Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-24


publican " Recollections and Letters of
Grant" by Admiral Ammen; Slang in
America" by Walt Whitman Statecraft
and Priestcraft," by Rev. Philip Schaff, D.
D.; Style and the Monument" no name !;
Abraham Lincoln in Illinois" by ex-Min-
lister Eliht B. Washburne United Bull
garia, by Eugene Schuyler " Race Preiu-
dice, by Gail Hamilton; "A Letter to the
People of the United States on their Char
acter as Employers" by James Parton;
Shall Silver be DemonetiZed," by ex-Sen-
ator Z. p. Hill, of Colorado, Hon. Alex
ander Delmar, of California and Hon. VIII
comments include letter from Rev Henry
Ward Beecher, Senior NJ. Romero and
others. Mr.. Thorndike Rice, the editor,
announces that he has concluded an agree
ment with General Besuregard by which
he will write a series of four articles on
" The Shiloh Campaign, "The Defense Of
Charleston" THE Drury Bluffs Campaign"
and The Defense of Petersburg"
The Popular Science Monthly" ID. APP
pleton d Co., New York for November is
freely illustrated, and among the leading
papers are these deeply interesting articles:
Flying Machines" by T. w. Mather;
Modern Science and Modern Thought"
by 5. Laing, NJ. P; Twenty Years of Ne
SiO LNdSdlloIi, ny j. NJ. htdiilH GSid-
tons of Science to the Public Veal L."
by Sir Lyon Playfair, NJ p, F. R. s.; "A
Free Colony of Lunatics," by Henry De
Varigny; The Art of Investing" by John
F. Hume; "The Problem of Higher Edu-
cation" by Professor c. A. Eggert; Origin
of Color in Animals" by NJ. Paul Marchal;
The Motor Centers and the WILL" by V.
Horsley, F. r. C. S; " Home-Iife of the
Thibetans," by Charles II. Lepper In ad-
dition there is a portrait and sketch OF
Sir Lyon Playfair, and the usual well CON
sidered editorials and notes of scientific
progress.
The Atlantic Monthly" (Houghton,
Miiflin & Co., Boston,, for November is at
hand. In this number we note these papers
of special interest: Some Testimony in
the Case" by Rebecca Harding Davis {:
Words, Words, Words, by Andrew He'd
brooke; An Old time Grievance" by
Edward Stanwood; The Idea Of God" by
John Fiske; How Glooskap Brought the
Summer by Frances L. Mace Princi-
pies Of Criticism, by E. Il. Sill "A Tricksy
Spirit, by Olive Thorne Miller "Thack-
cray as an Art-Critic," by Ephraim
Young; The New Portfolio" by
Oliver Wendell Holmes; loves
Dead" by Paul Hermes. Besides are re-
views of illustrated books, the usual inter
ColAl4S NulltIlbutOI kIuD, ana lIS serials
by Henry James and NJ. .. W Oliphant
The Knight of the Black Forest is a
story of two American girls III foreign
land who meet at q summer resort a noble
man, and enjoy with him Irritation that.
for one of them, ends in q heartache. re-
pentance and return to the love of an
American wooer who though of rough
exterior and barnacled with business at
tachments, proves q truer knight and more
Chiyalric than The titled but heartless for
eigner. 1t is an original conception, ad-
| mirably related, and in analytical power
| testties to the reasoning and penetrative
powers of Grace DEMO Litchfield, the au-
| thor. who has natural gift for narrative.
and probes human motives very sllillfully
and surely. Published by &. p. Putnam's
Sons, New York, and for sale BY A. L. Ban
croft q Co., San Francisco
Tangled - is the title of a story by
Rachel Carew. The plot is simply the ludi-
crousness of the plumbers of two people.
who mistake one another for lunatics, and
who, on discovering their error, fall in love
and marry. 1t all happens at a fashionable
watering place. There is a villain, who. of
course, wants the girl himself, and who,
knowing OF the mistake, fosters it for his
own purposes. This is all there is to the
novel, 1t is simply, but not very forci-
bly,, told. There is an originality
in the conception, but small skill in
the telling of the tale The diction is fairly
good, but by no means choice, and the style
is amateurish. Published by S. C. Grggs
& Co., Chicago, and for sale by C. S. Hough-
ton, Sacramento, at 70 cents,
From C. S. Houghton, Sacramento, we
have " Hegeps Esthetics," critical exposi-
ton by John Steinfort Kedney, S. T. D. 1t
is published by 5. c. Griggs & Co, Chicago
and sells at 81 %. 1t is uniform with the
ISSUE by the same house, of Rants Pure
Reason" Seedlings Transcendental
Idealism," ana Fichets knowledge
The Esthetics of Hegel is vouminous
treatise, but more easy of comprehension
than any other of his works. Professor
Kedney has presented its more essential
parts in a briefer form, with lucid EXPOSE
ton of such chapters as do not appear in
full.
CITY Ballads is handsome quarto
volume by VIII Carleton, published by
| Harper & Bros. New York, and for sale
by \. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco 1t
| is handsomely illustrated Cartoons style
is thoroughly familiar to the reading pub
| lie. The book contains some of his best
| efforts in pathos, and some of his most
successful humorous poems. The subjects
tlGiltNl Z III OIuGI, w edilil, W ant, + Ire,
| Water, Vice, Virtue, Travel and Home"
The story of the old farmers experience
with bunko-steerers is admirably told,
and very fine example of poetic humor
Uncle Toms Cabin, by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, is reissued by Houghton, Mifflin &
| Co.. Boston, and is for sale by c.. S. Hough-
| ton, Sacramento. We have remarked edI-
| torially upon the history of this book and
demand of a new generation for the its
republication. 1t is needless TO say more
than such demand exists and that the
vitality of the novel has no parallel in
American fiction. No novel ever PLAYED so
important part in nations destiny as
| this. The addition to the book in this issue
| is q history of the novel itself and sketch
of its wonderful circulation.
NJ NJ. Ballou's due South" takes us
| into Cuba, its social and business life. and
tells us in detail of the customs of its peo-
pie, their agriculture, soil, production, and
art; their methods in trade, their amuse-
ments, their drives, harbors, houses.
| churches, defenses, etc. 1t is stout vol
ume, filled to the brim with practical in
formation gathered by a shrewd observer.
and presented in attractive form. with
thoughtful comment and vigorous crit
cism. 1t is published by Houghton, Milf
lin & Co., and retails at 81 30.
"a Marsh Island" is one of the best
stories Sarah Orne Jewett has yet given US.
The story is one of interest from the outset.
The play is lively, the characters natural
and reasonable people, and the plot within
the realm of the probable. The character OF
Doris is one of the most effective pen pict-
ures in recent fiction Published by
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, and for
sale by C. S. Houghton, Sacramento. 81 %.
The Current Chicago is not " dead. u
as has been stated by telegraph 1t suffered
a reverse, but is in capable hands, with
leading minds of its old corps in charge
Among critical and literary weekly journals
of America it has no superior for vigor,
clearness, variety and a culture style.
"Maruja" is new novel by Bret Harte,
from the press of Houghton, Mlffiin & Co.,