SOME OF THE MAGAZINES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 34.

SOME OF THE MAGAZINES.

THERE is no study for the children, to expand, purify, and strengthen the mind and heart, like the study of the Word and works of God. For that reason we welcome every publication which will help on in this direction. Among some of the later ones is the magazine Birds, published by the Nature Study Publishing Company, Chicago. Illustrated by colored photography; 15 cents a copy, $1.50 a year, monthly. Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1897, is before us. It contains 9 colored illustrations of various birds and fowls in as near their natural colors as it would be possible to print them, except by so expensive a process as to put the cost out of the reach of all. Birds brings our feathered friends to us in beautiful picture-books, with accurate descriptions of the various birds illustrated. The issue before us contains colored illustrations of the American bald eagle, the ring plover, the mallard duck, American avocet, canvas-back duck, the wood duck (a beauty), the snake bird, American woodcock, white-winged scoter, and the snowy heron, besides good reading matter. An excellent book for the young.

Good Health for August is up to the standard of this excellent journal. The leading article is by Dr. J. H. Kellogg, on “The Nobility of Health.” An article, copiously illustrated, follows, on the Battle Creek Sanitarium, “Seen through the Eyes of a Visitor,” by Mrs. Marion B. Baxter. Other articles on various phases of health, disease, reform, and home life, by such experienced workers as Dr. Kate Lindsay and Mrs. S. M. I. Henry, are found in this number. Price, $1.00 a year, Battle Creek, Mich.

A BRIGHT little magazine, especially adapted to home and the healthfulness of its occupants, is the Pacific Health Journal. The August number contains, in its two departments, of General and Our Home, more than a score of articles, both interesting and useful. The Journal could, with profit to the people who read it, visit every home on the Pacific Coast monthly. Price, only 5 cents a copy, 50 cents a year. St. Helena, Cal.

McClure’s Magazine for September will contain a thoroughly practical and useful article on “Life in the Klondike Gold Fields.” It embodies the personal observations of a pioneer who has lately come out, bringing a fair fortune with him, and it tells how the miners enter and work their claims, how they live, how they govern themselves, what kind of men they are, and how they pass their leisure time. It tells also what is the best way to the Klondike, what the best equipment for the journey and a year’s residence there, and what promise of prosperity the country actually offers. The article will be fully illustrated from recent photographs.