Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

, choice recipes tried and approved by the
ladies of the Unitarian Society of Sacra-
mento. press of Woodson Bros. Sacra.
| mento.) Of the making of cook books
there is no end. But here we have
one that is decided novelty. 1t is
not the product of one author, not
cleaning from other books, not merely
gathering of recipes said by others to be
, good. On the contrary. some twenty well
known ladies of our own city, recognized
as skilled housewives and whose tables are
famous for choice and we'll prepared dishes,
have contributed from their experience
in the kitchen and the pantry, the best re-
suits of cookery. They attach their initials
to the recipes, and thus stamp them with
authority and say to the buyer of the
book, I'VE know these formules TO be
superior we have for years tried and used
them and we give you our personal
guaranty that they are worthy" The
recipes are all set out clearly, with
much detail, and cover the whole question
of the preparation of soups, fish, poultry,
game, salads, entrees meats, vegetables,
bread. cakes, buildings, sauces, pastry,
pies, desserts, preserves, ices, pickles, cat
sup and other kitchen and household pre-.
parations. Some of the ladies who have
contributed TO this excellent little work,
that has peculiar value becauseits authors
are well known skilled housewives, we as
certain to be, from the initials appended,
Mrs. ]. n. Porter Mrs. Horatio Hurd, Mrs.
G. P. Massey, Mrs. w. N. Lyon, Mrs. D. s.
Ross, Mrs. F. L. Orcott, Mrs. L. K. Ham,
mer, Mrs. DR.. Dixon, Mrs. E. l. Robinson,
Mrs. G. w. Hancock, Mrs James 1. Felter,
Mrs. DIR. 81. L. Nichols. Mrs. A. A. Van
VOORHEES,, Mrs. H. 1. Seymour, Mrs. s. P.
Smith, Mrs. ]. E. Mills, Mrs. G. S. Hough-
ton, Mrs. w. A. Briggs, Mrs. c. H. Ross,
Mrs. n. D. Goodell aud many others whose
initials defy US to translate. 1t is a valu
able publication and will certainly prove
useful in housewifery and conserve econo-
my, since all these ladies vouch for the
recipes as those they use from day to day
in their own families.
From the author we have received
pamphlet of some sixty pages entitled
Land Currency: Treatise on the Import.
ant Subject of No Tax" by Stephen May.
bell 1865 Clara street, San Francisco) The
author has some prominence as the writer
of a monograph entitled Civilization
Civilized" He is well known in
San Francisco also as an agitator
of a number of reforms. A few years
ago he was prominent in the Work
ingmen's party, and at one time had Legis-
lative experience in this State. He writes
in the present pamphlet with a great deal
of vigor and the text shows by its elaborate
statistical references and its calculations
and estimates, that he has given the SUBJ
ject great deal of thought and in
quiry. His idea is that instead of
coming metal to create a medium of ex-
change, we should coin land values
since they are the greatest of all values.
That the Government should issue a cur
rency based upon an actual value held by
it in trust-that is, land security. Land
currency would thus supersede all other
money. The interest on this currency
loaned on land would be per cent, which
will pay the Government tax and abolish
all mortgages completely. In other words,
he holds that if half the land value of
California was mortgaged for 2 per cent. at
the Government Treasury, and the Govern
ment received the interest thereon, all tax
alton would cease and interest be reduced
to nominal rate. He would. through
issue of land currency. have the 100000
people hold the mortgages and draw the
interest instead of the few. Industry would
as a result be stimulated healthily, and
capital would seek labor. This would
shorten hours and 'lengthen" pay. The
farmer would have money and save the
output of exhausting interest. All revenue
would rest on land, which would not really
be taxed at all. His scheme, he contends,
is cooperation in its highest conception.
Of course we cannot, in these columns, set
forth even synoptically the whole scheme
of the pamphlet, but sufficient has been
said to indicate its drift.
eff Marriage is a Failure-Why? asks
Mrs S. D. Woods, of San Francisco, in a
small book thus entitled, (San Francisco:
Bushnell Bros, priners). The lady has
written earnestly, if severely; in all kind
ness and sincerity, unquestionably. She be-
lieves marriage to be the noblest of institu-
tons, and the most sacred. But she means
true marriage sanctifed by love and clear
sense of duty, not mere formal and legal
union. She believes it crime to mate
where there is not physical cleanliness and
fitness. Maternity belongs to the woman
and should be under her control; it should
not be forced upon her. Marriage should
be Divine union, consecrated by love that
is enduring and not merely passionate.
Girls as we'll as boys should be taught the
necessity and honorableness of labor.
They should be taught the holiness of we'd
lock and grow up women who hold that
child has right to be well born. This is
the tone of the lady's book. She is not
practiced writer nor is her diction free from
blemishes-indeed it is marred by many of
lucul. Dul ucE tuOuSut 10 SOuuu Lei pul
pose pure, and her feeling deep and earnest.
Dust and Its Dangers" is the title of a
valuable book small and compact, by DR..
T. Mitchell Prudden. well known writer
upon bacteria. 1t is from the press of G.
P. Putnam's Sons, New York aud London,
and is for sale by The Bancroft Company,
San Francisco. II is a book full of sur
prises and is enthusiastically from the pen of
a master inquirer and untiring investigator.
or course the book is full of very disagree
able facts; facts that annoy one and make
him hesitate to breath, unless upon the
mountain tops or the broad seas. Still it is a
practical treatise on living subject and of
profoundest interest. For it must be
known that one out of every seven people
who untimely die, are carried off by tuber
culosis, and large proportion of these
meet their fate through dust poisoning
which they might escape if they knew how
and would. This book tells US how and
makes emphatic the truth that much of
disease and premature death are prevent
able and cannot, as of old we were wont to,
be charged to an everything Providence.
The North American Review" for Oc-
tober New York; has those papers: "a
Bryce, NJ. p. author of THE American
Commonwealth" "Those American Girls
in Europe" by Madam Adam; "The Pan
American Conference" by the Mexican
Minister, NJ. Romero; "a Key to Munic-
ipal Reform, by E. L. Godkin; Crowns
and Coronets," by George P. A. Healy; The
Future of American Universities" by
Andrew D. White; Labor Tendencies in
Great Britain" by Michael Davitt; Faith
and Credulity," by John Burroughs; "The
Peculiarities of the South" by Professor N.
s. Shaler; "Mr. Balfour's Answer to Mr..
Parnell." by the Right Hon. John Morley.
by J. H. Sears; Police Outrages in New
York" by f. j. Edwards; Are Women
Mannerless?" by W. A. Croffut; Assess
ment Life Insurance" by George D.
Eldridge; "Sslvationists in Retreat" by
Philip G. Hubert, Jr.