most rank by its honest and fearless criticism, and can now claim to be the best and most interesting literary journal in the United States.

THEODORE L. DE VINNE, the author of "The Invention of Printing," "The Growth of Woodcut Printing," etc., who has long been the proprietor of the printing firm of Francis Hart & Co., of New York, justly renowned as high class printers, the Century and St. Nicholas being the productions of their press, will hereafter give his name to the firm, which will be known as Theo. L. De Vinne & Co.

GLACIATION.-Prof. W. J. McGee, of Farley, Iowa, who is at present engaged on the United States Geological Survey, Division of the Great Basin, Salt Lake City, has made glaciation and subjects connected with it a special study. Therefore at the present time, when modifications of the Ice-cap" theory are attracting so much attention, some of his papers which have lately appeared are specially interesting. In the "Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science," vol. 29, Prof. W. J. McGee has contributed a paper on "Maximum Synchronous Glaciation," and a supplementary note to the same appeared in volume 22 of the "American Journal of Science," entitled "Local Subsidence Produced by an Ice-sheet." In the same volume of the same journal Professor McGee gives a "Contribution to Croll's Theory of Secular Climatic Changes," and in volume 24 a paper on Löss and Associated Deposits of Des Moines," the joint production of W. J. McGee and R. Elsworth Call, which was read before the Iowa Academy of Sciences, May 13th, 1882.

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SILOS AND ENSILAGE.-Number 48, Special Report, issued under the direction of the Hon. Geo. B. Loring, the U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture, by D. M. Nesbit, gives all the practical information on the subject of ensilage and making silos. Mr. Nesbit has eliminated all theoretical matter from the report, and where the testimony was uniform throughout on a particular point, it has not been repeated. The evidence obtained having been collected both in Canada and all parts of the United States from farmers who had built silos and used ensilage, it will be useful in England, where there seems more inclination to theorize on the matter than put it to practical test.

Report of the (U.S.) COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.General John Eaton, the Commissioner of Education, has issued his Eleventh Report for 1880. He finds the means allowed to his office entirely inadequate for collecting and distributing the information now called for. Seven circulars of information and six bulletins have been published during the year, one of them on Medical Colleges in the United States, a subject on which there is often a craving for enlightenment. The number of American correspondents of the office now number 8,231, more than four times the number that there were at the beginning of the present decade. The total school population in the States for 1880 was 15.351,875; the number enrolled in public schools, 9,680,403, average daily attendance, 5,744,188, four States not reporting. The school population of the Territories was 184,405, Idaho and Wyoming not reporting; enrolment in public schools 101,118; average daily attendance 61,154, two territories not reporting. The percentages of enrolment and average daily attendance was highest in Massachusetts, and lowest in Louisiana.

THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION.-Circulars of Information, No. 4 for 1882, which we have just received, is on "Industrial Art in Schools," by Mr. Charles G. Leland, who has been lately engaged in introducing the practice of ornamental art in schools, and this pamphlet embodies the result of his experience. No. 5 of the same series is on "Maternal Schools in France," which are intended for children under the age of six years. No. 6 is on "Technical Instruction in France," being the Report of Messrs. Samuelson, Roscoe, Magnus, Slagg, Smith and Woodall, who were appointed by the British Government to enquire into the subject.

ASTRONOMICAL Papers of the Bureau of NAVIGATION. -It is intended to issue from time to time certain important astronomical papers prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac; the first volume of this series edited by Prof. Simon Newcomb, Ph.D., LL.D., has been published, and contains papers on Solar Eclipses; a Transformation of Hansen's Lunar Theory compared with Delaunay; Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light; Catalogue of 1098 Standard Clock and Zodiacal Stars; on Gauss' method of computing secular perturbations, and discussion of observed Transits of Mercury. These papers are printed in 4to. size on heavy paper and fully illus trated where requisite.

UNITED STATES SURVEYS WEST OF THE 100TH MERIDIAN.-Volume III. of the Report upon the United States Geographical Surveys west of the 100th Meridian in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler under the direction of Brig.-Gen. H. G. Wright, forms a supplement and relates to geological examinations in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico during 1878 and 1879 by Prof John J. Stevenson, Ph.D. This volume is divided into four parts,-Introduction, Systematic Geology, Descriptive Geology, and Economic Geology. There is also an appendix by Dr. C. A. White, on the Carboniferous invertebrate fossils of New Mexico.

