Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-01

ABOUT tnat General Grant sen
him out to whip Stuart, out of wha
remark by Sheridan Grants order sprang
the assault made, the triumph that fol
lowed and the terrible blow the loss of Stu
art proved to the Confederacy.
The Century Magazine for Decembe,
is at hand, (The Century Company, N.Y.
and if not strictly speaking a Christmas
number, is still Christmasy number
opening as it does with frontispiece pic.
ture, " The Coming of Winter" by Mary
Hallock Foote, and containing also a num-
Der OF full-page engravings of sacred pic
lures by the old and little known Italian
master, Duccio, in the Gallery of Italian
Masters" In addition there is Western
story in verse; by James Whitcomb Riley,
" Last Christmas Was Year Ago" A
striking feature is furnished by two articles
on Henry Ward Beecher's memorable ap.
| pearance in England in 1868, in advocacy
OF the cause of the American Union. The
first by Rev. DR.. j. NJ. Buckley, the
other is by Mr.. Beecher himself.
But the two contributions having perhaps
the highest importance are the installments
of the Life OF Lincoln First Plans for
Emancipation" and the paper by Mr..
Kennan, in which he describes 9" Life on
the Great Siberian Road" A number of
other original Lincoln manuscripts are here
for the first time given. In this number is
the first OF the stories of Irish-American
life, by George III: Jessop. One of Mr..
| Cables literary finds in the way OF strange
true storiesis also begun in this number.
under the title of "Francoise in Louisiana !"
| There is timely paper on "The Reorgan-
ization of the British Empire" by George
| K. Parkin. Henry James writes of LON
dom Edward L. Wilson in his articles,
| parallel with the International Sunday
school series, gives his personal observa-
| tions on the route From Sinai to She
chem" The stories of this number are
the second installment of Mrs Gather
woods Romance of Dollard !" The Third
of March," by Julian Hawthorne, and
Nine" by H. s. Edwards, author of
Two Runaways." five in all, including
the serials. F. Hopkins Smith describes
and illustrates some of his sketching ex-
| periences in Mexico. In the body of the
magazine and in "Bric. a. Brac" there are
poems by R. H. Stoddard, H. A. Blood, ].
! T. Mckay, J. w. Riley, C. H Crandall, the
late E. 4. Sill, Miss Louise l. Quincy and
others. The Topics OF the Times and
open Letters" departments are as full as
usual and as interesting.
The Popular Science Monthly" for De-
cember %. Appleton e. Co., New York; is
at hand. 1t is specially interesting num-
ber. Among the papers these are most
prominent: THE Psychology of Decep-
tion," by Professor j. Jastrow, Ph. D.;
New Light on Lunar Mystery by Gar
rett P. Serviss; The Pine Tree Lizard" by
Charles C. Abbott NJ. D.; The Last Stages
in the Genealogy of Man." by NJ. Paul
Topinard; Atomic Worlds and Their
Notions" by DR.. Heinrich Hensoldt;
Evolving the Camel" by Grant Allen;
Beliefs About the Soul, by R. A. Oakes;
'The History of a Doctrine" Prof S. P.
Langley; Infant Mortality and the En-
vironment," by ]. NJ. French, NJ. D.; "The
Origin of Forest Groupings" Marquis de
Saporta; "Chinese Marriage Customs" by
Adele NJ. Fie1e; Native Life in British
Borneo," by D. D. DAILY, Assistant Resi-.
dent; Animal Arithmetic, by Nine. Glenn
ence Roger; Sketch of F. A. Vulpian"
The latest chapters of that entertaining
serial, For the Good of the Family" open
the December number of ''Cassell's Family
Magazine" The shorter serial, Comrades
Once" is also broughtto close. AS usual
this magazine is readable from cover to
cover. The current number is conspicuous
| for the variety of its contents We are
| given chapter on the Cooking of Apples"
others on "a Trip to Dutchmans Land"
meaning, of course, Holland, with its
| dykes and its windmills The Family
DOCtoI Win Ills duVlCej preparing 10
| Face the Winter !" The Love Affairs of
Some Famous Men," Phyllis Brown tells
US How TO Knit a Stocking" There is
also poetry, articles of general interest, ETC.,
the London and Paris Fashion letters.
[Cassell & Co, New York.
| The Magazine of Art (Cassell & Co..
New York and London) for December is at
hand. The frontispiece is one that every
one who does not keep the numbers from
month to month to have bound at the end
of the year will cut out and Frame 1t is
an etching by G. Bicard from Meissoniers
| famous picture, The Painter" The open
ing article is on the sculptor, Alfred Gilbert,
! by Cosmo Monkhouse; Wells and its Ca
| thedral," by Elizabeth Robins Pennell; the
| first of series of papers on The Portraits
of Dante Gabriel Rossetti," by his brother
| William NJ Rossetti; "The Liverpool Cor
poration Collection" THE Insignia of
Mayoralty" and "0ld Arts and Modern
| Thoughts" are notable papers. The de-
partment of home and foreign art notes is
up to the standard for fullness and ac-
curacy.
| From the Century Company, SO East
| Seventeenth street, New York, we have the
''St. Nicholas illustrated Magazine" richly
bound in brilliantly illuminated colors, for
the year 1888. 1t is bound in two parts
a most convenient arrangement for a
| quarto. 'St. Nicholas is a magazine.for
title is a household word. The bound
volumes cannot be surpassed as holiday
| gift book for lad of from 10 to
l6, or girl of from s to 15 years of age.
Mrs. Dodge, as editor, and the Century
| Company as publishers, have, by skillful
literary selections and unstinted liberality
in the departments of engraving and print
iug, made it one of the most richly attrac-
| tive magazines of the age.
The Atlantic Monthly" for December,
Houghton, Muffin e. Co., Boston, has these
| papers, The Future of the Country Col
lege," William Dewitt Hyde; "Passe
Rose" Arthur Sherburne Hardy (serlalj:
"a Devils Passage" Louise Stockton;
The Close of Garibaldi's Career" William
R. Thayer: "a Flight in the Dark" s. K.
& V. D. s.; Boston Painters and Paint.
ings." William Howe Downes; William
Warren" Henry A. Clapp; "a Convent
School OF the Last Century" Susan Cool
idge; The Despot of Broomsedge Cove
! (serial)," Charles Egbert Craddock There
are besides, the book reviews, the Con-
tributors' Club always an enjoyable depart
ment), and Letters from Dorothy Osborne
to Sir William Temple
The Home Maker" for November.
Marion Harlands new monthly magazine,
makes good the high literary promise OF
its initial number issued in October. While
maintaining this high standard it at the
same time treats practically and entertain
ingly of all topics affecting the home, and
renders their consideration or study a
pleasure and help. The magazine is di-
vided into various departments of domestic
affairs, and the good sense shown and ad-
vice given in each is helped by finely exc
cuted illustrations. Short stories by good
authors are given, and Horticulture receives
much practical attention. Home Maker
Company, "a West Twenty-third street,
New York.
up the North Beach" " is another OF
Captain Farrar's delightful books of the
Lake and Forest SERIES 1t is from the
press of Lee & Shepard, Boston, and is at