The record-union., 1899-11-06

him on a career of clever continuing OF
labor saving devices. me boys cnar-
acter is frank, generous and manly, SO
that all his adventures-at home, IN
school, in city wandering, with otner
boys, with purloiners of his inventions,
amid his fathers business mishaps, ETC.
keep the readers sympathy with the
youthful hero from start to finish. The
amount of information the author con-
trives to impart about the realm OF IN
vention and the modes of inventing Will
be of keen interest to any boy OF the
ingenious turn of mind, and will arouse
new ideas in many a careless head.
There is plenty of fun, a number or
curious characters appear, delightful
home atmosphere and an inspiring
school teacher show how young brains
may be helped by sympathetic elders,
and the whole current of the narrative
flows SO freely and joyously that it
must take it's place among the prime
favorites. The book is prettily made,
with graphic illustrations of critical
scenes in the story, and attractively
bound. If the young people do not take
to this book boys are not what they
used to be- New York: Fords, How
ard & Hubert, 297 pp.; illustrated;
cloth decorated, %.
We have received from the Pacific
Rural Press" of San Francisco the third
edition of California Fruits and How
to Grow Them, by Professor Wickson
of the College of Agriculture. The two
earlier editions have had wide circula-
trio q
well as California AS California prac-
tice naturally changes to include the
teachings of experience and systematic
experiment, there is constant inquiry
for the latest methods. To embody this
knowledge the work has been largely
rewritten. Illustrative of the new text
there has been largely new outfit of
engravings and full-page plates. many
of them of marked beauty and charac-
teristically Californian. The work APP
pears in time to be suggestive and help
full to planters in the selection OF varie-
ties and methods of starting young
trees and vines The book is large
octave of AT pages and is sent, post
paid, for $3.50
"'Postle Farm is by George Ford
author of The Larammys." 1t is in
picturesque Devonshire, a locality made
familiar. by many English writer's of
fiction, that the events of this story
take place. The theme is the love of
young man of rank, who has all the
inherited prejudices of his class, for a
beautiful girl who has been brought
up as a peasant. Neither the reader
nor the hero suspect until the end the
startling denouement of the story. The
interest centers in the lovers struggle
between his pride and his love for the
girl. 1t is a romantic story, simply
treated. Dodd, Mead & Co.. New York.
Whether one has or has not read GER
tain authors. it rarely occurs to the
average reader to mark and copy out
passages of striking import for later
reference. Even though one might do
so. the labor of copying and the uncer-
tainty of preserving make the actual
doing of it very rare. Miss Jeanne G..
Pennington. the discriminating COM
piler of Don't Worry Nuggets from
Epictetus, Emerson, George Eliot and
Browning, now offers another group of
marked passages. from Carlyle. Ruskin.
Charles Kingsley and Amiel, under the
title of "Philosophic Nuggets para.
graphs relating THE higher realities
of life. The Carlyle extracts are from
his "Sartor Resartus'' and Heroes and
Hero Worship; Ruskin's the "Crown
of Wild Olives" Queen Of the Air and