U. S. COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES REPORT, 1879.Professor S. F. Baird has issued his Seventh Report on the Fish and Fisheries of the United States. The volume contains two articles on that moot question the propagation of the eel, which has never been satisfactorily solved from the time the Greek poets ascribed their paternity to Jupiter, to the present time. The two articles we speak of are from the German of Hermes and Jacoby, and the theory advanced by them is, that eels go to the sea to bring the organs of generation to perfection and to propagate, and that the effort of procreation so exhausts them that they die

at sea.

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.-The Hon. John Jay Knox has issued his Nineteenth Annual Report for 1881. It shows that eighty-six national banks were organized during the year, the largest number organized in any year since 1872, These banks have notes in circulation amounting to 5,233,580 dols., and an authorized capital of 9,651,050 dols. National banks are now in operation in every state of the Union except Mississippi and every territory except Arizona, the total number up October, 1881, being 2,132, the largest number that have ever been in operation at the same time.

THE PROGRESS OF THE U. S.-"Our Country's Wealth and Influence" is the title of a volume edited by L. P. Brockett, A.M., M.D., and published by Mr. L. Stebbins, of Hartford, Conn. This work, which appears to be well and carefully done, shows the progress of American manufactures, and is illustrated by 400 engravings; it is one of those huge volumes of self-glorification the Americans are so fond of producing. The title says, "Demonstrating that we have achieved a position of equality with the foremost nations of the civilized world in one hundred years of independent national existence.' Quite true! But one important little item seems always left out in these calculations, and that is, that the countries of the old world are the nurseries of American producers. The United States import their wealthproducers ready-made, without being at the trouble and expense of rearing them. Many of these wealth-producers take accumulated capital over with them, all adding to the prosperity of their adopted country, and to the same extent impoverishing the countries from which they emigrate.

ADMIRAL DAHLGREN.-Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, have published a memoir of John A. Dahlgren, RearAdmiral of the United States Navy, by his widow, Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren. Curiously enough, the two scientific officers of the United States Navy, Ericsson and Dahlgren, were both of Swedish origin, and indeed both originally bore the same patronymic of Eric-sson or Ersson the Dahlgrens having had Royal licence to adopt that surname from Dahlen, where the family belonged, and grén signifying a branch or bough. Admiral Dahlgren did good service for the United States, though he had not the good fortune to have been concerned in such brilliant operations as those of Farragut and Porter, yet he contributed as much as those officers to the preservation of the Union by the efficient manner in which he maintained the blockade of the Southern Atlantic ports when the enemies of the Union were on the look-out for any pretence to get an International declaration of its being non-effective.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES.-Under this general title it is intended to issue from time to time a series of studies in historical and political science. Parts 1 to 6 have already appeared. The first is an Introduction to American Institutional History by E. A. Freeman, D.C.L., LL.D. The historian of the Norman Conquest" in 1881 paid a visit to his son, who had become a Virginia planter, and whilst in America he had an opportunity of examining into State Institutions there, and of tracing their connexion with those of Anglo-Norman times. Following in the same vein as Mr. Freeman's paper comes the second of the series, "The Germanic Origin of New England Towns" by Herbert B. Adams, Ph.D., with "Notes on Co-operation in New York" by the same gentleman, who is the Editor of the series of "Studies." The third of these publications contains

"Local Government in Illinois" by Albert Shaw, A.B., and "Local Government in Pennsylvania" by E. R. L. Gould, A.B. The more recent issues are, iv. "Saxon Tithing-Men in America," a paper read before the American Antiquarian Society, Oct. 21, 1881, by the editor; v. "Local Government in Michigan and the North-west," read before the American Social Science Association, Sept. 7, 1882, by E. W. Bemis; and vi. 46 Parish Institutions of Maryland, with Illustrations from Parish Records," by E. Ingle. The future historian will find in these "Studies" of the Johns Hopkins University material ready to his hand, which it would be considerable trouble to search out and digest for himself; therefore we look upon them as a very useful collection of historical monographs.

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.-The Bulletins of the American Geographical Society, No. 3, 1882, and No. 1, 1883, are just issued. Articles on the River Beni, by Dr. G. R. Heath, on the Frontiers of the United States, by Gen. G. L. Viele, are in the first-mentioned number; the latter named contains a map of the various cessions to the States since 1785. No. 1, 1883, contains an article on the Dutch in South Africa, by Col. Alfred Aylward, which mentions that the Transvaal produces a little gold, though from recent discoveries it seems probable that it will turn out to be the richest gold-field in the world. Mr. T. H. Lambert also contributes an article on the Origin of the Name of America from the National History of the Peruvians.

