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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



editorials in The Open Court, have been col- 

 lected into a half number of The Religion of 

 Science Library (The Open Court Publishing 

 Company, 25 cents). It is explained in the 

 preface that the immediate occasion for the 

 editorials was a defense of the Homestead 

 rioters by General M. M. Trumbull, who 

 was a contributor to The Open Court. The 

 booklet which has now been made from 

 them takes up first the questions, Does the 

 state exist ? and Was the individual prior to 

 society ? and goes on to discuss the nature 

 of the modern state and the rights of its 

 citizens to revolution. 



The question of a Divine Existence is dis- 

 cussed by a nameless author in a small vol- 

 ume under the title Matter, Force, and 

 Spirit (Putnams). He is neither materialist 

 nor spiritualist, for while, as the result of 

 his analysis, he affirms the existence of " sub- 

 stance real and of final units ; force dy- 

 namic, represented by motion ; and force in- 

 being, represented in its aggregate form by 

 the attractive power of matter," he emphati- 

 cally denies that " an atom and motion ex- 

 plain all." In the laws and phenomena of 

 matter and force he finds conclusive evi- 

 dence of a Supreme controlling Spirit, and in 

 the phenomena of life and intelligence he 

 sees proof " that our own being has to some 

 degree the spiritual essence of the Divine 

 nature." He regards God as an absolute 

 and impersonal, but at the same time a sym- 

 pathetic, near, and loving spirit. 



Early in the spring a very practical 

 (though needlessly embellished) Spray Calen- 

 dar, compiled by E. G. Lodeman, was issued 

 from the Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Ithaca, N. Y. It tells in tabular form when 

 to use the spraying solutions and also gives 

 recipes for making them. With this in the 

 hands of every fruit-grower the bugs would 

 have a hard time. 



An account of a field investigation of 

 The Devonian System of Eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania and New York, made by Charles S. 

 P?-osscr, has been issued as Bulletin No. 120 

 of the United States Geological Survey. 

 The investigation was left unfinished, but 

 it is hoped that the contribution may be of 

 some assistance in working out the corre 

 lation of the Devonian system of this region. 



The first special report of the Factory 

 Inspectors of Illinois on Smallpox in the 



Tenement-house Sweat-shops of Chicago is 

 instructive to all concerned with the public 

 health of large cities. It recounts a consider- 

 able number of instances in which garments 

 were being made on the premises where there 

 were cases of smallpox in the epidemic of 

 1894 in Chicago, and tells of the artifices 

 practiced by the Polish and Bohemian gar- 

 ment-makers to evade the sanitary provi- 

 sions of the State factory law. It gives 

 also a list of sweat-shops by streets, with the 

 location of smallpox cases in the radius 

 from which these shops draw their em- 

 ployees. 



Bulletin No. 10 of the Minnesota Geologi- 

 cal Survey is an account of The Iron-bearing 

 Rocks of the Mesabi Range, by J. Edward 

 Spurr, in which are considered the structure 

 and character of the iron-bearing rocks, the 

 changes they have undergone, and the 

 length of time since their transformation. 

 The volume is illustrated with stratigraphical 

 sections and maps, the latter in colors, and 

 microscopic sections of rocks. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Allen, Grant. The Story of the Plants. New 

 York : D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 213. 40 cents. 



Bonalde, J. A. Perez. El Kuerbo por Edgar 

 Allan Poe. Balparaiso : Frankisko Enrrikez. 

 Pp. 29. 



Bulletins, Reports, etc. Alabama Geological 

 Survey : Coosa Coal Field. American Philo- 

 sophical Society : Proceedings of January (1895) 

 Meeting. Columbia College Geological Depart- 

 ment : A New Fossil from the Laramie Group at 

 Florence, Col. Winglike Appendages on the 

 Petioles of Liriophyllum Populoides Lesq., etc. ; 

 Descriptions of New Leaves from the Cretaceous 

 (Dakota Group) of Kansas Illinois Factory In- 

 spectors' Report for Year of 1894. Iowa Health 

 Bulletin. Vol. IX. No. 1. Linmean Society : 

 Abstract of Proceedings for Year ending March 26, 

 1895 National Flag Committee Proceedings: Ap- 

 peal to Fifty-fourth Congress on the Misuse of the 

 National Flag. New England States, Vital Sta- 

 tistics of). Tennessee State Board of Health 

 Bulletin. Vol. X. No. 2 Trinity Church Tene- 

 ments, Report on Sanitary Condition of. Wis- 

 consin University Bulletins : A Contribution to 

 the Mineralogy of Wisconsin (Hobbs) ; Studies in 

 Spherical and" Practical Astronomy (Comstock). 

 An Experimental Study of Field Methods which 

 will insure to Stadia Measurements greatly 

 Increased Accuracy (Smith) The Finances of 

 the United States from 1775 to 1889, with Especial 

 Reference to the Budget (Bullock). On the 

 Quartz Keratophyre and Associated Rocks of the 

 North Range of the Baraboo Bluffs (Weidman). 

 Utah University Quarterly. Vol. I. No. 2. Pp. 

 60. Wagner Free Institute of Science : Trans- 

 actions. Vol. Ill, Part III. Wisconsin State 

 Board of Health : Fifteenth Report. Yale Uni- 

 versity Observatory : Report, 1894-'95. 



Carmichael, James. How Two Documents 

 may be found in One. Montreal ; Gazette Print- 

 ing Co. Pp. 22. 



Cams, Paul. The Gospel of Buddha. Chicago: 

 Open Court Publishing Company. Pp. 275. 35 

 cents. 



