The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-03
BOOK NOTICES.

A MANUAL OF INVESTMENTS; Important
Facts and Figures Regarding Southern In
vestment Securities. By John L. Williams
& Son. Richmond, Va. Cloth, 50 So The
Washington Post speaks of this work as a
handsomely bound volume of 406 pages, re-
presenting an enormous quantity of patient
and intelligent labor, and invaluable as a
guide to investors in southern securities.
The publication was commenced some years
ago in a modest way, but with
the wonderful growth OF the south
it has steadily expanded and diffused
its usefulness until now it is recog-
niZed as standard authority and holds a
| high reputation both in Europe aud the
United States. It embraces the latest au-
thoritative information in regard to south
ern railroa Is, land companies. ater works,
street railroad, electric light and gas COM
panies, and canals; the Indebtedness of
states and cities, areas and population, cot
ton statistics, mining and manufacturing
corp ratlons, immigration, railway enter
prises. the sugar end tobacco industries,
savings bank statistics, coal and iron COM
panies. and all features Of material prog
ress in the south.
The twenty-fourth volume OF ALDEN'S
MANIFOLD CYCLoPEDIA has been issued
Though conducted il a quiet manner. this
cyclopedia is one of the great literary
undertakings of the time Something of its
magnitude may be seen by the fact that the
closing topic of the present volume is
Montem. Sixteen more volumes will be
required to complete the alphabet, all of
which are promised within the year 1891.
In the present volume five states are
treated: Michigan is given over i6 pages
MINES )ta, about Is pages Mississippi
about 9 pages; Missouri. IL pages, and
Montana, 10 pages. Mexico is also treated
at length. j. B. Alden, publisher, New
York
MILLIoNAIREs OF A DAY. An inside
history of the great Southern California
boom. BY Theodore s. Van Dyke New
York: Fords, Howard & Hubert. Cloth,
81: paper, 50 cents. Readers of other
books by Mr.. Van Dyke will not be disap-
pointed i this one. Let him pick up the
two travellers and a Southern California
ranchsro-pp. Q to 10. and he will not be
satisfied till he has read the whole story.
1t is as apt and clever as anything that this
charming writer has produced.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH JEFF
PERSON. The Century Company, New
York, publisher. The Autobiography Of
Joseph Jefferson has already been published
in serial form in the Century Magazine.
and no other thing has recently appeared in
that popular periodical that has given its
readers more genuine pleasure. 1t is safe to
saw thai many of those who read the auto
biography as it appeared in the magazine
will read it again in the form in which 1t
now appears, aud in doing so they will be
well repaid.
BABYLAND FOR 1890 With colored
frontispiece. Cloth. 81; boards. 70 cents.
Boston: D. Lothrop Company. The volume
is crowded with good things-little stories,
rhymes and iingles, and wealth of illus
tratious that serve 70 emphasize and mako
doubly interesting the text. The volume is
dressed in an attractive and decorative
cover, and Miss Adains' spirited color draw
ings are a fitting Introduction and con
clnsion to the delight and glee for the little
folks that live between the covers.