Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-08
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Francisco. lZt Sutter street, Is nufnDef
full of interesting reading, and some vigor-
Gus editorial articles and careful reviews 1
Amo-c the leading papers is one by Prison
Commissioner Robert I. Devlin, of Sacrc-
mento, that is thoughtful, practical and of
current interest. Aside from the serials,
and the poems by Virginia Peyton, Judge
Hager Mary J. Reid, f. +. Sheldon, NJ B.
IL. Toland. Charles S Greene u. L. Hog
gins and Laura NJ. Marquand, there are
papers as follows: Biscache BiI-an
Andean Sketch" by Sybil Russell Bogue
"a Lonely Vigil" by t. C. Jones; Mar
tiel Experiences of the California Volun-
teers," by Edward Carlson; A Story of
the Camp Meeting by Mary L. Grafton
8" Discussion of the Liquor Traffic" by G.
A. Moore Must Life, Beginning Here,
Necessarily End Here?" by E. A. Clark
g How We Went Trouting," by w. S.
Hutchinson.
1.-The Century" for May Union Square.
New York; is exceedingly rich in text and
in fine illustrations; especially inviting is
the paper on Hawthornes Philosophy"
by Julian Hawthorne; " The Flour Mills
of Minneapolis" by +. " Smalley; d" On
the Lick Observatory" by Taliesin Evans;
The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons" by +. s.
Starr Mcclellan at the Head the Grand
Army" by Warren lie Goss; From the
Peninsula to Antietam. by the late Gen
eral Mcclellan; The Battle of South
Mountain" by General d. II. Hill Con
federa'e). There are papers on The
South" by J. W. Johnston, George w
Cable, Mary B. Welch, a reply to General
Grant as to charges against the writer, by
General w. f. Smith, and a number of
other deeply interesting papers, not omit
ting however, special mention of another
charming architectural contribution by
Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, TIN time on
American Country Dwelling with IL
lustratiOns.
" The Forum for May is at hand, from
the Forum Publishing Company, of 81
Fifth avenue, New York. II is the third
number of this new candidate for favor
from the reading public. Mr. Metcalf, the
editor, has thus far shown his capacity to
conduct critical review with good judg-
ment. The essays in the current issue are:
1.-THE Experiment of Popular Government"
by c. L. Congdon How was Educated"
by President Barnard Would We do 1t
Again?" by Edward Cary Ia consideration
of the Presidential campaign of 1884 in
defense of President Cleveland); The Flu
ture of Arctic Exploration" by Lieutenant
Greedy: Victor Hugo as Citizen" by
James Parton: Do We Need Metallic
Currency" bv John +. Hume; Crema-
ton, Nevertheless" by Rev. John w. Chad
wick Contemporary Supernaturalism,
by Moncure D. Conway; What Rights
Have Laborers?" by w. A. Croffut and l..
F. Post.
The North American Review for Nav
go Lafayette place, New York. is possessed
of very stirring interest. The titles of the
papers prove this: " Defense of Charles
ton by General Beauregard: Future of
the Colored Race" by Fred Douglass;
Letter 20 Judge Thurman" by Arthur
Richmond, being the eleventh of Letters
TO Prominent Persons; :" THE Removal of
Mcclellan with facsimile of Lincoln's
order; "0ur House of Lords (No Name
seriesl Edwin NJ. Stanton" by Dom
Piatt; "Ship-building VS.. Ship-owning,"
by Captain John Goldman The American
Dramatist." by Augustin DAILY; States
manship, Old and New" by Gail Hanil-
ton; Strikes and Ar6itrations,' by T. V.
Powderly; The Hours of Labor" by Ed
ward Atkinson. aud notes by j. H. Patton
and A. +. Newton, and an unpublished
letter by Aaron Burr.
From Hardy & Mahony. Philadelphia.
we have the Catholic Quarterly Review y
for April. The leading essays are The
Roman Question" by RI Rev. James
oConnor: Art and Artists - Giorgio
Nasari,' by John A. Mooney; Primitive
Man and His Speech" by V. Rev. Edward
Jacker; ." The Church in Canada under
the French Regime" by d. A. O'Sulliyan
Catholicity in Italy" by Rev. Bernard
OReilly; Lectures and Catholic Lecture
Bureaus The Traditional Misrepresen-
tation of Ireland, y by BRYAN ]. Ciincbe.
God and Agnosticism,' by Condo B. Pal
len, Phi. D.: The Wage Question" bv
Geo. ID. Wolff; The DEGREES of the third
Plenary Council" by Ri Rev. Mgr. Cor
coran; The Church and Cremation" by
Rt. Rev. Mgr. Corcoran; and the depart
ments of science and the book table.
1.-THE Late Mrs. Null" is the last work
from the pen of Frank Il. Stockton, whose
articles for youth have won him so much
Just praise. So, too, his papers for adult
readers, and his short stories have pre-
scented him as an able writer with vivid
Imagination and keen sense of dramatic
situations. The present novel is his most
pretentious effort. 1t is unquestionably
work of genius, marked by an originality
very striking and so unlike anything he
has heretofore written as to awaken sur
prise that he has not before ventured in
this direction. 1t is a dramatic work in
every sense, full of novel situations and
some admirable character drawings. Chas.
Scrlbners Sons, New York \. L. Ban
croft d Co, San Francisco. 81 80.
The Magazine of American History "
for May go Lafayette Place, New York.
opens with fine steel-plate portrait of
Horatio Seymour. As a work of art in
portralture engraving we have not seen lis
superior. There are fine wood engravings
also, the Seymour homestead accompany
ing an article by Rev. Dr. Huntley.
Historical Colorado" An Old House at
New Orleans" -" History of Newspaper
1.-THE Philadelphia Gazette Weekly Adrer-
user, !" The March of the Spaniards Across
illinois" Shiloh. The Battle of Cross
Keys and minor topics, notes, reprints
society notes follow.
From the Century Company, New York
and London, we have the bound volume
OF The p" Century Illustrated Monthly Mag
aZine," volume 81, comprising all the
numbers of that invaluable journal from
November, 1885, to April, 1886, inclusive.
The " War Papers alone constitute book
OF high value The volume of such a peri
odical as The Century " is in reality
history OF current literature and debate
and repository of information, entertain
ment and intelligent criticism.
The English Magazine for Nav Mac
MILAN Il Co., New York and London.) is
brightly illustrated, notably so in the arti-
Gle In Umbria," and days with Sir
Roger de Coverley." and Sketches of Bird
Life in South Sweden" In addition is an
article on " Nell Gwynne, Player and
Courtier," by ]. f. Molloy; w. f. Norris
story, " My Friend Jim very interest
ing serial. and chapters v to tx, of the TO-
nance An Unequal Yoke
The lngleside (San Francisco for
Easter week was an extra large number,
hheiy illustrated, and comprising twenty
eight pages with covers. 1t is a number
IN every way creditable to the enterprise of
the publishers, and, if we except some ad-
Ver'ising interiected between and appearing
as reading matter and two political-per
sonai articles, creditable also to the literary
side of the paper.
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