Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Art Amateur for the current
month Montague Marks. New York, is &
number of great beauty, augmented ir
volume, and contains articles of livelest
interest to art workers and amateurs. There
are four supplements of designs, one being
in colors for painting on silk. These in
Guided repousse, china painting, embroi-
derry and ecclesiastical drapery. Among
leading articles are the usual critical-and
incisiyely so-art paragraphs of the Note
Book, Boston Correspondence jules
and Edmund de Goncourt" How to
Model in Clay, Lessons in Wood En-
craving, Art Notes and Hints, J. Hilda'
design for tapestry decoration. 4" Persian
Rugs and Carpets Bernard Palsy,
double-page porcelain panel decoration
b" Notes on Decoration, French Renais-
sance Panel Decoration, The Art of En-
broidery," Anglican Church Needle
work, How to Paint on China, . Paint
ing a Portrait Plaque The Bernard
Palsy Panel, ~ " Designs and Suggestions
tor Jewellers Use" Numerous fine illus
frations embellish this number.
The Popular Science Monthly for
January ID. Appleton & Co, New York;,
in addition to the departments of htera-
ture, popular miscellany and notes, has
these profoundly interesting papers: A
blaHCe AT lhe jury system, " Y. II.
Stephens "Agnostic Metaphysics" by
Frederic Hanson " Last Words about Ag-
nostcisnl,' by Herbert Spencer; Influ-
ences Determining Sex" by Prof W K.
Brooks Ny Schools and SchoOlmaSters, y
by Prof JOHN Tyndall; Gladiators Of the
Sea by Z. A. Fernald Studying in Ger
many" by Prof Horace NJ. Kennedy ;
State Usurpation of Parental Functions, "
by Sir Auberon Herbert; " Bloody Sweat, y
by J. H Pooley, NJ. D.; Protective Mimi
cry in Marine Life" by DR. W BreiteE-
bach The Chemistry of Cookery by W.
Matthew Williams; " Advantages of
Limited Museums, by Oscar w, Callet
The Architecture of Town Houses, by
Robert ". Eds +. 5. A.; Mountain OBJ
servatories ;" Sketch Of Sir Henry Ros-
coe'
The Overland Monthly for January
Samuel Carson Il Co., San Francisco is at
hand 1t presents the following very in
teresting table of readable papers, in add
ton to the usual editorial and critical de-
partments The Worlds Wonderlands in
Wyoming and New Zealand, by c. F.
G. Cumming Solitude" by e. T.; over
haste in Making Our Nation" by Martin
Kellogg; "A Glimpse of Utah by L.
Roberts g The Little Wanderer, by Louise
p. Heaven; g Lcthe, by X NJ Bishop
Madame de Genlis, by Kate Sanborn
A Morning Thought by E. r Sill "A
Hunchback," by Ignace de Uriviera; con
the Mediterranean, by John H. Craig
The Building of a State-IlI. Early Con
gregationalism in California" by ]. A. Ben
ton: - Analytical Politics, by l. Stringham.
The last number of Macmillan 5 Month
IL Magazine Macmillan & Co, New York
and London,} has nine papers OF high
value They are: Freedom" by Lord
Tennyson; Style and Miss Austin, y
Profit and Loss at oxford, Notes on
Popular English The Croker Papers,
Over the Rocky Mountains by the Cana
dian Pacific Line in 1881 Henry Faw-
cett, in Memoriam." by Leslie Stephen
"Borrouehdale of Borroughdale, 'ReYiew
of the Month
The January issue of " Literary Life Il
monthly illustrated magazine, published
bv the Elder Publishing Company, Chi
cago. contains the portrait and a Geographic
cal sketch of VIII Carleton; interesting
anecdotes OF various authors; some
famous stories briefly told from Schillers
'Wallensteiu = brief sketch of Bossnet,
etc The magazine addresses itself to the
literary class, and by which ii will be APP
preciated
The nineteenth part of Stormonth 5
Dictionary being issued by Harper Bros,
has been received from Bancroft d Co.. San
Francisco There will be but four or five
numbers more to complete the work.
The Philadelphia Record has issued a
statistical almanac for 1885, much the same
in matter and style US the long established
Tribune Almanac.
A. Waldteufel, San Francisco, has just
published Memories Waltzes, 9 pages,
composed By J, Y. Gcary, 50 cents.