Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-17
1BarCH or VIEW PUBLICATIONS.
some OF the Midsummer Books Pictures an
EnterprisIng reriodIcaIs.

some OF the Midsummer Books, Pictures and
EnterprisIng Periodicals.
Root 4 Tinker, publishers of the crayun
portraits i'll the "Men OF Mark series, have
just issued a most striking and faithful like
ness OF George B, Roberts president OF the
Pennsylvania railroad company. Murphy n
Co, the New York rarnish makers, send it
out and it Is a credit TO the enterprise of
both firms.
Chas II. Barr has handed in a copy of the
" Building Edition of the ScicHtlnc -1mey-i-
can y for July. Two elegant plates in Coors,
of two different dwellings of moderate cost,
are given in perspective with large sheet OF
details and specifications and people who
want 10 know how to build to the best advan-
tage at modern cost can hardly do better
than to peruse this periodical.
ihe number OF persons in this country
who are Interested IN collecting postage and
other kinds of stamps Is estimated al two
hundred thousand. There is loud call,
therefore, for such a periodical rs The Stamp
Collector, Just established by L. J. Abbott,
Chicago, the first issue of which gives prom.
ise that 1t will he Uadc mccuu Tor the phil
atelists
VIM. T.. Barns has collected from the A Agc
Of Steel, st Louis, the symposium papers
published therein on the labor question and
with an Introduction by Richard T. Ely,
| ph. H., the economist OF Johns HOPKINS
| university, they are now given 10 the public
| i'll volume entitled 1.-The Labor Problem" g."
| 1t is a valuable contribution to the great pop
| ular discussion Of the day. Harper Bros.
! PIP. S3l.
| Harper Bros. have done good thing in
| establishing their Young People Series of
| good reading for boys and girls. one of the
| last and best of these IL Lucy &. Lille :
Story of Music and Musicians. Though
| intended for young readers, it is for all ages
| pleasant account of the instruments, com
| posers and musicians OF different periods of
| musical development nicely illustrated and
beautifully bound. Pp. IA
| Henry Z. Wells, author and authority on
"Hy fishing has given genuine sportmen a
Oook Tor all seasons in 1.-THE American
Salmon Fisherman After all this is the
| paternal sport OF rod and tackle and the book
before us IL complete manual not only OF
where and how salmon are to be found, but
oi the rods, reels, gat, fly and manner OF
casting the fly. Harper ~ Bros, New York
| PIP. l62.
The interesting articles of Adam Badeau,
| on the social life and changing political as
poets OF England, which have been pub
ltshed as a series in the Sunday newspapers,
| are now collected in a volume by their
| author. He had ample opportunity 10
| gather their material while in tho consular
service and he improved it To the making OF
| very readable series Of sketches, pointed
with keen observation, criticism and COM
| parison of the Old and new world institu-
tOns.
| All of the Harper publications are to be
| had at Luther Fon Dersmth's book store.
| Roger 5. Welty is the author of another
contribution to the labor discussion in a
| "book ior the times " entitled, Rent,
| Wages and Capital" published by the La
| Porte, Ind, Printing company. He antag.
| onIzes a good deal of loose thinking current
among the Socialists disputes the Georgian
| proposition that landholding is monopoly
| and rent an abuse. Altogether there is more
| sense in the book than in many OF the publ
| cations that pass for argument OF the sub
| jecL