LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1893

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

[The SIGNS OF THE TIMES holds itself under no obligation to notice any publications sent it by publishers. Those considered worthy of notice, or which are deemed profitable to its subscribers, will receive such notice as time, space, and value will permit.]

The leading article in Worthington's, for November, is Mr. John H. Whitson's interesting paper upon the "Ramona Indian School," located near Santa Fe, New Mexico. This school was founded in 1885, and is under the supervision of an efficient board of trustees, the governor of New Mexico being president. It is the embodied idea of that gifted woman, Helen Hunt Jackson, who gave the last years of her life to an earnest effort to quicken the conscience of Americans in regard to their duties toward the Indians. The fundamental plan of the school work is practical industrial training which shall fit the Indian child to become a useful, moral, self-respecting, self-supporting citizen of the United States. The illustrations, which are numerous and from special photographs, show what changes a few months of thoughtful care and teaching will work even in the least promising of these little untutored wards of the nation. $2.50 per year; 25 cents a single number. For sale by all news dealers. A. D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, Conn.

"Chart of American Politics" is the name of a sheet issued by Mr. Lloyd J. Caldwell, Battle Creek, Mich., at five cents. It gives the presidential candidates from 1888, their parties, professed policy, both successful and defeated, the various cabinets, chairmen of the Senate and speakers of the House, prominent congressmen, chief justices, chief of army, and ministers to various countries, together with important political events. The reverse side takes up the question of Immortal-Soulism, and examines it in the light of Scripture. The chart contains an astonishing amount of information in small space. Revised to 1893. Address as above.

The West Virginia Preparatory School sends us a neat calendar announcing the school year of 1893-94. The school is located at Newark, Wirt Co., W. Va. Copies we presume may be obtained by addressing the president, D. C. Babcock, or the principal, D. N. Meredith, as above.

Childhood, for October, is an excellent number, containing many excellent hints to parents. One dollar a year, ten cents a number. A. L. Challerton and Co., 78 Maiden Lane, New York.

The Californian for November is up to its usual standard, and nicely illustrated. Among the more interesting and profitable articles we mention, Village Life in Mexico (illustrated from photographs by the author), California at the World's Fair (illustrated from photographs), The Early Americans, Chinese Fisheries in California, Yuma, Arizona, etc., etc. Price, 25 cents. California Publishing Co., San Francisco, Cal., or any news dealer.