p. 112 | LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1892

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

ONE of the finest desk calendars for 1893 which has come to our notice is that furnished by the Pope Manufacturing Company, of Boston, Mass., the makers of Columbia bicycles. The Columbia Desk Calendar and stand makes its appearance for the eighth time. It consists of a pad of 366 leaves, one for each day, and one for the entire year, mounted on a neat metallic stand, which takes up very little room. Each leaf has either some good saying on outdoor exercise, or some good instruction or advice relative to road making by experts, besides liberal blank space for memoranda.

The "Secretary's Manual" is the title of a neatly printed and bound book which has been laid upon our table. Its author is W. A. Carney, of Santa Paula, Cal. This is the second edition of the work, revised and enlarged. It is, we should judge from the hasty examination we have been able to give it, a very valuable assistant to all secretaries or those who aspire to be secretaries, in a worthy sense. This book is a compendium of forms, instruction, and legal information for secretaries of corporations, with extracts from, and references to, the judicial decisions of the Courts of Last Resort as to the qualifications, rights, and duties of stockholders, directors, officers, etc. For terms see another page.

Childhood is a new monthly magazine which starts out with an assorted bona fide circulation of 20,000. It is edited by Dr. George William Winterburn, 230 West 132d Street, New York. It is addressed to parents, teachers, and all who are interested in the welfare of children, and will endeavor to inculcate the most advanced ideas in regard to the moral, intellectual and physical development of children. Men and women well known in literature, prominent teachers, physiologists and biologists, have been engaged to write for it. In order to bring it within the reach of all it is put at the small price of ten cents a copy.

Two years ago "The Story of the Pitcairn," or, as generally called, the "Pitcairn Souvenir," was issued. The sale of the little book was nothing compared to what it ought to have been. An appendix has now been added by the International Sabbath School Association, giving the cruise of the Pitcairn and the important incidents connected with it, mentioning prominent characteristics of the various island groups visited, together with a description of the Pitcairn as now refitted and altered into a brig schooner, thus bringing the history of the child of our Sabbath schools under God down to date. This little book contains 104 octavo pages, nicely illustrated, printed on fine calendared paper, and bound in cardboard covers. Just the thing for a pretty holiday gift to some friend interested in gospel missions. Address all orders to Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal. Price 50 cents.

Worthington's Magazine is another new literary venture at the beginning of 1893. It is a monthly journal for the family, at $2.50 a year. Its aim is to be high class, instructive, and entertaining. It has about a half score of departments adapted to the various needs and members of the family. A. D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, Conn.

That excellent little journal, Our Dumb Animals, of Boston, Mass., or, rather, Mr. Geo. T. Angell, has just published a new edition of "Black Beauty," containing the portrait and autograph of the author, Anna Sewell. It sells at the same price as the "old gold" edition, ten cents a copy, postpaid. In large quantities of one hundred or more, the price is less.