LITERARY NOTICES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 24, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 38.

LITERARY NOTICES.

Handbook on Currency and Wealth, by George B. Waldron, A.M., statistical editor of the New York Voice. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Layfayette Place, New York City.

This little book of 150 pages is a most valuable and concise compendium of monetary statistics, and so acknowledged by great financiers. It treats of the Money System of the United States, including the “Seven Financial Conspiracies,” Currency and Finances of the World, Relation of Gold and Silver, Wealth and its Ownership, Railroads, Telegraphs, Telephones, Strikes, Land and Population, Immigration and Foreign Born, The Liquor Traffic, Presidential Vote of 1892, with a copious index. It is multum in parvo, not in the sense, however, of leaving out any important details. It gives what one would search many volumes to find, and is only 50 cents.

The Prohibition Handbook, by George B. Waldron, A.M., Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Layfayette Place, New York City. 160 pp. Price 50 cents.

This little work gives the latest and most telling facts on the overspreading curse of the liquor traffic, furnishing many valuable statistics in numerous authentic tables, and illustrating important facts by means of striking diagrams. It treats of the following among other topics: Extent of the Liquor Traffic, How the Traffic Affects Industry, Effects of Liquor on the Drinker, Non-Partisan Opposition to the Saloon, Public Control of the Traffic (various systems in operation), The Mulct Tax, High License, Partially Prohibitive Measures, Entire Prohibition of the Traffic, The Solid Rum Power, The Prohibition Party, with a copious index. It is a good thing for every temperance worker.

Bell’s Language Series, No. 2, Elementary Grammar, by G. H. Bell, author of “Natural Method in English,” “Guide to Correct Language,” “Familiar Talks on Language,” “Chart on Pronunciation,” etc. International Tract Society, Battle Creek, Mich. Price, 65 cents; discount to the trade 20 per cent.

Professor Bell is a practical teacher in English of long experience. These text books have a practical end in view. They aim to make the student realize that the most important thing in the study of language is the consideration of the thought itself, and then the best method of expressing the thought, or putting it into language. This object is kept in view throughout this series. Punctuation comes into the study as an essential accessory. The whole aim of the book is to make the study of language a living part of the student, instead of a dead, dry form of rules and definitions. We believe that the live teacher will welcome the work, and we are sure that its instruction will be prized by the diligent student. It may be obtained from the above address, or the following: Pacific Press, 18 W. Fifth Street, Kansas City; 39 Bond Street, New York; or Oakland, Cal.

Bell’s Language Series, Book 3, Complete Grammar. By the same author and publisher as the above. 282 pp. Price, 80 cents; discount to the trade 20 per cent. Address as above.

This book is another step in advance of No. 2. It is, relatively, a complete grammar, but to be followed by two other language books. Many fine examples are given as illustrations of correct use of language and proper punctuation.

Alden’s Living Topics Cyclopedia, August, 1896. John B. Alden, 10 and 12 Vandewater Street, New York. “Abbas” to “Kentucky.” Neatly bound in cloth. Price, $1.00.

This is a unique publication, and its free specimen pages are worth sending for. Its latest issue gives the most important facts, “up to date,” concerning, among hundreds of other important subjects, such titles as Cuba, Currency (a “living topic,” indeed), Debts, national and foreign; East Africa, Egypt, Electricity, England, Engineering, France, German Empire, Gold, Greece; also concerning the states, Delaware, Florida, and Georgia. In general, the object of the work is to answer the questions you would seek to solve by consulting your cyclopedia, were it “up to date,” which no cyclopedia is, or possibly can be, because of its magnitude and cost. “The Living Topics,” being a small work, and treating only of “living” topics, is continually in process of revision, a new edition being published every month. After you have paid for one edition you are allowed to purchase later ones, within a year thereafter, at about one-third price, and thus keep your knowledge “up to date” at trifling cost. Address the publisher.