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

nounced, Is the title OF q fOur-Q1arto 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 H. Phyfe. His older works of this
order will be remembered, THE School
Pronouncer," and How l Should Pro-
no1nce.n Mr.. Phyfe is an accomplished
philolossist 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 Lam
guage, the next best thing is 10 teach them
as this book aims to do, by abstract and in
dividual 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 a commentary to the extent
that on all disputed or at all doubtful
points Mr.. Phyfe quotes suthorities and
argues the question with vigor.
He has prefaced his work also by 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 diacritical marks"
We consider this the most thorough, schol-
arly and exhaustive of Phyfe's excellent
books on pronunciation. We believe with
him that by the use of this volume one
! can rid himself in a 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 short study
| and practice he can correct himself perma-
nently.
The Popular Science Monthly" for
| September Cd. Appleton & Co, New York;
| has three papers in addition TO the popular
miscellany, book reviews and editorials.
"a Study from Life" by Olive Miller;
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
7. II. Huxley, F. R. S; Museums of
Household Products" by Professor Rudolf
| Virchow; The Wastes CT Modern Civiliza-
| ton, ii !" by Felix L. Oswald, NJ D.; THE
Ethical View of Protection by Hunting
ton Smith; "Some Modern Aspects of Ge-
ology," by Professor G H. Williams; Ami
NAL Life in the Gulf Stream" by Ralph S.
| Tarr; Huxley and Pasteur on the Proven
ton of Hydrophobia;" Origin of the
Rights of Property" by Henry J. Philpott;
Arctic Ice and its Navigation" by Albert
| A. Ackermap; "a Corner of the Dutch East
Indies" by Captain G. Langen; sketch OF
Joseph Lowering"
/ ne htCOHCllldllOU, DY I. w dlUel-
| strom, is theological treatise by the Pro-
fessor of Theology and Biblical Hebrew
and Greek in the College of Gefe, Sweden.
Its sub-titles explain IT'S scheme "Who
! Was to be Reconciled? ? God or Man, or
| God and Man ?" Some Chapters on the
Biblical View of the Atonement" 1t is
translated by ]. G. Princell from the
Swedish, and is published by John Marten.
son, Chicago. By the same author is a
| larger volume 8vo. 800 pages, entitled,
The Lord is Right; Meditations on the
! XXVth Psalm" Ii 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. Stenitz
editor of the International Chess Maga-
zEe." 1t is 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. Ali the rules
of the game are given, explained and dis.
cussed, and all 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.
MANS Sons.
Not frequently does one in cheap fc.
ton series find more charming and thrill.
ingly interesting novel than ''Marooned. y
by w. Clark Russell. 1t is 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
braver character than that of Miss Grant, u
or of more heroic and knightly man than
Mr.. Russell has sketched in the person oi
Mr.. Musgrave' Globe Library series,
weekly, Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago.
From G. P. Putnams 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" II
contains the report of the proceedings of
the Association at the meeting in Wash
ington IN December last The volume OF
nearly 500 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
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 a 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 E. 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 q. H. Parkinson, editor, Sacra-
mento), A. ]. Johnston G. Co., publishers,
has an elaborate table of contents that
| promise much of interest, and the text of
hepapers in.the magazine keep the promise
| good Certainly even to the layman por-
tions 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. ?. Putnam's Sons, New York
and London, we have "Tales by Heinrich