LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 13, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 15.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

The Californian for February in its literary tone and the excellence of its illustrations is a decided improvement on its predecessors. The frontispiece shows a fine view of the famous Multnomah Falls of Oregon. The lines of John Vance Cheney, on Tennyson, embody all the sincerity of feeling which characterizes the work of this well-known poet. An article on the Columbia River, by Laura B. Starr, beautifully illustrated, describes the picturesque and inexhaustible beauties of this section of Oregon. Ex-Governor Sheldon's personal reminiscences of James G. Blaine is an article of unusual interest and importance. Other articles of importance and interest are found in this excellent number. Published in San Francisco. Twenty-five cents each, $3.00 per year.

The Good Health is one of the old standard journals, devoted to everything which pertains to health of the physical man and purity of life. The January number seems better than ever. It deserves a wide circulation. Price, with fine premium, $2.00 a year. Address at Battle Creek, Mich.

The Columbia cycling calendar for '93 is a very novel and truly artistic practical calendar for the year. It begins with February, '93, and ends with February, '94. It consists of a circular piece of cardboard, forty-seven inches in circumference, the calendar picture being framed with a reproduction of the pneumatic rubber tire. The picture is in fifteen water colors, and represents a country scene with a bicycling couple in the foreground, resting in a cozy nook, after a delightful ride. The original picture is by a celebrated American artist, and the reproduction is so close to the painting that one hardly realizes that the delightful tones and shades are not the true brush marks. This calendar, issued by the Pope Mfg. Co., of Boston, is adapted for the library, dining room, parlor, or business office.

Do you want a public office? There are 180,000 offices within the gift of the new administration, and now is the time for those seeking public employment to take proper steps to secure one of these lucrative positions. All who are interested should at once send for a copy of the United States Blue Book. It is a register of all Federal offices and employments in each State and Territory, the District of Columbia and abroad, with their salaries, emoluments, and duties, shows who is eligible for appointment, questions asked at examinations, how to make an application, and how to push it to success, and gives besides a vast amount of important and valuable information relative to government positions never before published. Handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents, postpaid. Send all remittances by draft, money order, or registered letter. Address, J. H. Soule, Publisher, Box 43, Washington, D. C.

Admirers and enemies of Mr. Blaine will alike be interested in the very full article which appears in the February Cosmopolitan, reviewing his characteristics as a man and statesman. A number of fine portraits are printed with the article. For sale at all news stands.

The Health Exponent, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, for January is the first number of the second volume. It has been all that its name implied during the past year, and this number gives promise of greater usefulness in the year to come. Subscription price, 75 cents a year.

W. F. Southard, M.D., of this city, sends us a reprint of an article from the Pacific Medical Journal on "An Examination of the Eyes of 311 Students, with Charts." The subject is an important one.