Brothers
issue of Shskespeare's plays, as edited, With
notes. BY Professor Role. The present
number is devoted to the tragedy OF ''Corio
lanus."
From A. L. Bancroft Co.. San Francis
co. we have beautifully illustrated quarbo
volume from the press of Harper & Bros. n.
Y, entitled "Farm Festivals" by VIII
Carleton. Carleton is too well known as q
poetical writer on rural subjects to call for
any criticism of his style. 1t may be said.
however, that the poems in this volume are
fully up to any Carleton has written. Prob
ABLY the best of all the collection is the poem
under the title OF The Festival Of Clamor."
From Ig. KuhIer, Philsdelphis. We have
three numbers of Schiller's complete works,
which are being published by him in three
parts. They are finely illustrated, are pre-
sented in clear type, and form an excellent
and cheap method OF securing one OF the
most valuable of works. Schiller. with the
loftiest genius, combined the greatest moral
", Itl6 SlOWltS lsINO1 VI VIC Scioi biSAs
and the rld-embracing love of the philan-
thropist. His works, poeSical and dramatic,
should be in every library.
The "Popular Science Monthly for Au-
gust is at hand from ID. Appleton & Co,
New York. It's leading papers are: !" The
Herring" by Professor 7. Il. Huxley, E. r.
S.; Physical Education" by Felix l..
Oswald, NJ. D.; 1.-The Blood and its Circu-
lation," by Herman L. Fairchild /; :" The
Teachings of Modern Spectroscopy," by DIR.
Arthur Schuster, F. +. s.; "Oriein and
History of Life Insurance" by Theodore
Wehle; "The Insufficient Use of Mix" by
Dyce Duckworsh, NJ. D.; Intelligence Of
Ants" by George J. Romanes; Lunar
Lore and Portraiture," by +. u. Frystt;
s'The Visions of Sane Persons" by Francis
tion," by DR.. P. J. Higgins Origin and
Uses of Asphalt" by Leon Malo, c. r;
1.-THE Unit in Planet-Life," by Byron d.
Halsted, Sc. D.; 1.-The Electric Storage of
Energy !" "Sketch of Robert Wilhelm Bun
ssn."
From Charles Scribner's Sons. New York.
we have another of the series of "Epochs Of
Ancient History" series which is Of
moot valuable for youthful readers, and that
serves as an incentive 70 full historical read
ing. The present number is entitled Rome
aud Carthage-The Punic Wars" It is by
r. Bosworth Smith, NJ. A, who has in this
volume proven his fitness to prepare his
torical works for the youth. The work is
an abbreviation of his larger work on Car
thage and the Carthaginians. He has made
no attempt to alter the language of the larger
work, except where it appeared t him that it
could be for the better. The editor says:
Indeed, any attempt to write down to
the capacities of younger readers seems TO
me quite unnecessary ia dealing with an
epoch of history which, in the unique inter
est and Importance of its subject, and in the
grandeur of its leading characters, appeals
with almost equal force to young and old"
But in this Professor Smith is mistaken ; he
has prepared a work which, whether writ
ten down to juvenile capacity or not, is ad-
mirably adapted to it, and quite as well fitted
for many of the more mature readers.
From w. A. l. C. S. Houghton, Sacra-
mento, we have a work published by Fords,
Howard & Hurlbut, New York, entitled
"Ploughed Under" The story of an Indian
Chief, told by himself; with an introduction
by Inshta Theamba [ g Bright Eyes Of the
Poncas.) It is significant title. thrilling
story, and whether written by an Indian
or not, the style of that class of people who
do write at all is at least very closely imi-
tated. The story is full of new and strange
interest, giving as is does, from the inside, a
detailed view OF the homes and .haunts, the
ideas and impressions, the costumes
and customs, the familiar habits and
special practices of our North Aneri-
can Indians 1t leads the reader on from one
chapter to another with constant succession
of new themes and unhackneyed phases of
life. 1t very clearly shows how the
Indian tribes have been cheated, despoiled
and driven in desperation to retaliatory acts
upon the whites. The story purports to be
narrated by the son of chief, who tells his
own experience-his youth and training amid
family influences; of hunts and battles
afield; his love, with all their child-like,
simple customs of wooing and wedding; the
coming of that great parsonage, the Indian
Agent among the tribe. with his following of
good and evil; the holding of councils. the
making Of treaties, the pursuit of criminals !;
the intrigues and bold weaknesses of one Of
the whites, who makes way with the young
Indians girlish bride; her perils and escapes !;
the deceitful dealings of the whites with the
tribe; the outrage put upon them by the
Secretary of the Agent, who pretended to
write to their "Great Father" the Presi-
dent, at Washington, their petition to
be freed from the supervision and enslave-
ment of the agency, while, IN truth,
he made their petition a prayer to the
Government to buy their homes and lands
and remove them TO the "LaRd of Fire. as
the northern Indians call the Indian Terri
tory. This petition was duly granted, the
tribes village was destroyed, their lands APP
propriated, and the Indians, protesting in
vain, were driven like cattle and left in that
"healthfup land where the first years fever
slew third of their number, and the second
made the death list afull half. l. is graphic,
moving story and cannot fail to have de-
cidedly awakening influence upon all people
who read it and have not already come TO q
full realization of the wrongs The red man
has experienced at our hands.