The record-union., 1896-03-19

Invention" Ellerslie Wallace, NJ. D.;
''Woman's Wages Kate Stephens; "A
Guerrilla Eden,'' Felix Oswald; Chem
lists as Leaders" Peter Townsend Aus
tin.
D. M. Ferry. & Co., seedsmen. Detroit.
Mich, have issued their "Seed Annual
for 1896. 1t is profusely illustrated and
conveys a great deal of information to
growers, gardeners and fiorieulturists,
and all interested in production from
the soil. The modern farmer is not con-
tent to use the antiquated tools and
methods Of his father. In this age OF
keen competition the farmer who wishes
TO prosper needs the most improved
farming implements, and by reading
| the best agricultural literature, he keeps
in touch with the spirit of progress. He
is particular, also, in regard to the KIND
| OF seed he plants and the manner or
planting it. The seeds must be of the
highest fertility and grown from the
| highest cultivated and most profitable
varieties of stock. The Ferry & Co.
| Annual" shows that the company fully
appreciates these facts. 1t puts for
ward strong claims, fortified by guar
antees and proofs, the excellence of
their goods. The book is of great value
to farmers and gardeners-a real cycio-
pedia of planting and farming knowl-
edge. 1t contains more useful and prac-
teal information than many textbooks
sold for a dollar or more. 1t will be
mailed free to anyone sending his name
and address on a postal card to the
firm.
The array of magazines for March is
large these days, but among them
'Ev'ry Month must be said to hold a
conspicuous position This number is
Well filled with illustrations of an ex-
pensive character, and music as bright
and catchy as any that ever thrilled the
popular heart. There is a dreamy waltz
by the world-renowned Emile Waldteu-
fel of Paris, entitled Love in Spring
| time and a descriptive song of ex-
quisite melody and pathes called "As
the Ship Went Down." May Irwin's
celebrated New Bully song has been
Transcribed as a two-step by Theo. f.
Morse, and forms one of the instru-
mental numbers. Dear Dorothy" a
serenade of rare merit, is the first num-
Der in the book. The excellent reading
matter must here suffer a mere men
tion. Howley, Hayiland & Co., E.
Twentieth street, New York.
The Overland Monthly for April
viii contain several notable articles.
John j. Valentine, President of Wells,
Fargo & Co., will have a strong and in
cisiye article on International Bimetal-
lism." "California at the Atlanta Ex-
position" is treated py J. A. Filcher,
Commissioner General from the State
10 the exposition; the Grand Army of
the Republic on the Pacific Coast will
be interested in an article on Defend
ers of the Union,'' by Frank Elliott My
ers. The educational department will
contain an article by Professor Thomas
r. Bacon of the University of California
ON The Study of History Beside
these articles there will be a strong
showing of stories, sketches and poems
and one of Boeringer's series Original
Sketches by San Francisco Painters, -
Henry Raschen being Illustrated this
month.
Among the many good things Table
Talk" puts before us this month is an
article on Candy Making by Miss C.
G. Bedford, an acknowledged expert in
that line; a description of "A Mexican
Dinner the regular department of
"Housekeepers' Inquiries" which con-
tains nearly fifty recipes-a veritable
cookbook in itself; the new bill of fare,
which is full of woman's interests; the
new menus for March, which include
one for every meal of the month, and
1.-THE Lenten CaIm,'' in which the writer
delves among the fancies of fashions
world. The entertainments, novelties,
books-everything for the March sea-
son of 1S96-you will find in its pages.
Our readers may obtain a sample copy
of this magazine, free, by addressing
the Table Talk Publishing Company of
Philadelphia, Pa.
We have from the Overland Monthly
Publishing Company (San Francisco)
Volume XXVI (second series) of the
Overland Monthly" edited by Rounse-
Vile Wil6man. It is handsomely bound
in muslin and includes the numbers
from July to December, 1895. 1t is by
all cdds the best illustrated volume Of
Overland" This sterling magazine
has done for California more than Cali
fornia has done for it. Such a visible
credit to our intelligence literary ca
pdCiiy anu p1OQGCllNC S1AS15 OuStlI "
commend for it the most cordial and
more than liberal support.
"The Spider of Truxillo'' is a novel
by Richard Henry Savage, author of
MY Official Wife, It is from the press
of f. Tenryson Neely, New York and
Chicago. 1t is in Mr.. Savages usual
dramatic and vigorous style, and is an
attractive, interesting, sustaining
story.
.'The Pocket Magazine for March
Of. y. Stokes & Co., New York; has
THE Twinkling of an Eye" by Brander
Mathews. and stories by Kipling. Mrs.
Burton Harrison, r. II. Stoddard, and
poem by r. w. Chalmers, all good
fiction by foremost authors.
"The Captains Romance is a novel
by Opie Read, from the press of F. Ten
nyson Nicely, New York and Chicago.
There arc several short stories in the
volume. Mr.. Read is one of the most
successful of modern sensation novel
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