LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 9, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 10.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

American Young People is a new monthly illustrated magazine, the first number of which will appear in January. It will take up the work of furnishing choice reading along the line of American history and literature, and entertaining matter of all kinds for young people and the household. The subscription price will be $1.00 a year. The publication office is in Chicago.

The Literary Northwest is a high-class literary magazine, published at 203 Merrill Building, St. Paul, Minn. The magazine is under new management, which designs, by the best productions in literature and art, to make a strictly first-class magazine in every respect. The January issue, just at hand, is creditable. Price, till January 15, $1.50 a year; after that date, $2.00; 20 cents a copy.

The December number of Jenness Miller Illustrated Monthly contains many special features, some pertaining to Christmastide. Mrs. Jenness Miller has three pages of matter about dress, books, and chat particularly interesting to women and young girls. There are also timely articles of interest to the housewife. Miss Mabel Jenness' book on physical culture is still given as a premium to subscribers. Price $1.00, with premium. Jenness Miller Illustrated Monthly, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

The Mentor, the December number of which lies before us, is a neat magazine, published ten months in the year, by the Alumni Association of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, Boston, Mass. Price $1.00 per year. It aims to keep the schools for the blind acquainted with all improvements in methods or appliances; to serve that far greater number who are beyond school age by bringing information which will inspire them with new hope and guide their efforts to more successful issues; and to keep the seeing and the blind in touch with one another by a periodical which, printed in ink, is valuable to parents and friends, to all educators, and to the general public, as well as to the blind themselves. Address 37 Avon Street, Boston, Mass.

The Health Exponent is a bright little magazine devoted to hygiene and healthful living in all its phases, published at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Among the features of interest in the December number are, "Houses That Breathe" (editorial), "What Is Hygiene?" (poetry), "Craving for Stimulants," "Whalebones," "What Shall We Eat?" etc. Price 75 cents a year.

The Californian Illustrated Magazine takes a place in the front ranks of the great monthlies. The January number is not behind the special Christmas edition in general excellence, and the promises of the publishers that the policy of the publication is continual improvement, are fully exemplified in this issue. It contains a review of Alfred Tennyson's life, with a fine portrait as frontispiece. "Barbara Frietchie," "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union," "Alaska and the Reindeer," "Regulation of Railway Charges," are prominent among the interesting articles of this number. Published in San Francisco, 25 cents a copy; $3.00 a year.

The young men and young women who aspire to obtain academic or college educations, and whose parents cannot well afford them that expense, will be interested in the work of the Cosmopolitan magazine, which has offered for the year 1893 one thousand scholarships at any of the leading colleges or schools of the United States, upon the condition of introducing the magazine into certain neighborhoods. Yale, Vassar, Harvard, Ann Arbor, Chicago, the Southern colleges, the great schools of art and medicine, all are alike open to the ambitious boy or girl who is not afraid of a little earnest work. The Cosmopolitan sends out from its New York office a handsomely printed pamphlet to any applicant, telling just what is necessary in order to secure one of these scholarships. The scholarship itself includes board, lodging, laundry and tuition—all free. Cosmopolitan, Fifth Avenue, New York.

The value and utility of that unique literary publication, the Weekly Bulletin of Newspaper and Periodical Literature, published at 5 Somerset Street, Boston, are to be greatly enhanced by the immediate addition of some important new features. Besides serving as a guide and index to the press of the country by affording a weekly classified and descriptive catalogue of the contents of over twelve hundred different papers and magazines, the Bulletin will hereafter supply the growing public demand for a review of the periodical press by devoting several pages every week to comprehensive summaries of the best and most interesting articles appearing in the monthly magazines and the daily and weekly papers. As the Bulletin is a weekly publication, its readers will have the summaries of the best features of this press almost as soon as the original articles appear. The department of "Literary Notes" will also be enlarged and enriched, and other attractive features, such as an illustrated cover, portraits of authors, etc., will be introduced.

Price List of California Nursery Company, for 1892-93, can be obtained by addressing the company at Niles, Alameda Co., Cal.