Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-22
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any hitherto noticed. Aiming to keep il
| view principles rather than statistics, b,
makes an analysis of the salient poIitica
and industrial evils of our time, and meas
ures, by fundamental rules, the departure
In some OF our governmental and indus
! trial methods, from these principles. Ii i:
evident that he has endeayored, as far a:
| possible, to make dispassionate and an
lmpersonal use of his materials. He does
not assume that the work is anything more
| than elementary, an effort rather to indi.
cate line of inquiry than to attempt an
exhaustive or even a comprehensive treat.
ment of the subject Mr.. Bonham be-
iieves that under the true laws of indus
| trial liberty the incentives for the acauisi-
ton OF property and the security of its
possession will be augmented. He holds
that the tendencies of the mechanical
power of modern civilization, and of cor
porate power, is toward creation of class
power, and their reflex tendency is towards
socialism, sgrarianism and communism.
all OF which are interferences with the
sanctity of individual political liberty.
Mrs. Julia 3. Hoitt, Deputy Superintend-
ent of Public instruction of California, has
prepared neat octave volume entitle ''Ex-
cellent Quotations for Home and School"
1t is composed of choice bits of fine writing.
wisdom, wit and poetry for the use of
teachers and pupils. Mrs. Hoitt has struck
out on right line in book-maklng, for
this is by no means book of readings or
Rotations, but very complete comperd
of the best expression of the best writers
and thinkers from Homer to Summer
from Seneca to Ruskin. There is also
department of Rotations for very young
pLpils. 1t is not new to arrange proverbs
and wise sayings 10 stimulate thought and
set it in a right direction, but it is novel to
make a collection that serves to inculcate
" moral training and noble aims" by
memoriziDg. Books something of this
order have been given to the public, but
none so admirably adapted to the capacity
of the average pupil in the common
schools. The work of the author has been
well done. 1t testi6cs to her own broad
reading, and her clear com ,Jrehension of
what is palatable intellectual food fer
youth. Boston, Lee G. Shepard; New York,
@. I. Dillingham; San Francisco, Samuel
Carson q Co.
Dissolving Views in the History of
Judaism is by Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER.
of the Temple Adath Israel of Boston. 1t
is from the p 'ess of Lee & Shepard, Boston,
and Charles I. Dillingham;, New York, and
is for sale by Samuel Carson & Co., Sal
Francisco. The author is distinguished
for his erudition. He gives to the public,
in book form, tie series of popular and pro-
found lectures delivered at the Temple
Adath Israel the past season. The lectures
are an application of the law of evolution
to the history of Judaism. In each lecture
is pictured some prominent person of Jew
ish history, and such character is made to
stand forth from the background of his
contemporary age, and to permit the whole
picture to melt away slowly and to change
into the forms of a new person and q new
age; thus showing the evolutionary prog
ress of religious thought from age to age,
the differences between two or more histor-
ical periods, and the remarkable changes
which have taken place in Judaism in a
continuous order to this day.
Around the World On Bicycle" is
large volume of 500 pages, richly Illus
trated. 1t is by Thomas Stevens, who went
around the world, so far as could be dore
on "a wheel" in 1876. The first volume
we noticed last year, the present one takes
the reader from Teheran to Yokohama.
Mr.. Stevens had his eyes zen as he trav-
eled. He is fluent writer, not a finished
one, but he tells very clearly what he saw
and what thought his observation sug-
gested. There is more of anecdote and
detail in the volume, than in any book of
travel we have met with. The volume is
very fully illustrated and all the sketches,
which are striking and full of life, are Mr.
Stevens own. New York, Charles Serb
ners Sons; San Francisco, The Bancroft
Company; 81.
The Advance Guard of Modern Civiliza-
ton" is by James r. Gilmore (Edmurd
Kirke), and from the pr IS of D. Appleton
Il Co., New Yo k. The substance of the
volume was given to the public in course
of lectures delivered before the Lowell In
stitute, of Eoston, in the winter of 1S7S-S8.
They are here amplified and enlarged
into what is full narrative of an episode
which is, perhap|, the most unique and re-
markable in American history. The mar
rative is the result of eight years careful
study of early events in the Southwc IT.
nearly four of which years were passed
upon the ground where the events &C.
CURED, and it is, says the author, his sin
cere conviction that it may be accepted as
authentic history.
THE Land Of the Pueblos," by Susan E.
Wallace. 12mo, cloth, illustrates; rs cents.
Mrs. Wallace, who is the wife of General
Lew Wallace, anthor OF Ben Hur," is well
known as one of the en- .ertaining and in
s,rUctive writers of the day. 1t is a delight
ful thing to visit with her the picture. que,
romantic, curious, and sometimes wonder
full, scenes which she places before the
reader almost as wildly as the reality The
story of an ancient American civilization
if not as old as that of Egypt, yet even
more deeply shrouded in mystery-is fas-
cinatng one, aud ought to be fanilar as
may be 10 all American readers. No reader
who takes it up will fail 10 be entertained
and instructed. John B. Alden, publisher,
New York.
Theodore Roosevelt, the well-knoyn
publicist, has published Essays on Prac,
teal Politics. 1t is one of the Questions
of the Day" series. The two essays in this
volume appeared originally in the " Cent
ury Magazine" and one on Phases of
State Legislation and " Machine Politics
in New York City" They have both been
read with deep interest, and ought to en-
gage the thought of every man who has
the good of his country at heart. Though
the first applies to one State and the second
to but one city of the nation, the thoug {
applies to all States and all cities of the
Union. The political evils in all very little
differ
The Notary's and Conveyancer's Men
ual is well and completely arranged
work of about 400 octave pages, published
by Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, O.,
and is written by Florien Giauque, tie
one he discusses in a practical way, and
tells now to execute, ETC., and gives the law
and forms and fees for deeds, mortgages
| leases and similar instrume ats, acknowl-
edgments, affidavits, depositions, oaths
proofs of account, etc., presenting protests
| ETC., of notes, bills of exchange, and Other
| mercantile paper, in and for every State
and Territory in the Union.
The Christmas number of Table Talk
| is full, to OVERLOOKING, of everything that
! relates to the day of glee and feasting
"Bethlehem"-an apt poe O, illustrated
heads the list; then "a Christmas Dinner, u
by Mrs Rorer, in which she gives some
valuable points on this feast; her How tc
Live on Thousand Year" is continued
| in this number, also her answers to
| Housekeepers' Inquiries" Christmas in
| Foreign Lands" "Ethel's Christmas Deco.
rations," Attractive and inexpensive
Gifts" an original Christmas story,"Vesta's
| Bequest," and christmas Problem" are
among the contents. Table Talk Publish.
ing Co., Philadelphia.
The "Quiver" for January begins new
volume and presents a most attractive
front to the reader. 1t opens with an &C
count of "The Music of the Protestant
Reformation" by ]. F. Rowbotham. The
Rev. Newman Hail finds Perfect Through
Suffering fruitful subject for his pen
An article of special interests the one called
with DIR. w. NJ. Taylor in New York.
There are other papers of a more or less
| theological nature. and there are storie:
] long and short that are entirely free from