The record-union., 1893-05-06
new PUBLICATIONS.

The "Annual Statistician and Econom-
ist'' for IS93-1S94 is at hand from the edi-
tor and publisher, l.. Z. McCarty, San
Francisco. For fifteen years or more we
have had annual reason to notice and
commend this publication. The present
edition contains 672 pages, and like each
of its predecessors in an improvement
and enlargement. The editor well says:
THAT life is too short for the attain
ment of desired knowledge is a common
complaint. He, therefore, who sIftS from
the vast mass of obtainable information
those facts whose novelty or importance
makes them valuable basis 1or either
thought or action, offers help to every
man, and conters a boon upon overtaXed
humanity. To do this is the object of this
work. That reliable data may be OBJ
tanned, correspondence is Kept up with
nearly every country on the globe, as
with the several States Of our Union. Of
fetal reports, often accessible only to
diplomatic circles. are regularly received
through Secretaries OF State or Chiefs OF
Bureaus from Finland on the north to
Cape Colony on the southern-most eX-
tremity of Africa, and from Japan in the
east to Alaska on the western shore of our
own continent. Especial care has been
taken to gather Information regarding
those South American nations that for
several years past have been drawing into
closer cOmtn61clll IeldJlODS Will OJuGT
parts of the world. General knowledge
and scientific achievement have been
winnowed to CLEAN their newest facts and
their most i'm portant conclusions. Each
DAVIS doings have been sifted to offer in
our chronOlogies a brief pen picture of
the year, for the world at large. The rapid
increase of intellectual and material ac-
tiVity which marks our present epoch has
necessitated an enlargement of certain
departments, notably the scientific, to
which especial attention is requested.
Within compass of twenty-five pages,
which the busiest man or woman can find
time to master, are recorded the latest
achievements i'll nearly all branches OF
science" The third division OF this
work, "The Practical" includes mathe-
mates, concerning which bold
attempt is made to prove the
correctness OF ancient mathematical
reasoning which claimed solution OF the
problem called ''Squaring the circle"
Many valuable tables have been added,
including the Presidential election OF 1892
by counties in each State; and the area
and population of every county in the
United States are given, with every town
or city containing over 1000 Inhabitants.
On the Pacific Coast every post town
segregated at the last census is included,
with its population as ascertained in 1890.
Areas and populations OF all countries
are given, including the subdivisions by
States, provinces or departments, of
Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
and Venezuela, and the latest divisions
of Africa. Every city in the world
whose population exceeds 50,0G0 and in
most countries every city where it eX-
ceeds z, ,000, is noted, while the capital of
every State and country, however small,
is given, with its number of inhabitants.
The silver question is treated at length
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the Columbian Exposition, to be held in
Chicago, during the present year, receives
due attention, together with the latest
turf notes and happenings, political
changes, and removals over the entire
country. Tables OF productions, exports
and imports, railroad and telegraph mile
age, receipts and expenditures, values,
public debts, taxes, ETC., are unusually
copiouS, and in some cases contain in
formation OF later date than may be found
in any other annual publication. The
''Statistician' is so valuable a work, so
varied and comprehensive, such an as
sistant to the busy man, that we could
not recapitulate all its interesting features
without unduly extending this notice.
The work can be had of the publisher
S14 California street. San Francisco, at
ST in red cloth binding, or 50 in black
leather.
The many Sunday-school teachers who
are among the readers of the "Quiver'
will be interested i'll the opening article in
the May number, "a Sunday-school
Teachers Museum" Tie serial, The
Willful Willoughby's, comes to an end.
''Cbrist in the Home," by Rev. John Tel
ford, follows this, and Mr.. Raymond
Blathwayt's lively interview with X. NJ.
Ballantyne, the wellknown author, next
comes Goods Hand in the Book of Ma
ture." Chaplain h. J. Hardy. who for so
long preferred to be known simply as the
author OF How to be Happy Though