Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-06-24
BOOKS AND PERIODICALS

ALEXANDER Fl. STEVENS has recently
completed TIL second volume of his able
work entitled: "a Constitut Ional View of
the War b-tW-eu the States; It's Causes,
ume, which completes the wO, k, will short
ly tie issued from the press O1 the National
ciunatf. The work is sold Only by sub~crip o.
tiOn, and an agent is wanted IN every coun-
ty.
THE Men WHO ADVERTISE; AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER RATE BOuK. AND NhWSPA-
PER DIRECTORY. New York: Gep. ?.
ROwel & Co, 10 Park Row. 1870. Royal
octave. PIP. 6zZ.
In a large but compact volume we have
here the results of more than a ears care
full com mDilaGiOn Of materials, and furnish
ingst complete exhibit of the newspaper
business of America The volume really
contains three works bOunu in one, the first
being u series OF spirited sketches Of those
persons who have acquired fortune and
anne by advertising, including such men
as Bonner aud Barnum, and compiled in
many cases from original materials. This
is followed by a Rats-BOok, showing the
charges and cost of advertising in nearly
all OF the prominent newspapers IN the
United STATES anu British Provinces ad-
ioing, thus giving to the possessOr of this
volume a quantity of CONDENSED infOrma
tion harily to be found elsewhere, and the
third part of the book is an extensive and
accurate Directory Of newspapers in Eng
disappearing countries in North America
The growth of the newspaper press ia
America has in 1t something OF the marvel
lOus and few indeed Of those in the busi-
ness can name une-tenth of those publish
ed. In this prodigious activity New York
land and Ohio, but there is no POI ton of
the country where newspapers are not
necessity. Nearly six thousand periodicals
are published in the limits embraced by
this boo and for each uf them q brief
and editors, the date of establishment, the
extent of circulation, he politics, and much
other useful Information. The whole forms
truly useful compilation Tor editors and
publishers as well as that large class of per
sons whose sue 'eSs depends upon hat uf the
pi ess, such as type-fOunders and press man
ufacturers and advertisers.
HEARTH & HOME for this week dated
June 25th) contains the first of a series ,,f
sketches entitled JetkrO ThrO0D'S Night
Thoughts by John Thomas. who is no other
than Petroleum V. Nasty. The great hu-
HOrist Will take All honest country boy to
the city, cunuuct him through the usual
experience, and resi- ore him to his home q
sauder and wtser buy, satisfied thar the
peaceful, honest, and temperate life of the
farmer IS the pS>L ana safest NE that can
be lived. This Is a lesson greatly needed at
this time, and Nasby is the man to teach il.
TIE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, for July, has
/ two imprOyr mrntSs nrsG, the authors
name IS signed to each article second, the
4 Leaves are cut. The ainount of ones life
1 time wasted IN cutting the leaves of some
/ of the magazines is fearful. The number Il
q very attractive one, some of the best ar
/ ticles being the following: The Alarm Bel
1 of Atri, by h. W. LOngteliOW; A Woman 4
/ Pulpit, BY Elizabeth stuart Phelps; EQUAL
| yet Divers, by Burt q. Wider; Joseph aud
| his Fiiend. 6y Bayard Taylor; Old own
| Firesiue Stories, II. The Widows Band
1 box. by H Jrriet Beecher Stowe; Criminal
Law at Home and abroad, iy Francis
/ Wharton The shipping of tho United
| Ststes, by z. II. Derby The Tour OF Europs
| for 81 1 in Currency, by Ralph Keeler.
PUTNA1I's MONTHLY New York: G. p
! Putnam d Sou). has he following table al
| contents: The Kings S-ntlneI, by r. H
StOddard Salmon Fishing an the Nippis.
siguit, by Thaddrus Norris at the. Asso5,lil.
ted d, Press once, by VIM. APlin; Love ia FIJI
My Early Life among the Cannfbals edi,
ted by T. N. Coan, NJ. b.; Wild Res nv
1. John Burroughs; A Woman's Right: VII
| What are they doing in Mexico bv I Hen.
ry Town; Fairy Island, by Miss e. Wool
son 10 trnneiS 10y i. buchanan Read
His Honur's Daughter, by .. NJ. ELLSWORTH
Pictures in the Private galleries Of New
York; II. Mr.. J. Taylor Johnson's Coilee
tl1ns, ~ Epgtnr Benson; Di>rarli as |
stale-Inan ana Novelist, by ]. NJ Bunday
RoSSetti, the Painter and Poet by w ]
StIllmRn A Di~enrhaated Republican,
Letter from German Tfaveler; Edito-ia
Notes; Literature at Hume Literetllre
Science and Art Abroad.