Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Overland Monthly" under its new
management, is manifesting business pros
perity upon basis of high literary excel
lence 1t is very gratifying to be able to
say this of the solitary literary magazine of
the coast, and which has in the past had
such struggle for existence. 1t is now
proving its fitness to survive and its merit
OF commentator. The leading article in
the September number is from the pen of
Professor Josiah Royce of Harvard, and
late of California, upon "The Sacramento
Squatter Riot of 1850" We have not been
enabled TO give it full reading yet, but so
far as we have progressed we vote it valu-
able paper, one marked by the judicial
spirit, and distinguished by scholarly finish.
In addition are editorial remarks upon the
literary life, last days, and verse and prose,
of the late Helen Hunt Jackson III. Ii }, by
the editor; How the Blockade Was Run
by ]: w. A. Wright g You Bet by Henry
De Groot; poem on H. H.. by Ina d.
Coolbrith; The Thirty-fifth and Thirty
sixth Congresses by Hon. S. S. Cox, now
our Minister to Turkey; paper on
=" Musical Taste" by Richard J. Wilmot;
one on " Modern Egypt by Franklind
Gray Bartlett, together with other papers.
editorial articles, book notices, and stories
of romantic interest. 1t is an admirable
number, and for literary excellence has not
been equalled by any Of its predecessors.
The Popular Science Monthly" I'd.
Appleton Co., New York. is among the
especially prominent examples of editorial
labor that has interested the general public
in scientific study. 1t is not saving too
much to say that more than any other in
t1uence this magazine in its thirteen wears
and over of existence has done more than
any other agency to popularize science
Its record is one of which the Youmans
may well feel proud. The September
number presents an, appetizing table
of contents. 1t embraces "The Rela-
tons of Railway Managers and Employees"
by DR.. w. T. Barnard; The Present AS
pect of Medical Education" by DR.. w. ].
Behreus; Origin of Man and the Other
Vertebrates," by Professor Edward d.
Cope "An Experiment in Primary Edu-
cation by DIR. Mary Putnam-Jacobi;
The Fauna of the Seashore,' by Professor
H. n. Moseley; Siberia and the Exiles.r
by DR.. Alfred f. Brehun; How Spelling
Damages the Mind by F. A. Fernald
Sunlight and the Earth's Atmosphere"
by Professor l. P. Langley; The Science
of Morality" by Selim NJ Franklin; Re
cent Progress in Biology by E. R. Ian
kester; The Primitive Ghost and His
Relations by James G. Frazer; 1.-The
Physiology of Colors,n by n f. Mascart.
In addition are the usual departments.
"Cassell's Family Magazine" for Sep
| TENDER (Cassell e Co., New York and Lon
! don,) gives additional chapters of" A Dia-
| mond in the Rough and Ny Namesake
Marjorie" In addition, is the always in
teresting Gatherer" treating of recent in
yentions and discoveries the paper ON
dress and fashions; the second paper on
"The Right Thing at the Right Moment"
treating of politeness and the convention
alities of social life; two pages of music
six original fables "a Curious Romance"
| a story: Who Was Elaine :" 1.-The Gar
den in August" the second paper on THE
Postmen of tie World" a chapter on
literary ladies'; Cakes for the Family y a
story, entitled g A Mysterious Attraction y
chapter on ennui and its symptoms, and
paper on John Sebastian Bach
Macmillau's Magazine" for August is a
number of especial interest. "a Chapter
in Political History, reviews Harris His
tory of the Radical Party in Parliament;
John Stuart Biackee writes of the " Popu-
lar Songs of the Scottish Highlanders ~ ].
T. Bent, of "Rhodian Society" and R.
Macray Of the Riel Rebellion; y George
Meredith sings of 1.-The Thrush in Febru-
ary;" Miss Thackeray's serial story con-
tinues, and "a Walking Tour in the
Landes," and Some Commonplace on
the Commonplace conclude full and at
tractive table of contents. (Macmillan &
Co., New York and London.)
Lovers have been united, matches made,
good luck foretold and bad predicted, on
the first appearance of the gentle Luna in
the heavens This thought is suggested by
the appearance on our table of the August
number of 1.-THE New Moon" well filled
with good short stories and interesting
miscellany, carefully edited and hand
somely printed. A copy can be had by
sending ten cents to the New Moon Pub
fishing Company, Lowell, Mass.
The music published each mort h in the
Musical Herald is worth nearly the
annual subscription 1t also presents