Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-01
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

IN the June Century Mr.. KEENAN, be
| gins his account Of the most important in
vestigaUou made by him into the exile
| system, viz, his visit to the convict mines
Of Kara. The lroutispiece of this number
! is a pOrtraig of the famous French artist,
Coroj. The article is by Mrs, Van Rens-
seiaer. \ number Of reproductions of Co.
| rol's paintings are also given. An article
by an English writer on The BlOodhound'
! IS accompanied by wood engravingS from
sketches by an English artist. The hound
Is a very different sort Of dog from what bis
name would indicate, and his intelligence
| is absolutely marvellous. Mr.. DeKsy con-
uuues his Irish papers on Early Heroes
of Ireland.' Certain Forms of WOman's
Work for Woman by Mrs. Helen Camp
bell. " An American Amateur Astronomer"
is an illustrated sketch of the career of Mr.
BUrnham. In the Life of Lincoln sew
eral interesting chapters on important po-
lltical events are published. SuIlman and
Cole treat of Spinello Arctino. Mrs. Mary
HaICCG Foote'S serial story, The Last
Assembly Ball" is concluded. The Be
lations Of the United States and Canada
is a paper by Charles H Lugrin Short
stories are published by George 4. Hubbard
and James Lane Allen. \ personal chapter
Is by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, the poet,
who describes General Lee in his home
Foote's Far West picture is - The Irrigat-
ing Ditch" In " Memoranda of the Civil
War are The Canal at Island No. 10,
" An Early Suggestion to Arm Negroes T
the Confederacy," "Stonewall Jacksons
Intention at Harper's Ferry" and "A
Question of Command at Franklin" In
Topics of the Time" are editorials on
John Bright, The New States, " How
to Preserve the Forests" and The Dark
Continent" open Letters deal with
the Stedman- Hutchinson Library of Amer
ican Literature, " Buchanan, Lincoln and
Duff Green, " Sea-Coast and Lake De-
lenses" and The Place Called Calvary"
In the Forum (253 Fifth avenue, New
York; for June, Senator Edmunds dis
cusses the decay of political morals. An
other political article in this number is
The Drift toward Annexation" by W.
Blackburn Harte, an editorial writer for
the Toronto Mail Another political article
explains the advance of liberal, even of
American ideas, in a country much
farther away than Canada. William Elliot
Griffis, author of The Mikado's Empire"
tells the leading features of the new Consti-
tuition of Japan. There is an essay by w.
S. Lilly, on The Ethics of Politics,
wherein the artificial political morality
which seeks to set up q different standard
of Judgment for public and for private con-
duc5 is examined and condemned. Adel-
bert Hamilton, of New York, presents sta
tistlc5 to show the unnecessary cost of
insurance. Rev. Dr. William Barry de-
scribes The Moloch of Monopoly"
Rev. DR.. T. I. Munger OF New Haven
defends the Christian missionary against
tiippant criticism. DR.. Henry D. Chaplin
indicates practical ways of preventing pow
erty, without prescribing a panacea. Prof.
John Stuart Blackie, the Scotch scholar,
estimates the relative importance in the ed
ucation of an Englsh-Speaking man of the
modern and ancient languages. Leonard
WoOlsey Bacon traces the decline in value
OF honorary academic titles. The Queen