LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1892

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

The Fleming H. Revell Company has just issued a new and cheaper edition, fully illustrated, of the autobiography of Dr. John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides. It is an interesting volume.

The Home Maker magazine came out in October as a brand new magazine, with some excellent matter, and high-class contributors. It has an article on Federal Elections or Force Bill, by Mayo Hazeltine, giving the extreme views of both the great parties, while Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Helen L. Read, and others of equal note furnish contributions. The November number is equally good. The departments of the magazine are Literary, Home, Art, Household, Fashions, Topics of the Time, Correspondence and Queries, etc. Price, 20 cents a number, $2.00 a year. Address the Home Maker Company, No 36 Union Square, New York.

The Social Economist for November discusses some important social questions. "The Industrial Decline in Lancashire," in which it is shown that England is losing in the race of manufacturing for the world; "Should Trade Unions Be Incorporated," in which the writer argues for the affirmative, as a means toward preventing trouble; "The Initial Anarchist," said by the writer to be the capitalist, with which the editor takes issue; "Trades Unions and Civilization," "Who Pays the Tariff," and other articles make this an important number in the social economic world. $2.00 a year. 34 Union Square East, New York.

We have received from the Bible Study Publishing Company, 134 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass., a tract by Rev. Erastus Blakeslee, entitled "Adaptation versus Uniformity" in Sunday school lessons, with outlines of two graded courses of lessons on the life of Christ. It has many excellent suggestions, and presents points worthy of consideration.

Messrs. W. A. Wilde & Co., of Boston, Mass., announce an early issue of "Peloubet's Select Notes on the International S. S. Lessons." This is probably the most popular commentary on the S. S. Lessons published; thousands of teachers depend upon its carefully and judicially selected comments.

Jenness Miller Illustrated Monthly for November gives up the first page of the issue to a handsome and lifelike picture of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. A sketch of her life accompanies it. Besides this there are a score of other features of interest to women and the home, stories, poetry, and useful hints for young housekeepers. $1.00 a year. Address Jenness Miller Illustrated Monthly, 114 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Mr. Albert A. Pope, the great bicycle manufacturer of Boston, Mass., is putting forth herculean efforts to obtain better roads. He, in a circular letter, which we have not space to publish, urges that a road department be established at the soon-coming World's Fair by those interested, for the purpose of practically showing how to make and maintain good roads. Mr. Pope has a subject worthy of consideration. Our country has detestable roads generally, and the World's Fair will give time and attention to a thousand and one other things of vastly less importance. Success to him and his coworkers. The very beasts of burden ought to wish it.

The Good Health, published at Battle Creek, Mich., edited by J. H. Kellogg, M.D. (price $2.00, including premium), is one of the best journals, if not the very best, in its line published in this country. Among its interesting articles in its October issue are the habits of Newfoundlanders, under the general heading "International Health Studies," by Dr. Oswald; Where Cholera Originates; The Muscles, by the editor; The Abdominal Method in Vocal Culture, in which the writer takes strong ground against it; The Keeley Cure in England; A New Fetich; The Training of a Pugilist; Spontaneous Typhoid Fever; How Not to Have the Cholera, and How to Cure It. The Good Health is an excellent journal.

The Pacific Health Journal, Oakland, Cal., for November contains, among many other good things, "Take Care of Your Health," an article by the editor, Dr. W. H. Maxson, "A Sound Body" and "Heart Depressants," by Dr. A. J. Sanderson, "Insomnia and Nervousness," "Tobacco Using Long Ago," "Man," "Action of Alcohol on the Bowels," "Hints on the Treatment of Summer Complaint in Children," "Christian Motherhood," "Food Elements," "True Beauty in Dress." The departments of Temperance, The Family Circle, Mother's Helper, and The Housekeeper are especially well filled. Price of this excellent journal is only $1.00 a year.