The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-01-11 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CASSELL AND COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS.—Having already this month noticed several of the serials published by this firm, we give a few brief remarks only on some of their other notable publications. Cassell's Popular Gardening is now complete and the present number, being the concluding part, is issued with index to the entire work. Picturesque Mediterranean deals this month with the districts of Marseilles and Corsica, the views of which are charmingly depicted. Book of the Household: This is a most useful work and should be in the hands of every housekeeper. It is full of information of a reliable kind. The Conquests of the Cross, edited by Edwin Hodder, continues the record of missionary work throughout the world, and gives illustrations of the leading events dealt with. We have also received the current parts of Library of English Literature, Celebrities of the Century, History of Music, Story of the Heavens, Technical Educator, Pilgrim's Progress, Dore's Paradise Lost, and Cassell's Pictorial Scrap Book. For comprehensive information relating to all kinds of sports Baily's Magazine must certainly commend itself. The articles in the January issue are spicy, instructive, and interesting, and form delightful reading to those of a sporting turn of mind. The frontispiece is a portrail, of Mr. J. Blundell Maple, M.P., a genuine sportsman, and one" who has made his name a household word by generous deeds scattered among many classes." Authors and subjects combine to make the January number of the Nineteenth Century one of more than ordinary interest. The authors include Mr. Gladstone (of course 0, Professor Huxley, Dr. Bamberger, Mr. T. W. Russell, the Countess of Jersey, Countess Cowper, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and the late Charles Mackay. The subjects are well varied, including as they do the "Natural inequality of man," the German daily press, the Melbourne Government, "the actual and political Ireland," "Ourselves and our foremothers," and " The decline of reserve among women." It will be notical that the periodical is abreast of these days of "women's rights" by having articles written by women and for women. In other ways, too, Mr. Knowles exhibits capacity to meet the fierce competition of the magazine world.  Lord Salisbury continues to make the most favourable progress. A respectably-dressed woman, about fifty years of age, committed suicide by jumping from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on Monday. This makes the thirty-second suicide from the bridge, and the third in about a month.  The funeral of the twenty-six children who were burned to death at Forest Gate Schools in ,the early morning of New Year's-day took place at West Ham Cemetery on Monday afternoon, in the presence.of many thousands of persons. Six women and a boy have been killed, and some others injured by a snowslip in Sierra City, California. The Roman Catholic Church and several houses were also wrecked. It is feared that a number of persons are buried beneath the debris. Peter Laing, the Elgin carter, entered upon his 106th year on Sunday. He is still in comparatively robust health, and regularly follows his occupation. His father died at 109, and his greatgrandfather is said to have lived to the remarkable age of 105.