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AS A SOLDIER SAW IT.— Although rather late in the day. "Bullet and Shell, or the War as the Soldier saw it," published by Messrs. Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, New York, claims a place among the many works that have been published on the great contest between North and South. It is by Mr. Geo. F. Williams, one of the actors in the great drama. The following quotation will give an idea of the style of the author:- Lincoln, Seward, Stanton.-The contrast presented by these three distinguished men, as I talked, was a striking one. Lincoln's homely but expressive features seemed to lighten up as he listened to my description of some exciting scene. He appeared to see the awful vortex of death and flame, as the Nineteenth Corps moved on into it to relieve the pressure on the Sixth. His lips parted, and he straightened his tall form, when I spoke of the rapidity of the artillery fire, and the flash of the bright sabres of the cavalry drawn in the sunshine. He was, for the moment, on the ground itself; and his mind ran ahead of my words, and saw with his own eyes the entire scene of operations. Seward was fully as much interested and carried away as his chief, though he manifested it in a totally different way. His shaggy eyebrows fell lower as he leaned forward gazing at my diagrams, and he gave

an audible sigh of relief or satisfaction when I came to a turning-point in the tide of battle. Stanton stood up almost behind me; and he would ask a brief question now and then, which showed how well he grasped the situation. His voice was, however, calmed and collected, and his soft eyes glistened through his spectacles as he stroked his luxuriant black beard."

SAN JUAN DE NICARAGUA.-Don Manual M. de Peralta has published a brochure in Madrid and Paris on the rights of the Republics of Costa Rica and Nicaragua in connection with the river San Juan de Nicaragua, which was once proposed as the route for an inter-oceanic canal. M. de Peralta's pamphlet enters very fully into the history of this matter, and of all the documents and treaties connected with it.

SYDNEY (N.S.W.) FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.-How they spread the means of education in this Colony! The Trustees of the Sydney Free Public Library have announced their intention of circulating boxes of books amongst the "up country" villages. Each box will contain about sixty volumes selected from the most sterling works relating to biography, history, travels, science, art, etc. Such books only will be included as are of the highest merit in each class, and are beyond the ability of small local libraries to purchase. Each box will be followed by another in regular rotation, so that every "up country" station may in a course of time (long or short-fixed by itself) have had access to the best books on all subjects, equally as if its inhabitants resided in the capital. How many sleepy hollows" and "villages of falling waters are there in this the "old country," who would delight to be favoured with such means of using up their spare hours. We are almost tempted to pack up our traps and emigrate by the next Orient Line Steamer.

THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE.-Under this title Messrs. Pitt & Scott, St. Paul's Churchyard, publish a very useful little guide for emigrants, giving distances and fares to various parts of British America, with such information as to ocean passages, fares, and steamers required by all emigrants, together with tables of the difference between Greenwich mean time and the principal places throughout the world, etc. This little guide is divided into four parts-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Cape Colony.

BOOKS RECEIVED.-American Antiquarian, Jan. 1883.Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, Vol I. Part 2, Dec. 1882.-Grant (Robert), The Lambs, a Tragedy, J. R. Osgood and Co.-Bulletin of the Archæological Institute of America, January. 1883. - De Harlez on M. Luquiens' Criticism, reply to a Lecture delivered to the American Oriental Society, Oct. 26, 1882.Machi's Patent Bills of 1883. Fortieth Annual Report of the Managers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

COOLEY. Mr. W. Desborough Cooley, the writer on African geography, died on the 1st of March last. Though not a traveller himself, Mr. Cooley took great interest in African exploration, and though some of his theories on that subject have been proved erroneous, he was the first to treat in a scientific manner questions which have since been solved by actual experience.

Dozy. The University of Leyde and Oriental scholarship in general have sustained a severe loss thorough the death of Professor R. P. A. Dozy, who has succumbed to a pulmonary disease. He was born at Leyde in 1820, and was therefore 63 years at the time of his death. His researches into the History of the Arabs in N. W. Africa and in Spain during the Middle Ages will always entitle him to a foremost place among the historians of the second half of the 19th century. We add a list of Professor Dozy's works.

