LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 45.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

"THE WHAT, HOW, AND WHY OF CHURCH BUILDING," by Geo. W. Kramer, F. A. I. A. No. 1 Madison Avenue, New York City. 254 pages. Price, $1.25.

The above work is doubtless the completest and best compendium on church building ever published, at least it is the best we ever remember to have seen. In its 17 chapters, among many other things, it discusses the Proper Steps in Procedure from the First Inception, the Interior Requirements (Division and Subdivision), the Exterior (Character, Style, and Environment), The Architect and His Work, and, in fact, the Practical, the Advisory, the Specific, the Analytic, the Engineering, the Inherent Essentials (Acoustics, Lighting, etc.), the Furnishing, the Musical, the Esthetic and Artistic, the Technical, etc., etc., of church building. The book contains over a hundred cuts, large and small, of exterior and interior designs, styles, plans, and projections, and furnishes a vast amount of valuable suggestion. All church builders, or those who have to do with the matter, would do well to consult this little work by a practical architect. It may be obtained of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, Oakland, Cal., for $1.25.

"THE FAMILY CIRCLE. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED ANECDOTES," written and edited by H. L. Hastings, 47 Cornhill, Boston, Mass.

This little book of 318 pages contains 236 sketches, stories, incidents, and poems. So far as we have read them, they are Scriptural and helpful, and worthy indeed of a wide circulation, and, by the way, a better binding, and, of course, a higher price.

Among the able papers in McClure's Magazine for November are the special articles on Edison's wonderful inventions, by which the whole matter of iron and steel making may be revolutionized; Charles A. Dana's "Reminiscences of Men and Events in the Civil War," and chapters from Mark Twain's new book. These are copiously illustrated. Price, 10 cents. For sale by all news-dealers.

How to Grow Flowers, a monthly magazine of sixteen pages, edited by an enthusiastic lady florist, Miss Ella V. Baines, Springfield, O. The November issue is an interesting and practical number, and well illustrated. Some especial features are "Starting Bulbs in November," "The Winter Planting of Roses in the South," "Fall Work in the Flower Garden," and "House Culture of the Rose." Five cents a copy at news-dealers, or 50 cents a year with premium of the publisher, Miss Ella V. Baines, Springfield, Ohio.

The Pacific Health Journal for November is a most excellent, practical number. The instruction which it contains on health and hygiene is worth many times its price. Price, 50 cents a year, 5 cents a number. Address, St. Helena, Cal.

RECEIVED.—"The Epic of Paul," by Wilkinson. (Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York City.)