Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Newman ana the Catn0ilc heacllon. In
No.Name paper is on the Postmaster
General and the Censorship of Morals.
W. II. 81. Murray pleads for an endowe'
press. Prof. W. s. Scarborough argues tn
cause of the colored people. Prof. Sheri
dan P. Wait. writes on the symbolic Char
acters of the Old Testament" Genera
Marcus J. Wright describes the "Proroga
ton of the British Parliament" Rev. Ed
ward P Foster writes in defense of Chris
tan Socialism" Abby Morton Diaz con
tributes paper on Development of Char
acter in Schools" Thaddeus B. Wake
mans paper is 'Our Unchurched Mill
IONS" Rev. T. Ernest Allen contributes
story, which will not be edifying to tn,
believers in the Westminster Confession
A poem, by the wife of ex-senator Grover
closes the leading papers. Notes on Liv
ing Problems are timely. Cyrus Fielc
Willard calls attention to the evils of trusts
Edward A. Oldham contributes paper or
the Great Political Upheaval in thu
South" G. A. Selders criticises Senator
Hampton.
The Magazine of Art" for October open:
with Sculpture of the Year" and among
its reproductions of the more important
work Mr.. J. Donoghue's "Sophocles Lead
ing the Chorus of Victory After the Battle
of Salamis" is given. Claude Phillip;
writes of The Modern Schools of Painting
and Sculpture in France" Perhaps the pa
per which will be the most generally read i:
the second. contributed by George du Mau
rier on THE Illustrating of Books" A full
page is devoted to Sir Thomas Lawrence's
portrait of Lady Acland and her children
which causes US to wonder if all the ladies
and all the children of Sir Thomas time
were so very pretty and so very much
alike Babies in Art and Nature is
by n. Arthur Kennedy. Scottish Ma
tional Memorials is also an illustrated pa.
per. A poem is from the graceful pen Of
Christina G. Rossetti. Some Ancient
Representations of Eros and Psyche" gives
us numerous illustrations from the old
masters. The third article on the develop
ment of illustrated journalism in England
is equal in interest to its predecessors. As
usual, the Notes" are full, those on Amer.
lean art being particularly elaborate. Cas-.
sell Publishing Company, New York.
The contributors to the October "Maga.
ziue of American History" present rare
world. The number opens with paper
on the Sources and Guarantees of Ma.
tional Progress" by Rev. DR.. r. s. Storrs
The second paper, entitled 1.-The American
Flag and John Paul Jones" is from the
pen of Professor Theodore W. Dwight, oil
the Columbia Law School. "South-old
and her Homes and Memories" is one
OF Mrs. Lambs entertaining articles
1.-The Historic Temple of New Wind.
sor, 17S3," with curious picture
recently discovered, comes from the pen OF
Hon. j. o. Dykman. About Some Public
Characters in 1856" consists of extracts
from the private dairy of Sir Frederick
Haldimand. 1.-The General characteristics
of the French Canadian Peasantry," by DR..
Prosper Bender. 1.-THE Mountains and
Mountaineers of Craddock's Fiction" by
Milton 7. Adkins; Anecdotes of General
Granville NJ. Dodge" by Hon. Charles AL.
drich "The Story of Roger Williams Re-
told" by H. E. Banning. This important
magazine is in close sympathy with cur.
rent affairs, and an invaluable national
journal. 1t is freely illustrated.
The Popular Science Monthly" edited
by w. J. Youmans and published by D.
Appleton & Co, New York, is at hand
The leading papers are: The Fall of Man
and Anthropology, by Andrew D. White
LII. D., L. H. d.; Barrier Beaches of the
Atlantic Coast" by F. Il. Merrill; "An.
cient Dwellings of the Rio Verde Valley
by Edgar A. Mearns, NJ. D., Q. S. A; The
Earthly Tabernacle" by Olive Thorne
Miller; Liquor Laws Not Sumptuary," BY
Rev. George F. Magoun. D. D; The Mi
grafton of Symbols. H." by the Count
Goblet d'Alviella; Mothers and Natural
Science" by Mary Alling Aber; Cotton.
spinning South and North, by Henry V,
Meigs; Invisible Assistants of Health,
by Samuel Hart, NJ. D.; THE Evolution OF
Chemical Truth" by NJ. Louis Oliver; "Ir.
rigation in China" by General Tcheng H
Tong; Rice and its Culture" by L. w
Robarts; sketch of Rene Decartes." The
reeulsr departments are full and as inter.
esting as usual.
The Century Magazine for October
Century Company, New York; is mum.
choice in matter Among the leading pa
pers are Joseph Jefferson's Biography
1.-THE Women of the French Salons" by
Amelia Gere Mason; "Meteorites and Stel.
lar Systems" by G. H. Darwin; I'm Dark
New England Days." by Sarah Orne Jew
EFT; An Artists Letters From Japan" by
John LaFarge; why Patronage in Office
in the United States is un-American," by
Henry Cabot Lodge; prehistoric Cave
Dwellings" by f. T. Bickford, and "a
Hard Road Out of Dixie" by W. II. Shell.
ton. The departments are, as usual, full OF
interest and the open letters and bric-a-
brac are especially attractive for their vigor,
crisp criticism and genuine humor. "Out
of the Ways in High Savoy" opens the
number, and is paper of especial attract
iveness, revealing something of civilized
life, of which little is generally known.
The numbers of THE Living Age" for
September Goth and 9th contain The
Change of Government in Germany" Fort
nightly Review; "Chairs by the River, u
Gentleman's Magazine; odd Foods, Scot
fish Review; Chapters From Some I'm.
written Memoirs" Macmillan's Magazine
The Kings of Sweden and Holland, u
Leisure Hour; Cardinal Newman" Spec.
tator and Speaker; THE Lost Lakes Of
New Zealand" Gentleman's Magazine "a
Great Russian Police Officer" Times
Robert Browning" Church Quarterly Re-
view THE Modern Spirit of Rome" Mac.
millan's Magazine; Dryden and Scott, u
Temple Bar Eight Days" Cornhill Mag.
azine Five O'clock Tes," Spectator, and
poetry and miscellany. Littell & Co., Bos-
ton, are the publishers.
The Forum" edited by Lorettus S
Metcalf, is at hand for October, and has
these papers: Social Problems and the
Church." Bishop F. D. Huntington; The
Decadence of New England George s
Boutwell, Formative Ipfluences,n Fred
eric Harrison; THE Working of the New
Silver Act" Professor F. w. Taussig
First Steps Toward Nationalism, Edward
Bellamy; THE Future of Our Daughters,
HELEN Ekin Starrett; "China's Menace tc
the World" Thomas Magee; THE Idea o.
Life After Death" Professor J. Peter Les
ley; Two Forces in Fiction" Mary D
Cutting; The Zodiacal Light Professor
Arthur Williams Wright; "Climate and the
Gulf Stream" Jacques w. Roadway. The
Forum Publishing Company, 253 Fifth
avenue, New York.
The New England Magazine" for Octo
Der (s6 Federal street, Boston, among othel
paper has these: AN Old Puritan Poet,
by Helen Marshall North; sleep Hollow
1890" by T. H. Farnham; "a Perfect Day,
by ClinGon Scotland; The Cotton Industry
in New England" by George Rich; "a
New Study of Anne Hutchinson" by Ed
ward E. Hale. D. D.; John Henry New