Recherches sur l'histoire politique et littéraire de l'Espagne pendant le moyen-âge. Vol. I. Svo. Leyde, 1849. Notices sur quelques manuscrits arabes. 8vo. Leyde, 1851. Recherches sur l'histoire politique et littéraire de l'Espagne pendant le moyen-âge. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Leyde, 1860.

Le Cid d'après de nouveaux documents. 8vo. Leyde, 1860. Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalousie par les Almarovides (711-1110). 4 vols. 8vo. Leyde, 1861.

Die Israëliten zu Mekka. 8vo. Leyde, 1864.

Oratio de causis cur Mohammedanorum cultura et humanitas prae ea quae christianorum est imminuta et corrupta sit. 8vo. Leyde, 1869.

Lettre à Mr. Fleischer contenant des remarques critiques et explicatives sur le texte d'Al-Makkari. 8vo. Leyde, 1871.

Le calendrier de Cordoue de l'année 961. Texte arabe et ancienne traduction latine. 8vo. Leyde, 1873. Supplément au dictionnaires arabes. 8 parts. 4to. Leyde, 1877-81.

Essai sur l'histoire de l'Islamisme. Traduit par V. Chauvin, 8vo. Leyde, 1849.

Dozy et Engelmann, Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais dérivés de l'Arabe. Second edition. 8vo. Leyde. 1879.

Abdol-Wahid al Marrekoshi. The history of the Almohades. Edited from a MS. in the Library of Leyde, by R. P. A. Dozy. 8vo. Leyde, 1847.

Al-Makkari. Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne, publiés par R. Dozy, G. Dugat, L. Krehl, et W. Wright. 2 vols. 4to. Leyde, 1855-61. Edrisi, Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne. Texte arabe publié pour la première fois des MSS. de Paris et d'Oxford, avec une traduction, des notes et un glossaire par R. Dozy et M. J. de Goeje. Svo. Leyde, 1866. Ibn-Adhari, Histoire de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne, intitulée Al-Bayano 'l-Mogrib. Publié avec des notes et un glossaire par R. P. A. Dozy. 2 vols. 8vo. Leyde, 1848-51.

Ibn-Badroun. Commentaire historique sur le poème d'IbnAbdoun, publie avec des notes, un glossaire et un index de noms propres par R. P. A. Dozy. 8vo. Leyde, 1848. GREENE.-Prof. George Washington Greene, of Cornell University, died Feb. 2, in his 72nd year, at East Greenwich, R.I., at his residence, Windmill Cottage. He was the grandson of Major-Gen. Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary times. whose life he wrote. He was the author of several schoolbooks and important historical volumes.

Browne (I.)-Law and Lawyers in Literature. 12mo. cloth, pp. xvi. and 413. Boston. 9s.

The design of the book is to show by extracts how the law and lawyers have been treated in literature by historians, novelists, poets, moralists, essayists, and satirists.

Bryce (C.) A Lost Function in Romance. Sq. 12mo. paper, pp. 23. New York. 1s. 6d.

The author's argument being that writers of to-day have no moral or intellectual aim, their sole object being to tell a story and amuse.

Buchanan (J. R., M.D.)-Moral Education; its Laws and Methods. Second Edition. 12mo. cloth, pp. viii. and 395. New York. 7s. 6d.

Buffum (J. H., M.D.)-Clinical Papers on Ophthalmology and Otology. 8vo. paper, pp. 22. Chicago. 1s. Entitled Sympathetic Ophthalmia; Glaucoma and Cataract; Ocular and Aural Complications of Scarlet Fever; Cataract Extraction.

Bull (Ole). A Memoir. By Mrs. Sara C. Bull. With Ole Bull's "Violin Notes" and Dr. A. B. Crosby's Anatomy of the Violinist." 8vo. cloth, pp. vi. and 417. With Portrait and Illustrations. Boston. 12s. 6d.

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Biography of the celebrated Norwegian violinist, b. 1810, d. 1880. The story of this great master of the violin is a romantic one, and will be gratefully welcomed by all who have known Ole Bull personally or been thrilled by his playing.

Burnz (E. B.) Help for Young Reporters; Giving Full Directions for Reporting in all its Branches; also Containing an Explanation of the Proposed Revision of English Speling [sic]. 16mo. cloth, pp. 47. New York. 2s. 6d.

Burnz (E. B.)-Phonic Shorthand for Schools, Business Writing and Reporting; Arranged on the Basis of Isaac Pitman's "Phonography." 12mo. cloth, pp. 120. New York. 5s.

