Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-07
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

nounced, is the title of four-auarto is
sued by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
and London, and for sale by the Bancroft
Company, San Francisco. 1t is by Will
liam II. Phyfe. His older works of this
order will be remembered, The School
Pronounoer," and How l Should Pro-
noQnce.n Mr.. Phyfe is an accomplished
philologist and a spelling reformer of
prominence. We are familiar with all his
works and deem them useful. If people
cannot be driven to correct their errors by
study of rudimental principles of the Ian
suage, the next best thing is to teach them
as this book aims to do, by abstract and in
divldual statement of the common errors
of spelling and pronunciation, accom-
panied by correct examples But this vol
ume of nearly 500 pages goes even beyond
this and is q commentary 10 the extent
that on all disputed or at all doubtful
points Mr.. Phyfe quotes authorities and
argues the question with vigor.
He has prefaced his work also by a treatise
on the forty-two native sounds and the
eight adopted sounds. He adds also 'sug-
gestions on the use of the book, the study
of the key of signs or diacritcal marks"
We consider this the most thorough. sch0l-
arly and exhaustive of Phyfes excellent
books on pronunciation. We believe with
him that by the use of this volume one
can rid himself in few hours of any
mere errors of his custom or habit in pro-
nouncing, by simply going through the
lists and marking the words that he finds
he is accustomed to mispronounce. Then
taking up those marked, by a short study
and practice he can correct himself perma-
nently.
The Popular Science Monthly" for
September ID. Appleton & Co, New York;
l., NlNr1 i Il. l.
miscellany, book reviews and editorials
Recent Economic Changes" by Hon.
David A. Wells; The Surface Tension of
Liquids" by w. H. Larrabee; The Value
of Witness to the Miraculous, by Professor
I. H. Huxley, T. r. S; Museums of
Household Products" By Professor Rudolf
Virchow; The Wastes CT Modern Civiliza-
ton, II J." by Felix L. Oswald, NJ D.. THE
Ethical View of Protection" by Hunting
ton Smith; Some Modern Aspects of &C.
ology," by Professor G II. Williams; Ami
NAL Life in the Gulf Stream" by Ralph S.
Tarr; Huxley and Pasteur on the Preven-
ton of Hydrophobia;" Origin of the
Arctic Ice and its Navigation by Albert
A. Ackerman; "A Corner of the Dutch East
Indies" by Captain G. Langen; sketch OF
Joseph Lowering"
"The Reconciliation by P. Walden
strom is a theological treatise by the Pro-
fessor of Theology and Biblical Hebrew
and Greek in the College OF Gehe, Sweden.
Its sub-titles explain it's scheme "Who
Was to be Recouciled God or Man, or
God and Man?" Some Chapters on the
Biblical View of the Atonement.n 1t is
translated by j. G. Princell from the
Swedish, and is published by John Marten-
son, Chicago. By the same author is a
larger volume, 8vo. 302 pages, entitled,
'Tbe Lord is Right; Meditations on the
XVIII Psalm" 1t is issued by the
same publisher. These two works in their
native tongue have created great interest,
and have been almost universally read By
Swedish people who are Christians. Both
| works have been criticised for dozen
years in Sweden, and it is said that they
gain in popularity the more they are de-
| bated.
! From the Bancroft! Company, San Fran
cisco, we have The Modern Chess In
| structor" by the famous player W. Steinitz,
| editor Of the International Chess Maga-
zine" 1t is a detailed and thoroughly ex-
| haustive textbook of chess, beginning with
the elementary principles of the game. and
| carrying the student through to analysis of
the most difficult problems. All the rules
/ of the game are given, explained and dis
cussed, and ell the methods of the greatest
/ players of the world. 1t is in fact an ex-
haustive work, and by chess lovers will be
| highly esteemed. New York: G. P. Put
nam's Sons.
Not frequently does one in cheap fic-
| ton series find more charming and thrill
ingly interesting novel than ''Marooned,n y
| by w. Clark Russell. 1t is a tale of the sea
and of two castaways, man and woman,
| upon desolate island beneath the equator.
! Out Of their romantic escapades is woven a
| tale of love and adventure of delightful in
! terest. Seldom is there drawn a sweeter,
| brayer character than that of Miss Grant -
or of q more heroic and knigbtiy man than
Mr.. Russell has sketched in the person of
Mr.. Musgrave.' Globe Library series,
weekly, Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago
From G. P Putnam's Sons, New York
| and London, and the Secretary of the So
ciety. we have the third volume, part two, of
Papers of the Historical Association" 1t
| contains the report of the proceedings of
| the Association at the meeting in Wash
ington IN December last. The volume of
nearly 300 royal octave pages, is by Herbert
B Adams, Secretary of the Association.
| The book is one OF high historic value and
the papers in it are contributions TO Amer
| ican history of an order of first importance
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 4"
| for the current week is very happy in its
choice of illustrations. They are in the
main of camping and hunting and sum-
| mering and anniversary events, with some
aquatic views and handsome portrait of
Mrs. Bruce Ismay, one of New York's soci-
ETY. women of beauty and leadership. The
leading free lance paper is by f. A.
Hartshorn, and is entitled "a Peril of
Enlightened Labor" 1t is protest against
cheap labor and the products of foreign
cheap labor.
The Occidental Medical Times" for Sep
tember u. II. Parkinson, editor, Sacra-
mento), a. ]. Johnston & Co., publishers,
has an elaborate table of contents that
promise much of interest, and the text of
thepapers in.the magazine keep the promise
good Certainly even to the Iayman por-
tons of the magazine are of profound in
terest, as for instance, the article'on Meteo-
rology on Public Health, Mental Diseases,
New Remedies, treatment of rattlesnake
bite, etc.
OF the Knickerbocker Nugget series, is
sued by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
and London, we have TALES by Heinrich