Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-22


Not to the Southern savanna
That pants for the clasp Of the sea,
Nor yet TO the peaks of Montana,
White mitered in chastity
But here, . my fairer Sierra,
come like a child to thy breast,
Confessing nv hearts bitter error,
LAmenting its burning unrest
Here only, o marvellous mountains,
Sublimey serene and unmoyed,
drink new faith from thy fountains
And feel my fOrebodings improved.
The stars they nearer and kinder,
The air seems clearer to sight,
And worlds that await but the finder
Are faint on the verge Of the night.
From the poem Unattained."
II could catch one note OF song
From out the melody that streams
In throbbing currents through my dreams,
The world would cease its strife and wrong,
And bend to hear with eager ear,
And swear such music were divine
That single note Of mine.
from the poem Mount Hamilton
Miles to the southwark, looking down
On fertile fields and gardened town,
on orchards fragrant with almond blooms,
And pastures drowsy with wild perfumes,
A sentinel mountain stands Away,
Guarding far, dreamlike San Jose.
Students will challenge the guards of space
Here will be weighed each distant world,
Here will the universe be unfured
And in the impassioued hush OF night
Shall come the hint Of diyiner light.
And those who are searching for worlds alone,
In painless track and in starless zone,
As they stand on this mount in coming years
Shall think of the one whose name it bears;
And then, like him, through silver bars,
Shall see God standing behind the stars.
Camps in the Rockies" is the title of q
most entertaining volume Just issued from
the press of Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York, and at hand from w. A. Il G. S.
Houghton, Sscrsmento-selling at 81 rs. 1t
is by w. A Baillie- Grohman, author of
"Tyrol and the Tyrolese," "Gaddings with
Primitive People" etc. 1t is narrative Of
life on the frontier and sport in the Rocky
mountains, with an account OF the cattle
ranches of the West. This title quite suf-
Gciently describes the scope of the book. The
author is a travelled man, and evidently one
of fine observant powers. That the reader
will fully agree with him in his estimate of
the people of our far West is not to be ex-
pected, nor should they, for in several respects
he will be found to be in error, in judgment,
as to matters with which we all pride our
selves upon being familiar. But it is well to
see our land through others eyes, occasion
ally. We should be sensible enough to know
that we are not our own best judges,
and seldom good critics of ourselves. Bnt
the author of the book before us is a sports
man of many years standing. He has hunted
for quarter of century in the best ranges
of the world, and as a consequence his nara
tives have all the favor of the true and ar
dent sportsmans recitsls. He is clear and
a very interesting writer. He sees all that is
worth seeing, and understands the value of
detail without making his records heavy with
them. He has an eye for the beautiful and
a soul fol the lofty and inspiring in nature.
His book as consequence is one that is en-
pertaining, informatory and gracefully piano.
ramic of wild and romantic region-a Sec
ton of our country of which we have as much
to uLlearn as we have to learn before we un-
derstand it Alright. We are glad that this
English sportsmsn has written this book, and
believe it viii meet with very cordial recep-
ton from that large class of American read
ers who pever tire in reading of the charms of
the boundless West of our country.
Floating Matter in the Air is the title
of book of essays, by John Tyndall +. r. S.
1t relates to the questions of putrefsction and
infection. 1t is for sale by J. t. White &
Co., Of San Francisco. 1t is quite unneces-
sary to remark upon any work from the pen
of this distinguished scholar. The doctrine
of the essays is on the basis of the triumph of
the antiseptic system of surgery. that recog-
nizes living contHgid as the agents of putre-
faction. Tyndall says that the English sur
geons, in acting on this theory in their hos.
pitfalls. were, for the most part. wiser than
thew knew. But then knowledge was still
empirical knowledge; they knew that dirt
was fatal, but why, few of them knew. Then
came Lister and made all plain. OF these
essays on this interesting subject the third is
the most important, as it bears on the germ
theory Of disease. the volume ia one of the
most profoundly Important contributions to
sanitary science of the day, and should be
read by every physician in the land. 1t is
from the press of D. Appleton & Co., New
York.
OF the American Men of Letters series
the latest is of Henry ID. Thoreau, the great
self made naturalist, the poet philosopher
and ardent student of nature. The series is
edited by Charles Dudley Warner, and the
present volume is by +. B. Sanborn. 1t is
from the press of Houghton, Mitiii & Co.,
Boston, and is for sale by W. A. Il c. S.
Houghton, Sacramento, at 81 %. 1t is
complete and very interesting life of one of
the strangest, and at the same time one of
the most gifted men of the country, whose
life was almost marvel in its revelations,
and in whose death the whole nation suffered
almost irreparable loss.
The latest volume of the classical
Writers Series" as printed by D. Appleton
& Co., New York, is at hand from J. I.
White & Co., San Francisco. 1t is entitled
Demosthenes," and is by S. II. Butcher,
M. A. 1t treats of the age of the great ora
tor, of his public life and speeches, his pri-
vate speeches, the time from the rise of
Macedon and the fall of 0iynthus, and the
peace of Philocrstes, down to the death of
the statesman and public orator. 1t is &C.
companed by ar excellent map. The series
is edited by the we'll known historian, John
Richard Green.
Villa Bohemia" is the title of small
paper covered volume by Maria LIE Baron.
1t is from the press of Kochendoerfer & Uric,
New York. 1t is the story of group of
women, who took a remote cottage for the
summer, from which all men were TO be
rigidly excluded but they came all the same,
and coming they conquere |, as they always
do. The story is prettily told, but it is not
an impressive one, and the reader hardly feels
that he has been compensated for tbs time
given to its perusal.
"In the Saddle is the title of an odd vol
ume from the press of Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., Boston. 1t consists Of collection of
poems on horseback riding. Thera are some
thirty poems from the best writers Of our
own and past ages on this delightful exercise.
The hook is for sale by w. A. Il G. s. Hough-
ton, Sacramento. Price, 81.
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