Bush (C. G.)-Our Choir: a Symphonie in A B CDEFG, etc., Flat and Sharp, Major or Minor, Opus 1881. Oblong 8vo. boards, pp. 21. New York. 7s. 6d. Pen-and-ink caricatures and verses in queer rhythm and rhyme, describing the various personalities of a choir, including the Committee from the congregation and the coloured gentleman who blows the bellows.

Butterfield (C. W.)-Washington-Irvine Correspondence: the Official Letters which passed between Washington and Brig. -Gen. W. Irvine and between Irvine and Others concerning Military Affairs in the West from 1781 to 1783; Arranged and Annotated with an Introduction containing an Outline of Events occurring previously in the Trans-Alleghany Country. 8vo. cloth, pp. 436. Illustrated. Madison (Wis.). £1 1s.

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Clemens (W. M.) Famous Funny Fellows. Brief Biographical Sketches of American Humourists. 12mo. cloth, pp. 214. With Portrait. Cleveland (O.). 58. Thirty-four brief sketches of as many American humourists; among them will be found "Mark Twain," "Artemus Ward," "Max Adeler," "Josh Billings," "Eli Perkins," "Danbury News Man," "Yawcob Strauss," and " Petroleum V. Nasby."

Cleveland (N.) -History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates from 1806 to 1879 inclusive. Edited and Completed by Alpheus Spring Packard. 8vo. cloth, pp. 905. Boston. £1 5s. Collins (A. M., M.D.)-Prohibition v. Personal Liberty; or, The Liquor Traffic Critically Examined in the Light of Science, Theology, and Civil Government. 16mo. cloth, pp. 160. St. Louis (Mo.). 2s. 6d.

Essays written in favour of prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages within the jurisdiction of the State of Iowa.

Condit (Rev. I. M.)-English and Chinese Dictionary. 12mo. cloth, pp. 134. New York. 4s.

Copp (H. N.)-Public Land Laws, Passed by Congress from March 4, 1875, to April 1, 1882, with the Important Decisions of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Land. Opinions of the Attorney-General, and the Circular Instructions Issued from the Land Office to the SurveyorsGeneral and Registers and Receivers during the same period. 1 volume in 5 parts, 8vo. sheep, pp. xxix. and 1553. Washington. £3 3s.

Cowles (Rev. H.)-Acts of the Apostles; with
Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, designed for
both Pastors and People. 12mo. cloth, pp. 223. New
York. 5s.

Cranch (W.)-Reports of Cases Argued and
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Feb. Term, 1815. Vol. IX. Third Edition. Edited, with
Notes and References to later Decisions, by F. C. Brightly.
8vo. sheep, pp. x. and 326. New York. £1 1s.
Cross (J. G.) The Eclectic Shorthand Primer;
Four Lessons; Introductory to Eclectic Shorthand."
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Cunningham (H. S., M.D.)-Lectures on the
Physiological Laws of Life. Hygiene, and a General Outline
of Diseases peculiar to Women. 12mo. cloth, pp. 425.
Indianapolis. 12s.

Calvert (G.H.)-Mirabeau: an Historical Drama. 12mo. cloth, pp. 103. Boston. 5s. Cameron (K.) - Plasterers' Manual. Edition. Containing Accurate Descriptions of Tools and Materials Used in Plastering, etc. 18mo. cloth, pp. 80. New York. 3s. Campbell (J. L.)-Geology and Mineral Resources of the James River Valley. Va. With Map and Geological Sections. 8vo. cloth, pp. 119. New York. 5s. Charteris (A. H., D.D.)-The New Testament Scriptures; their Claims, History, and Authority: being the Croall Lectures for 1882. 8vo. cloth, pp. viii. and 227. New York. 10s.

Child (F. J.)-English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Edition de luxe. In Eight Parts. Part 1. Folio paper, pp. 250. Boston. (By subscription only, limited to 1000 copies.)

Chordal [pseud. for James W. See].- Extracts from Chordal's Letters; comprising the Choicest Selections from the Series of Articles entitled "Extracts from Chordal's Letters," [which appeared] in the American Machinist; with Illustrations by C. F. Taylor. 12mo. cloth, pp. ii. and 396. With Portrait and Illustrations. New Enlarged Edition. New York. 10s.

This edition has been enlarged by the addition of 76 pages of text and a number of new illustrations. See note in " Weekly Record," P. W., Jan. 15, 1881 [470].

