LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 19.

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 TEACHER'S TOOL CHEST." By Silas Farmer. Published by Silas Farmer & Co., 13 Monroe Avenue, cor. Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich. Postpaid, 6 cents. This is a neat little tract illustrating by architecture and the various tools used therein just how teachers ought to build, just what they ought to be, and the qualities they should possess. Unique, suggestive, and interesting.

"The Advance Almanac for 1894 and Manual of Congregationalism." Advance Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. Postpaid, 5 cents. This little pamphlet of 66 pages contains much information concerning Congregationalists. It is a multum in parvo.

Astronomy and Astro-Physics for February has, among other prominent articles, the following: "On the Physical Constitution of the Planet Jupiter, by G. W. Hough; Light Waves and Their Application to Metrology (illustrated), by A. A. Michelson; West Indian Hurricanes and Solar Magnetic Influence, by H. A. Hazen. The editor, Wm. W. Payne, has an article in favor of Free Public Observatories." The department on Astro-Physics is well filled. It notes the fact that Prof. S. W. Burnham has been awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for his discoveries and micrometrical measures of double stars.

Childhood for January has several interesting and suggestive articles on How Early Children Should Be Corrected, Suggestions about Training Babies, Should Children Be Governed? Handicrafts for the Home, and many other suggestive articles. Of course it is only suggestive, for that is all that instruction to parents can be. But Childhood offers valuable suggestions. Price, $1.00 a year. Childhood Publishing Co., 78 Maiden Lane, New York City.

"No. 2. A 'Novel Proposition,' Showing How the Rate of Wages and the Demand for Unskilled Labor Is Influenced by the Cost of Transportation on Farm Products." By David Lubin, Sacramento, Cal. Free. It advocates a plan for the more equitable distribution of wealth, containing opinions and criticisms of men in different walks of life. Mr. Lubin believes in carrying freight as mail is carried, the same price for all distances, within certain limits, to market centers.

"Vick's Floral Guide for 1894" is a "thing of beauty," and so it has been for years in the past, but this year it is more beautiful still. The first page of cover is a beautiful white branching aster of natural size in a field of gold. The last page is equally lovely. Floral Guide is free to all new customers for 10 cents, deducted from first order. Vick is reliable. James Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y.

"Fish and Game Laws of California," compiled by F. P. Deering, attorney for the Board of Fish Commissioners, under whose authority the pamphlet is published. State office, A. J. Johnston, Supt. of Printing, Sacramento, Cal.

"Poems of the Christ Life." By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle (author of "Satan's First Lie" and other poems), is the title of a little pamphlet which has come to our table. These poems are arranged in a series of recitations for use in Sabbath school entertainments. There are twenty-eight different poems on different events in the life of Christ from his birth to his ascension. It is a worthy little book apart from its purpose, and would be of profit to children. Beacon Publishing Co., Lansing, Mich.