Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-24
LITERARY NOTES.

The Book OF ENTRIES. By Thomas j. Murphy.
New York: White, Stokes 4 Allen. wheeling:
Stanton & Davenport.
Here we have a little volume which
every housewife will welcome. Dantily
gotten IN, it contains within its covers the
choicest recipes for entries of all kinds,
with the amplest directions for the guild
anee of the cook. 1t is a timely and COM
nonsense production.
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A ylsu From SANTA CLAUS. By Clement C.
Moore. New York: White, Stokes & Allen.
Wheeling: stanton & Davenport.
This old time poem, dear to the heart OF
every boy and girl, has this year been put
out 10 an attractive form, st o very reas-
enable price, thus making it an object OF
interest to many unable to buy the expen-
sive editions of former years. 1t is pro-
fusely illustrated, and bound in a n
calculated 10 tickle the fancy OF the young
sters into whose hands it may chance to
come.
Messrs. Stanton and Davenport have re-
eeived a supply of The Gospel Choir and
the Gospel Hymns" o small volume in
cloth covers, which are to be used in the
Moody meetings. Secure a copy before
supply is exhausted.
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FLOWERS from Dell aud Bower Cloth
Ito. Price $3.50. White, Stokes &
Allen, New York, Stanton & Davenport;
Wheeling.
This Is an elegantly illustrated volume
of delightful, rythmical references to flow
ers. Handsome illuminated plates are in-
terspcrsed through the volume and the
poems are very entertaining.
This will undoubtedly prove 4 very at
t~ractiye gift book and will find = ready
sale. A book embellished rs this is with
plates that are works Of art and contain
ing poems that are a delight, literally and
a~rtiStically, will certainly obtain recOgni-
ton among persons of aesthetic tastes.
To sect is to admire 1t.
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Bill Nye, one of the brightest of our
American humOristS, has become an IT.
regular contributor to The Century, New
York.. Readers of that magazine will re-
call his letter on Copyright" in the last
February number, in which he humorous
ly suggests that owing to the prevalence Of
foreign literature, under existing, or rather
under nOn-eXisting laws, We are in danger
of becoming q nation Of foreigners, and
adds that one advantage ofbeing 4 foreign
er here would be increased political in
fluence, and the only safe way to remain a
native will be to refrain from learning to
read. He will have q paper on Document
airy Proof of SelEdefenSe" in the fOrthcom-
ing November Century, to be followed in a
later number by a witty essay, entitled
The Coupon Letter of Introduction"
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The following is the table OF contents of
the Popular Science Monthly New York.
for November: North America i'll the Ice
Period, by Prot. J. S. Newberry, Illustrat-
ed; Origin and Results of Sunday Legisla-
ton, by Rev. A. II. Lewis, ID. D.; The
Mental Faculties of Monkeys, by Nine.
Clemenee Rover; Recent Advancesi in Solar
Astronomy, by Prot. C.. A. Young; Chew
reul at a Hundred, by w. H. Larrabee, IL
Illustrated; Geology of the Atlantic Ocean,
/. by Sir William Dawson; Some Outlines
From the History of Education, III. by
Prof. W. r. Benedict; Comte and Spencer
on Sociology, by Leon MetchnikOtf; The
Hickory Nuts OF North America, by j.. F.
James, Illustrated; The HYGIENE Treat
ment of Consumption, by DIR. Benjamin
Ward Richardson, F. r. S; Trade Distinc-
tons in Alcoholic Liquors. by ". E. Brad
ley; ThiStles, by Grant Allen; Inebriate
Maniacs, by T. d. Crothers, NJ. d.; Sketch
of Edward s. Holden, by w. c. WinlOck,
with portrait; Editors Table: An Unhappy
Survival-The Recent Earthquake-rhe
british and French Associations; Literary
Notices; Popular Miscellany; Notes.