Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-29

ment. We have read the work with almos
as fresh and living an interest as if we hat
not more elaborate histories of and com
mentaries upon The Thirty Years War;
G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York; The Ban
croft Company. San Francisco.
"Harper's Magazine" for December is q
superb Christmas number. 1t opens with
"As You Like It." The comments on the
play, by Andrew Lang, are accompanied by
eleven beautiful illustrations, including the
frontispiece, printed in tints. Charles
| Dudley Warner, in 1.-THE Winter of Our
Content" relates many interesting facts re.
| garding the climatic influences of Southern
| California. Theodore Child writes con-
| corning "a Pre-Raphaelite Mansion" His
| article is illustrated from paintings by
Rossetti, Burne-Jones and G. F. Watts.
Pierre Lott contributes an article about
Japanese Women which is very fully
illustrated from paintings by II. Hump hrey
Moore. The fiction is appropriate to the
Present" by Paul Heyse, illustrated by
c. S. Reinhart; Flute and Violin,'' a
story of Old Kentucky, by James Lane AL
len, with twenty-one illustrations by How.
ard Pyle; "P'iaskis Tunaments," by
Thomas Nelson Page, illustrated from a
painting by ]. w. Alexander "Mr. Gibb,e
Colts Ducks" by Richard Malcolm John
son, with an illustration by A. B. Frost :;
"a Speakin' Ghost" dialac. story by An
ME Trumbull Slcsson, and "Jim's Little
Woman" by Sarah Orne Jewett. The ed
itorial departments, too, have distinctive
holiday flavor. George William curtis dis
courses upon the delightsome character OF
the modern Christmas. William Dean
lie
Charles Dudley Warner discourses upon
the pleasures of giving, and pleads for the
exercise of good judgment in the selection
of Christmas gifts.
The Atlantic Monthly for December,
Houghton, Miffiin & Co.. Boston. has these
papers: THE House of Martha" Frank R
Stockton; ION the Translation of Faust"
William P. Andrews "Non Sine Dolore,"
r. W. Glider; THE Wife of Mr.. Secretary
Pepys," Margaret Christine Whiting;
song, Thomas William Parsons; 1.-THE New
Departure in Partisan Art" Birge Harri-
son; Felicia" Fanny n. D. Murfree; 'Sir
Walter Raleigh of Youghal in the County
of Cork" Louise Imogen Quincy; The
Encounter" Helen Gray Cone; From
Kings Mountain to Yorktown" John
Fiske; "Heimweh." Sophia Kirk; Pan the
Fallen" William Wilfred Campbell; 1.-The
United States Looking Outward" A. T.
Mahan; Carriage Horses and Cobs." 81. C.
Merwin; But One Talent" Oliver Wendell
Holmes; Cardinal Newman; Ancient
Athens for Modern Readers" and the usual
critical and scholarly editorials and re-
views.
THE Old Westinghouse and Vacation |
Papers, Humorous and Otherwise is !
volume compiled from the writings of Rev. |
A. M. Cotton, gathered and edited by his |
brother, G. Q. Cotton. New York, Worth
ington IL Co Rev. Mr.. Cotton is in his |
eigbty-irst year. He has been fifty years |
in the active ministry. He has been pro-
life writer, and is the author of some CAPT.
tai papers. His "reminiscences of his boy
hood in Vermont make a charming chap
ter. His style is ornate, witty, crisp, and |
yet genial. He is critic of strong powers
and has evidently been close and under
standing observer.
"Macmillan's Magazine for November
has these papers: He Fell Among
Thieves" by D. Christie Murray and Henry
Cyprus after Twelve Years of
British Rule" by r. Hamilton Lang;
"a Lucky Hit" by H. Arthur Kennedy
Autumn" by Richard LIE Gallienne; "a
Buddhist Shrine" by P. Hordern; How
the Cholera Came to Marshton," by A Son
of the Marshes" Love the Conqueror,"
by Allan Adair: Roman Ventimiglia," by
n. Bodington; 'Parkin, the Saddler," by
A. G. Bradley; "a Gallery of British Art"
by Mark Reid.
The Golden Justice is novel by Will
lam II. Bishop, author of The House of a
Merchant Prince" etc. Riverside Paper
Series; so cents. Houehton, Mifflin & Co,
Boston. 1t is decidedly American story,
in scenes, characters and incidents. A cy-
clone occurs, and is described with re-
power and vividness. The story
is laid in Western city, but the human
nature revealed in it is not special to any
locality or time. 1t treats some subtle |
questions of right and wrong with great
skill, and reminds one of Hawthorne. |
it is story worthy of wide
reading.
"Summerland," half royal quarto, is !
beautiful holiday volume, the illustrations
of which are from original designs by Mar
garet Macdonald Pullman. (Lee & Shep. |
ard, Boston; The Bancroft Company, San |
Francisco; So 75.) The engravings are ON |
wood by George F. Andrew, and are ex-
quiste in finish. A more tastefully gotten |
up gift book we have not seen this season.
OF the Good Company" series, Lee &
Boston, we have Oliver Optics
novel, Three Millions; or, the Way of the
World" 1t is story of intense human
interest, and is the best work Mr.. Adams
has done for readers of mature years.