Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-01
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

| From j. T. White 6; Co, San Francisco
We have the fiftieth volume of 1.-THE In.
| ternational Scientific Series published by
| d. Appleton & Co., New York. This --latest
issue of an established series, occupying 8
| high place in the scheme of popular educa,
| ton, is The Common sense of the Exact
| Sciences" and is by the late VIM. Kingdom
| Clifford. The author died in Madeira in
| 1879. This posthumOus work is presented
under the editorship of a friend who sue
| ceeded Professor Rowe, of University Col
lege, in that important work. Professor
| Rowe labOred upon 1t over four years, when
| his death interrupted the work. The sub
jects treated in this volume, for which moth
| ing short of an exhaustive analysis would
| be just in the matter of notice, are number
| space, quality, position and motion. II
must suffice to say that every teacher and
student of advanced mathematics should
possess and read the volume.
OF Harper's Handy series Harper Bros,
| New York;, we have two neat volumes,
| Nos. 10 and II, THE Mahdi, Past and
| Present" by Professor James Darnnoster.
| 1t is n pamphlet of much value to any in
| terested in modern historic research into
the Egyptian question: and especially into
the present religions of Islam and the va
rious great chiefs of religion that have ap-
! peared as Mahdis in Persia, Africa, Turkey,
| Egypt and the Soudan. The second vol
ume is The World of London, by Count
Paul Vasili. Elch little book sells for p
cents, and is for sale by A. L. Bancroft &
Co., San Francisco.
John B. Alden, New York, in the enter
prising spirit which has led him to cheaper
| so much good literature as to its book form
of presentation, and thus bring it within
the reach of people by whom it has hereto
| fore been unobtainable, has issued, as one Of
| the Carlyle series, "Sartor Resartus (the
life and opinions of Herr Enthusiastically,
Past and Present and The Diamond
| Necklace" These three books in one make
| up fat volume, which sells at the remark
bound and fit for any library shelf.
An admirable little book for thoughtful
| children is that by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick
entitled " Chapters on Plant Life" 1t is
proftIsely illustrated, the text is simple,
the explanations clear, the illustrations
employed by the author convincing, and
the method employed to interest youth in
botanical inquiry is charmingly adroit and
effective. From the press of Harper &
Bros, New York, and for sale by A. L.
Bancroft & Co, San Francisco.
Within the Capes is new novel by
Howard Pyle. 1t is from the press OF
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and is
for sale by A. l.. Bancroft & Co, San Fran
cisco, at 81. The story has the crisp flavor
Of the ocean, and is a thoroughly well told
tale
From the San Francisco News Company
we have of the Excelsior Publishing House
New York series Burdett's Heroic Rec
tatious and Readings 1t is a well COM
piled volume, and sells at 25 cents.
George w. Algine, Chicago, has pub
lished a novel entitled Only a Woman's
Heart or Barbara's Rival" 1t is by Err
nest A Young, author of Fred. Danforth. -"
1t retails at % cents.
1.-The Bad Boy at Home" is a pamphlet
volume by Waller T. Gray, author of = The
Bad Boy Abroad" 1t is from the press Of
j. s. Oglive & Co., New York.