Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-05-13
SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

From Ig. Kohler, Phlla ielphis, we have
parts IA, 10 and 16 of his issue of Schi ler's
Works. This admirable series and the method
adopted in its issuance we have already fully
noticed.
From Montague Marks, New York. we
have The Art Amateur for May. 1t it a
capital number, and is accompanied hy two
extra supplements. containing designs for
tiles, costumes, dollies, plaques, pen-and-ink
decoration, etc. There are art reviews, ex-
hibition notes. studio news. articles on model
ing, ceramics, decoration and furniture, art
schools, art needle-work, art in dress, etc.
Picturesque B. and o." is the title of q
very handsome pamphlet volume full of fine
engravings, issued by the Passenger Depart
ment of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. Evidently we are to have railroad
literature hereafter as an advertising feature.
Very well if the natural landscape is 6ne,
why should not the passenger carrier issue his
own books descriptive and illustrative of it ?
The present volume is by j. G. Pangborn,
and the eneravings are from drawings by
Moran, Gibson, Shepherd, Eytinge and
other leading artists.
"The Magazine of Art for May tCassell,
Peter, Galpin & Co., New York; is richly
illustrated number. The chief papers are
"Old Crome," by Elise Paget More
About Bells" by R. H. Hsweis; "The
Years Awakening" by H. 4. Ward; A
Treatise on Wood Engraving" by Harry v.
Barnett "The Artistic Aspect of the
Modern Dress" by Alice Comyns Carr
1.-The Art of Ssvsges-Decorative Art,
by A. Lang Pictures of the Season ;"
"The Glasgow Institute :" THE Decoration
of Home" by Cosmo Monkhouse; art
Notes."
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco,
we have of Harper l. Bros Franklin Square
Library series these new numbers: Plain
Speaking" by the author of John Halifax,
novel by james Payn, 20 cents Dorothy 3
Venture" a novel by Mary Cecil Hay, Is
cents Thomas Carlyle. History Of the
First Forty Years of his Life" by james
Anthony Froude, M. A, two numbers, each
Is cents 1.-THE Fixed Period" novel by
Anthony Trollope, Is cents: Exchange no
Robbery" a novel by NJ. Betham. Edwards,
Is cents doctor L'Estrange," novel by
Annette Lyster, 20 cents.
From the Leonsrd Scott Publishing Com.
pany, New York, we have the british
Quarterly Review" for April, with these
leading papers Mohammedsnism and the
Ottoman Turks )" 1.-The Influence Of the
Italian Renaissance on the Elizabethan
stage Lucretlus, 1yndall, flctou, Mar
tineau: Some Theories of Matter and its
Relation to Life p Astronomical Explana.
tions of the Force of Inertia" "Of the
Imitation of Christ" "Tbe Sculp ures Of
Pergamon in the Berlin Museum !" The
Union with England of Scotland and Ire
land ;" Democracy in France in 1882 :
"The Imperial Elections in Germany"
From A. L. Bancrof; & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have volume 33 OF American
Decisions" 1t is, we believe, the most bulky
volume of all the series 80 far as issued. The
cases reported in this volume will be found
originally reported in the following State
Reports Wharton's Pennsylvania. vol. 4,
1888 1889; Ric4's South Carolina Law, vol.
l, 1888. 1889; Rice's South Carolina Equity,
vol l, 1889 Meigs' Tennessee. vol. l, 1888
Vermont. vol. 10, 1888; Leieh's Virgiuis,
VOL 9. 1887 80; Porter's Alabama, vos. s, 9,
1s3S- 1899; Arkansas. vols l. 2, 1899; Con,
necticut, vol. 13, 1889; Harrington's Della.
ware. vol. 2 1889; ScaDmon's Illinois, vols
l. 2, 1889; Blackford's Indiana. vol. 5, 1889
Dana's Kentucky, vols. 8, g. 1889 Louisiana,
vols 13, IA, 1S39-40; Maine, vols. 10, 16,
1899; Gill & Johnson's Maryland, vol. II
1899; Pickering's Massachusetts,, vol. IL,
1889.