Literary Notices by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 29, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 22.

Literary Notices.

By Editor

"The Travelers' Handbook; a Manual for Transatlantic Tourists." Compiled by Josephine Tozin. Neatly bound in cloth with side and back designs appropriate to the subject; 200 pages, price, $1.00. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London.

This is a convenient little book to slip into a grip or hand-bag, and it tells by a practical woman in a practical way about all the things that a traveler needs to know. For instance, under "Hints before Sailing" is given information as to expense, the taking of funds, the best ways and means to provide for funds, foreign coins, etc. Most excellent advice is given. Other chapters are, Taking Passage, Dress and Guide Books, On Board Ship, Sea Life, The Destination, English Railroads, Accommodations in England, Traveling in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Egypt, Homeward Bound, Automobiling. With a minimum of common-sense and these practical suggestions so clearly given by the author, it would seem that one could get along very comfortably indeed. One who has not traveled across the Atlantic would make no mistake in getting this book. It is the best we have seen and practised.

"Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing." By Mrs. E. G. White. 218 pages, illustrated with 27 half-tone engravings. Price, cloth, 60 cents; paper covers, 25 cents. Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.

This is a new print of a book known to many of our readers. It is an unfoldment of the practical, beautiful things of that wonderful sermon of our Lord's on the mount. Its sweet, deep, spiritual truths shine out brightly and strike their clear rays deep into the heart of the sympathetic reader. Such a book would prove a blessing in every household, in every library.

"Capital: A Critique of Political Economy." By Karl Marx. Vol. I. Translated from the German. Cloth bound, 861 pages, including topical index. Price, $2.00. Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago.

This is the first of the three volumes of Marx' famous work. The second volume is promised during the first part of this year, and the third is promised for 1908. These volumes have been made the text-book for study in many schools; they are considered by the socialists to be one of the best presentations of their economical theories. Volume One is very valuable because of its presentation of the history of the labor struggle during the last hundred years. The authorities are given for the history presented, thus making it a splendid text-book for the extended study of the subject, while the history presented in the book itself is sufficiently exhaustive for all ordinary research. The clear understanding of present labor problems is much better obtained by knowing the history of the past, and the volume will well repay any one for the time of reading it.

"Spots; or 202 Cleansers." Compiled by Clarice T. Courvoisier. Printed in oblong form, brightly rubricated, and bound in flexible watered buckram. Price, 75 cents. Paul Elder & Company, San Francisco and New York.

A remarkably unique and practical little book, suggestive of a gift book or a fine advertising souvenir (often the best), but it is, on the contrary, a book for use, for every day or as often as needed. Its recipes are said to be thoroughly tested, and the author has marshaled them in such a way that the little book becomes a phalanx of volunteers to aid the busy housewife in her needs and emergencies.