Show LITERATURE GASKEUB CoMPEifDiTjit of ORU8 Educ tiodal Sal Legal and Commercial Com-mercial Illustrated By Professor G A Gsskelt Chicago Fairbanks Palmer C Utah Agent K M Powers Logan Cache County The author inscribes his book t the young men and young women of the United States who wish to I master at their own homes the most necessary forms and laws of business i busi-ness and society and he has crowded his 600 pages full of those forms and laws presenting a volume I vol-ume that contains instruction and miormauon arum me Beginning w the end I is an pllapodrida of orthography composition elocution letter writing social etiquette law and commercial forms poetry etc being i fact a book for the home fireside the counting house and the drawing room GaskelTs Compendium Compen-dium of Penmanship i embraced within the volumes also 1 self teaching course of bookkeeping chapters on orthography and rhetorical rhe-torical figures on composition elocution elo-cution and oratory a dictionary of synonyms containing over 12000 synonymous words dictionary of abbreviations a large number of poetical gems from the best poets a compendium of parliamentary law chapters on agriculture others giving giv-ing rules of business suggesting vocations location and giving hints to theyoung mel and young women the laws of social etiquette introductions intro-ductions salutations calls weddings wed-dings parties conversation etc besides be-sides numerous tables of icference mechanical scientific and general The is illustrated volume i profusely iutrted and gotten up in the finest style of the printers act Mr Powers who I at present in Logan Utah has the agency of the Compendium and through subagents sub-agents will make a complete canvass of the territory for this highly valuable valu-able work The ordinary work ordiar young man could hardly spend a few dollar dol-lar more profitably than in the purchase pur-chase of a copy HARPERS MAGAZINE Harpers Magazine for May might with some propriety be distinguished a the George Eliot Number since it contains the first portrait ever published of George Eliot that would recognized by her friends The paper on George lot i contributed contri-buted by C Kejian Paul and is very interesting a giving a true portraiture portrait-ure of the woman as well as a just estimate of her place in literature Moncure D Conway contributes a remarkably interesting article on Thomas Carlyle with eight illustrations illustra-tions This Number opens with a novelty in the shape of a frontispiece frontis-piece one of Abbeys fullpage illustrations ustrations of Abbeys poems The opening article of the number is de voted to Music and Musicians i New York by Frederick Ifast with fourteen excellent portraits including those of the most distinguished distin-guished orchestral leaders operatic singers musical composers violinists violin-ists and pianists Prof Merrill Edwards Gates contributes a timely article on Athens and Greeks of today to-day Mrs Aaron F Perry contributes contri-butes an eaing1y interesting paper pa-per entitled Decorative Pottery of Cincinnati with twenty excellent ecelent illustrations Marc Cooks Camp Louan illustrated paper on the Lake S1 Hegis region of the Adiron dacks calls attention to the sanitary sani-tary advantages of that neighbor hood to those suffering from suerng pulmonary pul-monary disease Shirlaws painting The Indian Girl is reproduced in a masterly engraving by Kruell accompanied ac-companied by a charming poem from the pen of Elizabeth Stuart l > who also Phelps contributes a poem on George Eliot One of the notable features of this number i the shortest short-est lovestory ever contributed to any magazine It is written by Edward Everett Hale and is less than a page in length The Editors Easy Chair in its characteristic vein gossips concerning the recent I inauguration the opera of Don Giovanni Gio-vanni Carlylea Reminiscences In ternational Copyright Womans Education in England and the absurdity ab-surdity of the too prevalent custom of attaching English names to ob jects whose associations are wholly American The other Editorial Departments are sustained with the usual vigor and interest New York Harper Brothers Salt Lake James Dwyer THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE The May number of this excel lent periodical contains a usual an a abundance of interesting and edify ing readingmatter Among the ar tides of particular excellence are a seasonable one entitled Mayday Observances by Josephine Pol lard with nine illustrations An cient and Modern Church Music by Alfreton Kervey Egyptian Houses I and Homes by Sarah KeablesHunt Medicine and the Missionaries by L A Ballard MDThe British and the Boers et each article is atcle admirably illustrated Out of the Word M OReillys interesting serial is continued and there are several short stories and sketches bv George J Hagar Hans Christian Andersen and other popular writers popua wrier3 The essays are by Paraonicus Rev Alexander McLeod Rev James M IVlntton D D Hattio N Morris Thomas L Chase LL D Morr poems are numerous and generally of great merit Besides generaly amount of entertaining and instruc tive miscellany are the following exceedingly ceedingly interesting features The Home Pulpit sermon by Rev Jos eph Parker DD Hard places in the Bible by RevDrJeems Temper ance Talk The Invalids Portion and Thoughts for the Afflicted Glimpses at the Religious World Word International SundaySchool Les sons etc Address Frank Leslie Publishing Place New House York 5355 and 57 Par |