p. 637 | LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 40.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

ONE of the neatest little Parliamentary Manuals we know is contained in the "AMERICAN POCKET PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY," published by Glenwood Company, 5007 Calumet Avenue, Chicago. Price, 25 cents. Besides the manual the dictionary contains 30,000 words in common use, besides other useful things. An excellent pocket companion.

The General Electric Company, 44 Broad Street, New York, sends out a finely illustrated folder showing the wonderful progress which electricity has made during the last dozen years. This is the electric age and it moves rapidly.

The Drexel Art Science and Industry Institute, of Philadelphia, sends out a neat descriptive circular, illustrating and describing the various parts and branches of this great institution. It includes in its educational facilities training for every department of life.

"HOW TO SEE THE WORLD'S FAIR WITH LITTLE MONEY" is a little pamphlet, price 25 cents, published by M. Parker, P. O. box 836, Chicago, Ill. It offers some excellent suggestions to those who would be left in Chicago to the mercy of strangers.

"SATAN'S FIRST LIE, OR MAN IN DEATH," by Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle, price 15 cents. Michigan Tract Society, Battle Creek, Mich. This is the presentation of man's nature in rhyme. The plan of the work being didactic, based upon definite Scripture statements, prevents to a great extent in the very nature of the case the display of the poetic gift which the author possesses, but the subject is presented in a pleasing, forcible style, fortified by abundant scriptures in footnotes at the bottom of the page. From what we have read of it, we believe that it will do much good if widely circulated.

"LETTERS FROM A MOTHER TO A MOTHER ON THE CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH," by "Mrs. M. J. W." Published by the Wilmington Dental Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pa. The writer of these letters is the wife of a dentist who has evidently placed much more study on the subject of the teeth than many dentists. She writes pleasantly, lucidly, and earnestly, and in the sixteen different letters or chapters she presents many excellent hints and timely suggestions, with much good advice. Among the most important topics treated are: Importance of the Teeth, When and How Formed, Food Principles, Where the Elements of Tooth Substance Are Found, Care of the Teeth Temporary and Permanent in Sickness and in Health, Why the Baby Teeth Should Be Preserved, etc., etc. Address as above.

METHODS OF PRECISION IN THE INVESTIGATION OF DISORDERS OF DIGESTION, by J. H. Kellogg, M. D., superintendent of the Sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., member of the American Medical Association, and nine other medical and scientific associations. Modern Medicine Pub. Co., Battle Creek, Mich. This pamphlet is the reprint of a paper read before the Cincinnati meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. The methods herein explained, and the illustrative cases given, would, we judge, prove of great value to medical men.

"Chart of the Doctrine of the Soul or Spirit of Man," by Lloyd J. Caldwell, Battle Creek, Mich. Price, 5 cents each, 20 cents a hundred, $1.00 a thousand. This chart gives in a condensed form the evils which have grown out of the first falsehood of Satan, in the pagan and papal worlds, together with a synopsis of the teachings of the Bible on the resurrection, judgment, and second coming of Christ. We wish some of the statements could be modified and some eliminated, but on the whole it states many important facts. It is 23x18 inches, on heavy paper, printed on both sides. One-half of one side is taken up with "Chart of American Politics." Address as above.

Worthington's Illustrated Magazine for August opens with the second of the interesting papers entitled "Random Notes on Hawaiian Life," written by C. T. Rodgers, M.D., a prominent physician, now and for many years a resident of Honolulu. The article treats of the native feasts; of Honolulu's picturesque mountain background, with a description of the Pali and the superb view from its summit; of beautiful Waikiki, "the Long Branch of Honolulu;" of the fern and shell and wild animal hunting of Hawaiian youths, and furnishes a very graphic account of life and work upon the great sugar plantations, from the planting of the cane to the granulating of the sugar. The third paper will treat of Mauna Loa, with its lonely crater dome rising nearly 14,000 feet, and of Kilauea, "the volcano," where nature's fires are never extinguished. The illustrations from special photographs are noticeable for their beauty and artistic reproduction, adding greatly to the enjoyment and value of the article. Mrs. Livermore's eighth paper of personal experience, "In 'Ole Virginny'—Fifty Years Ago," "Mental Characteristics of the Japanese," and "Reminiscences of an Army Bride" of twenty years ago, are interesting papers. The departments are well sustained. Price, 25 cents. A. D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, Conn.