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RAND, AICNALLY & Co.'S ENCYCLOPEDIA ANT
GAZETTEER. Chicago and New York; Rand,
MeNally d Co. BY subscription only with
THE J. Dewing Company" san Francisco,
having entire charge of the work for the Pa
cihc coast.
OF the making of cyclopedias there is no
end. But the one before US departs from
conventional forms in this, that it is also a
gazetteer. The truth is, there has been
need for good comprehensive gazetteer.
This office recently experienced great diff
Guilty in procuring work of that order for
the desk of its news editor, and what ii did
obtain was an English work of old date,
though stamped as new edition, and
which proves to be, on examination, far
behind date. The work before US is q royal
quarto, three columns to the page,
and of over 500 pages. There are so full
page colored maps and nearly 1000 engrav-
| ings. We have given it a careful examina-
ton, aud as a condensed cyclopedia and a
gazetteer OF pleasing fullness it comes very
near, If not wholly, up to the need for a
book of quick reference. 1t is certainly in
valuable as work for the busy man and
| those who have not the time to examine
on every occasion an elaborated encyclo-
pedia. The claim is made for the work
that it presents in concise form the pith of
the Encyclopedia Britannica and OF Cham
| bers Encyclopedia and also much original
matter treating OF American subjects. We
| have not attempted to verify this state
ment, but selecting eighty broadly-varying
subjects, fifty towns, cities and counties,
and fifty rivers and mountains widely scat
| tered over the globe, the response of the
work has not failed us save in one
| instance, and that concerning river
in Northern Indiana, which, perhaps, is
not of sufficient importance after all to be
l A., IL,
| 1t has no relation to the commerce of the
world, except as drain for considerable
section. While it has been said that this
| is a condensation, yet we find many ex-
tended articles, as for instance those upon
| Grecian Architecture, Great Britain and
Ireland, DYE Stuffs, Chicago, Bristol, Gun
merry, the Ear, Photography, Poisous, 20
ology, Smallpox, Sight, Edgar A Poe,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the line of
American poets and authors, especially;
the Nervous System, Mass, Magnetism, etc.
| Concerning the accuracy and standard of
the work, the authority is that of the two
encyclopedias named, but it is evident that
care has been taken to eliminate disputes
upon dictional questions and to confne
| the expression to recital of fact.
/ As our examination of the book is ex-
| tended we are more impressed with its COM
! pleteness and eompactness and its exceed
ing usefulness as book of reference. 1t
should not displace a full cyclopedia in
any library, but there are thousands who
! do not feel able to possess the Britannica,
| Chambers or the American, and to ali such
| this work will prove a blessing. So, too,
as desk book 1t serves admirably for those
who cannot in office and counung-room
keep the full cyclopedias at hand, and who
cannot afford the time from business to
search through extended articles in the
greater works. The full-page maps add
| much of value TO the book. They are
superior in all respects.
The Century Magazine" for November
| Century Company New York; is richly
illustrated. The number begins the TWEEN
tieth year of the magazine. Among the
leading papers. and in addition to the seri-
ais, the departments and reviews, these
articles are presented; The Autobiography
| of Joseph Jefferson" The Problems of
Modern Society,"" William G. Lanyard
Street Life in Madrid" Susan n. Carter;
is There any Word from the Lord?H John
| V. Cheney; The Merry Chanter" Frank
r. Stockton; ''The Winter Camp" Mary
Halieck Foote; Italian Old Masters-Ben-
ozzo Gozz0li," w. J. Sullman; The Valley
of the Winding Water, Charles G. D.
Roberts; "Clovelly and Tintagel," Aubrey
de We're; "a Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court" Mark Twain; "a Thanks
| giving Hymn S. E. Adams "Poe's Cot
! tage at FoIdham," John H. Boner; THE
Grolier Club Brander Matthews; "Adven-
lures in Eastern Siberia" George KEENAN,;
THE Case of John Van Arsdale." Ernest
h Crosby; "Lincoln-The Second Inaug-
ural; Five Forks; Appomattox," John G..
Nicolay, John Hay,
The North American Review u for No.
vember presents these papers Is Divorce
| Wrong PA Discussion" by Cardinal Glib
bons, Bishop Henry c. Potter, Colonel
Robt. G. Ingersoll, Rev. S. w. Dixie, LID,
THE Hopes of the Democratic Party"
by Senator Vest, of Missouri Our Ma
tional Conceits," by Murat Halstead The
Confederation of Professor Huxley" by
John Burroughs; Are Telegraph Rates
too High?" by Norvin Green; The Flu
ture of Fiction" by Edgar Saltus; The
New instrument of Execution" by Harold
P. Brown, State Expert; AN English View
of the Civil War" by Viscount Wolseley ;
1.-The Tendencies of Modern Comedy" by
Charles Wyndham Are the Republicans
in to Stay?' by Senator Hoar The Dan
gers of Electric Lighting" by Thomas A.
Edison The Union Men of the South, y
by w. W. Mills " Taxation or Non-Taxa-
ton for Churches by Philo R. Sylvester
"Some Early Harvard Customs" by Helen
Marshall North civil Service Reform
Again" by John T. Doyle.
The National Journalist for September,
consists of over one hundred PAGES 1t
contains full reports of the proceedings OF
the recent annual meeting of the National
Press Association and host of portraits OF
officers and members present at the De-
troit session. with views of the scenes
1 ID -, ., 4
ings and parks in which Detroit enter
tanned the delegates. There are also con-
densed reports of the proceedings of State
Editorial Associations, together with por-
traits of officers of the United Typothetie OF
America. and biographical sketches of 8
great many editors and employing print
ers. The magazine is published at Chicago
and is splendid specimen of the typo
graphic art.
From Joseph A. Hoffman, bookseller
San Francisco, we have two beautiful SOU
venirs, in parchment and embossed covers
One is 'The Golden Gate Park" (San
Francisco), in albertype, and the other
" Glimpses of California" Both are pub.
lished by A. Wittemsnn, New York. The
illustrations are very handsome and ex.
quisitely executed. There is no aceompa-
nying text, nor is there need for any. For
MONDAY presents these DJoAlets OF souvenir
are admirably adapted. especially TO send
to our friends Eastward Three others OF
similar character devoted TO scenes in San
Francisco are ready in the press. -Four Of
the series sell at so cents, and one embrac-
ing all the views of the four, sells at 81.
From Thom Y Crowell & Co., New
York, we have Jed, Boys Adventures
in the Army of 81 '65." It is by Warren Lee
Goss. who has written much of the war of the
rebellion. The story OF Jed Is thrilling