Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 3, Number 247, 1 December 1877 — NEW PUBLICATIONS. [ARTICLE]

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From the Leonard Scott Publishing Company, New York, we have the reprint of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for November. The contents are: "Mine is Thine," part v. ; "A Recent Visit to Montenegro and its Capital ;"■ ' "Demosthenes ;" "An Anglo-Indian Soldier and Novelist " Hides through Asia ;" "The Political Results of the War;" "Translations from Heine ;" "The Storm in the East," No. vi. Scribner's Monthly for December is at hand. It opens with a paper on the lumber trade of the United States, by Charles D. Robinson, Esq. Following this is Col. Waring's talk about "The Thoroughbred Horse." James Richardson's paper on " American Oyster Culture." The travel paper takes the reader " From the Atlantic to the Andes," via the Amazon and -Madeira rivers. With her paper on "Ants," Mrs. Herrick closes her series of microscope studies. " Mars and his Moons," is by Lieut. E. W. Sturdy, of the United States Naval Observatory. The serials are continued. A valuable paper in this number is a study of Keats, by the poet E. H. Stoddard. The usual departments and several poems follow. The number is finely illustrated. : . « : . (Joseph Baiter-man, on the 22d of November, near the crossing of Mariposa creek, near Wulbern's place, while driving was thrown from his wagon and the wheels passed over his breast, crushing him so that he died in three-quarters of an hour. He was aged 55, and leaves a wife and eight children. He was a man much respected.