Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11


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The grave is cruel for it bars the deed
| OF latent mercy, presses down the scale
Oh justice with 4 miSers hungry greed
Galnst frozen hearts what can our tears avail
| The grave is mighty; gainst it your appeal
Beats like the surges on the finty rock;
Inc pleading BOSOM pressing tempered steel
Hath only wounds and anguish for the shock
The title poem. and which opens the
| volume, while the most pretentious of all,
is not superior to some OF the simpler lines.
1t is, however, strong in its Invocation, as
| these extracts testify:
o, mystic mountains sleeping in the dim
Celestial blue OF yonder throbbing haze.
Purpling horizons cloud rim
Fading to mist before my yearning gaze,
| speak to my spirit of your beauty wild:
! Watt me the signs of piney monarchs old.
| Whisper your legends never yet defled
By breath of fashion or debasing gold
Tell me. bold deeds Of huntsmen, brave and
grim;
Stout Hawathas, in the deadly strife
OF love with famine, till my eyelids swim
And soul stands quivering mid the woes Of
life,
Sick of the shallow nothingness that flIs
The idle sails of folly's fairy bark,
Pleading for nature and for truth that thrills
| The brain with fire from its immortal spark
The Overland Monthly for April
Samuel Carson & Co., San Francisco, is at
hand. 1t is a full, rich number Among
the chief papers. in addition to the
usual etc, book reviews and in
cisiye editorials, are these: The
General Principles of Art and their
Application to the Novel, " Joseph lie
| Conte; The Neophite," by Wilbur Larre-
more; "OEve Orchards of the Riviera"
by s. II. NJ. Byers Some Problems of
the Congo by George Mooar; "ThaI.an-
| III n NJ
| AN Old Imperial Residence, Castle Cha
pultepec. i'll Mexico" by Wilhelm Tim
| hermann ARIZONA in the Seventies, bv
Dagmar Mariager: THE Oracle by Z. r.
Sill John George" by Sol. Sheridan
Observations in the Southern States" By
A. c. Applegarth; "a One-Sded Core
spondence" by X. NJ. B.; AN Extra Morn
ing Duty, translated from Pierre Lott,
Re72.e dcs Deur jfondes Embalmed,
by NJ. 4. NJ. Cramer; Indian Troubles in
Oregon, 1S54-5, by J. G. T.; Incidents
OF Regular Army Life in Time of Peace"
by f. X. y.
= How to be Your Own Lawyer is the
title of an octave volume published by NJ.
L. Richardson, New York. We have no
faith IN patent short cuts to knowledge.
The way to be ones own lawyer is to study
the law, and qualify for the bar Books
that pretend TO teach one how to conduct
his own legal business are, as a rule. de-
cclts. The redeeming character of the book |
under notice is its compilation of the laws
OF the States and Territories on exemp-
tons, transfers of realty, dissents, iudg-
ments, notes, debt, marriage. dover, liens, |
trusts, etc. But in so far as it attempts to |
teach general principles of law, it is Ger
tain 70 mlslead--nOt from its misinforma-
ton, there may be none, but from the fact |
hot Shn RI ntyy,, 1,Aftl H.
studied i'll any way short of the old way, |
thorough and exhaustive reading. There |
are some valuable pages of statistics, and |
some compact rules that obtain in parlia- |
mentary practice.
Three thoughtful, mastery ESSAYS, by |
Edward Atkinson. are What Makes the |
Rate of Wages > What is Bank ." and |
The Railway, the Farmer and the Pub |
lie. They are comprised in a neat volume |
entitled The Distribution of Products, or |
the Mechanism and the Metaphysics of |
Exchange" 1t is at hand from A l. BAN |
croft & Co. San Francisco, and is from the |
press of q. 2. Putnam's Sons, New York |
and London. We can at this time only |
refer to this work. The first essay was |
submitted to the British Association for
the Advancement of Science the second |
was read before the Finance Club of Har-
vard University, and the third is reprinted |
from the Manufacturers Gazette
Of the international Scientific Series ID.
Appleton & Co., n. Y we have from Jas.
/. White d Co., San Francisco, volume
HLflIl. 1t is an exhaustive treatise on
the Origin of Cultivated Plants" by AL
phonse De Candolle, one of the most dis
tlnguished of European scientists. In one
respect it is volume of broader interest
than most of its predecessors, for knowl-
edge of the orig in of cultivated plants is of
immediate value and profound interest to
everyone engaged i'll agricultural pursuits.
The treatment in this volume is not tech
nical, but comprehensive, in a large degree
by those who have not studied botany
while to the botanist it will prove a book
OF admirable reference.
Short Stories by California Authors is
a small quarto from the Golden Era press,
San Francisco. 1t embraces Portrait of
a California Girl" by Ella Sterling Cum
Minis Quartz" by J. W. Gally; Mea
Culpa," by w. S. Green Liz" bv Mary
Willis Glascock; Miranda Higgins" by
W. A. Cheney THE Marquis of Aguavo,h
by H. B. Mcdowell; "A Sensation in the
Orange Groves by Ben. c. Truman, and
6 Nathan, the Jew" by Harr Wagner All
reading public of California. Mea Culpa,"
by Win S. Green, will be remembered as
the prize story in the RECORD MON liter
airy competition few years ago.
The English Illustrated Magazine y for
April is at hand from the publishers, Mac
milan & CO., New York and London. 1t
is very spring like and representative num-
Der. The frontispiece, The Baby's Lula
by is rich engraving by Knesing, from |
Alma Tadema's picture; Bret Harte's "A
Ship of 40, continues, as also Hugh Con- {
ways "a Family Affair, and w. Cranes
The Sirens Three paper by Archi-
BALD Forbes, interviewed by an EN- |
oeror;' one by J. f. Panton, g Highways
md Byways, are among the more at +
,ractive of the contents. We know of no t
magazine of like scope that has made such
genuine progress as this.
THE White Cross Army - is the name
IF Society which was organized in Eng !
he purpose of raising the standard of
purity and purifying the thoughts
md lips of the young, and thus securing
| higher moral and Christian standard. | y
The Society has now transferred its organ
cation to America and in connection with
IS work series of short addresses have
,een published, in nicely finished small
pamphlet form, by E. P. Dutton & Co., t
yew York, known as The White Cross Il
erieS, setting lortn the workings OF the
lew movement the Divine ideal of man, 7
tc.
From G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, t,
re have their issue of large octave O
olume, entitled Travels in Faith from a
tradition to Reason" by Robert c. Adams Il
t is free, thorough treatise denying the a
ivine origin of the Bible and treating
hurch organizations as social and moral o.
ids only 1t assails all the doctrinal Of
of Christianity and holds that
IL existence is miracle; that revelation
continual to the student of nature; that 81
he inventor, the scholar and the philan Il
nropist are inspired, and that rewards and G
follow naturally upon causes. CO
A very life-iike and excellent photo al
raph. cabinet size of General Grant has
cen received from Taber, San Francisco. :.
was taken in September, 1879, and hence &c
bows the General as he looks in later N