Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-22

view of gaining thereby better light in
which to make his next volume. But
really, we do not propose to engage in the
task of overhauiing nearly six hundred
pages of tables to discover error in Mr..
Adams work. So far as we can Judge his
tables are exhaustive, and what is essen
tial, they are understandable. But no one
but an experienced railway manager or a
railway statisticisn can say whether the
method of Mr.. Adams is hawiess or imper
feet.
From the s. Carson Company, San Fran
cisco, booksellers and stationers, we have
Lee & Shepards latest issue of novel orna-
mental calendars. 1t is entitled: Cali
Around the Year" and consists of heavy
boards held by silvered chain and silken
cords Each card is Observation-Disclosures in
sepia tint and color by J. Pauline Lumber.
The designs are mostly of chubby children
in various scenes, drawn in the picturesque
style of the artist, and, altogether, it is the
handsomest and most delicate calendar yet
offered. The cards are lastly tied with
white silk cord. and chain attached, by
which they may be hung on the wall or
elsewhere, and are so arranged on rings
that they may be turned over like the
leaves of book as each month shall be
needed for reference.
OF the charming series known as "Knick-
erbocker Nuggets" issued by G. P. Put
MANS Sons. New York and London, we
have two more volumes-"Love Poems of
Three Centuries; 1590-1890," compiled by
Jessie F. O'Donnell. They embrace the
gems from the poets of that period from
Allingham and Luckling to Halleck and
Bryant; from Spencer to Celia Thaxter. 1t
is very happy collection, admirably ar
ranged and exceedingly comprehensive.
Few books come to the shelf handsomer
than these Nuggets" by the way, and for
diminutive volumes they are hardly to be
surpassed for their dainty charm of cover,
and back and tinted page and clear type
and general elegance.
Life" is a novel by William w.
Wheeler Cease, Lockwood e. Brainard
Company, Hartford, Conn., 1t is a
story involving the mysteries of
spiritualism, mind transference and SINH
lar problems, and hinges upon the
expressions of one who lay for long time
in a death-like trance. We have not the
disposition to go into detail concerning the
theories advanced. The character of the
work being indicated and its leaning to-
wards the supernatural stated, the public is
sufficiently informed concerning the drift
of the book.
The English Illustrated Magazine" for
November macmillan & Co., New York
and London) has these articles and illustra-
tons: Winchester College," The Right
Honorable the Earl of Selborne and Fred
erick Gale; "Children's Happy Evenings
Mrs. Jeune; Sonia" Sidney Pickering;
"A Holiday in South Africa" NJ. Kelly;
Microscopic Laborers and How They
Serve U.s." Professor Percy F. FARMLAND;
"a Royal Surgical Nurse" E. Sellers; The
Witch of Prague" F. Marion Crawford.
From the Bancroft Company, San Fran
CISCO we have their issue of DR.. A. B. Ar
holds Manual of Nervous Diseases" It
is the second revised and enlarged edition,
in which the text has been thoroughly re-
written. 1t is a book that has now place
in the esteem of the profession of medi-
cine.
"Toilettes. is the title of new quarto
devoted to New York, London, Paris and
Berlin fashions. 1t is issued monthly by
the Toilettes Publishing Company, New
York. 1t is finely illustrated, and appears
to be representative in its line and up to a
good standard.