Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-26
LITERARY NOTES.

FRIxSDLY LETTERS TO American farmers AND
OTHERS; by ]. 8. Moore. In paper. New
York: &. z. Putnam & Sons. wheeling STAN
ton and Davenport.
j. s. Moore is known as an able and
forcible writer on economic questions. He
has made special study Of the tariff and
the Affects OF high custom duties upon
agricultural interests. TheIesults of that
study are embodied in the above work,
and compose ringing and unsnswerabls
arraignment of the tariff, which enriches
protected monopolists at the interests OF
tie laooring classes. As q complete and
succinct statement of the arguments urged
sgainst the maintenance OF the present
tariff it canr o. be surpassed.
ESSAYS on PRACTICAL POLITICS; by Theodore
Roosevelt. Octave paper, 40 cents. New Iork;
G. L. Putnam ana Sons. Wheeling: stanton
q Davenport.
Two essays originally appearing in the
Century have been combined in this little
work. Mr. Roosevelt is not only an
author of som, Iote, but has had some
what varied experience 10 New York poll
tics, and is we'll qualified TO discuss the
methods pursued by what are called prae-
tical politicians. This he does at length,
and in On entertaining way, that will not
only attrscs but open the eyes OF many
m n, who don't know how the New York
machine is Iun.
AMERICAN Prisons" in the tenth United States
census paper by Frederick Howard wines.
In paper, % cents New York: G. P. Putnam
4 Sons. Wheeling: Stanton and Davenport.
Thisis an exhaustive study into the ORR
gin, anteced ents and character Of Amt
pri son clasxs. The author has made q
thorough inves tigstion into the members
of this class, their offenss, terms Of pun-
ishment, habits, etc, and is thoroughly
competent to discuss every question In
volved. His paper will prove handy and
convenient book of reference.
SHARING THE PROFITS In paper. % cents. By
Mary Whiten Heath. Boston: CHM, heatn
l. Co.
TIE above is next little compilation of
facts and figures hea,ipg on the problem OF
p: oit-shsring, as an effort to harmonic
cap tai and labor. 1t explains in the
shortest and clearest terms the theory OF
pr2fit-shsripg and describes the result
where triedS 1t will be valuable book
to the student OF practical economies.
Medical Classics is an ably edited pabli-
cation which has attained an extraordinary
circulation iu the blisf period Of two years.
Al; houph dsyo, ed to matters OF health, II
is not filed with long and windy t1eItlses
on diseases with lorg names, album ding
in technical tsrms ard Ineligible only to
an NJ. D., bat contains sholt, helpful arti- |
cles On subjects of interest ID the PEOPLE at
large, and ire srt:c'e' are all by writer's
distinguished in their Professions.
Published at fifty cents year by the
Medical Classics Publishing Company, 50
Murray street, N. Y. Single copie', tea
cents.
The melancholy days have crme. but
Harper's Magazine for November brightens
them percepibly. There is no flavor Of
decay about it, and it, leaves are as fresh
end clean as in summer tine. The range
of subjects is wide, and thsre is catering 10
many kinds of literary taste. Two articles,
'Invalidism as Fire ATT" snd The
New Orleans Bench and BARN 1925" can
hardy fail to charm every OF who reads
thsm. TIE illus !raticn5 all through are
most artistic, and the Departments show
their usual sweetness, light and common
serSa.
TIE F,rum for November contains q
broad review of Old World politics by
Pr5f. Arnuuus Vsmber, the famous Hun
sarian author. Following tie discussion
in the October Forum by ProF TausSig, OF
Harvard, Of How the Tariff Affects
Wages" in the November numb:r, Repre-
sentative w. c. P. Breckinridgs shows,
from a Democratic point of view, "Ho"
the Tar'ft Affsc!s Industry Other In
tsresting articles make up an unusually
strong number of this able periodical.
Forum Publishing Co., 253 Fifth avenue,
New York.
The pical railroad man who runs on
the read" is described by B. B. Adams,
Jr., in his article on 1.-THE Everyday Lite
of Rsilro I'd Men," in Scribner'S for No
yember. Brakemen, conductors. station
agents and baggage masters will find IL
this article an acc 1rate end sppreclatlve
sccaunt of their hsrdships and pleasures
A, B. Frost has illustrated it with eighteen
realistic drawings.
Many Of our resders will be glad 10 hear
that Macmillan & Co. will issue imms-
diately a handsome edition OF Mrs. Hum
ph,y Wards "R)Ecrt EIsmere," IN two
yoldmes, Globe 8vo, uniform in size with
their a,tractiye edition Of Mr.. Matthew
Aruold's writipgs. By kind permission OF
TIE author it has been made expressly for
tho A merican market