Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-03
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capital without paying the price of industry
and economy"
1.-THE Cathedral Towns of England, Ire.
land and Scotland" is by Thomas w. Sillo-
way and Lee l.. Powers, and published by
A. Williams & Co, Boston, and for sale by
W. A. & G. S. Houghtop, Sacramento. A
mans taste in poetry is good deal the index
Of his mental calibre in bellies lettres and of
book of travels that in its first paragraph
quotes seriously
"My native land, good night"
And
"Tired Natures sweet restorer, balmy sleep"
And calls eating the evening meal, sup
pered," one feels in awe. If we could, by
internal evidence, know when Thomas Sill
loway laid the pen down and Lee i Powers
took it up, we might say, Thomas has
treated the blarney stone insdequately. but
Lees sketch of Limerick is ting
ling with attic salt" or Lee
mods in England. but Thomas is
broad awake and staring in Scotland"
But the same mild dulRess pervsdes the work
Of both Observation-Disclosures, even their deadly
lively attempts at joke are drowned in
sea of verbage. The substance of the book
appeared in a Boston weekly paper, The
preface AYERS, and likewise that the historic
and biographical facts have all been verified.
These will be immensely instructive to those
fjr whose benefit they have been incorporated
=" that large class in all communities who
are without the means of obtaining such in
formation"
81 From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Her
cules," is work by Henry Day. 1t is for
sale by A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran.
cisco, Price, 81 30. This collection of OBJ
servations on Spain, its history and its peo-
pie, is composed in grave and thoughtful
spirit. Each subject is treated under
separate head, be the space devoted TO it
short or long. There is no regular division
into chapters. The Spanish police. the an.
Gent Moors, the bull-fghting, sherry, port
and cork manufacture, are treated in
turn, as the writer is in La Mauchs,
Granada, Seville OF Jerez. There are mum.
Der of short essays under sub-hesds on the
subject OF Gibralter, history of it and de-
scriptions of its defenses and naCural feat
ures. On his last page, the conclusion
of note on the Albigenses, MIR. Day
charGcterizes Spain as the land of
the past Poor, proud, naughty, igno-
rant, living on her past glories, which she
wraps around her nakedness, as one of her
povertY-stricken hidalsos, glorying in his
lofty lineage, draws his ancient cloak around
his lank limbs and battered garments, and
grand old knights of other days."
Professor Rolfe's latest issue of the Shake
speare series. from ths press of Harper &
Bros. New York, is for sale by A. L. Ban
croft & Co, San Francisco. 1t contains the
poems Venus and Adcnis, The Rape Of
Lncrece," "The Passionate Pilgrim" and
"a Lovers Complaint" Professor Rolfe's
notes and comments are, to our view, by far
the most interesting in this volume of any he
has given US in this &c monte and admirable
SERIES The history Of the poems is given
with an elaboration which is very satisfact-
orr, and the spnotations and comments,
given as the lines are presented, are of much
value to the reader. 1t would be a very
pleasant task, and one of compensation, did
space permit, to take up and consider the
moot points which Professor Rolfe discusses
in the historical chapter that opens the vol
ume; but at least the attention of the reader
can be invited to the elaborate discussion of
the sources of the poems, the probable date
OF their composition, and the accuracy Of the
text, together with the critical review Of the
poems themselves.
OF G. P. Putnam's Sons New York;
"Topics of the Times Series" we have the
latest. being "Studies in Literature" and
embracing American Literature in En-
gland" from "Blackwood's :" "a New
feadlng OF hamIetJ by r. Lel1cnud Inc
Humorous in Literature" by J. H. Short
house The Bollandisss." by Rev. George
L. Stokes; Isaiah of Jerusalem" by
Matthew Arnold, and "The Unknown Pub
lic," by Thomas Wright. These essays have
been before the public, and cali for no COM
msnt. Presented in this convenient form,
however, they are specially valuable to all
who desire to peIuse or refer to them with
out looking up or subscribing for the various
reviews in which they originally appeared.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco,
we have T. B. Peterson & Bros (Philadel-
pbis) issue of volume of stories by Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, the well. known
novelist. Thess novelettes embrace "Jarl's
Daughter" THE Men Who Loved Elizg-
BETH" "Wanted-A Young Person." and
Miss Vernon's Choice" The stories are
chsste and clear-cut. They are in Mrs. Bur
netL's best style, and the first is quite the
equal of any of her shorter novels.