Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-18
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Spanish, not Economically hattered, yet never
maligned by discomfort. Mr.. Lathrop shows
/ the true travellers humor, and takes us from
scene to scene, picturesque, humorous, ro-
mantle, as one on a holiday with plenty of
time to spare. The heat of the sun and the
unprogressive character Of the Spanish exist
ence were never better portrayed. There is
no review of politics except as they may
affect daily life. a few snatches of the songs
Of the country are prettily translated
and the profuse Illustrations by Charles S.
| Reinhardt are constant delight to the
reader. For sale by A. L. Bancroft & Co.,
San Francisco.
Doctor Claudius" By F. Marion Craw-
ford. New York: Macmillan & Co. This
second novel Of Mr.. Crawford is more probs-
bic than "Mr. Isaacs," and vet has withal
plot sufficiently involved to hold the readers
interest till the end DIR. Claudius seems to
become King Of Sweden, or some equally ex-
! allied Parsonage, and has a great deal Of power
with the Russian Government, bat these
things are not the only points Of resemblance
between Mr.. Crawford's novel and Lord
| Beaconsfeld's earlier andmore brilliant books.
Iheret is the same almost passionate in
terest 10 living for its own sake, the
same feelings of having more good things
to say than there is space to say them
| in, and, by the way, Carlyle's saying that
the French mobiles did not like Jean jacques
Roussssu's books. but the second edition was
| bound with their skins, is as new as it is
| memorable. The difference between the
! spirit of Europe and the spirit Of America is
shown when the American thiRks besieged
castle could have been destroyed by dyna-
mite, to which the SHede replies that the
ruin Of present would be lees picturesque,
and the American persists that the destruo-
ton at the time would have been more effect
| i've. The love motive is paramount and the
| heroine, American by birth, as true as she is
bewitohing. For sale by W. A. & G. S.
Houghtop, Sacramento.
An Inland Voyage" By Robert Louis
Stevenson. Boston Roberts Brothers. Mr..
Stevenson is a writer destined to grow
steadily 10 popularity with readers who can
appreciate his limpid, idiomatic English
style, his manly, intelligent, kindly views of
| life, and his charm in pointing out the IN.
noticed pleasant things of everybody exist
| ence. To read one book of his is certain to
make one desire another, and the present
volume is an enviable introduction to his
| writings. The inland voyage is made through
the canals and rivers of Belgium in two
! canoes with ssils-,he Arethusa and Cigar
ette-occupied respectively by Mr.. Stevenson
| and friend, of whom the author merrily
says in his preface that he owes him many
thanks already and wishes ne owed him
nothing else The joys, the loves, the la
bors Of the Bslgians, their odd French, their
inns, and all the incidents and scenes of
travel. are told with unhagging veTve and
impaired interest until the end. The canoes
enter France upon the river Disc, where the
lsst two days OF blue costumes and of peas.
| ans nh r a call q
symphony in forget-me.not" For nale by
W. a. & c. S. Houghton, Sacramento.
sc Mr.. and Mrs Morton" Boston: Cup
PIES. Upham & Co. ATtemus Ward wrote in
1860 that the negro might be our brother,
but he never should be our sister nor our
aunt in the country, which one takes to mean
that member OF the heter ogereous race ia
tolerable 20 a Caucasian imaginst in the
enjoyment of equal political privileges with
the Caucasioo. but intolerable in the domestic
relations. So when this novel is said to have
run into third edition in two weeks on the
strength of physiological phenomenon, and
that phenomenon proves to be the birth of a
black child to white parents, and the mystery
is explained by the fact that the father is an
Alhino born of negro parents, by freak of
nature not unknown indeed, but rather re-
pulsive, and when, after these facts are ex-
planned to the mother of the black baby and
wife of the white negro, she still loves her
husband and continues to live with him, the
imagination revolts it is simply unpleasant,
and suggests social mysteries and cemplica-
tions and suspicious that make one, in the
language of Dickens Mrs. Veneering
afraid to leave baby" For sale by W.
a. Il G. S. Houghton, Sacramento.
"Tiger Lily and Other Stories" By Julia
Schayer. The materials Of these stories are
conventional to degree, and conventionslly
combined. but there is the right ring in
the telling. A fervent appreciation Of that
mystery of the cruelty of things" which
it seems the province or popularity Of wo-
men to feel with singular acuteness. Tiger
Lily is a poor, fierce child, with few drops
Of mulatto blood IN her that make her a butt
for her school-fellows, while the freckles on
her dark skin make her like tie flower which
gives the name to the story. In Molly !"
and "a Summers Diversion the terrible
old subject Of the jars in married life sre
worked with, but the touch is sure, and the
heart behind pure and compassionate. The
last tale, My Friend, Mre. Angel" is a
patheticaliy comic character sketch of a
hopelessly irresponsible, "shiftless South
eru woman, as kind-hearted as possible, but
whose conceptions of duty and principle are
less than any apprecisble quantity. For
sale by A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
rsmento.
"OrientAl Legends" By Rabbi a. NJ.
Bien. New York: Brown & Derby. Be-
sides the legends of Eastern stories told in
verse, like the Creation of the Heart of
Man, the "Creation of Woman and 9TH
ers, this volume contains a series of verses
called "Street Pictures" lyrics and sketches
in rhyme of Teutonc life in America. All
of these have appeared in periodicals, and
are now collected into book form and dedi-
Gated to the subscribers who have encouraged
the publication. Like most foreigners witt
ing In English, the author is rot yet discrim-
inatingly sure Of what words may be used in
poetry and what words ore entirely colloquial,
and while most of the lines scan, an I'M
Euglish ssress of voice on certain words is
sometimes required to accomplish that result.
The interesting poems of the collection are
those that commemorate Judaism, or German
life in America, for the writer's heart and
feeling are in his work, the fifst-last, impers-
tive necessity in the production of poetry.
For sale By publishers.
"The Ladies LinGcres." By Mrs Oil.
plant. New York Harper 6 Brothers.
Mrs. Oliphant ia prscticed and prolific
writer, and her stories are told in good Eng
lish, but for plot and intricscy they are often
keyed little higher than the author can
quite make cut to sing. The consequences of
murder are always hard to wrestle with in
q novel, but the pictures Of tbs home life led
By the women of the story, their unexpressed
but ever.present rebellion against the loud
expressions aud msstership of their males,
the auihor hits off in a wonderful way. and
simply delicious is the Marquis Of Milleh urs,
with his appropriate family name Of Ess. and
his calmly critical remarks on the little mys-
teries and intensities that spring up about
him ia the family life at the mansion house
of Dslrulzian. There is an American girl
in what nav English novel is there not ?-and
the women as a whole are noblsr, frmer,
more human creatures than the men. For
sale by A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran.
cisco.
OK. Y. H." BY Anna Katherine Green.
New York: G.. P. Putnam's Sons. The
initials that give the name to Mrs. Green:
last detective story are the address put upon
suspicious looking letters which the detective
who tells the story in the first person, goes
to trace at Brandon, Massachusetts,. The
letters are supposed to be part of the schemt
of gang Of counterfeiters, and in tracing
, this crime the detective chances upon another
- murder-of which the climax takes place
st a domino party. Poisoned wine, a mystic
rious yellow domino, an old family servant, 6
wicked and hypocritical brother who is shown
in his true eolors, virtuous but traducec
,, brother who is restored to his proper position
in the family and is happily united to I
faithful sweetheart, who has believed in hiu
through sll-these are the elements, wover
with some show of convincing probability
10 a most readable little pamphlet For ISL;