The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-12-04
RECENT

The Boston Book Bulletin, a quarterly
eclectic record Of recent books, d. Lothrop
Company, publishers, Boston, is before US.
The Bulletin is as neat a specimen of fine
printing as we have seen, and will be
found interesting and attractive to all
persons who feel an interest in the publ
cation of new books. Price, 5 cents a
number, 20 cents a year, postage paid.
That thoroughly reliable, time-honored
publication, Turner'S North Carolina
almanac, has been placed upon our table.
When it is stated that the publication of
this almanac was begun in the year 1888,
and that it has made annual visits to the
fresides of the people of North Carolina
from that time to the present day, always
giving perfect satisfaction, and holdinglts
w against all corners, it would seem
that no further commentator were
needed. It contains a vast store of infor-
nation. more carefully prepared and con-
veniently arranged, than can be found
elsewhere. To quote the NeaCs- Observer,
1t is a publication that really should be
in every North Carolina household" It
can be had of any merchant, druggist or
postmaster OF will be sent postpaid on
receipt Of price, 10 cents, by JAS. Fl.
EnniSs, Publisher, Raleigh, N. G.
The Bulletin of the North Carolina De-
partment of Agriculture, for the month of
November, is to hand. 1t contains an
article from immigration Agent, Patrick,
on "North Carolina as a Winter Resort"
in which he says: with the yellow fever
in Florida, a large number of Northern
people will look elsewhere for accommo-
dation this winter, and any town in our
State having good hotels and boarding
houses Cor where the best people will take
the health seekers into their homes), can
secure them if an effort is made - and adds:
We will be glad to aid any place in
North Carolina in its efforts to present
local advantages to this class of visitors"
This issue of the Bulletin also contains a
very interesting article by Mr.. w. R.
Fraley, of Salisbury, N. c., on the subject
has been successfully engaged for several
years past.
"a Bockaded Fami1y-Litfe IN Southern
alabama during the CivH War" By Par
thenia Antoinett Hague: Houghton,
Miflin & Co., Boston and New York. The
above is a handsomely bound, neatly
printed volume containing $50 pages,
and is a plain, unvarnished recital of
scenes and incidents which TRANSFERRED in
the South during the late civil war, and as
such is found intensely interesting. The
authoress, who is an accomplished South
ern lady, deals but little in fiction or ro-
nance, but rather confines herself to the
facts, which, the reader finds, v~erifes the
old saying that "truth is sometimes
stranger than felton, The wo'k begins
with the secession movement, and proceeds
to the blockading of all Southern ports,
and the devices rendered necessary by
such blockade; Southern women, and their
ingenuity and courage; how shoes, hats,
bonnets, and thread were manufactured. 1t
refers to the different substitutes for
coffee and tea, the "spinning BEES" old
time hoop-skirts, home-spun weddings,
and how the slaves lived. It also treats of
the'painfulr realities Of civil strife, straight
ened condition of the South, treatment Of
prisoners of war, &C., &c. The book is
highly entertaining and we doubt not will
meet with ready sale throughout the
country Every boy and girl in the
South should read it.