The First Prize in the Picture Puzzle contest is awarded to Mrs. G. Zwinger, 260 Walnut St., Chicago, Ill. The second prize is awarded to Miss Helen C. Taylor, 608 Union St., San Francisco. The third and fourth prize respectively to Mrs. Nicholas E. Boyd, Sailors' Home, San Francisco, and J. S. Chase, 936 Pasadena Ave., E. Los Angeles.

The Garden for a Dollar will be sent to winners of prizes, in season for planting, by the Sunset Seed Co., of San Francisco.

The answer to the puzzle:

There was only one s' (s apostrophe) in the puzzle and that was in the advertisement of the Hotel Knutsford, Salt Lake City, and occurs in the word "days"" in the fragment of a sentence beginning "Stop for a few days' rest in the Mormon City."

There were over 3,000 answers received and our advertisers must have reaped an enormous benefit from the wide circulation given by the puzzle. Several answers were received from London, some from India, and one from China. Most of the answers came from Pacific Coast readers.

We ask the successful ones and others to take a hand in competing for the prizes in our Prize Story Competition.

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Of the swarm of dainty booklets that are now being printed on the series plan, two call for special mention, because of merit. The Bibelot, "a Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known," is published by Thomas B. Mosher, of Portland, Maine.

A chapter from Walter Pater, "A Discourse of Marcus Aurelius," and selections from Mr. H. T. Wharton's translations under the title "Fragments from Sappho," are two of the issues and will give an idea of the high character of the collection.

The second series spoken of, is Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, issued by the Putnams. The Journeys already take in trips to the haunts of George Eliot, Carlyle, Ruskin, Gladstone, Turner, Swift, and Hugo. There is much charm about Mr. Hubbard's style; he takes his reader into his confidence with great cordiality, and when the little trip is over, we are too surprised to resent the amount of instruction that has been given in this dainty shape.

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In talking of home industry, of the patronage of home creations, why not include home literature which certainly is a home industry, and a very important and needful one.

In the city of San Francisco a magazine is published the OVERLAND - second to none in the Union. It does not devote its attention all to science or all to any peculiar literature. Therefore it cannot be called a class journal. But it is a magazine of current literature, by a corps of writers who cannot fail to interest and to instruct. Sun, Colusa, Cal.. Aug. 8, '95.

Of the numerous volumes that have been published of late on bird lore, none is so practicable or on the whole so well suited to the needs of the beginner as the Pocket Guide to the Common

Land Birds of New England. The book is the outcome of long experience in teaching college women how to study common birds, and the method of classification, based on the conspicuous colors or markings, is most ingeniously arranged, in such a way that with the aid of the artificial key the identity of any bird may be easily traced. In all, Professor Willcox describes eighty nine different species, devoting a page or so of text to each, and giving references to collateral literature. The preliminary suggestions as to methods of study are concise and sensible, and altogether the Pocket Guide is pretty sure to be regarded by amateur orinthologists as just the thing they have been looking for.

Pacific Coast authorship has received new impetus and the far West is receiving new recognition in the literary world through "The Panglima Muda," a Malayan romance reprinted from the OVERLAND MONTHLY, by Rounsevelle Wildman. It is invitingly illustrated and written in brilliant conversational style, humor flashing from hidden nooks and corners when least expected. Before the second page is reached you are lost in the jungles of the tropics and have left your everyday world of brick and mortar far behind. The story is a succession of dramatic scenes and flashing incidents.

The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.

1 Pocket Guide to the Common Land Birds of New England. By M. A. Willcox. Boston: Lee and Shepard:

195.

Other Books Received.

The Peoples and Politics of the Far East. By Henry Norman. New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons: 1895.

The Woman Who Did. By Grant Allen: Boston: Roberts Bros.: 1895.

The Mountains of California. By John Muir. New York: Century Co.: 1895.

A Mormon Wife. By Grace W. Trout. Chicago: Chas. H. Kerr & Co.: 1895.

Summary of Vital Statistics of New England. Boston: Damrell & Upham.

Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. By Jas. Morier. New York: Macmillan & Co.: 1895. For sale by Doxey.

The American Government. By B. A Hinsdale. Chicago and New York: The Werner Co.: 1895. $1.50.

Degeneration. By Max Nordau. New York: D. Appleton & Co.: 1895.

Works of Edgar Allan Poe. By E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodbury. Chicago: Stone & Kimball: 1895.

The Little Huguenot. By Max Pemberton. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1895.

Their Wedding Journey. By W. D. Howells. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.: 1895.

Betsey Jane on Wheels. By H. E. Brown. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co.: 1895.

The American Congress. By Joseph West Moore. New York: Harper & Bros.: 1895.