Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26

heads, and note and reference headings. in
manner to greatly facilitate search and to
render the examination of the notes mat
ter OF ease: The work of the editor appears
TO have been done with conscientious
thoroughness and 10 the extent of exhaustiy-
ness, rendering his annotations a brief
book of invaluable character. The four
volumes sell at S24; single ones, delivered,
at 81 So.
Advance sheets of the Overland Month
~ for October (San Francisco give us an
insight into the literary feast that issue
will spread before its readers 1t opens
with paper on Alvarado, Governor of
Alta California, from the pen of Theodore
IL. Hittell, and. introduces us 10 some of
the most stirring events of early California
history. q. NJ. Upton contributes story,
" My First Wedding N. F. Rowntree a
poem, "Sehnsucht;" NJ II. F. a sketch of
the Brave Life " of the wife of John
Brown (0ssawattomie); Emile T. Y.
SWEET a story entitled "A Transportation
Arlstocrat;' d. S. Richardson an anecdotal
narrative, Brindle and Others;' C. F.
Gordon Cumming paper on THE Great
Lama Temple, Picking" C. T. Hopkins q
paper Oh " The Revision Of the Federal
Constitution" a paper that will certainly
involve debate of a most interesting char
acter There are papers on The Youth
and Education of Napoleon Bonaparte, y
By Warren Olney; notes of a camping
trip TO Yosemite, by Professor Jo,eph lie
COnte; another on Free Public Libraries
poetry, book reviews, editorial. "E.c.
The Overland continues 10 give evil
denee of new blood and vigor, and that il
has at the business as well as the editorial
wheel, competency.
The Popular Science Monthly for DC.
tober ID. Appleton IL Co., New York
closes the twenty-seyenth volume of this
invaluable magazine. The papers are OF
profound interest, and embrace New
Chapters in the Warfare of Science" by
President A. D. White, being treatise or
the doctrine of comets; q" The White
Ant by Prof. Henry Drummond The
Early Study of Plants by Eliza A. You
mans On the Solar Corona by VIM
and final paper on the = Relations of Rail.
way Managers and Employees" Trumasi-
Crudeli on the g Reclamation of Malarious
Countries . The Energy of Life Evolu
ton by Prof. L. d. Cope; "a Study OF
Recent Earthquakes by NJ A. Daubree
Dissatisfaction in the Genesis of Dis
ease" by w. II. Kesleven, NJ. r. C. s.;
The Popular Miscellany" Literary
Notices., and g Editors Table" are full
and varied departments.
The Magazine of Art" for October
(Cassell g. Co., London and New York.
opens with a frontispiece by Dicksee
Chivalry.' The other full-page illustra
tons are !" Der Sturm,r by Bocklin
Chloris,n by Sorbi Pablo Saras at 81 b,
Whistler, and The Market at Fez," from
the picture by Ricardo de Madrozo There
are numerous other and rich illustrations
notably that of Juliet the design foI
Blaikies poem, Reconciliation, by Wal
ter Crane, and the illustrations of Burman,
toft's = Faience." The text matter is varied
and of attractive interest and the Chronicle
of Art department is especially full and in
structive. The number is, indeed, one O.
especial interest.
"CasselPs Family. Magazine for Ooto.
Der is at hand (Cassell & Co., London and
New York;. The serial stories appear in
order, and in addition a paper by lady
on Tricycles :" new story, Mrs. John
Allen of Ridge View" by Catherine Owen
Hints On Economy in Dress :" AN OLD
Dutch City" (DordrechO Friends in the
Commons : the usual paper by 1.-The
Family Doctor :" Among the Fruit Dis
tricts of Kent - story, entitled The En-
perors Pardon = the usual page of music
the chit-chat on dress, and the ever instruc.
tive F." Gatherer, a department giving news
of recent inventions of special interest and
value. The illustrations are all good and
the miscellany choice.
st. Nicholas for October (the Century
Company, New York;, is bright and vely
entertaining issue OF magazine for the
young, than which there is no superior
Mary Mapes Dodge, as editor of a childs
journal, is doing work of broader useful
ness, and that will do more to influence
mankind, than the mass of the editors OF
papers for adults. In the present number
of " st. Nicholas the illustrations are very
numerous, especially well executed, and
teaching in a broad sense Among the
contributors are ]. f. Herrick, Celia Thax-
ter, Frank r. Stockton, Z. S. Brooks, Ed
mund Alton, E. P. Roe, and j. T. Trow-
bridge.
Edgar Fawcetts name calls for no intro
duction to the reader. Before us is a vol
ume of uncut edges, entitled "Song and
Story; Later Poems by Edgar Fawcett." 1t
is from the press of James r. Osgood & Co,
Boston, and is for sale by C. S. Houghton,
Sacramento, at 81 so. The best of the 30
ems is The Republic" 1t was read before
the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard in
1880. Of the sonnets, that entitled Sleeps
Threshold leads for excellence of poetic
fancy and expression. The comparison
made between Oscar Wilde and Keats in
the closing sonnet is fiattering to Wilde,
but scarcely soto the judgment of Fawcett
Oliver Ditson & Co., of Boston and New
York, have published for the author, Israel
Luce of this city, piece of sheet music
dedicated to the Grand Army of the Re-
public, and entitled, General U. S. Grant
He Conquered in Death" Both the words
and the music are by Mr.. Luce. The score
is written in the key of :" A, and the ac-
compartment is for the piano. The mel
ody is touching, correct in its arrangement,
and has musical beauties that will make
tae hymn one that will meet with public
and critical approval. The form in which
it is issued is very neat The words are
well chosen and have poetic merit.
The last volume of the series, " Personal
Traits of British Authors" is at hand from
A. l.. Bancroft & Co, San Francisco. 1t is
from the press of Charles Scribners Sons.
New York, and Mr.. Edward T. Mason, who
edits the series, presents papers on Hood,
Macaulay, Sidney Smith, Jerrold, Dickens,
Charlotte Bronte and Thackeray. The
plan of including the names of Carlyle
and Eliot was abandoned because availa-
BILE material was too scanty in the one case
and too recent in the other The volume
is invaluable in the we'll balanced library.
" Macmillan's Magazine for September
(Macmillan & Co., New York and London),
presents its usual interesting and varied
table of contents; Mrs. Dymond," by
Mrs. Richie miss Thackeray); ''The
Windward Islands," THE Question of
Drink in England" The Baths of Casci-
ana in July, I" Local University College, y
Rural Roads. THE New National Gal
lery at Amsterdam, Inland Duties and
Taxation"
Another of the series, Questions of the
Day." issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons. New
York, we have from A. l.. Bancroft & Co,
San Francisco. 1t is f. W. Taussig's
d" History of the Present Tariff" Prof.
Taussig is instructor in political economy
will prove of interest to all who study the
tariff problem.
From Charles Scribners Sons, New York
we have one of the yolumes Of tho {. u;h