Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-06-13
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.
The 5000 Best Books.

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ting her full moneys worth in the maya
zine. She can take the fullest advantage
OF perfect educational plan by which she
can educate her daughters or sons at the
best colleges in the country free of
charge, and now the Journal has arranged
it 80 that she can buy her books-even
single book at a time-at prices heretofore
obtained only by large buyers. There
comes to us from this magazine a very
artistically.gotten-up illustrated booklet
of over 250 pages, called $4,000 Books"
which serves as an easy guide to the best
books in any department Of reading. This
guide is very we'll done. The best literary
experts of New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia were engaged by the Journal to
select the five thousand books which it
presents as the most desirable for home
library, and their work has been admira-
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comments are given by these men OF
books, and besides there are given not less
than 100 portraits Of leading authors. No
book will, perhaps, do so much to extend
good reading as this guide, SO carefully
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generously offered, free of any charge, by
the publishers Of The Ladies' Home Jour-
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best and easiest guide to wise selection
of books that has been issued for long
time.
The Delineator for June is called the
Outing Number. Supplementing the
large display Of Summer Fashions is
finely illustrated article on Garments for
Sporting and Outing Wear, in which
ladies', misses and girls will find their de-
mands for athletic outfits satisfied.
Around the Tea-Table is also seasonable
in it's subjects, and the article on Cookery
deals largely with summer foods and
dishes. A well-written paper on the Ohio
State University brings the present series
of co-educational colleges in the United
States to close, and the end is announced
also Of the chapters on Venetian Iron
Work. Serving and Waiting at Table is
fully treated in the series on the home,
the article on Preservation and Renova.
ton deals with cleaning lamp shades and
oil paintings, and there is an instructive
paper on The Newest Books. The Elk.
periences Of Training School Life are
continued, and a novel entertainment
given as A Studio Party. There are also
special contributions on Knitting, Net.
ting, Tatting, Lace-Making, etc.
Shenandoah, a story of Sheridan
Great Ride. by J. p. Tracy, is one Of the
most fascinating stories ever emanating
from the pen Of an American author, and
is hailed with delight by all who have
read it. 1t is love story pure and sim
ple-founded on the great achievements
of Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley dur
ing the late civil war, and the descriptions
of the Battle of Wi nchester and OF Sheri
dams Great Ride ara here given as seen by
an eyewitness. TIL is is truly wonderful
book. All old soldiers their wives and
children will read this great book and en-.
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printed on fine pape handsomely illus.
trated, and bound in illuminated cover.
Published by the Novelist Publishing Co.,
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throughout the United States and Canada
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The complete novel in the June issue
OF Lippincott's is "The Battle OF Sala-
manca," stirring tale of the Napoleonic
wars, from the Spanish Of Benito Perez
Galdos, an author OF high repute in his
own country, but hitherto too little known
in America. 1t is followed by brief &C.
count of "Galdos and his Novels" by the
translator, Rollo Ogden. William Thorn
son, pioneer Of the days when the Cali
fornia trial was new, relates wild west.
ern adventure of long ago, "Beset in
Aravaipa Canon" The other stories of
the number are, GAS day in June" by
May D. Hatch, and Interviewer
Strains," by ]. Percival Pollard. John