Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-25
OUR BOOK TABLE.
LATE MAGAzINEs-NEw LEAVES PROM
TIE WORLD OF BOOKS.
shakespeare-Poor's Railroad Manual
Games-Knox and the Boys-Toby
Tyler Again-For Firsmep.

Lorna Doone" is new novel, by R. D.
Blackmore, and forms one of the two. column
edition Of Harper l. Bros Franklin Square
Library. 1t is me Of Blackmore's best efforts.
1t IS for sale by Bancroft & Co., San Fran.
cisco.
1.-THE Nervous System" is the latest issue
OF the Health Priu ec series, published by ID.
Appleton j Co., New Y Crk. The series has
attained to good reputation, and is doing
much In the way of educating the people on
the matter of their physical welfare.
1.-THE Prize" is bound volume of maya
zine for very young girls aud boys. Il is
from the press of Estes & Lauriat, Boston.
1t has some pretty colored plates and many
good engravings, with plen,y of good and
easy reading matter for the little ones.
THE Magazine of Art :" for December
lCassell, Peter, Galpin & Co, New York, J
Is at hand. It opens with frontispiece,
Maiden Dreams" that is fine example of
etching. The illustrations throughout are
rich in character and fne in execution. The
text matter embraces scme articles of especial
value in art criticism.
From Bancroft & Co., San francisco, we
have three other volumes of Harper & Broth
ers' new issue of the plays of Shakespeare,
edited by William j. Rolfe. The present
numbers give US the three parts of the play
liking Henry VI" The notes are unusually
full, and the historical introduction more than
usually extended.
New Games for Psrlor ard Lawn is the
title of small volume from Harper & Bros
New York, and for sale by A. l.. Bancroft &
Co, San Francisco, at 81. 1t is new edi.
ton, revised and enlarged, of popular
book. The games are not for children alone,
but many of the indoor recreative plots and
~. 1 IL.
as well.
From Bancroft & Co., San Francisco, we
have heavy volume, issued by Harper &
Bros, New York. that tells the story of the
Volunteer Fire Department OF the city of
New York. 1t is by George w. Sheldon,
and is complete history of that old organ
ization. 1t is illustrated by l45 spirited ell.
cravings. The work retails at "a 80.
From A. l.. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have the years numbers of Hsrpers'
Young People," bound in handsome GOV.
ers. 1t makes large quartz book, richly
illustrated. One is surprised to see, when it
is massed, what great quantity of choice
matter hiss been published in the little
weekly. It makes up one of the best of holi.
day books, and is an admirable present for
little ones. 1t sells at So.
Thomas w. KnOx's last book for boys is
entitled 1.-THE Boy Travellers in Egyp5 and
the HOLY Land" 1t is from the press of
Harper & Bros, and is for sale by A. l..
Bancroft & Co.. San Francisco, at So. 1t is
large quarto, and beautifully illustrated.
Few men have met with greater success in
writing for children, and no man has ever
made the story of travel more interesting to
youth. The present volume is exceedingly
rich in illustration.
Macmillan & Co., London, have issued two
sixpenny quarto pamphlets. the matter of
both being taken from Washington Irving's
Sketch. Book. One is "Old Christmas" and
the other Bracebridge Hail." Both are pro-
fusely illustrated by Caldscott & Cooper.
That such an issue should be in demand in
London is calculated to engender pride
among Americans for their great author, Irv-
ing, whose memory grows still brighter in the
hearts of our people as years pass by.
Knocking Round the Rockies is the at.
tractive title of Ernest Ingersoll's record of
camp life and travel while he was attached
to the United States Geological snd Geo
graphical Survey of 1874. The book is freely
illustrated. 1t is a quarto, from the press of
Harper & Bros, New York, and for sale by
A. l.. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco. 1t
will be found pleasing sketch of the physi.
cal features and the people and animals of
the great plains and mountains.
Those of our youthful readers who were so
fortunate as to have received that charming
little book by James Otis, entitled toby
Tyler" will be grstifed to know that sequel
to it has appeared from the same pen. The
new volume is "Mr. Subbs's Brother" and
is a continuation of Toby's adventures with
circuses and the people of the side.shows. 1t
is from the press of Harper & Bros, and is
for sale at 81 by the Bancrofts, San Fran
cisco.
Cunningham's Device for Registering
Stock is a small quarto containing outline
figures of horses, with blanks for noting the
ear marks, brands and physical marks OF
stock. 1t is the invention of Sheriff Gun.
ningham, of San Joaquin county, and is is
sued by FL. Baldwin, bookseller, Stockton.
1t would appear to be useful method of pre-
serving descriptions of stock, and win prove
a great aid to officers in recovering stolen
stock, If owners of animals generally will Sc
cure the work and register all their animals
therein. When one is lost or stolen, the book
will then furnish Immediately complete de-
scription.
'Hauff's Tales of the Caravan, Inn and
Palace " is volume issued from the press of
Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago, and for
sale by w. A. & c. S. Houghton, Sac.
ramento. The TRANSLATION, from the
German, is by Edward L. Stowell.
w hLelul Ilduu was DOIn IN SLuLEQarE IN
1902, The work under notice he produced in
1896. In its present form it is somewhat alb
breviated. These tales have all the Oriental
romance and charm that make tie Arabian
Night go tive. Hsuff's brilliant tai
ems give his name high niche in the temple
of literature. The art of investing localities
with ideal characters who, in the readers
Imagination, haunt the spot forever after,
was gift Hsuff shared alike with his Eng.
lish brothers, Scott and Dickens.
Harper's Magazine" for December is at
hand. 1t is richly illustrated. The leading
papers are, in addition to the usual depart
ments: The Columbia River" by c.
Rockwell; William Black at Home" by
J. Hatton; Found Drowned" by D. Nj.
Crsik "The Great Seaport of Western
France" by t. W. Knox; "Ths Bride
cake" by Robert Herrick; g Southern Cali
fornia," Chapter III, by W. II. Bishop;
" His Poetrie His Pillar" by Robert Her.
rick; "Csmeos of Colonial Carolina"
by P. d. Hay; THE SINGULAR Vote
of Aut Tilbox," by A. B. Frost;
STORING Electricity" by Henry Nor
ton; =" For the Major" BY C. F. Woolson
g Among the Rose-rcots," by a Working.
girl; New England ia the Colonial Pc
Rod, by John Fiske; Toms Monument"
by Susan II. SWEET; "Shandon Bells" by
w. Black.
OF D. Appleton's series of Home Books
we have from J. F. White & Co., San Fran.
cisco. and w. A. & G. S. Houghton, Sacra-
mento, two additional volumes. The first is
The Home Needle" 1t is by Ella Rodman
Church, a welI-known and accomplished
writer on home subjects. The volume is Illus
trsted with diagrams of garments for ladies' and
children's wear, and examples of needle work
of various kinds. The other is entitled
" Home Occupations" and is by Janet
uutz-Rees, the author Of Home Decora-
ton" This last volume is not the equal of
the first. While it has much useful Informs
ton between its covers, it treats of little Il az
is new and considerable that il out Of date
ss, for instance, bead ornamental work.
matchmaking with cardboard, shell and
leather frame work. These are now
hardly considered worthy of any ones
attention, and certainly it would be
well If they remained among the lost arts
On the other hand the Iadv hos chantavs -,