Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

lOfIHotlOu COuCeIuiDS Uletk drt anu arCDA
lecture. Lieutenant j. D. Jerrold Kelley
Yachting" The superiority of our com.
mon wild flower over the cultivated varie
| ties of the conservatory is illustrated with
pen and pencil by William Hamilton Glib
son. Among the other contents are The
Metric System" by n. w. Richardson
The Mountain Passes of the Cumberland >
| by James Lane Allen, and timely paper
| by Charles Eliot Norton on Harvard Col
| lege in 1890" Daudet's inimitable story
of Port Tarascon" still holds the first place
in the fiction of the Magazine" while
! among the short stories are contribu-
tions by Barnet Phillips, Mary E. Will
kins, Paul Carson, and the author OF
"Cape Cod Folks" Alfred Parsons
continues his illustrations of Words
worth's poems with full-page drawing to
accompany the sonnet on "Aix-la Cha.
pelle.' Other poems are by Howard
Hail. Graham r. Tomson and Rem
nell Rodd. The subjects treated in
the Editorial Departments include
observations on the hog family"
on modern ghosts, and on international
copyright, by George William Curtis; re-
views of several new books, by William
Dean Howells, and reflections upon the
fascination of the dissgreeable, By Charles
Dudley Warner.
One of the unique features of the Septem-
Der Magazine OF American History" is a
descriptive view of the first Croton water
celebration, II 1912, in contrast to the sec
ond in 1890. In the second article Mr.,
Spencer furnishes some exceptionally en-
tertaining and useful dsta about The Self
made Lord Timothy Dexter who, it
seems dealt largely in the old continental
paper currency, becoming rich thereby,
and who really was not SO big fool as
generally supposed; one of the illustrations
of the article is the palace he adorned with
images in Newburyport. Mass, and an.
other is fac smile of certain loan certifi.
Gates in 1870, bearing his signature. The
Rifle in Colonial Times" an able paper of
ace Kephart. "The Deacons Wooing,"
humorous poem by Henry F King, records
a quaint historic incident in connection
with the old town of Lyme, Conn Mrs
Lamb, in the fifth article, pays a graceful
and Just tribute to the late Judge Amasa
]. Parker of Albany, whose splendid por-
trait from photograph made just before
his death forms the frontispiece to the num-
ber. THE Battle of Queenstown Heights"
in 1872, is study from Canadians
point of view, the author being John Fra
zer, of Montreal. This is followed by
Dead Mans Island and the Ghost Ship"
by D. Turner; "a Sunday in the Olden
Time" by Rev. D. F. Lamson, and Linked
With Shakespeare" By Professor G.
Browne Goode, all of which, with George
W. Childs on General Grant, will find
hosts of readers.
The "North American Review" for Sep
tember has these papers THE Federal
Election Bill,' by its framer, the Hon L.
G. Lodge, and by Master Workman Pow
derly; Society Women in the Time of
Christ" Gail Hamilton "Tolstoi and The
Kreulzer Sonata" Colonel R. G. Inser-
soil; "Our Fur.Seal Fisheries" D., o.
Mills; "The Mckinley Bill in Europe
Gustave de Molinari "Client and Archi-
tect," Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer,; Lit
erary Women in London Society,"" Mrs.
Campbell Praed Popular Errors Regard
ing Health" DR.. w. S. Searle "a Janus
Faced Statue" the Hon. r. p Bland;
The Pan American Conference" by the
Mexican Minister, NJ. Romero; "The Re-
House of Commons, Reginald F. D. Pal.
grave, c. B; The Rewards of Literature"
Rossiter johnson Can Gold be Manufac-
tured?' Professor P T. Austen 1.-THE Man.
nerless Sex" Oscar Fay Adams; "Child-
Saving Legislation" Charles Martindale.
The numbers of sLittell's Living Age"
for August 23i and Both contain: THE
Origin of Alphabets." Edinburgh; West
ern China; Its Products and Trade" Omar.
terly; 1.-The Shetland Isles in the Birds
nesting Season. Contemporary; "a Voice
From a Harem," Nineteenth Century;
"The Cession of Heligoland,n Scottish;
"Comejy in Fiction" in Sickness and in
Health" and THE Bamboo" Blackwood;
"Christmas tide at Tangier' and "Watteau;
His Life and Work" Temple Bar; ''Chap-
tiers From Some Unwritten Memoirs"
Macmillan; Rural "reminiscences" and
'The Sea and Seaside" Cornhill; "A Man
ual for Interior Souls" and The Smart
Way of Shaking Hands," Spectator; Tar
antulas,' Saturday Review; The Oxford
Summer Meeting" Speaker; "Hyacinth
Culture in Holland" Chambers; with in
staliments of Marcia, and "An Attractive
Young Person. and poetry. For fifty-two
numbers of sixty-four large pages each Cor
more than $500 pages year, the subscrip-
tion price is but s.. Littell & Co., Boston,
are the publishers.
The Forum" for September (Forum
Publishing Company, New York; is an
unusually large number, rich and fat with
articles of interest. These are eleven in
number and are Money Interests in Po-
litical Affairs e. L. Godkin; 1.-The Train
ing of Teachers" President G. Stanley
Hall Federal Control of Elections" SEN
ator John T. Morgan; Railway Reor-
ganization," Simon Sterne The Christi
anity of the Future Prof. John s. Blackie;
Formative Influences" Rev. DR.. Edward
Everett Hale; "a Short Study of Mac.
BETH James E. Murdoch; 1.-THE Latest
Astronomical News" Professor Charles A.
Young; Protection Against Tornadoes, u
Lieutenant John P. Finley; "The Domestic
and the State" Rev. Minot ]. Savage.
The New Ideal" for September Boston,
/ a magazine of constructive liberal thought
and applied ethics has these leading pa
pers: First Principles in Social Reform,
About Certain of the Damned" E. P
| Powell; "Anarchism," Hugh o. Pentecost
"a Criticism of DR.. Dowden's Estimate o
| .Prometheus Unbound A. M. Ganneti
"The Scientific Method in Social Reform,
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson; ''Tne Brah
min Caste Of New England" Charles K
| Whippls; Voluntary Cooperation,
Walter F. Wells; is Personal Equation
Possible?n Edgar F. Wheelock; 'Rslpl
Waldo Emerson Joseph Dana Miller
"On Physical Laws Professor A. E. Dol
bear, NJ. l., Pa. D.
The Cosmopolitan for September is
notable number because of the great man,
portraits of beautiful American women
and because of the glimpses given of cour
life in Persia. Miss Bisland's around tn,
world papers continue as also the series O
papers on the military forces of the world
those now treated are of Sweden and Nor
way. The illustrations are especially
choice and more than usually numerous
Edgar Fawcett has complete story in thi
number, as also has Julien Gordon. Th,
editorials are by editor Walker, and tn,
side notes by Murat Halstead and Edward
Everett Hale.
The "Kindergarten" for September il
nearly doubled in size and presents an un
usually interesting table of contents, il
which is found: "Froebels Law on Educa
| .. LII D..l1 Cct, -, L. H.