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Show L1TERATUBE. BABY LAN Dm This iofanl's magazine commeQCte the new year with ad attractive number num-ber which coniaioB a dozen or bo pretty pictures, and the usual amount ol child literature. Subscription price, 50 cents a year. Address, D. Lolhrop & Co., Bottjn, Moss. ALT A- CALIPOr.XTA ALl'AXAC. The above almanac makes its twelfth annual appearance, aud id addition to the usual calendars and astronomical tables, it contains a great variety of statistics and inior-tnation inior-tnation concerning the Pacifio Coast. U is a sort of condensed history of. the slope lor the year. Its chronological chrono-logical tables aro full and interesting. Tbo little bcok is a yeir book of facta, and valuable to all classes. Price, 30 cents. Address F. MatCrellish & Co., San Franciaco, Cal. - YICK'S FLORAL GUIDE. Of tho tutkuy guidoa and aed and plant catalogues Bent out by our nurserymen, and that are doing so I much to inform and beautify and enrich our country, none are bo beautiful, none so instructive as Vicfc's Floral Guide. Its paper ia of the choicest, its illustrations handsome, hand-some, aud fciven by the hundred, while its colored plate is a gem. This work, though cosliug but five cents, is handsome enough for a gift book, or a place on the parlor table. Published by JameB Vick. Roches- tor. Www Ym-lc - conductors' migazixe. The Conductors' Monthly Magazine and Repository ia a new periodical which begins with January, being published in Chicago by J. Ward Boyle3. It is a handsomely gotten up periodical of sixty-four pages ol reading read-ing matter, embracing poetry, sketches of railroad people, amusement amuse-ment notes, general miacellsny, etc. Several well known and oleasing writers contribute to the first number. The magazine is illusirated, and doubtless will noon become a favorite with railroad employ (Si, as well as the pubiio generally. The subscription price is $1.75 a year. Address J. Ward Boy lea, P. 0. box 505, Chicago, III. ARCHIBALD THE CAT Aud other Sea Yarns. By Ihe Sailor "out of the World." This is a laughable little 25 cent book published pub-lished by the World, New York. It is illustrated by Church. The old sailor who dictates the preface says: "All Bailor-men as reads these here yarns wont find no objection into 'em, 'cause they'll- know as they're all right and 'jonnuck;' but as they may come under the eye of personB as aiut hadjthe advantage of a Beafarin' eddi-cation eddi-cation as may find the truths herein expressed too heavy for their tackles, bein1 only able to git 'em alongside and not by no means able to h'ist 'em in; to all sich I would Bay thajt what I prides myself most into 'em is their extreme accuracy." " THE WORLD' 8 AUd&iIAC. The World's Alma niac for 1S79 ia one of the raciest little publications of the season. Its contents are made up of tho famous fablee "out of the World" aud other "useless and interesting inter-esting information." We reproduce one of tho fables, without going to tho trouble of saying anything about Francis Murphy aud other ex-boiled owie: A Boiled Owl, whose Imagination had peopled the Twilight Woods with Snakes, finding that Keform was Necessary, Neces-sary, swore ott, and, becoming an Apostle Apos-tle of Temperancp, lico'.od thereafter at $300 a wcolc and Expenses to Crowded liarns. Moral' Long as tho Lamp holds out to Burn, the biuner .Lecturer my Turn. Here are Bome specimens of double-pointed double-pointed paragraph's: Tho Atheist that strews ashes upon tho ici is nearer to thi Kirgdom than the Deacon who casts his Banana Peels whero they may ho trodden under foot by men. A moment's reflection should convince you that when you say of a stranger that you "wouldn't know him from Adam," you are wildly inaccurate. They do aot dro:s alike. The price of the Almaniac ia 25 ! ceuta. Address the World, 35 Park Row, N. Y. Blackwood's magazine. Blackwood's Magazine for December fully euttiina the reputation of this famoue magazine, as always contaiug: mg something fresh aud instructive, and turniehing the best atories that are published in periodical literature. Of storiep, we fixd a continuation of the serial, "John Caldigate," and a Bhort one, complete iu this number, entitled "The Cottage by the Kiver,," vhicn touches on the supernatural, acd is based upon facte wbiou actually occurred, and of which no explanation explana-tion is attempted. Tho paper on ' "Journalists" will attract our breth ren of the presa. It mdicates the changes in the world of literature w'hica have tiiKen place during the hset twenty yearn, and among other innovations points out the duties and qualifications of the correspondent, "our own," "onr war," and "our special," whose contributions form eo important a feature in the newspapers nflhodnv " "Tho Pm?rMnt N.vvnl Architecture" notes the wonderful increase in the number of iron-built ahips, aud shows whero these havo a superiority over those built of wood. Other aniclea are "Tho Fruit and Vintage of Herefordshire," and "The Berlin Settlement." Subscription price, 14 a year. Addrrca, Leonard Scott Publishing Co., 41 Barclay street. Now York. |