Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18

The man becomes the son in form without
changing the immaterial part, and the boy
lives in the body CT his father. Like the
leech In Hofmsnn's tales, the one shrinks
into facsimile of the other. and the other
swells into the proportions of the first for IN
attempting to undo the mischisf, the son,
possessing himself of the stone, wishes him
self his father. The result is that the boy
takes sweet revenge, packs his parent off to
the academy. and. with his fathers wealth,
enters upon pleasures he had scarcely
dreamed of, and riotous living that
brings the mature frame he occupies
to q sad state. Meanwhile the father, ignor-
ant Of or rusty in the studies he is ont to.
suffers all sorts OF punishment has to answer
for q store of sins laid up against the boy by
his schoolfellows, and realizes in all its bit
tsrness what it is to be boy without boy
ish heart. From this out the story il one OF
the most delightful tales of fancy one can
imagine. The keen-edged sword the autheT
swings in that popular hoarding-school cuts
right and left and blood flows at every stroke.
Indeed one cannot but be renamed of Nicholas
Nickleby and the battle Dickens wsged
against hypocritical educators, whose chief
aim is the filing OF their own pockets and the
impoverishment of the mind and body Of the
pupil. But the fiction has happy ending,
and the moral drawn will be appreciated
aiike by youth and age.
From d. Lothrop & Co., Boston, we have
volume entitled THE Temple Rebuilt 3"
It is by Frederick Il. Able il is al octave,
and sells at 81 %. This is new edition of a
poem Of prominence. 1t has hsen rewritten,
enlarged and reaTrsnged That new edition
was demanded speaks of popular desire to
possess the werk. Mr.. Able is a poet-not q
tyro In poetry. As an example OF his style,
we quote these lines:
Praise Him, We mountains on whose beetling crags
Nestle the eagles peering for their prey
Where from the clouds of thunder tgmpts ts bind
Their brows with terror and the sullen SHOWS
With cold caressing lap the traveller;
Or where the molten ertrails vomt fire
IN furious miniature Of final doom.
In higher grandeur yet will you arise,
Under fairer sky, csmer cline,
Bright pi lars Of the sun your radiant brows
Disarmed OF every weapon of dislnay,
The purple pavement Of angelic feet,
With sovereign peace on every peak enthroned.
The poem involves the story of primal inno-
cence, the fall of the soul. its restoration
through Divine grace, ard final salvation.
BY the " temple" the author typifes the soul
OF man /; it is cast into ruins by Sin; the new
foundation is tie plan of salvation as laid
down by Christ; the builders ere the Chris.
tian virtues and graces !. the implements ara
prayer and good works aud through these
the edIhce again arises In its pristine purity
and beauty.
From the Leonard Scott Publishing Com.
pany we have the British Quarterly Re.
view " for October, with these Leading papers:
/" Rome During the Sieges of the Sixth Cen.
fury; ;" " Is the Church Of England Ma
tional Church" Incidents OF Land and
Pleas for Reform;" Is the Belief in Miracles
Reasonable % Friedrich Ritschl;" 1.-THE
House Of O5rsnovitch :" THE War in
Egypt : So The Songs of the italian People"
Six Girls Is charming home story ty
Fannie Belle Irving. Il is of the "Llttie
Women" order of books. It is a fair pre-
sentation of life from girls standpoint of
view. 1t is pure Ia sentiment and heslthful
in tone, and may be read with profit by
young women. l. is by no means ssnsa-
tionsl story, but it is full of nature, and the
plot ia one of interest. 1t IS from the press
Of Estes Lauriat, and was the first book
or our table with the date 1888.
From Estes & Lauriat. Boston, we have a
volume entitled Three Vassar Girls A broad"
1t is a small quarto with $50 rich Illustrations,
and sells at 81 80 in boards and 50 in cloth,
The volume is by Lizzie w. Champney, and
gives graphic, instructive and humorous
account OF the rambles of three Fasssr Col
lege girls on E vacation trip through France,
Spain, Algiers and Portugal, for amusement
and instruction. Il makes q vsry pleasant
and attractive holiday book.
From Estes & Lauriat, Boston. we have
the bound volume OF ChatteIbox' for 1882
This lOng-es5ahlished magazine for children
is too well known TO call for special notice.
Ii is one of the best, and its pages bresthe
only purity, instruction and wisdom The
illustrations are very numerous, and we are
Inclined to think them of better order than
those Of previous volumes.
L
have "Alden's American Newspaper Cata-
logue." 1t is a large volume, very hand
somely printed, and very useful to publishers
and journalists. The compilation appears to
be exhaustive. It is certainly well presented
The name OF every paper and magazine pub
lshed in the United States appears in this
catalogue, with the size, time OF ISSUE polit-
ical faith, charac ser, date of establishment,
and the supposed circuistiOn-supposed, we
say, for it is not possible for the catalogue
maker to procure the real figures in all cases.
Of the many newspaper directories we have
seen none superior to this.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have of Harper's Franklin Square
Library two more numbers: weighed and
Wanting" a novel, by George Macdonald,
aud daisies and Buttercups." a novel, By
J. H Riddell.
5
York, we have the SUNDAY Magazine"
edited by 7. Dewitt Talmage, d. D. Tt is
for the month of December. and closes Vol
ume XII. It is q very full and complete
number, with a superior variety of good mat.
ter of pure character and elevated tone. The
Illustrations are many, and especially rich in
architectural subjects.
We have from the Wheelman Publishing
Company, Boston, the second (Novemte r)
number of the new mags zine, The Wheel
bicycles, tricycles, etc. IL is q freely Illus.
trated journal, and devoted 20 the interests
indicated b. its name.
THE Sanitarium" "a. n. Bell, New York;
for November presents its usual quantity of
interesting matter, including these articles
" Rio De Jaueiro." by T. p Corhe'ly, A NJ,
by j. G. Rich srdson. Md; g. The Truth
About Sewer Gas - '' ne Pavement O1ss.
ton" by O. W. Wight, NJ. D.; New Yors
Medico-Legal Society Preceding" bv G
NJ. Hammond, NJ. D.; " Reduction Of the
Death Rare :" Panama Canal Sanitation"
by j. +. Bransford, NJ D., U. S. \.
From the Leonard-Scott Publishing Com.
Fany, New York, we have The West.
papers: River Pollution - Count Stru-
easee and Queen Caroline Matbilde;" &" -
cialism; :" The Poetry of Ms. Z. b Benwn-
iag;" France: The Chamber, The G an.
hetta Ministry and its Successors :" 9 Tha
Jubilee of the First Reform Act :" The
British Association for the Advancement Of
Science )" Parliamentary Procedure"
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