Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-31
LATE PUBLICATIONS.
New Books and the Curreat Magazines
for June.

Francisco. Captain King is a fluent an,
vigorous writer of scholarly accomplish
ments. The work before him. however
called for but little originality, and hi
labor is mainly manifest in compilation o
historic facts and their arrangement in TN,
compass consistent with the ponderousnes
| of the volume as originally contemplated
But he mas mace his matter vigorous
| spirited and attractive, and has invested
! some details with Il new interest The
sketches begin with Marathon. 400 b. c.
and close with the war of the American Re
! bellion Among the historical events witt
which the battles poEFayed are associated
are: The Persian lwfdes swarming int,
Europe, and the heroic and triumphant re
| Sistance of Greece; rivalry among thu
Greek States, and the end of the supremacy
of Thebes; the rise of Macedon her inya
sion of Asia: Alexander victorious at Ar
; bella; Rome and her long and bitter strug
gle with Carthage; the battle of Chalons
where Hunnland met Rome. and the
earth was played for, at sword-fence BY
! two earth bcstriding giants. the sweep o.
whose swords cut kingdoms in pieces
! The decisive overthrow of the Saracens al
Tours; Saxon England in the grasp of the
! Normans; the Crusaders contcnding fierce.
ly for the holy sepulchre with the knightly
Saladin Joan of Arc relieving Orleans
Constantinople III the hands of the infidel
the reformation and the battles of I.eipSiC
and Lutzen; the rescue of Vienna from the
! Turks; Sweden's leap into martial fame
the war of the Spanish succession; Freder-
lex the Great encircling Europe; the strug-
gle for American independence; the Lit
tie Corporal at Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena
and Waterloo; the six hundred at Bala-
claya the Civil War in America: Germa-
ny's revenge at Gravelotte; the two-century
struggle between Russia and Turkey, cul-
Ininating at Pleyna, etc. The book is pro-
fusely illustrated with portraits. maps,
plans and cuts of famous battles. As to
these last, however, there Is a cheapness
and coarseness of engraving not at all cred
table.
" Politics; An Introduction to the Study
of Comparative Constitutional Law, by
VIM W. Crane of the California Bar, and
Bernard Moses, PHI. D.. Professor of His
tory and Political Economy in the Univer-
sity Of California. New York c. p. Put
mans Sons. San Francisco: 4. l.. Ban
croft & Co. This work without being espe-
cially marked by ncwneSs of thought, is of
interest because OF the method employed
in the presentation of the topics treated
These are: The nation as an organic social
being. 4 growth and not an artificial crea-
ton; sovereignty. the regatta of society,
that clothes il a nation the organs OF the
sovereign through which the nation OK
presses its Will and which constitute the
Government; the force of the nation: OF
local powers; of instinct as a factor ia DO
llticai organizations of the political herit-
age OF the British colonies in America; OF
the early impulses toward unity on the
part of the colonies of the centrifugal and
cenTipetal forces of the makers of consti-
tutional and administrative law: of lcgis-
lation; of the distribution of power of the
conditions and tendency of normal politi-
cal growth; of the tendency Of power in
modern Governments and of political par
heS. Scarcely a wider range of subjects
could have been selected within the field OF
political economy. The treatment is plain.
clear, and the expressions unmistalabie
throughout, and the book cannot fail to
take place of prominence because of the
admirable method of treatment adopted
In no brief review of the volume can We afl
explain this method We have
said there is not much of newness in the
work, but this needs Modification, since the
feeling of the day on vital questions of gov
ernment arc considered, and in a spirit of
fairness and GOODNESS, and conclusions ar
rived, consonant with reason, and the
thought of the age
From the Century Publishing Company.
New York, we have the Century Maya
zine for June bountifully and richly illus
trated still this number is more notable
for its literary features. OF special inter
-.
American Girl in Cairo during the War
Of 1882" General Stone, in a predatory
letter, severely criticiscS the English attack
upon Alexandria. President Eliot dis
cusses the question, What is Liberal
Education ?" In paper on "The Use and
Abuse of Parties, DR.. Washington Glad
den advises independents TO try to act with
their party i'll the choice of candidates. An
called Reaping the Whirlwind'
IS Il sequel to the editorial entitled Mob
md Magistrate" In open Letters Dr. |
harles ). Robinson continues his series on |
church music with What the Choirs Say" |
Professor Ritter and Mr. Grant White break |
ances once more over Music in America" |
md among the other short contributions is |
Jne by Walter Hcrries Pollock about Miss !
Mary Anderson in London" The illus /!
rated papers are A FPench-American |
seaport an anecdotal description, by |
franklin A North of the seainan's re- |
Harbor;' American Wild Animals in |
Art, by Julia Hawthorne; curious and |
paper, Interestingly illustrated. |
~ DR. Edward Eggleston, on Commerce !
Il the Colonies" In fiction, Henry James
lew story, Lady Barberina;" the short
tory is a sketch of character by II C. Bun
Ter, entitled The Red Silk Handkerchief"
Fifth Avenue to Alaska is the title of /
diary of travel by Edward Pierrepont, b.
y, Christ Church, Oxford, with maps by |
-eonard Forbes Beckwith, c. L. Mr.
'ierrcpont having seen something of the
utilization of Europe, was possessed with
desire 10 see the newer civilization of /
he great west and the savage life of " our
icwly acquired Russian possessions" In !
lay, 1883, he left New York for Alaska by
say of Omaha, Salt Lake City, Yosemite,
he San Francisco region, Portland the
'olumbia Puget Sound, Victoria and
hence TO Alaska, returning to tie East BY
'ay of the Northern Pacific, the Yellow
tone Park, Wyoming mountains and the
lainS region. The trip consumed four
lOnths and covered a distance Of nearly
5000 miles Mr.. Picrrepont is very evil
emily of an obseryant habit He sees
|
quite, and speaks of it with honest bold
ess. But it must be said that the thought
the tourist is not specially striking or
,rcible. While he sees and makes note of
Il things worthy, he is by no means brill
mt in description, is curt in expression
nd at times obscure. The better part of
lie book by far is that devoted to Alaska
nd its aborignes, their traditions, man ,
ers and condition, and the topography .
nd striking features of the country The
olume is issued by G, 2. Putnam's Sons, :
ew York, and is for sale by A. /. Ban
oft & Co., San Francisco.
The Atlantic Monthly" for June (Hough- :
N, Mifflin & Co., Boston, is at hand .
he contents, in addition to the always in
resting " Contributors Club and the !;
,ok reviews, arc" \ Roman Singer" by '
Marion Crawford; Paris Classical Con-
rts :" THE Bird of Solitude" by Olive
horne Miller; The Beach Plum by f. t
F.; " In War Time" by S. Weir Mitch
/ PERJURY not Pauperism," by D. O.
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