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cloth, pp. ii. and 210. New York. 6s. 6d. Plainly written paper for young girls, instructing them about their own physical construction, and the best means for guarding their health.

Demarest (Mary L.)-My ain Countree, and Other Verses. 12mo. cloth, pp. vi. and 146. New York. 6s. 6d.

Dickinson (G.)-Poems and Essays. 12mo. cloth, pp. 225. Boston. 7s. 6d.

Including: "The Fallen Chief; ""The Minstrel's Curse," "Kenilworth," Tributes to Holmes and Longfellow," "Booth as Hamlet," "The Wizard's Grave; " also early and juvenile poems and translations from the German; with some account of "Minstrels and Minstrelsy of the Middle Ages," and "Early Ballad Poetry of different nations.'

Dix (Rev. Morgan).-Lectures on the Calling of a Christian Woman, and Her Training to Fulfil It, delivered during the Season of Lent, 1883. 16mo. cloth, pp. 175. New York. 2s. 6d.

These lectures, delivered by the rector of Trinity Church, N. Y., to his own congregation during Lent, and largely quoted and commented upon by the press, relate to; The place of woman in this world; The degradation of woman by paganism, and her restoration by Christianity; The education of woman for her work; The sins of woman against her vocation; Divorce; A mission for woman.

Dow (Sabrina H.)- Artistic Singing. 16mo. cloth, pp. iii.-115. Boston. 5s.

The author of this little book is a well-known teacher of singing in Boston and a pupil of the celebrated singer, Badiali The topics treated of are: Tones, Timbre, Respiration, Attitude and tone attack, Legato and portamento, Expression, Recitative, The trill, Echoes, Articulation, Intensity, Reach, Volume, Bouche fermée, and hours of study.

Dutton (Capt. C. E.)-Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. With Atlas. 4to. cloth, pp. xiv. and 264. With 42 Plates (Woodcuts, Heliotype, and Chromolithograph). Washington, 1882.

Eells (Rev. M.)-History of Indian Missions on the Pacific Coast: Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; with an Introduction by G. H. Atkinson, D.D. 12mo. cloth, pp. 270. Illustrated. Philadelphia. 6s. 6d. Emerson (G. H., D.D.) The Doctrine of Probation Examined with Reference to Current Discussions. 16mo. cloth, pp. 175. Boston. 2s. 6d.

A controversial work; discussing the doctrine of probation as held by Evangelical churches, and particularly by the Universalists. Everts (O., M.D.)-What Shall We Do for the

Drunkard? a Rational View of the Use of Brain Stimulants. 8vo. paper, pp. 51. Cincinnati. 2s. 6d.

The author recommends the construction of hospitals and asylums by the government for the cure and protection of the habitual drunkard.

Fall (C. G.)-Employers' Liability for Personal Injuries to their Employés; Prepared and Written for,

and under the Direction of, the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labour, for its 14th Annual Report. 8vo. paper, pp. ii. and 179. Boston. 2s. 6d.

Fanchette, by One of Her Admirers.

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A new Round Robin novel.

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Field (H. M., D.D.)-On the Desert; with a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt. 8vo. cloth, pp. viii. and 330. With Map. New York. 10s.

Account of a journey in the track of the Israelites along the Red Sea, among the peaks of Sinai, through the Desert of the Wandering, and up to the Promised Land. Dr. Field's powers of observation and description combine to make his book one of the most delightful popular narratives of travels in the desert of Mount Sinai that has ever been written.

Fletcher (R., M.D.)-On Pre-Historic Trephining and Cranial Amulets. 4to. paper, pp. 32. Illustrated. (From Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. V.) Washington.

Foster (R.) The Taxation of the Elevated Railroads in the City of New York. 8vo. paper, pp. 61. New York. 1s. 6d.

Freeman (A. C.)-The American Decisions, containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to 1869. 8vo. sheep, pp. iv. and 838. San Francisco. £1 16s.

Freeman (E. A.)—An Introduction to American Institutional History. 8vo. paper, pp. 39. Baltimore. 1s. 6d. (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, edited by Herbert B. Adams.)

The idea of this series (of which this is the initial study) is to bring together, in numbered monographs, kindred contributions to historical and political science, so that individual efforts may gain strength by combination and become more useful as well as more accessible to students.

Freeman (J. E.)-Gatherings from an Artist's Portfolio in Rome. 12mo. cloth, pp. viii. and 357. Boston. 7s. 6d.

