Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
LITERARY NOTES.
MAGAZINES,


Boston: The Commercial Travellers Maya.
zine Co.
The ANTRICAS COUNTING Room. New York:
The American Counting Room Publication
rHE MAGAZINE or AMERICAN HISTORY. For
August.
We are pleased to welcome among our
valued exchanges the first number OF The
American Counting R0om"-a neat sixty
four page magazine, published in New
York city. Judging from its contents,
many OF our readers will be glad to learn
of this new contribution to business and
commercial literature. The illustrated ar
tic,e on the New York Produce Exchange,
with which the number opens, furnishes
information that is both historical and de-
,criptiye in character, and adds an inter
esting chapter 20 the commerce ial history
Of the country. OF The excellent papers
all of which are original, and either re-
ported or prepared expressly for this mag.
azine} We may name, prevention OF Fraud
in Payment of Coupons" Books Ct Orig
insl Entry Accountants and their
Clients" Checking Emhezzlement in Tax
Collections" "A Criticism on Averaging
Accounts, " The Tariff Question" Post
ing from Slips" and The Railway Expo
sition,' are especially noteworthy. In a
department devoted to Counting Room
Chats" various interesting questions are
discussed by correspondents whom We
should judge are posted and know whereof
they speak. "0ur Drummers Investment
is an appropriate short story, and told in
such vein OF good humor that we may
venture the assertion that Mark Checkup
is olive boy in the Office" \ depart
ment { t the msgszine is devoted to very
comprehensive reports Of the markets and
Exchanges, in which appear the quotations
OF stocks for exchange, bonds. grain, flour,
petroleum, coffee, sugar, lard, pork, etc.
iyr each day in the month Of June; and
Here are, Also tables which furnish CON.
p,ete information upon the departure Ct
foreign mails from the various ports, and
under the head of Business Reyerses" ap-
PEAR the reports, classified under the vari-
Gus departments OF business, of the prin-
cipal failures and trade embarrassments
for the month of June.
We acknowledge the receipt Of the first
number OF THE Commercial Travellers
Magazine" new literary venture, design.
cd especially for the great travelling com.
munity in general and the commercial
travelling community in particular. As a
representative of the latter class, the in.
FAINT publication appears to have been born
with its eye teeth we'll cut, and bids fair
to wax hale and hearty as the months and
years roll by. geographically it bears
comparison with any similar publication
in this country, and its illustrations are
Ill that could be desired. The contents Of
he initiN number are: Commercial
Travellers and Com mercial Travelling,
"Troutipg, a Commercial Travellers Re-
nance" The Romance Of Raid" THE
Baggage Fiend." "The Lost Jewels, "A
Duel with Pills." The c. This Story"
Der Drummer" Scorpion GuIch," IA.
miliar Legal Talks" Adventures with a
Lunatic," "A Test" Rings" kit Car.
sons Bride" "Palmistry," THE Drum
Sticks" Commercial Chronicles" "Bill
Mason's Bride" "A Night in the Day
Coach, p" That Queen" "Only Star" aud
several entertaining editorial departments.
The Magazine is published by The Com
mercial Travellers Publishing Company,
Roston and New York.
Cupples. Upham & Co, have just ready
Lorenzo Prouty's work on "Fish-Their
Habits and Hsunts," with q chapter on
Fishing as a Recreation" The work will
have value and interest for both protes.
sional and amateur fishermen.
Fore and Aft" the new nautical nara
tive by Robert Brewster Dixon, will be
issued from the press Of Lee & Shepard
during the present week. This book gives
al account of life at sea as experienced by
the author. and also graphic description
of Mexican shore life and native costumes.
Among the valuable books recently pub.
lisbed by Estes & Lauriat are History Of
Rome" by Victor Duruy; Lngard's His
tory OF England" key to North Ameri-
can Birds" by DR.. Cowes; Carlyle's works,
edition de lure; "0rnithoiogy of the World. I"
by DR.. Cowes, and George Eliot's miseel.
lsneous works"
Roberts Brothers have in preparation
"a Book of New England Legends and
Folk Lore" by Samuel Adams Drake,
which will be fully illustrated; an edition
Dr. ttg, (limited 10 $50 copies) of ia Fon.
,siDe's Fables" translated by Robert
Thompson, containing q portrait and