Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-11
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From S. K. Hooper, of the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad Company, through
the courtesy of T. n. Goodman of the
Southern Pacific Company, we have re-
ceived handsome work entitled lover
elaborate guide-book by Stanley Wood We
have examined it with care and find it,
so far as our information goes as to
routes, scenery and places. TO be accurate
graphic and ii certainly is interesting. II
is especially rich in illustrations. We feel
justified in pronouncing it the most COM
plete of the guide books to the West vet is
sued. The author takes his readers with
him on a transcontiBentsl tour, beginning
at the Missouri river aud meandering from
San Francisco southward to San Diego and
northward to Portland, Seattle and Tacoma.
the book has been prepared with great
care and most minute accuracy, and
abounds in exceedingly valuable and inter-
esting statistics. But it must not be con-
sidered as mere bundle of statistics for it
is of literary excellence. The book con-
tains 35l pages, and of the $50 illustrations
more than half are full-page pictures of
scenery. There are also many character
istic sketches, giving the reader clear idea
| of the manners, customs, costumes and Pc
culisrities of the inhabitants of many of
the places described. There are two large
maps and complete indexes. The book is
bound in two styles, paper and cloth, and
presents an exceedingly attractive appear
ance. It is from the press of r. R. Don
nelly & Son, Chicago, and in cloth sells at
81, and in paper covers at 90 cents.
Ocean" an illustrated journal of travel
is at hand for January. 1t will hereafter
be published weekly. 1t will contain six
teen pages printed in colors. Among the
contents of this magazine will be the
monthly photographic chart of the North
Atlantic, furnished by the photographic
Office, showing the track of steamships
currents, direction of the wind, storms, ice
bergs, fog banks, equatorial rains. and the
latest reported position of wrecks, all of
which is not only interesting and instruct
i've to seamen, but also 10 ocean travellers
The Trans Atlantic Fleet page will give
the movement of passenger steamships.
The European Travel page will give tt e
time of journey and rates of fare between
ports. The American Travel" page will
show the time OF journey, rates of fare and
sleeping and parlor car rates from our
cities. BELL Time on Shipboard," Illus
trated. Difference in Time Between New
York and the Principal Cities in the
World" illustrated. The Night Signals
vi Inc AttdIllC
a table giving the Bank Notes and Gold
and Silver Coins of the Principal Nations
which will show the value of the money
of one nation in each of all the other
nations. The passenger lists of the princi-
pal steamships, both outgoing and incom-
ing will appear. The log Of the ocean
flyers a record of the passages made.
The popular Science Monthly ID.
Appleton Il Co.. New York; has these
among other papers 1.-THE Future Situs
of Cotton Manufacture" by Edward At
kinson Public Schools as Affecting
Crime and Vice" By Benjamin Reece !;
1.-The Taouist Religion" by Warren G..
Benton; Letters on the Land Question, !"
by Herbert Spencer. Frederick Greenwood,
Prof. Huxley, Sir Louis Mallet and John
Ladder; Two and Half Per Cent" by
George lies; The Rare Forms Of Orchids, y
by ]. Dybowski; Irrigation of Arid
Lands by Henry ]. Philpott; Palm
Trees and their Uses,n by NJ ]. Poisson;
"a Harvest from the Ocean, by Prof. c.
Morton Strahsn; birds With Teeth" by
Otto Meyer, Pm D.; The Effect of Cave
Life on Animals, and It's Bearing on the
Evolution Theory" by A. S. Packard; The
Chinese Theory of Evolution" by Adele
NJ. Fielde. The editorial department, sci
entifc, miscellany and Notes. are as full
as usual and on current topics.
The "Nerih American Review" for JAN
llary begins the one hundred and fftieth
volume of that sterling journal of criticism
and free expression. In this number be-
gins the Duet on Free Trade" by w.
E Gladstone, and Protection" by James
G. Blaine. Then follow these papers:
Robert Lee, by Jefferson Davis; The
Border Land of Science by Professor r.
&c
by Rodolfo Lanciani; BY Gone Days in
Boston," by Charles K. Tnckerman; How
l Became an Astronomer" by Camille
Flammariop; IA Plea for Copyright by
Count Emile de Keratry; "Women's Views
of Divorce" by Mary A. Livermore, Amelia
E. Barr, Rose Terry Cooke, Elizabeth Stu
art Phelps and Jennie June; The Future
of Manufacturing" by Professor Peter 7.
Austen; Truth About Female Criminals"
by Marion Harlsnd; THE Trick of ALTER
alton" by Herbert D. Ward; Quotation
and Misquotation," by William Matthews,
LID.
1.-THE Cruise of the Rush. is pleasing
account of the cruise of the United States
steamer Rush in Behring Sea last summer.
1t is by Isabel 8. Shepard, wife of the COM
mander of the Rush, and who was per-
mitted to accompany him upon the trip.
It is handsomely illustrated volume, and
is well printed by the Bancroft Company,
San Francisco. Mrs. Shepard tells the
story of the cruise simply, but with dram
attic interest, and conveys a great deal of
valuable reformation withal about the
Behripg Sea and the shore and Island set
Elements. One gains an excellent idea of
the scenery and people of the north by Pc
rusal of this charming little volume, which
is credit to its author in all respects.
"Belford's Magazine (Belford & Co.,
New York. for January has thirty papers.
Among the leading ones are: Anderson
vile and Other War Prisons by Jefferson
Davis; Beyond Help by John Habber-
ton; "a Child of the Desert by Louise
Meyer; Literature and Politics" by Alfred
H. Peters "Flirts and Fiirtatons," By T..
Johnston Evans; Subsidies, by John F..
Hume; THE Western Railroad Situation, !"
by II. L. Scudder, Jr.: "Panama and Its
People" by Roger Ellis; bill Nye's Fa-
vorite Novels" by Bill Nye; "Autobiogra-
ply Ct Jefferson Davis;' "Walnuis and
Wine" by Edgar Fawcett, and, in sddi-
ton, poems and stories, reviews and edi-
torials IN variety and large number.
The "Q1arterly Journal of Economics
published for Harvard University By
George H. Ellis, Boston, is at hand for
Jdnudry. III IL lHS Mise Ol AuSllcdu
Cities, is treated by Albert B Hart; The
Prohibition of Railway Pools" by Arthur
T. Hadley; 1.-The Theory of Interest" by
Franklin H Giddings; The Exposition of
Social Economy at Paris, by Edward Cum
mings; 1.-THE Economic Movement in
France" by A. de Faville There is added
Statistics OF Population Of American
Cities, and notes and memoranda. This
journal occupies deservedly high place in
the esteem of the scholars of the day On
both sides Of The Atlantic
The holiday souvenir of the daily and
semi-weekly Inter. Mountain" of Butte
City, Montana, is beautiful semi-qusrto
Of typographical excellence, such as is
found generally only in cities of the first
order The book is Illustrative and ex-
positery of the Butte district. The text is
from the correspondence of the New York
Tribune Most of the engraYings are art