Reminiscences of American, English, German and French artists who resided in Rome some twenty-five or thirty years ago, with personal anecdotes and details about their work; art gossip and facts about life in Rome a quarter of a century ago.

Garfield (J. A.)-Works; Edited by Burke A.
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Gayarré (C.)-Aubert Dubayet: or, The Two
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Gerhard (W. P.)-House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing. 18mo. boards, pp. 205. New York. 2s. 6d. This essay was originally prepared for the annual report of the State Board of Health of Rhode Island; it was written both for professionals and laymen; as now republished it is in a great measure rewritten and greatly improved.

Giddings (Joshua R.) A Sketch. By Walter Buell. 12mo. cloth, pp. v.-213. With Portrait. Cleveland (0.). 5s.

Biography of a noted opponent of slavery and a prominent American statesman, b. 1795, d. 1864; was for 21 years a Member of Congress, where he was noted for his great oratorical powers; a résumé of slavery in America adds to the value and interest of the book.

Giles (Rev. C.)-Perfect Prayer: How Offered,
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Greer (H.) The Storage of Electricity.
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An attempt to show the advantages of epicystotomy-the hypogastric or suprapubic method-popularly known as the "high" or cutting operation, over the other forms of lithotomy which remove calculi from the bladder by the "crushing" process. Contains a bibliography of the subject.

Greer (H.)-A Dictionary of Electricity; or, The Electrician's Hand-Book of Reference: including Recent Electrical and Technical Terms and Descriptions of the late Inventions of the Paris Electrical Exhibition, and of other New Inventions in Electricity and Magnetism. 12mo. cloth, pp. 192. Illustrated. New York. 10s. Greey (E.)-The Golden Lotus, and other Legends of Japan; cover Designed and Drawn by the Author. 12mo. cloth, pp. 145. Boston. 7s. 6d.

Gregory (J. M.)- A New Political Economy. 12mo. cloth, pp. 394. Cincinnati. 7s. 6d.

Grimshaw (R.)-Saw-filing: a Practical Treatise in a Popular Form. 18mo. cloth, pp. 77. Illustrated. New York. 5s.

Griswold (W. H.)—A General Index to the "Contemporary Review," the "Fortnightly Review," and the "Nineteenth Century." 8vo. cloth, pp. 36. Bangor (Me.).

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Hale (E. E.)-Stories of Discovery Told by Discoverers. 16mo. cloth, pp. iv. and 290. Boston. 5s.

These stories relate to the first voyage of Columbus; Da Gama and the East; Magalhaens and the Pacific; Sir Francis Drake; The Atlantic Coast; Voyages in the Pacific; The North-west Passage; The Source of the Nile; The Mouth of the Niger; West of the Mississippi, and the Antarctic continent.

Hale (P. M.)-The Woods and Timbers of North Carolina: a Compilation from the Botanical and Geological Reports of Drs. Curtis, Emmons, and Kerr; to which are added Information Obtained from the Census Bureau and Accurate Reports from the Several Counties. 12mo. cloth, pp. 272. With Map. Raleigh (North Carolina). 7s. 6d. The forest wealth of North Carolina, it is believed, exceeds that of any other state; little was known of it, except to botanists, until a very recent date, when the exhibition of woods at the Atlanta Exposition attracted universal attention and admiration; this volume is designed to supply full information on the subject in answer to many inquiries. It contains complete Dr. Curtis' Woody plants of North Carolina," published in 1860 by the State of N. C. as a part of the geological survey under Dr. Emmons, and long out of print; later observations made by Dr. W. C. Kerr, State Geologist, since the death of Dr. Emmons, and which include information about location and extent of standing forests; there are also statistics of population and farms of N. C., its railroads, etc.

Harris (J. A.) Principles of Agnosticism Applied to Evidences of Christianity: Nine Sermons, to which is added a Tenth, on the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity. 12mo. cloth, pp. 128. New York. 4s.

Harris (J.)-Gardening for Young and Old; the Cultivation of Garden Vegetables in the Farm Garden. 12mo. cloth, pp. 191. Illustrated. New York. 6s. 6d. The teachings of Mr. Harris are mainly from his own experience, presented in that familiar style so well known to those who have read his other writings; a small share of the work is devoted to the easily. grown flowers, which will add to its value in the estimation of the mothers and sisters as well as of the boys.