THE AMERICAN 
?rs are a ware that a serious strike of the 
printers is threatened tor t 
.irreat nia<,razines are j^repa 
time after January. We d. 
the publieation of this jouri 
Twelve nmubers wiJl he iss 
BOOKS AND WRITERS. 
The X^itiirc StiuJy Revitiv announees that at the end 
of its first volume it will be changed to a monthly and 
issued for the nine months of the school year. 
A series of twelve panels of California wild-flowers 
reproduced by color photography trom the original paint- 
ings ])y Mrs. Elizal)eth Hallowell Saunders, has recently 
api)eared. The arrangement and coloring of the specimens 
rertect great credit upon the artist and appear to have lost 
little m the reproducing. Accompanying each plate is a 
short account of the plant illustrated whichgives the most 
The publishers of Country Lite in Anwricvi arnounce 
that next year the sub^sL-ription price will be advanced t,, 
magazine is \v<jrth just as much to each reader as he can 
get\)ut of it. It cannot Ix- judgetl by the .juality of its 
paper or the number ut its pages.^ The tin d te<L is how 
out of a dollar maga^irie. that is the nicigazijie for you to 
everybody should be satisfied. 
The editor of The Aptcrvx says that owing to the 
pressure of business, the delinquency of subscribers and 
the lack of co-operation by those in authority the mag- 
