Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From Houghton, Miflin & Co., Boston,
we have the Official Postal Guide" for
September. It is as full and complete as
ever, and is an invaluable periodical.
"Petersons Magazine" (Phila) for Octo-
Der is a good number, and up to the standard
set by its publishers. Its frontispiece is "a
handsome steel engraving, and its fashion
plates and articles are numerous.
From 1. G. Kohler Philadelphia, we have
parts and 8 of his issue of Schillers works,
the first numbers of which we noticed at
| length. The series promises to be one OF
much value, and it will enable even the
poorest to possess themselves of the writings
Of the great bard.
From T. B. Peterson & Bros.-through A.
L. Bancroft & Co.. San Francisco-we have
translation from the French by Reavel
Savage of monsieur, Madame and the
firms we have paul Hart, or the Love of
His Life" novel, by Uncle Lute-an
American story OF real life.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, have
Just issued another of VIM. o. Stoddard's
charming books for boys. 1t is entitled
Dab Kinzer; A Story of Young Boy"
1t needs no further introduction. Il is q
bright, vivacious story, that the youthful
reader will appreciate and which it will do
good wherever read.
OF the Round Robin Series, issued by JAS
r. Osgood & Co., Boston, we have a charm
ing novel entitled "Homoselle." It will
please without demanding profound atten.
ton, and while by no means brilliant novel.
neither philosophical nor sermonizing in char
aeter, it has lesson. 1t is quite up to the
standard of the series in which it has place,
and the motto of which is: Perhaps it may
turn out a song. perhaps turn out sermon. !"
OF the Transatlantic series of novels issued
from the press of G.. 2. Putnams Sons New
York, we have from Billings, Harbourne &
Co., San Francisco, "a Romance of the
Nineteenth Century" by w. H. Mallock.
Mr.. Mallock is a vigorous and natural writer.
He makes himself clearly understood at all
times. Rather sober and solemn, yet his
earnestness is his chief merit. OF course this
novel does not compare with his Is Life
Worth Living, for it is in a different vein,
yet between the essay which attracted so
much attention and the sentiment of this
novel there is an urquestionable sympathy.
From A. /. Bancroft & Co., San Francis
CO, and Harper & Bros. New York, we have
number of the Franklin Square Library
cheap issues These include 1.-THE Black
Speck, sterling good temperance tale by
f. W. Robinson; ''Warlock OGlennar-
O
Macdonald; "An Ocean Free Lance,
novel by w. Clark Russell; sid
ney, novel by Georgiana NJ. Craik: :" The
Neptune Vase" novel by Virginia w.
johnson, and Letters of Madame de Remu-
sat to Her Husband and Son from 1904 to
1913"
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have of "Casselrs Popular Ii
brary (Cassell, Peter, Galpin & Co. J, a small
volume entitled 1.-THE Rev. Rowland Hill,
Preacher and Wit" 1t is by Edward W.
Broome, and has an Introductory chapter by
Rev. John Stoughton, d. d. MIR. Hill was
one of the remarkable men Of his period.
He was a consistent Christian in all his walk,
man of intense intellectual vigor, writer
of great originality and exceedingly enter
tanning. This brief memoir viii prove very
acceptable to large class of readers who de-
sire some insight into the life of this eminent
man.
The September number of " Appleton's
Journal %. Appleton L Co.. New York;,
presents these leading papers: Saints and
Sinners y A Peep at French Schools" by
James Bonar Clement Marot," by Will
lam J. Eckoff; :" A Siberian Exile Eighty
Years Ago." "Charies Lambs Humor." by
Alexander 81. Japp; Candidating or,
Old Times in the Southwest" by the Rev.
H. w. L acIsOus ~. L., Mai Iidce IL
Nature" by the Right Rev. Bishop of
Carlisle !; g NJ. Littre and the Dictionary of
the French Language" by Poultney Bigelow;
"Bonaparte, by Prof j. r. Seeley
"Strange Players" by Dutton Cook ' The
Curiosities of Criticism = Is Sincerity in
Biography, and the usual departments.
Thanksgiving and Other POEMS" by
Agatha, is the title of small, neat quarto
from the press of G. P. Putnam's Sons, and
for sale by A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco. Agatha's poems are not brilliant, but
they are pure, musical, harmonious. They
will not rouse or thrill, but they are restfnl
and spring from poetic nature They are
like the poems of a great ocean of poetical
writer's, whose gems and whose mistakes float
through the papers every day. The poem, of