Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-07
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


ciiitate the practical study Of materia med |
lea % homeopathic medicine. The plan |
adopted is wholly new and altogether novel. |
Tpere is scarcely line that has in it a |
sSperfiuous word, yet the language in |
which symptoms are described is clear and |
unmistakahle. The method of the book is |
really that of q map the arrangement be- |
ing such that almost at Glance one can |
take in any one subject treated, with clear |
index tc all TIE remedial ageats applicable.
Since orr purpose is to give of works,
upon which we cannot be expected
to have technical knowledge, sufficient
statement to enable our readers TO form
fair judgment OF the character eff the
work. we resort to opinions of these spe-
c(ally' qualified to speak of the book critic
ally Thus we find the New England
Medical Gazette saying: ITO eur mind,
the clinical or strictly therapeutical part of
this work, which has cost the author q
great deal of labor, and which has been SO
carefully and conscientiously arranged, is
the best part OF TIE book. The
plan adopted in this work is very sys-
tematic one, III which several remedies are
so arranged in parallel columns as to strike
the eye at once, and TO secure natural
and immediate comparison of their symp-
TOMS range Of action and therapeutical
application" The United States Medical
Lpvestigator, speaking of the book, says Ir
is by insensible comparison and association
that we obtain the most useful and prac-
teal knowledge and the most available
books for study are those in which these
two points are most prominent This is
the central idea of DR.. Jessen's work j. 5
The plan adopted reduces the study of
| materia medica 10 the common level oil our
capacity, so that all can comprehend ii, and
can utilize it, IS We turn the object lessons
of lite to the best account without going
| cr6zy over natural history, transcendal
philosophy, etc"
| From John w. Roberts & Co. 10 Post
street, San Francisco, we have an octave
volume by Henry T. Finck, entitled
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty,
Their Development Causal Relations
Historic and National Peculiarities." 1t is
from the press of Mcmillan & Co., London,
and sells at 81. We have seen no work
that so completely fathoms and explores
the depths OF the subject indicated in the
title, rs this. 1t is simply exhaustive. 1t
leaves nothing TO be said, except philosophi-
cally upon the topic. Historically it
traverses all time and give us, what to
the vast many will prove revelations
concerning the untruth that love in all
ages has been the same. Some of the
strangest of physical facts relative to per-
so1al beauty and customs and fashions
concerning 1t among the people of the
earth are given. The chapters on physical
development. sanitary precautions and
duties. construction and care of the form
and organs, are especially valuable Those
more sentimental relate to love among va
rlous nations and the social customs in va |
rious parts of the earth, are invested with |
absorbing interest by the adroit admixture !
of wit, anecdote and philosophic thought |
concerning the passions and emotions. |
Genius and Marriage, Celibacy and Pater- |
nal Love; Medieval, Roman and Modern |
Love; Phases and Types of Beauty; Love
Among Savages, Among Animals Tests |
of Beauty; Evolution of Taste; Sources |
and Theories of Love; Conjugal Affection
Romantic Love-these are a few of the |
many topics treated.
The second number of the monthly mag
azine, Woman" is at hand and takes |
good rank among the standard periodicals |
OF the day. In illustrations it contains |
tine steel engrayings of the celebrated |
author, Dinah MulOch Craik. and
Lind, with biographical sketch of
the latter, by S. Fredricks. From the pen |
OF Margaret Sidney is given a story, en- |
titled - he Doctors Eldest Daughter" |
The Lady of Lynover," by Katherine |
Paynter; "All Around the House" by Geo. !
Egbert Symonds; Women in the Brahnlo |
Somaj," by Edward Dow Cheney; "A |
Cloud-Burst," by Patience Stapeton; |
FLOWERS of the Snow" By Lieut. Fred. |
Schwatka: Our Society" by Louis Chand- |
Ter Moulton. Departments of the maya
zine are; For Mothers, Our Daughters. Tie
Household, Societies for Christian Work,
Temperance and Weman's Suffrage, Events
of the Month, Book Reviews, etc. Pub
lished by Woman's Publishing Company,
New York. % cents per number or 81 IS
per year.
Years of Experience is an autobio
graphical narrative by Georgiana Bruce
Kirby. The chief interest of the book re-
sides in its descriptions of life under the
rule OF Ripleyism, visionary system for
the reorganization of society upon a scheme
OF wholly unseltish principles. Yet the |
gatherings at Brook Farm sometimes in
ciuded some of the most distinguished |
literary men and women and profound |
thinkers OF the country. The experiences |
OF the author OF this volume are plainly,
SIMPLY told, and include varied philan- |
thropic work, and recollections of the anti |
slavery era, accounts of labors in prison re- |
form, etc. Her associations were with |
some OF the most distinguished people of
the age. New York and London: G.. Z.
Putnam's Sons; San Francisco: The Ban |
croft Company.
or Cassells National Library, one of the
best OF all the volumes issued is that con-
tanning number of Joseph Buffers ser
philosophic divine Of England. His
Analogy" attained worldwide fame, and
his sermons are Of no less value. If every
hnman being could read sermon /. Upon
Human Nature" and sermon MI, Upon
the Love of Our Neighbor," every human
being would be the better and happier for
the reading. We confess to having gone
over the first no less than three times with |
IN as many days so enhancing do we find |
It's pages. OF the same series La Motto |
Fougue's "Lin-tram and His Companions.
Aslanga's Knight" Cassell & Co. Lon
don and New York; Sacramento, C. S.
HOughton.
The Century" for January Century
Company, New York; is superb issue of |
that uniformly finely illustrated magazine.
The frontispiece for the month is fine |
portrait of John Ruskin. A deeply inter |
esung illustrated paper is that by Professor |
Sehatf on The Catacombs of Rome |
One by George KEENAN, on Russian Pro. |
vinclal Prisons is paper that will inter- i
est penol9glsts and philanthropists |
especially }. X. Towses illustrated paper
on John Gilbert is of pleas |
" Pecuniary Economy of Food" bv |
Professor Atwater. is of high value. The |
Lincoln paper for the number treats of the |
formation of Mr.. Lincoln7s Cabinet. These |
are but half the articles IN this very full |
number
Sermons for Children is the title of I
lomo- volume, from the press of Charles |
Scribner, New York. 1t is by DR.. Stanley |
late Dean of Westminster. and were |
preached by that distinguished man from
the desk of that historic pile. At first they
were printed for private circnlation. Hay |
ing been found to interest many Young
persons into whose hands thay came they
are now published that they may be of use I
to wider circle of readers. They have |
Eeen reproduced, we are assured, as cor |
reotly as the roCgh state of the authors |
manuscript permitted, but in some places |
either the manuscript has been ingccurately |
deoiphered. or the preacher Supplemented |
what he had written by additions at the |
moment.
The North American Review" fo- Janu-
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