Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-14

Pens and Types. or Hints for Those who
Write, Print Read, Teach or Learn" Bos-
ton: Lee & Shepard, ST. It is the second
revised and improved edition of very
useful work, that to teachers. printers,
proof-readers, editors, writers and scholars
has proved 10 be useful book. Mr.. Drew
was many years journalist, and still
longer proof-reader in the Government
office, and also for the University Press
Cambridge. He retired ct the age OF 76
and prepared the work under notice. The
book has had an enormous sale.
How Men Propose" is volume that
presents collection of extracts from works
of prominent noyelists, showing the many
and various ways in which they treat the
marriage proposal, and its acceptance or
rejection. 1t is a novel work, strange
idea, but one that is charmingly worked
out. The extracts are from the works of
the most famous writers OF fiction of the
age. They are divided into eight classes,
the proposal youthful, vicarious, humble,
pompous, successful, unsuccessful, result
less and the renewed The author is Agnes
Stevens, and tie publisher a. C. McClurg
& Co, Chicago. For sale by The Bancroft
Company, San Francisco.
Payot, Upham G. Co., of San Francisco,
have issued small book of text aud dia-
grams explaining the McCleery method of
billiard-playing. It is by the expert, ]. F.
McClesry, of San Francisco Billiard ex-
perts who have examined the book assure
US that it is the most satisfactory volame
on billiard playing that has yet been given
to the public. There are six lessons in the
volume for amateurs and q complete record
OF the best runs and averages made in the
last twenty years by experts of leading
rank. There are 100 colored plates in the
little book, which is dedicated 10 the Olyn-
pic Club of San Francisco.
The Bancroft Company (San Francisco
has published small pocket Quarto IL
Illuminated covers presenting torty-two
Photographic views OF the city of San Fran
cisco, with few pages of descriptive text.
1t is q neat and interesting album. The
same publishers have issued "a Guide
Book TO Sar Francisco" by John S. Hit
tell, that treats Of the points Of interest, his
tory, characteristics, institutions, residences
and business houses of the city. Examina-
ton OF it discloses its accuracy and general
value as q guide about the metropolis OF
the Occidental shores of the Continent.
Little Baron Trump and Wonderful
Dog Bulger' is holiday illustrated ouarto
for young readers, by Ingersoll lockwood.
The drawings, all grotesque, are by George
Wharton Edwards. The travels and adj
ventures of the Baron and his dog are re-
corded in nearly 800 pages Of closely
printed text. 1t is a richly humorous
book, very keen in its Wit, polished in its
satire and as romantic and almost as mag
NATIVE as the famous record of adventures
CT Baron MuDchausen. Boston, Lee d
Shepard; San Francisco, Samuel Carson q
Co.; 81
ga Handbook of Precious Stones is
by NJ. D. Rotbschild. 1t is from the press
OF 6. P. Putnem's Sons, New York and
London, and is for sale by The Bancroft
Company, San Francisco. 1t is g simplifed,
scientific and expert treatise upon the
kinds, character and qualities OF all pre-
cious stones known to commerce In
condensed form it conveys to the merchant,
wokmen and amateur valuable informa-
ton. 1t is fortified by authorities upon
whom the author has freely drawn.
OF THE Blue and Gray Series" we have
at hand Within the Enemy's Lines" by
Oliver Optic. 1t is needless to say more 10
reading boys than this, that Oliver Optic
has given them no more interesting and
romantic story. It is from the press of Lee
& Shepard, Boston, and is for sale at 81 90
by Samuel Carson & Co., 20S Post street,
San Francisco.
Samuel Carson & Co, San Francisco.
have for sale another, and the last OF the
Little Miss" books. 1t is entitled Little
Miss Weezy's Sister. These books, by Pen
Shirley, have a high reputation among
young readers, and they are justly loved
for their purity, viyacity and truth TO ma
ture. Lee & Shepard, Boston; 10 cents.
OF the Riverside Paper series, continu-
ing the Ticknor Paper series, we have from
the publishers (Houghton, Mitflin & Co.,
Boston and New York; an edition of
"Emerson's Essays'-the first and second
series. The volume sells at 80 cents, and
is for sale by the Bancroft Company, San
| Francisco.
Speaking Pieces for Little Scholars and
Older Pupils is volume by Ellen o.
Peck. With few exceptions the pieces"
are poems, and they are all original with
the author. Lee & Shepard, Boston, are
the publishers and the book is for sale by
Semuel Carson & Co., San Francisco, at 30
| cents.
Of The Questions of the Day" Series,
No. Tx. is by w. D. Dabney, and is
treatise on the public regulation of rail
ways. G. P. Puinam's Sons, New York
and London. The Bancroft Company,
San Francisco.