Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

by Mrs. OIiphant; ga Serbian Poet"
IA Lady's Railway Journey in India" by
G. F. Gordon Cumming "Note on Good
Work !" Review of the Month"
"Garden and Farm Topics is the title
of work BY Peter Henderson, author OF
Gardening for Profit, Practical Flori-
culture" etc. 1t is published by the au.
thor and his partners, No. So CORTLAND
street, New York. 1t gives much valuable
special information concerning garden
ing, the resisting of insect pests, best
methods of flower, vegetable and grass
culture, etc., and is freely illustrated.
From the Orange Judd Company, Nc.
ISL Broadway, New York, we have new
and enlarged edition of G. Husmann's work,
American Grape growing and Wine-mak-
ing" Mr.. Husmann is of the we'll known
Talcoa Vineyard of this State. The work
is widely known. In the present volume
are several added chapters on the grape
industries of California. The book is freely
illustrated.
"Erring, yet Noble" is the title of the
story of a woman s life as written by Isaac
G.. Reed, Jr. 1t is from the press of L. b,
Peterson s. Bros, Philadelphia, and ct
hand from A. L. Bancroft & Co., San
Francisco, and is an analysis of a woman's
career. The interest commences with the
opening sentence, and is steadily kept up
to the last.
A new monthly journal, entitled "The
American Aquatic Magazine" devoted to
yachting, rowing, canoeing and all water
pastimes in American waters, commsnced
publication with the year 1884. 1t is edited
L A shaI ~,
Hsarne & Co., New York. The magazine
presents fine typ graphical appearance and
in its entire makeup promises success.
The Electra for March, published at
Louisville, KY, opens with an interesting
story by Rev. E E. Bigger, entitled '' Mont
eagle" and is followed by 1.-The December
Twilishts," a poem. Other articles are,
'Three German Duels," IA Trip to the
Moen, Feliz.," "a Dream" Richard,
Duke of York." Tennyson's Dream of Fair
Women" etc.
OF the English Men of Letters Series,
issued by Harper & Bros, New York, we
have Addison" by w. ]. Courthope. 1t
is fully up to the standard. Mr.. Morley,
the editor, has set for this series, which
has now embraced thirty.iour volumes, the
whole forming an invaluable library for the
literary student.
Gorge Parsons Lathrop gives us very
readable and interesting novel in "New-
port" Mr. Lathrop is very happy in the
telling of this society romance. The
volume is from the press of Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons, New York, and for sale by c.
s. Houghton, Sacramento.
Prof. Otto Fleissner, of Sacramento, has
composed a three-psge instrumental piece
set in D and G, entitled 1.-The Daisv Hop
Schottische" 1t is dedicated to the Xopes
Club of this city, and published by A. VALID
teufel, of San Francisco.
"Old Mark Langston, Tale of Dukes
Greek, is the title of an interesting Amer
lean novel by Richard Mslcom Johnston.
1t is from the press of Harper & Brothers,
New York. The scene of the story is in
Georgia and the South.
"Only an Incident" is the title of
novel by Grace DEMO Litchfeld, which is
published by C. P. Pntnam's Sons, New
York, and is for sale by A. L. Bancroft &
Co., San Francisco.
OF Harper Bros Franklin Square Ii
brary, New York, we have, in the new
duodecimo form, the novel entitled "The
Millionaire"