The record-union., 1896-06-07
SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD UNION SUNDAY, JUNE T. 1896

gem in Neely's Prismatic Library.
John Oliver Hobbs, whose literary
judgment is of the best, recently wrote
to the publisher: Il am glad that you
have Father Stafford" 1t is quite
the best thing that Hope has done so
far, If except one or two scenes from
the Dolly Dialogues"
Both volumes are from the press of
+. Tennyson Neeley, New York.
| Under the general name of the River
| side School Library, Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. (Boston) announce that they will
issue in attractive style and at moder
ate prices a series of fifty books pecu
lIarly suited for school libraries. These
books have been chosen largely from
the best literature which has stood the
test of the worlds judgment, and yet
is as fresh and inviting to-day as when
| first published The suggestions of
more than one hundred prominent ed
ucators of this country have aided the
publishers in their choice The volumes
will be edited with great care, we are
assured, and win contain portraits and
/ biograp phical sketches of the authors;
also notes and glossaries wherever
/
are published June 9Th, are Andersen's
STORIES Franklin's Autobiography"
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield" at
fifty cents each; Fiske's War of In
dependence" Holmes "Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table" Lambs Tales of
Shakespeare" Scudder's Washington,
at sixty cents each; and Cooper's Last
of the Mohicans,' Scotts "Ivanhoe, ;"
and Stoves Uncle Toms Cabin" at
seventy cents each.
Messrs Lowell Brothers & Co. 041
! East Twenty-fifth street, New York;
| have in press a somewhat remarka BILE
book by new writer entitled Heaven
on Earth In it the author undertakes
to outline a new and scientific form of
| society based on experiments which
| have actually been made on an ex-
tended scale. This is a work unique
in the world of letters. While it's doc
| trines will, no doubt be voted extremely
radical yet they are based on sound,
sober sense, and are handled without
particle of hypocrisy. The author seems
to consider them merely suggestions,
but they go a great way toward supply
ing the framework for an entirely new
system of life, without the incongrui-
ties which have marked other similar
attempts.
The political situation in the United
States on the eve of the Presidential
nominating conventions is admirably
covered by the June Review of Re-
views (New York; in it's departments
n q of "a
rent History in Caricature," and Rec
ord Of Current Events" Prospective
convention-goers will be greatly inter
ested in DR.. Shaw's sketch of "St. Louis:
This Years Convention City" Apropos
of this seasons rush of gold-seelers to
Alaska the Review presents an au-
thoritative description of the Alaskan
gold-fields prepared by a member of the
staff of the United States Geological
Survey. There is also an interesting ac-
count of the services of that intrepid
pioneer DR.. Sheldon Jackson, by whose
efforts reindeer have been introduced
into Alaska, and who has done so much
to establish civilizationin Stewards great
purchase. The coronation of the Rus
sian Car is fitting occasion for the
publication of a character study of the
II.
gives in this number the most complete
statement ever published of the methods
and results of the Government investi-
cation into foods, commenting at
length on the work of Professor Atwater
of Wesleyan University. Timeliness and
practical interest are the characteristic
qualities of the June number
From Clarence and J. B. Johnson,
and from Willis Woodward & Co, $40
Broadway, New York, the publishers,
we have sheet music entitled "Old
Glory" a national song, words by ]. 3.
Johnson and music by Clarence John
son. 1t is a stirring bit of rhyme, over
flowing with patriotic sentiment and
love of country. The music is spirited
and of the martial order.
From Thomas Goggan & Brother,
Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, Tex,
music publishers, we have a new piece
of sheet music March of the Bachel-
ors,' for the piano, by Frank Gale So
far as we are able to Judge by it's read
ing, it is a movement. that commends
itself to good TASTE and will become
popular
=
The metric system, which has re-
Gently been before both Congress and
the British Parliament, IS discussed by
Herbert Spencer in a series of letters
to appear in "Appleton's Popular Sci
ence Monthly for June. Mr.. Spencer
vigorously opposes the further spread
of the system, and points out the ad-
vantages of one based on the number
twelve.
The woman question is being debat-
ed once more in "Appleton's Popular
Science Monthly" There was an arti-
Gle in the May number, by George F.
Talbot against woman suffrage which
will be replied to in June by Alice b
Tweedy. Continual agitation will
doubtless sift out the true solution of
this question in time.
"Spalding's Baseball Guide for 1885,
sGrpasses every issue of the National
League guide yet published in the num-
Der of its pages, the Importance of its
contents and tie attractiveness of its
Illustrations. Prominent among the new
features is brief history of the twenty
races which have taken place for the
league championships, together with
record of each race. Henry Chad
wick, its author, treats the statistics of
all the leagues as only he can, and gives
the college club championship records
for twenty years. Another innovation
which will be highly appreciated is the
new form of pitching tables Included in
the records of the pitching in 1895. The
cOmDlefe records of the two sariec for