Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

! CtlS0Ce
| the Demand for a Radical Change in its
| Methods and Aims" Professor Lnnt holds
that political economy is distracted,
and while economic writers are at
Tarlence, as they always have
been, there are signs of revolt
IN present methods indicating time when
political economic disputes will be wholly
dropped, and practical application of ex-
penence will be the rule of action. The
present economic conditions are chaotic,
caused by wrong conceptions of the science,
the lnterminable disputes of economists,
the personal interests involved and the
mistakes OF economists. The English
method is too deductive and absolute and
1t Is over-fond of competition. He be-
lleves that very soon we will break away
from theorizing, abandon all the scientific
methods OF dispute in the present, and
| the questions of political economy be left
to settle themselves.
The Popular Science Monthly Cd. Ap-
pleton & Co., New York for October has
gwen w. j. 1oumans opportunity to show
the world how good scientific magazine
can be popularzed. The number for Octo-
Der is one that can be read with both profit
and pleasure by anyone, though not scien-
uhcally well Informed. Professor Cope
explains the relation of the sexes to GOV
ernment; Professor Brooks tells of 1.-The
| Growth of Jelly Fishes ;" Professor Emer-
Lower Animals;" Robert Mathews treats
of Ethics and Economics" DR.. Herler
of Hypnotism-What 1t Is, and What 1t
Is Not; ;" Mir. Bodington reveals some of
the Cnriosities of Evolution" NJ. Emile
Blanchard explains the "Ways of Spi-
ders; )" Professor Strachey writes of " What
is Known of the Earth" and NJ. Paul Ton
mard has paper on :" The Last Stages in
| the Genealogy of Man" There are several
| editorial papers, interesting news notes and
| correspondence, book reviews, and much
popular miscellany.
From the publishers New York and
London) we have the October number of
"Casselrs Family Magazine" Kate Eyre's
serial, " For the Good of the Family"
opens the number. AN Australian Uncle
Toms Cabin" is graphic description of
| negro life in the bush" by Thomas B.
Clegg. The Family Doctors sensible talk
continues. A practical paper is EVERY
day Puddings and How to Make Them.
and How to Eat Them" A paper BY
Frederick ]. Crowest deals with " The
Madrigal and Its Makers" "Some Favor
| ite Dogs" are sketched with pen and pencil.
What Miss Trusdale Said u is humorous
| tale illustrative of that nuisance, a busy
| body. How Ships are Spoken at Sea-"
| and sketch of the Rt. Hon. w. E. Foster
| follows. Comrades Once" is continued,
and then come the admirable fashion let.
| tiers. To Holiday Makers is a wise ar
| ticle that ought to be read by ALL "a Day
on the Hills in Arran and A Well. filled
Gatherer complete the number.
The September "Wide Awake" opens
| with jolly story of the Harrison cam
Of hr, Il
| Another seasonable story, is "Ned's Base
| ball Club" by Mary C. Crowley. Still an
other, delicious in its fun, is Jermickv's
Sacrifice by Mrs. Katharine B. Foot. IA
Little Lombard Hero is touching Italian
story by Edmond de Amicis. Miss Rislev
Seward has an interesting paper. An
Abyssinian Monkey" narrating her adj
ventures with him, and how he became the
property of Senator Evarts, and eventually
found home in the Geological Gardens at
Central Park. There is a beautiful art
article for young painters entitled Summer
Lanes" The serials are very interesting.
There is an excellent article on Daniel De-
foe, by Oscar Adams, and another on odd
people of Corea, by Mrs. Leonowens. D.
Lothrop Company, Boston.
"Ouida opens "The Woman 5
World for October, with sharp attack
upon the ugliness OF The Streets of Lon
don." 1t will also amuse the American
| reader to hear her lament the haste" of
English women's lives Tapestry Weav-
ing is an interesting paper with illustra-
tions showing how the work is done.
Child Players of the Elizabethan Age.p'
will be read with interest, as also " Editha's
Burglar" An amusing paper is the His
tory of the Bonnets of Queen Victorias
Reign" illustrated. Roman Women at
the Beginning of the Empire" New and
Popular Artistic Needlework," and Mrs.
Johnstone's admirable papers on the fash
ions of the month will attract attention.
The woman who cannot dress well from
these hints has no talent, it is safe to con-
clude, at dress making. [Cassell & Co.,
New York.
The Magazine of Art " for October (Cas-
sell & Co., New York and London) has for
its frontispiece beautiful etching after Sir
John Millais painting, The Conva-
lescent." The opening article of the num-
ber is entitled "Old Arts and Modern
Thoughts and is from the pen of J.. E.
Hodgson. Claude Phillips follows with a
sympathetic paper on Sculpture at the
Royal Academy" "The Stopping Point
in Ornament is a well considered paper
by Lewis F. Day, followed by pretty
poem, The Yellow Gown" by Kate Car
ter. The description of The Kepplestone
Collection" a paper on 1.-The Barbizon
School and " Bernard Van Orley and His
Work" by w. Shaw-Sparrow, bring us
down to the notes, which are particularly
full and interesting.
From Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston.
we have the October number of the AT
lantic Monthly" now about closing Vol
ume LXII. Its contents in addition to the
editorials and book reviews, are: "Passe
Rose" Arthur S. Hardy THE Tutor of a
Great Prince" H. W., P. and L. D.; NV
Fatherland," William G. Lawton; SIN a
Border State" Patty B. Semple; Carl
baldi's Early Years." William R. Thayer;
Boston Painters and Paintings" William
II. Downes; Pasture Herb and Meadow
Swath," Sophia Kirk Iceland Summer
and Winter" William H. Carpenter
Esoteric Economy" Agnes Repplier
E. Craddock; The Pioneers of Ohio"
Rufus King.
THE jolly Parisiennes IT. B. Peterson
& Bros, Philadelphia), is late novel by
Emile Zoa. 1t is supplemented by twelve
shorter stories. The main story is ro-
nance of decided interest, marked power
and unusual sprightliness. 1t ideals mainly
with grande passion and the eccentrici.
ties of Partisan society are depicted in
vein of lively, good -natured satire. But
this is very far from saying that it is
profitable book for irtellectua! exercise. In
the midst of the wealth of good literature,
one but inhames his intellectual appetite
and offends his better taste by reading such
things as Zola grinds out.
From Worthington & Co., New York, we
have received Florence Trails Studies in
Criticism" So far as we have been enabled
to examine the book, it impresses us very
favorably. 1t is not a treatise upon rules
of criticism, nor the ethics of the art, but
rather a calm and intelligent consideration
of the tests of moral conviction, the bounds
of intellectual enjoyment and the means of
examining error and facing truth In met :
physical study this work, from a fresh
mind and one trained to think orderly and
deeply, will be found not only help, but
a restful recreation, for it is very far from
labored.
Of that inimitable series, the CasselPs
National Library" which affords any one
opportunity to secure good library for ten
cents a week, We have from Cassell & Co.,
New York, through G.. s. Houghton, Sac
ramento, these recent numbers Lives
of the English Poets, Addison, Savage.
Swift" Samuel Johnson, LII D; Second
Part of King Henry w." Shakespeare;
+" Essays and Tales" Richard Steele MAR.
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