Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-23
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, we
have of their Globe Library, Old Blazers
Hero" a novel by David Christie Murray
author of By the Gale OF the Sea- u "One
Traveller Returns" ETC.
From the Bancroft Company, San Fran
cisco, we have of Cassell's library of choice
fiction Sunshine Series, Cassell & Co., New
York;, the following weekly numbers of
May 18th, "Orion the Gold Beaten" one OF
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.'s best novels; of Nav
31st, Two Men" by Elizabeth Stoddard
of June It'll, The Brown Stone Bow" by
William Henry Bishop.
From D. Appleton & Co., New York, we
have their issue of new novels: "a
Woman's Face, or a Lakeland Mystery"
by Florence Warden, author of The House
on the Marsh" etc, % cents. From the
same firm we have their issue of Richard
Dowling's Ignorant Essays" % cents.
There are eight of the papers in the
volume, and they are admirable essays,
rich in suggestion, original in plan novel
as to subjects, and as graceful as, if not as
strong, as Dana: or McCarty, or Disraeh
"Casselrs Family Magazine" for July
(Cassell & Co., New York and London)
opens with new serial by Kate Eyre, For
the Good of the Family" "A1 at Lloyd,s"
ID PbiNC VI u .
house; the Family Doctor who discusses
the subject of deafness; Going Borrow
ing is a paper on bad habit; "a Family
of Boys and How they were Started in
Life" Charming Rooms" "A Chapter on
Sweet Pickles" Parkway Stornoway"
and have long and short stories, poetry and
pictures, with the ever welcome Gath
erer " department make up fine number
From John B. Alden, New York, the
publisher, we have the sixth volumne of
"Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia" extending
from Bravo to Calville its $50 nicely printed
pages including 40 illustrations. Along
with its manifold number of words and
topics treated briefly, there are many ex-
tended articles, as for instance, Brazil, seven
pages; Breech- loading Guns, eleven pages;
Bridge eleven pages British Museum, ten
pages; Brooklyn, five pages; Buddhism,
fifteen pages, and California, sixteen pages.
The Cyclopedia well deserve the enthusiastic
commentator it is receiving from all sides !;
it is certainly among the very best of Cyclic
pedias for popular use.
THE Atlantic Monthly for July, Hough-
ton, Mitfiin & Co., Boston, is at hand, and
presents: "Miser Farrelrs Bequest." Part
H., J. P. Quincy; Studies of Factory Life;
The Village system" Lille B. Chase
Wyman: "Yone Sapto; A Child of Japan"
E. H. House; "A Green Mountain Corn
Field" Bradford Torrey; "a Changing
Order" Harriet Waters Preston; THE
Despot of Broomsedge Cove" Charles Egg
bert Craddock; Boston Painters and Paint
ings," William Howe Downes; "a Brown
ing Courtship," Eliza Orne White; The
Telephone Cases." II. G. Merwin. The
book reviews, the Contributors Club" and
the editorials are especially varied and in
teresting. The magazine is one of notably
general excellence.
The Magazine of Art " for July (Cas-
sell & Co., New York and London) is at
hand. The Aims of Art" by George +.
Watts; Mortimer Menpes continues his
Personal Views of japanese Art Writing;'
l. L Hodgson has a carefully prepared pa
per on "Old Arts and Modern Thoughts"
while NJ. Ii. Spielman discusses modern
art the entertaining papers on the Forest
of Fontainebleau;" there is a curious study
of THE Crown" and a highly interesting
paper on Dickens and his less familiar por-
traits by Fred. G. Kitton. In the depart
ment of notes this number is particularly
well filled. 1t is on the whole one of the
months, and the illustrations, notably the
frontispiece, are exceedingly fine.
From J. r. Lesson, Boston, we have
neat volume emitted fJaX culture, an
outline of the History and Present Condi-
ton of the Flax Industry in the United
States, and consideration of the Infiu-
ence Exerted on it by Legislation" 1t is
by Edmund A. Whitman, A. NJ, of the
Boston Bar, has an introduction by j. r.
Lesson, and is from the press of the Rand,
Avery Company, Boston. 1t is practical,
concise volume upon an important subject
and its chief purpose is to show that a
duty on imported fax is unnecessary, and
a hinderance to the development of the
fiax-growing and linen manufacturing in
dustries in the United States. The facts
aud figures upon which this study is based,
Mr.. Lesson assures u.s. are taken almost
entirely from publications of the United
States Government, and that the object has
been to tell the story, so far as is possible,
in the words OF the Government experts.