Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-08-11
STANDARD PUBLICATIONS.

The August number of the Bankers
Magazine has been received. 1t contains
the sixth chapter of the history of CONNER
cial exchanges. No previous compilation
of the commencement and progress Of such
institutions of equal scope has ever appear
cd. The writer will continue his contribu-
tions to commercial literature and when
his task is finished, it will place in the ar
chives of the country most complete and
instructive history, alike valuable to in
terror dealers in finance and general trade,
as it is to those conducting the affairs of
commerce and the industries on larger
fields.
Another article, entitled "Fall in interest
rates." reviews many Of the leading rail-
road securities as they have ruled in the
markets for series of years, tracing them
to the low rate at which they are now pur-
chased in comparison to the original quo
tations. In this connection, it remarks:
"The general cause Of the fall in the rate
of interest which has occurred in this coun-
try has been the much more rapid increase
of its capital of all kinds, including loana-
BILE capital, than of its population, and this
cause will be continuing one."
These, with eighteen other leading arti-
cles on the affairs of finance, commerce, and
the industries of the country, furnish solid
reading, instructive and beneficial.
Romans Publishing Co., New York
Monthly; 1874 pages; So year.
The Northeastern Lum6ermdn discusses
lumber and lumber-resources. and the in
terests in which lumber of all kinds enters,
in way which makes the reader acquaint-
ed with everything going on in North
America concerning these matters. 1t is
watching closely Southern lumber-interests
and the progress making in developing
them. The resources in Southwest Vir-
ginia towards the Kentucky line, not open
ed as yet by railroads, are held out as an
inviting field for operations. 1t would ap-
pear that there are millions of wealth in
the untouched hard-woods in the farther
South, and the mills at Nashville, Tenn,
and Evansville, Ind are held up to North
ern men as models in enterprise and sue.
cess. But the large, clearly printed jour.
nal of A pages, on heavy bleached paper,
must be read to be appreciated.
| Published at Chicago, weekly, by W. B.
Judson. 81 per year.
Forest and Stream, a weekly journal Of
the Rod and Gun, always fresh and lively,
is especially SO in the opening number fol
August on the 'Vacationists," especially
the class who go out as the metropolitan
| daily newspaper men to puff indiscriminate.
| ly. The lakes and streams and forests and
fields which afford genuine enjoyment tc
| the tutored sportsman should be spared
the garrulous words that fill the columns Of
their journals, to the disgust of the true
angler and sportsman. 1t has kept up an
incessant fire on the members of Congress
willing to further despoil the Nationa
Park and curtail the Government reserva
tions of public domain, already too few ii
| number It saved our birds Of song from
the havoc which was sweeping them from
existence. 1t pleases and interests, and il
refined in sentiment and taste.
New York. Weekly: IS pages; "a &
year.
The Baltimore Journal Of Commerce anc
Price-current, an old and valuable CONNER
cial and trade journal, has been bought
from the estate of it's late owner Mr.. Geo
U. Porter, who died some time since, by
the proprietors of the Manufacturers Rec
ord. 1t has fallen into first-cass hands
and will be conducted as formerly. In al
the departments OF trade which it repre-
sents, the public will find live and pro
gressive paper and worthy of patronage.