The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-04
Monthly sIifcTature-


The Eclectic BfsgG=ine.-FOr sound practical in
formation there is not in the whole range Of American
monthly literature n publication which viii compare
with this the characteristic feature Of which is the
reproIuc,ion Of the best articles in the European
Magazines. 1t has taken a high rank he most
valuable publication in America Each number is
embeIlisheI with fine ithograph-gencrally por-
trait OF distinguished person The January issue
portrtys Charles Dickens, and in addition the CorO-
nation Of the Emperor of Russia The articles the
New Germanic Empire anil Notes of the Battle Of
Waterloo, are among the best in that issue Tie
February number opens with a likeness Of Baron
Liebig the eminent philosopher and chemist. Among
number OF excellent articles, The Conventional Laws
OF Society anil Memories of Moscow very interes-
ting The March number has likeness of Hon
Cnas. r. Adams, American Minister at the Court Of
st. james, anil among its artiele, Is very interest
ing one on Strauss, Ecnan and Ecee Homo, taken
frorn the EIinburgh Review. The writer exhibits
the diversity of criticism which that remarkable book
Eecc Homo. las called forth OFT and its author
Spur-eon says If this treatise be the production
OF a minister Of any denomination Of Evangelical
Christians, he ought, if he has half as much
honesty as any ordinary thief, resign his position
once Before leaving this sterling monthly We
must refer the reader to the December number, which
contains most life-Iike portrait Of Dr. Anderson,
late Secretary Of the \. - c. f. "
The atlantic Monthly for March represents the
third insaIlment Of DR.. o. W. Holiness novel; - The
Guardian Angel, gives the concluding part of
George BeIIIou, by Mrs. T. II. Davis, and contin-
ues the series on The Glacial Phenomena of Maine
by Professor Aglssiz. Col. I. W. !Iigginson has
lively description of his military experience in South
Carolina, in a paper entitled, Out ON Picket
- Mr. Hanback, On the Derivation Of Man from
the Monkey, illustrates the cheerful aspects of
soEe Of the alleged discoveries of recent physical
science. really graphic sketch OF Chicago by Mr..
Parton, which should be read by every one, relates
variety OF curious particulars in regard 10 the
drOus growth Of that miracle OF the West On its
material development he remarks as follows
sPLENDoHs OF CHICAGO.
OF course. Chicago Is still a forming city. 1t
stretches along the lake about eight miles, but does
not reach back into the prairie than two In
the heart Cf the the stranger beUts blocks of
stores solid lofty and N the most taste hotels
Of great magnitude, and public buildings that would
bc cre.itt1e any city. The streets crowded
with vehicles IN people as any IN New-1 Ork, ami
there l. nothing exhibited IN the windows vi Ne"
York which may not hc seen IN those Of Chicago.
~ the visitor passes along, he every
evidence tlat nc has arrived at u rich
metropolis. Now II i q gorgeous and enormous car
pet-h0use ;hit arrests his attention now huge dry
reD0ls store vast ."pOt Of groceries Inc next
moment he fini5 himself peeTinS into restaurant,
rs splendid "a steamboat and larger than IayOrs
into diuin groom wir!Ow, where IN addition to
Oicr lecaciCs Oi tc scIsOu, there Is spacious cake
Of cc cover,-! with naked frogs, rePo-nS Pictufe
queIy in parsley. Farther on he ptuses before Jew
cler' brilliant with gold, silver diamonds and pic
turs where ne item of Inst years business the
sale OF tisrec thousand hundred watches, Of which
one tI1ustu nj American The number and
extent of the bookstores j. another striking feature
and II Is impossible 90 far without being strongly
rguiie-l that planes and CIbIuet-Org1ns are for sale
in Inc ,s-.- arg
blessed the strangers IN their miist in the article OF
urilt liquor for II is excellent il i honest, and it Is
,bun,iInt True, science has not yet positively as
cert 5iucl whether not tle Coming Man will drink
mait liquor but the Coming 3IIn has not cOIle and
If people viii drink beer, they hal better drink 1t
gOod
It is not a bit less richly provided for the
Of intellectual nutrimcnt-
rs LITERARY CULTIVATION.
Such books too ~ the people of Chicago and the
North West are buying already three large hook
houses are competing to supply the demand Of this
great market. The most attractive, ~ well as the
most promising, Indication OF the heIlthiul progress
Of C-g, + given IN the Quantities and character Of
the books offered for sale The boOk-houscs, the
shelves o which are crowded. with the best literature.
exotic They come III obedience to the law Of
demand AMI supply. All our leading publishing
houses have their lists Of Publications completely rep
r,--ruft-i and Chicago itself i rapidly becoming
second only t0 Ncw-I OrS 4 distributing point The
demand sOr foreign books l. very great You see III
these large establishments assortment almost
Elrgc AMI -aluaLIe as j. 10 be found in any Of
Atlantic cities Here have been sold over 800 sets
Of AppIeton's Encyclopedia. IN Is volumes and III
10 this market several hundred sets of the Ency-
cioT.ciit BritlnuizI in - volumes, worth 500
set have foun their way. We surprised To- ind
here such works, for example, a. Robertson Holy
Land. the works Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, of Hoguth,
Gilrly. DOre. Jameson. NIyrcL. and many others, at
prices varying from SlOJ To $50 each We were
surprised too, TO restd in Chicago newspaper tie
pTUglmme Of course OF y lectures 10 be delivered
in the French l1nguagc. Allied To the book business
i tire news business, which is not the least among
the noteworthy things Of this city. The business it;
self = outgrOwt OF tine express business, which,
by it, rlmifcatons and Punctullity, has, nOtwith-
Standing it, cxtortionate charges, been great public
servant The express has opened in almost every
town, eert1inly in almost every respectable village,
news stand and the influence Of these cheap estat-
EslIments in the diffusion Of intelligence, wei n
this ether function, the provision Of peculiar class
OF cheap literature, 1t VIII he the duty Of some future
historian 20 determine.
Other noticeable articles in this number are pow