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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



for his report as Superintendent of the St. 

 Louis Schools, in 1871, was afterward pub- 

 lished in book form under the title How 

 to teach Natural Science, and now appears in 

 a second edition (Bardeen, 50 cents). It 

 would undoubtedly give very practical help 

 to a teacher confronted with the problem of 

 adding science to the subjects usually taught 

 in common schools, but if Dr. Harris were 

 to rewrite it at the present day, in the light 

 of the advances in science teaching made 

 during the past quarter century, he would 

 probably modify it somewhat. He would 

 not omit to mention the peculiar mental dis- 

 cipline that the study of science affords as a 

 reason for including it in a course of study ; 

 he would hardly say that science should 

 "afford relief from the other studies, and 

 not be placed in the same rank with them " ; 

 and while in this plan he insists that the 

 teacher rather than a text-book should be 

 the pupil's source of information, he would 

 now probably go further and say that the 

 pupils should get their knowledge of natu- 

 ral objects mainly from the objects them- 

 selves. 



In the mathematical series of text-books 

 by John H. Walsh, noticed several months 

 ago, the Elementary Arithmetic includes no- 

 tation, numeration, and the " four rules," 

 the latter being applied in denominate as 

 well as abstract numbers although no tables 

 are given. The arithmetical processes dealt 

 with are exemplified in a great variety of 

 ways, including the use of many practical 

 problems suited to the understanding of 

 young pupils. (Heath, 40 cents.) 



The first edition of Joint-metallism, by 

 Anson Phelps Stokes, noticed in our January 

 number, has been followed by a second and 

 this by a third edition, each being an exten- 

 sion of its predecessor (Putnams, $1). Of 

 the new matter, Part II consists of further 

 arguments for joint-metallism and against 

 bimetallism and monometallism. Part III is 

 historical, giving views of writers on the sci- 

 ence of money, beginning with Oresme, who 

 wrote about 1366. In Part IV too great re- 

 liance on credit is deprecated and objections 

 to the author's plan are answered. 



The eleventh edition of the Advertiser's 

 Handy Guide (1895) has been received (L. 

 I). Morse Advertising Agency, New York, 

 $2). It contains the names of the impor- 



tant journals of all the States and Territories 

 of the United States, also those of the Do- 

 minion of Canada, in alphabetical order un- 

 der each State or province. The circula- 

 tion, politics, and frequency of issue of each 

 paper are given, also the population of the 

 city or town and county in which it is pub- 

 lished. In addition to the general list there 

 are separate lists of agricultural, medical, 

 religious, etc., journals and other informa- 

 tion valuable to advertisers. The volume 

 contains seven hundred and eighty-six pages 

 and is of handy size about four by seven 

 inches. 



An Introduction to English Literature 

 (Henry Holt & Co., New York), by Henry S. 

 Pancoast, is based upon the author's previous- 

 ly published Representative English Litera- 

 ture, enlarged in some directions and curtailed 

 in others, in order to adapt it to somewhat 

 different requirements. It is intended to meet 

 the needs of teachers who may wish to use 

 the historical and critical portions of a book 

 like that one, without being restricted to the 

 prescribed selections which it gives as rep- 

 resenting the successive literary epochs. To 

 this end about two hundred pages of new 

 matter have been added, and the notes and 

 selections in the former work omitted. It is 

 still the author's object to send the student 

 directly to the literature itself, which is done 

 here by suggesting in reading lists the se- 

 lected works, giving them in some instances 

 with general hints for study. 



Volume IX of the Contributions to North 

 American Ethnology published by the Unit- 

 ed States Geological Survey is the Dakota 

 Grammar Texts and Ethnography, prepared 

 by Stephen Return Riggs, and edited after the 

 author's death with the copy not revised, by J. 

 Owen Dorsey. Mr. Dorsey contributes a pref- 

 ace embodying interesting information con- 

 cerning the structure, etc., of the language. 

 The texts include eight Dakota myths, Dakota 

 and English interlined, with translations fol- 

 lowing, the Parable of the Prodigal Son, The 

 Lord's Prayer, and the Fourth Command- 

 ment, in the Ethnography are chapters on 

 the Tribes, the Migrations, the Dakota Gens 

 and Phratrv, Unwritten Dakota Laws, The 

 Superhuman, Armor and Eagle's Feathers, 

 and Dakota Dances. 



The First Latin Readings, selected and 

 compiled by Robert Arrows?nith and George 



