Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-25
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UUh BUM IADIL.
THE YOSEMITE = SHAKESPEARE CALL
FoRNIA sKEFCHES-C CORPORATIONS
Sketches and scraps-Late Magazines
Yorktown Commercial Law-The
Marine Engine-Etc, Etc.
MODERN AMERICAN MARINE ENGINES, BOILERS AND
SCREW PRoPRLLERs THEIR DESIGN AND CoNsrRUC-
TIoS, ETC. By Emory Eawards. NJ Z. Philsdel-
phia Henry Carey Baird Co. San Francisco :
A. L. Bancroft & Co.
This is large quarto volume with very
large number of plates, and is printed In adj
mirable STYLE With regard to marine en-.
gines. boilers and screw propellers, this work
shows the present practice of the most emf
nant engineers and marine builders in the
United States, among Others such as Cope
land. Emery, Thurston, Main, jackson, Rey-
nolds, Hoffman, Stellwagen, Roach Son.
Cramp & Sons, the Harlan & Hoihngsworth
Company, Pusey, Jones & Co., Ramsay 4
Co., the Rowlands, tbs DeemaEer Iron
Works, the United States Bureau of Steam
Engineering, etc. It is for the use of eDgi-
gineers, draughtsmen and engineering stu
dents. 1t is by one of the most practical and
experienced of the engineers of the country.
and will be found by the student to be an ia-
valuable aid in his studies, while the prae-
| ticiug engineer will find the book Of equal
value to him. The work will, it seems to us,
place the engineer abreast of the best and
most successful practice of the day in hii
| liae-and this we say, not because we have any
more than general reading knowledge OF the
1 Il IS anu
| fairly informed reader has, but because the
| authorities cited in this volume are those
which we know to be eminent, and whose
| judgments are fortified by the widest expert
| ence, and whose works are to be found in use
| throughout the world.
| DISCOVERY OF TUE YOSEMITE AND THE INDIAN Wal
OF 1851, WHICH LED TO THAT EVENT. By Lafay
| cite Houghten BunneEl, NJ. D., OF the Mariposa
Battalion, one of the dsceverers, and late Sur
| geon in the Thirty-sxth Wisconsin Volunteers
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell. San Francisco
Thomas Houseworth. vol, svo., muslin.
Now that the season draws nigh when tbs
! whole country will be making ready to pay
its respects to that wonderful valley in ths
| high Sierras. the Yosemite, this volume be
comes of special interest, and will be perused
with much care by all who desire to know
something Of the history of the discovery
OF that great natural curiosity. The doc
| tor says he gives his book to the public t6
! correct some prevalent errors regarding the
history of the valley. We have read his sim
| pie and often touching narrative with much
attention, and confess to strong liking fol
| the book. 1t is fair to assume that the doc
| tor has adhered strictly to the very best au
! thorities in his accounts wherever it was nee
essary to go beyond his own experience, fol
matters of fact as to the discovery Of the val
| ley. His recital is simple, often touching,
and is throughout a narrative that once en-
tered upon the reader will not abandon till
| it is finished. 1t is valuable addition to
| State history, and as such will find place in
| our annals to be awaited of when the time
shall come in which the history of Cslifor.
| MIA shall be written. In this book there will
be found some exceedingly interesting records
of the Indian tribes of California, and some
of their traditions and superstitions, especially
those in relation to the Yosemite.
COMMERCIAL PREcEDENrs BY Charles Putzel and Fl
A. Bahr. Hartford, Conn: The American Pub
fishing Co. San Francisco: A. Roman, agent.
Subscription onlY0 81.
The New York Journal OF Commerce has
for over quarter of century been publish.
ing in its columns department of :" Re-
plies and Decisions, and these have come to
be almost as high standard for commercial
citation az the leading law works on such SUBJ
has been compiled The publishers aver that
| only once, in all the time of the publication
of the department, has one of its rulings been
| overruled or declared incorrect by an appel.
ate Court, or indeed by any Court. OF course
| the reader, no more than the reviewer, is able
to test the truth of this assertion, but it is
| true that these replies of the paper named
| have emanated from men who stand foremost
in the legal profession, and have been largely
drawn from the rulings of the Courts and
| from the holdings in the leading cases of the
commercial world. There must be many
| thousands of these questions and answers in
this compact volume, and it would probably
| be no exageration to say that the subjects
| treated in that manner embrace every con.
| ceivable question and issue in commercial
| law. The book is in the nature of q cycle
pedia, and there Is in it no long articles-the
| matter is all compact, concise and to the
| point in every case. As book of reference,
we should think it invaluable to the merchant
and the lawyer alike.
| A TREATISE ON THE Law OF CoRPoRATIoNs OTHER
THAN CHARITABLE By Victor Morawetz. Boston
| Little, Brown & Co. San Francisco: a. L. Ban
croft Co. vol; law library style.
| The author presents this book as concise
treatise upon che law relating to private cor.
| porations of business character. He APP
pears to have been very successful in making
| an exhaustive collection of the authorities,
and in presenting them in manner that will
be found by the profession to be very con-
venient. Such an undertaking was very
difficult one, az all in any way familiar with
the subject will at once realize. There is no
branch of the study and practice of the law that
is in more unsatisfactory condition. Many of
the rules are in a vague and indefinite form
of statement, simply because of the conflicts
fkfxrr and hoN HI
has sought to do is to arrange the leading
cases and most generally accepted author
tiles in convenient treatise, in which the
attempt is made to ascertain the real princi-
pies that the cases represent. Without q
more thorough and extended reading of the
treatise than it is possible for US to give it,
we cannot pronounce upon the work further
than to commend the evident industry of the
author manifested in the pages of his work,
and to commend his concise and clear method
of treating the subject in hand. It appears
to US to be useful, needed and capable
work.
CALIFORNIA SKETCHES New series) BY Rev. O.
P. Fitzgerald, DE- late of California With an
introduction by Bishop Pierce. Nashville: The
Southern Methodist Publishing House. San Fran
cisco: A. Bancroft & Co.
DIR. Fitzgerald is well known on this coast,
and has many friends who hold him in very
kindly remembrance. His first sketches are
well known and had decidedly successfulsale
the best Indication of the favor with which the
public received his little book The present
volume is introduced by brief and very
pleasant paper from the pen of the Right
Reverend George f. Pierce. The sketches
are such as fairly reflect certain phases of life
in California as seen by the Doctor during
his many years of residence in our midst,
and as to literary merit are better than the
first series, in several respects, for the writer
has given them the advantage of more ma
ture consideration, and, as he probably
wrote them after he left this coast for his
present residence in Tennessee, he put them
to papsr without being subject to any of the
Influences that the most conscientious must
feel when they write of people among
whom they must still dwell.
ReBgRTsoN's LIVING THOUGHTS. A THEsAURUs. By
Kerr b. Upper and Professor VIM. Richards, Phi.
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