Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-01

| insects, dog stories, the brownies on roller
skates, stories, etc. The Wide Awake"
| ID. Lothrop & Co.. Boston, has in bright
! stories, The Top of the Ladder" " The
| Professors Last Skate" Royal Girls and
Royal Counts" " A Grand Peace Meet"
4" Prescott's Capture" etc. besides chapters
of serials. Its articles by Mrs. Jessie Ben
ton Fremont, Mary Treat and others are
also very instructive. For the smaller
children, Our Little Ones and the Nur
sery" Russell Publishing Company, Bos-
tom is extremely happy. Like those above
referred to, 1t is profusely and finely Illus
trated. 1t has reproduction of the pranks
and plays of the little ones, surrounded
with their animal pets. Stories of dogs,
birds, kittens, horses and hobbies are given
in the most effective way for pleasing and
securing the attention of very young read
ers. Parents can in no other way so well
assist themselves and benefit their boys
and girls as to furnish them with these
young peoples and little ones magazines.
| The publisher of the " Library Magazine"
| John B. Alden, New York;, has changed
the form of that excellent publication from
monthly to weekly, commencing with
date of May list. The reasons given for the
change are: To give additional freshness
and timeliness, to make numbers and vol
umes more convenient in size, and TO in
crease volumes of literature without addi-
tional cost. With the change the pubiica-
ton of the Book Worm " and Story
Teller" will be discontinued, and subscrib-
ers to these will, in place of them, receive
one issue each month of the " Library Mag
azine," or unearned money will be refund
ed. The = Library Magazine is intended
in its new form to include the field hereto
fore occupied by them. Price, 81 so per
year.
a volume of three hundred pages has
| just been issued to the anti-riparian voters
| of California, by the Legislative Commit
tee of the State Irrigation Convention. 1t
includes the address to the members of the
Riverside and Fresno Irrigation Conven-
tons by said committee, articles of associa-
ton of the Anti Riparian Irrigation Club
| together with form of bylaws and pledge
a list OF the papers in the State which are
said to have espoused the cause of irriga-
ton and very extended quotations from the
press of the State upon the irrigation ques-
ton. 1t will prove of interest to those in
terested in the subject, and there are few in
the State who, directly or indirectly, are
not
The Brooklyn Magazine" published
monthly at No. Murray street, New York,
| has commenced its fourth volume with
April. Each number contains one sermon
for each week from both of the pulpits of
| Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage and Henry
Ward Beecher. These are published as
supplementary to the number, the greater
portion of the contents of the magazine be-
| ing devoted to choice literature of highly
entertaining and instructive character. The
April number makes quite feature OF the
subject of the proper age for young women
| to marry, to which those interested in the
topic might probably refer. Price of mag
aZine, 81 per annum.
| The Easter number of the Chicago Cur
rent is an admirable one-the best that
sterling. critical and literary journal has
ever issued. 1t is of forty-four pages, rich
in thought and original in expression, by
some of the most gifted writers of the day.
aud on topics of living importance and
strong literary interest. We congratulate
the Current on this splendid achievement
from this special holiday number of the
| Current
| E. c. NJ. Rand, Go Broadway, New York
| now issues a bi-monthly repertory con-
corning railways, which is a valuable work
| of reference and general information. The
| first part each month contains Court deci
slons, State and other Acts effecting values,
| articles on important questions, histories OF
| leading railroads, etc, and the second part
is made up OF twelve sections of reports on
railroads, carefully indexed. 1t is a val
liable work on railroad matters
The Culver for May (Cassell & Co.
New York; has among its contents ''St
Adams Abbey" ''Shy Poverty in Towns"
THE Resurrection Miracle Thy Horatio
Boner). Across the Ferry" ways of
Pleasantness, ''Confucius," "The Rain
bow 'Sylvin Moreton's Probation,
''The Life Story of Dora Greenwell, +" THE
Growth of the New Testament" ETC.
The Treasury of the Golden State" is
the title of a paper published at San Fran
cisco, the first number of which was issued
for April, and to appear monthly hereafter.
1t is to be devoted to select literature, new
and old. Subscription price, so cents per
year. and published by the Golden State
Publishing Company, San Francisco.
AN Illustrious Town-Andover," Jas.
Otis, Jr.," "a Romance OF King Philips
War" The Webster Family" 'The New
England Library, New England Manners
and New England characteristics, are the
leading papers in 1.-THE New England Mag
azine" for April. Bay State Monthly Com
pany, Boston.
The " Popular Science Monthly for
May is at hand from D. Appleton & Co.,
New York. There are seventeen papers
and department OF notes In the number
We cannot catalogue these papers now, but
they are sterling documents and by leading
scientists and political economists
The eleventh edition of Henry n. Copp's
" American Settlers Guide" being an ex-
position of the public land system of the
United States, has just been issued at
Washington, d. c. Price, 25 cents.
" The Worlds Advance Thought" is the
name of new monthly journal published
at Portland Or, being courier of the
now sriritual disDansatio,