Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-04
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Tne " Popular Science Monthly New
York, D. Appleton & Co., is doing splen-
did service in showing the aspect OF the
great questions of the day from the scien
tlhc standpoint. The August number
opens with an article, "The Octroi at Is
soire, City Made Rich by Taxation by
Professor Jordan, University of Indiana.
The paper win be welcomed as campaign
document by tariffreformers. There are
also THE Home of the Great AUX, by
Frederick j. Lucas, describing an expedl-
ton to procure bones of this extinct water
fowl. "Ainu Houses and Their Furnish
ing" by ]. K. Goodrich. Herbert Spencer
Kant" Natural history is represented by
Professor G. Haberlandts article on
Moses and Their Water Supply" and
Something About Snakes" by C. I. Buck
land. Waiter B. Plat, NJ. D., calls atten-
ton to" Injurious Influences of City Life"
There is a practical article on Teaching
Physiology in the Public Schools" Rev.
Thomas Hill, ex-President of Harvard
University, describes and recommends
The Parlor- Game Cure" The Unity of
Science" by NJ. ]. Moleschott, Drift.
Sands and Their Formations" The Fu-
ture of the Negro and the Editors
Table, complete an admirable number.
The " Forum for August (253 Fifth
avenue, New York; contains eleven val
liable papers. Editor Metcaif is more and
more demonstrating his capacity in the
management of this admirable review
to the chief thoughts of the day
is notable in the selection of
papers. Trial of Popular Government"
is by Judge James NJ. Lowe, what Shall
the Negro Do?" is by George W. Cable.
Edward Atkinson, the accomplished statisti-
clan, treats of the question, "Must HUI
manity Starve at Last? Judge w. D. Kelly
treats of the Sources CT Natural Thrift"
G. K. Blanchard of Railway Pooling" +"
Rev. j NJ. Snyder OF "Barbarous Funeral
Customs, Charles W. Penrose of Church
Rule in Utah, Leonard Woolsey Bacon of
The Faith Cure Delusion," DR.. Felix L.
Oswald of Longevity" and Prof. Warren
of What the Public Schools Should
Teach"
The Overland Monthly" for August,
opens with an article about the great arte-
sian belt of the upper San Joaquin valley,
by Charles Fl. Shinn. d. S. Richardson
tells OF the stirring work done by Harry
Morse as Sheriff of Alameda in the sixties,
in exterminating the Spanish desperadoes.
The series of industrial articles, before
spoken of, is kept up by paper by Pro-
fessor Henry G. Hanks, on the Coal and
Iron Interests of the Pacific Coast" Abbot
Kinney discusses Protection" from the ad-
verse standpoint. There are series OF ex-
citing Indian yarns of Overland Staging
on the Thirty-Second Parallel Route in the
Fifties," by Jesse Edward Thompson. The
stories of the number are varied and strong.
A negro sketch in the Harris vein tale
OF japanese missionary; a pathetic Span
lsh story OF Martinez; and natural story
OF student life at Ann Arbor. The poems
are excellent, and the departments we'll
kept up.
From Hardy & Mahony. Philadelphia,
we have the American Catholic Quarterly
Review" for July, with this table of con-
| tents: The Latest Historian of the In
quisition," Rev. r. S. Dewey, S. j.; art
and Religion Peter L. Foy; johannes
Jansen, Germany Great Historian, ," John
A. Mooney; Buddhism and Christianity
Compared y Rev. K. Parsons, D. D.
Fwenty-four years in Buenos Ayres;'i
Induction, Ancient and Modern" Rev
K. +. Clarke, S. J.; " The Battle with Anti
| christ in France Rt. Rev Bernard 0 Reilly
d. D., l.. D.; The New Penal Code in
Italy, John Culinary Shea, L. L. D.. The
Attack on Freedom of Education in Massa.
chusetts, Prof. Thomas Dwight, NJ. d,
The Concord School of Philosophy >
Conde Benoist Pallen, PHI D.
The opening article in the August M ag.
azine of American History" New York
143 Broadway, is an interesting and valu.
able study OF the career of Roscoe Conk-
| lin, by Rev. Isaac S. Hartley, D. d. The
second article is readable sketch About
Philadelphia in $780," by the editor This
Is followed with Personal Recoll lections Of
General Grant, by Hon. Charles X. Tuck.
| erman. The Conquest of the Mayas' is
the fourth paper in Mrs. Alice D. LePlon.
geon's historical sketches of Yucatan. "In.
cidents of Border Life in Ohio" is bv K
w b. Canning. The journal of Lieuten.
aut Ijerck Beekmau, I779," is document
of special value. 4 chapter of Wash.
ingtonia will attract attention, with
an unpublished portrait of Washington
From Samuel Carson & Co, 2Os Posi-
street San Francisco, we have handsome
| little volume, Noble Deeds of our Fathers
as Told by Soldiers of the Revolution
Gathered around the Old Bell of Inde.
pendence, an interesting book, revised and
adapted for supplementary reading in
schools and for school Libraries II is nnb.
iished by Lee & Shepard Boston. The
purpose of this book is to awaken in the
minds of young people a deep veneration
OF the patrioJs and heroes of the American
revolution. 1t is well-written little vol
pme
In 1888 we had occasion to notice ex-
tendedly the work of Simon Sterne en-.
| titled " Constitutional History and Political
Development of the United States" The
volume then deeply impressed us as one of
originality in the method OF treatment OF
| the subject, and notable ability in the rea-
| soning employed and the research and
| scholarship manifest. The success of the
work has induced G. P Putnam's Sons.
New York, to issue what is now the fourth
edition of this excellent treatise, with
addenda bringing the commentary down to
| the close of the year 1887. 1t is for sale by
the Bancroft Company, of San Francisco
The Quarterly Journal of Economics -
for July, George H. Ellis, 141 Franklin
street, Boston, has these valuable papers,
which are elaborated and exhaustive
Wage Statistics and the Next Census of
the United States, Richmond Mavo Smith;
| Ruskin as a Political Economist" f. ].
Stimson 4; " The Distribution of Products. -
business Profits and Wages: A Re
lolnder, The Rate of Interest Tariff
Acts under the Confederation" =" Notes on
Early Banking Schemes, "A Letter By
| Henry Clay"
The Illustrated Weekly Magazine, y
PuotieHSu Dy JO0n b. Alden, New Y Ork,
entitled literature, is one of the cheapest
publications for its merit that is being
issued at the present day. 1t is largely de-
voted to biographical sketches, literary
criticism, and selections from the best
~iiters The magazine is issued in small
quarto iorm, and each number contains
aoou; twenty-five pages of choice reading
matter, all of which is furnished at 81 per
annum.
From Cassell & Co, New York, through
the Bancroft Company, San Francisco. we
have of the Sunshine series of Casselrs
weekly issue of choice fiction, the fol-
lowing novels in paper covers: Without
Blemish,' by Mrs. J. II. Walworth; No.
10 State Street." by David Graham Adee
" As Common Mortals" Also, OF Casselrs
Rainbow Series. " The Silent Witness" :"
novel, by Mrs. J. II. Walworth.
G. P. PGtuam's Sons, New York. have
issued an octave illustrated volume, "Abra-
ham Lincoln Biography for Young Peo-
pie" II is by Noah Brooks, the accom-
plished writer, aud who is so skillful in
addressing the young. II must not be sup
posed, however, that this is q book for
children it addresses rather the taste and