LITERARY NOTICES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 36.

LITERARY NOTICES.

We have received from the Associated Fanciers, 400 North Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa., the following described pamphlets, which are full of information, suggestive and useful to those who are interested in those lines, the price of each being, mailed to any address, 15 cents:—

“A BOOK ON CAGE BIRDS,” containing over 150 engravings and a lithographic plate showing the different kinds of fancy canaries in their natural colors, full information in regard to song, fancy canaries, and how to breed them for profit. Hints on the treatment and breeding of all kinds of cage birds, with descriptions of their diseases and the remedies needed to cure them. About parrots and how to teach them to talk. Instructions for building and stocking an aviary.

“A BOOK ON POULTRY,” containing 100 pages, a lithographic plate of a group of different fowls in natural colors, engravings of all kinds of land and water poultry, descriptions of the breeds, plans for poultry houses, how to manage an incubator, all about caponizing, and the value of different breeds.

“BOOK OF THE DOG.” This book contains a finely executed colored frontispiece, well-drawn engravings of nearly every breed of dog, and all kinds of dog furnishing goods.

“KLONDIKE AND ALL ABOUT IT” is the title of a pamphlet, published by the Excelsior Publishing House, New York. It discusses the subject in eleven chapters, among which are: Alaska and Its Hoarded Treasures, How to Get to Klondike, How the Gold Got There, Mining Laws of Canada and the United States, Weight and Value of Gold, Uncle Sam’s Wealth, Latest from Klondike, etc. Written by a “practical mining engineer.” Price, 25 cents.

Col. George E. Waring, Jr., contributes to McClure’s Magazine for September an article on “The Cleaning of a Great City,” that to readers who have not carefully considered the subject, will be simply a revelation. Reciting the story of his own experience as commissioner of street cleaning in New York City during the last two years and a half, Colonel Waring demonstrates that it is quite possible, at comparatively small cost, to keep the streets of a great city as clean and wholesome as a well-kept house. And so far-reaching in its physical and moral effects does he show the public cleanliness or uncleanliness of a city to be, that it should seem that the most immediate means of making a signal reduction of misery and crime in any city is a general improvement in its street-cleaning. The article is illustrated with several drawings showing the different operations in improved street cleaning.

The Cosmopolitan Magazine has undertaken the task of bringing liberal education, in its broadest sense, within the reach of those who have the aspiration, but are deprived of the opportunity. Dr. Andrews, late of Brown University, has undertaken the presidency of the Cosmopolitan’s educational movement. The work, thus begun, is not intended to take the place of regular university work, but to supply a gap in existing educational facilities. Those who are really in search of knowledge will find direction and aid. It can do nothing for those who have not the desire to study. An intending student sends to the Cosmopolitan, New York, his name, occupation, previous courses of study, studies desired to be pursued, objects and purpose for which course is designed, and the number of hours’, daily or weekly, study which can be given. No charges of any kind will be made to students.

Birds for August is an interesting number, which will delight and instruct the children. It contains colored cuts and descriptive text of the American Osprey, the Sora Rail, the Kentucky Warbler, the Red-breasted Merganser, the Yellow-leg Snipe, the Skylark, the Evening Grosbeak, Gambel’s Partridge, and others. There is no better reading to place before our children. $1.00 a year. Nature Study Publishing Co., Chicago.