The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-09-23
new PUBLICATIONS.

| "How Nature Cures' is an admirable
volume by Emmett Densmore, M. ID. 1t
| is from the press of Stillman " Co., 1898
! Broadway, New York. We have rarely
met with health volume that has COM
manded our respect as has this. 1t treats
not of drugs and mixtures, but it aims to
| equip any intelligent person with such
directions in plain language as Will enable
| him or her to take charge OF anyone at
tackled with illness, and to follow that
course of treatment most likely to effect
a speedy cure, or at least TO act until bet
ter counsel can be had. 1t makes several
contributions to science, the most inn
portant of which is the classes of discoV-
cry Of principle in human food which
explains why it is that bread often be-
comes the staff of death rather than life;
| and why all starch foods, including cere-
ais, pulses and vegetables, are unnatural
and unwholesOme. On that and similar
points the reader may differ with Dr:
! Densmore, but the authors text VIII
command respect, for it is an appeal to
reason, and is absolutely devoid OF dog
matte assertion. We believe that perusal
OF this work will inure to the benefit or
any intelligent person. We do not be-
! lieve that every man should be his own
| doctor; or indeed than any man can be.
But every man ought to be and can be the
regulator of his own habit, and the con-
!
| his own body and living, and this book
is strong help in this direction. The
treatise in it on food and bathing IS alone
reason enough for the work, and II all
else in it is error. these chapters justify
commentator of it.
'Columbia's Emblem, Indian Corn" is
| a garland of tributes in prose and verse,
| Houghton, Miffiin d Co., Boston, pub
fishers. The selections in this little book
cover a wide range and show something
of the history, poetry and value of Indian
corn. A poem on Columbia's Emblem, by
| Edna Dean Proctor. opens the volume,
while Captain John Smiths early account
''Of their Planted Fruits in Virginia, and
how they use Them" and Governor
| Bradford's account of "How the Pilgrims
found Corn at Cape Cod" taken from his
History of Plymouth Plantation" are
J among the extracts on the subject QUO
! tation from Professor Nathaniel South
gate Shaler, from John F'iske, the histo-
rian, and from Edward Everett, show the
Importance of maize in American his
| tory while President Hayes and others
speak of corn as the national emblem. j.
! Walter Fewkes contributes Moqui
| legend, 1.-THE Gift of Corn to the Ancient
| People,; Frank Hamilton Cushing
gives an account of corn among the Zunis;
and poems by Whittier, Longfellow,
Lanier and Celia Thaxter finish the vol
ume. Illustrations Of growing corn, of
capitals of stone columns decorated with
designs from corn in the Parliament
| House at Ottawa and the Capitol at
! Washington, the Sioux City Corn Palace
| Of 1899, and the Corn Father" and "Corn
Mother of Mr.. Fewkes' Moqui legend
are presented.
"LittelPs Living Age" is appropri-
ately named. 1t is true representation
of 1.-The living age''-tbe vast compleXity
thoughts, interests, aims, speculations,
! imaginations, kuoWledges, retroSpections
OF the contemporary world. Its weekly
issues for September, among other pa
pers, contain the following: "a Visit to
| Prince Bismarck" by George w. Small
ley; "a Group of Naturalists," by Mrs.
! Andrew Crosse; amelia Opie"; "a
French Study of Burns; 'The Religion
of Letters, 1750-lS50"; "reminiscences of
William Makepeace Thackeray," by
! Francis st. John Thackeray; Chapters
From Some Unwritten Memoirs-Mrs.
KEN ble," by Anne Richie; "The Fetish
Mountain of Krobo," by Hesketh j. Bell;
1.-THE Lives and Loves of North Ameri-
can Birds" by John Worth; The Wan
behring's of the North Pole,' by Sir Rob-
ert S. Ball; The Able Gregoire and the
French Revolution: Ethics and the
Struggle for Existence" by Leslie
Stephen; "Whitlocke's Swedish EN-
bassy," by Charles Edwardes; ''Old-
Fashioned Children" by Frederic Adye,
ETC., besides several short stories by such
noted writers as Augustus Jessopp, Lucy
Clifford Edward Laws, etc.. and some
excellent poetry. a new volume, the
199th, begins with the issue of October
| 9TH. Littell & Co., Boston, publishers.
| Robert Clarke d Co. (Cincinnatl) have
| published three handsome volumes re-
/ lated to the life and thought and work of
| Don Piatt One is entitled "Work and
| Ways of Don Piatt," another Poems and
! Plays of Don Piatt," and the third "Sun-
| day Meditations." The biographical
volume is by Charles Grant Miller, and
opens with a fine steel plate of Don
| Piatt 1t is certainly not necessary to
say much of Don Piatt or his writings;
! few names are more familiar to Ameri-
cans of this day than his. The works of
! few writers are more widely known.
His public services as journalist, Ijurst.
diplomat, soldier, politician and author
are we'll known, and his famous max
inns" have gone into the proverbial
philosopy of every day life wherever the
English tongue is. spoken.
1.-THE Meaning and the Method of Life
"a Search for Religion in Biology" is
volume by George NJ. Gould, A. NJ, NJ.
d. 1t is rom the press of @. z. Putnam's
Sons, New York and London. Professor
| Gould contends for scientific religion,
! or religious science, "that will give the
despairing, topping minds home in the
universe; a religion that, blinking at no
fact of evil, or truth of science-nay,
| built beyond possibility of wreckage. on
the everlasting basis supplied by science,
shall thereby have certain foundation
| for a superstructure wherein may joy
fully dwell the Soul with all its infinite
possibilities of art, love and faith" The
work is aSsincere one, strong and vigor-
Gus throughout.
frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
CNew York; for October opens with
comprehensive paper on Perpendicular
New York." by Peter MacQueen. 1t is
practically history of architecture in
| New York. Daniel d. Bidwell contrib
utes a paper on 1.-THE Unifying of Ger
many.D Under the title of ''A journey
to the Garden of Eden" Mrs. Eta B.
| donaldson gives an exciting narrative of
| travel. Other attractive articles are: 1.-THE
| Worlds Fair Cosmopolis." a vivid piano.
rama of the famous Midway Plaisance;
Hunting New England Ancestors by
G.. A. Davis; "Topolobampo; a Latter
Day Utopia" by Oh. Moreau Harger:
"A Hop Field Illustrated" by Frances
NJ. Smith; and biographical sketch of
Giosue Carducci.
prosperity and Politics" is the title of
monograph by Allen r. Foote, pub
| lished by the Kensington Publishing
Company. 1t is a review of the national
financial DOlicV: of the State hank DrODo-