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letterpress. Of these folios, each contain- 

 ing the six sheets, we have received No. 1, 

 Livingston, Mon. ; No. 2, Ringgold, Georgia 

 and Tennessee ; No. 3, Placerville, Cal. ; 

 No. 6, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; and No. 7, Pike's 

 Peak, Col., to be supplemented by a special 

 detailed map of the Cripple Creek district. 

 Each folio is provided with stiff paper covers 

 and cloth backs. 



In a little book by Florence Bass, in the 

 Nature Stories for Youug Readers, entitled 

 Animal Life, the subjects are mainly such 

 insects or other animals as the children may 

 observe for themselves. The lessons aim to 

 give illustrations of some of the varied 

 means of self-protection employed by ani- 

 mals ; their methods of home building and 

 of caring for their young ; the transforma- 

 tions they undergo ; the adaptability to 

 their surroundings and coverings ; and the 

 " tools " with which the various animals are 

 provided. It is intended to interest children 

 in the animals, and to make them averse to 

 giving them pain and to killing them. (Pub- 

 lished by D. C. Heath & Co., 35 cents.) 



Regents' Bulletin (of the University of the 

 State of New York), No. 25, contains the 

 secretary's report, with special papers on 

 University Institutions, certain special top- 

 ics, department reports, and notices of 

 higher educational meetings ; No. 28 con- 

 tains the proceedings of the Thirty-second 

 University Convocation, held July 5 to 7, 

 1894. Nos. 24, 27, and 29 are specially 

 numbered as Extension Bulletins Nos. 6, 7, 

 and 8. The first comprises the report of 

 the Extension Department for 1893, with 

 the circulars issued and other items of in- 

 formation ; No. 2*7 is a record of the prog- 

 ress of extension teaching ; and No. 29 em- 

 bodies accounts of summer schools in 1892- 

 '93 ; in New York ; other American schools ; 

 and foreign schools. The whole number of 

 schools represented is a hundred and five. 



Three plates of Enlargements of Lunar 

 Photographs (Agrandissements de Photogra- 

 phies lunaires) published by W. Prinz, of 

 the Belgian Royal Observatory at Uccle, are 

 phototypie reductions, without retouching, 

 of some of the enlargements which were 

 presented by the author to the Belgian 

 Academy of Sciences in April, 1892. They 

 represent photographs taken with the great 

 refractor of Lick Observatory, enlarged from 



ten to a hundred times, and among other 

 things they illustrate the richness in details 

 of the views taken with that instrument. 

 They are of special value as permitting a 

 closer study of the details of lunar relief a 

 study which, it is hoped, may cast some 

 light respecting the origin of terrestrial re- 

 liefs. A question of priority is connected 

 with this publication, which is made partly 

 to enforce M. Prinz's claims and partly as a 

 specimen of a proposed atlas. The photo- 

 graphs represent the circle Copernicus, the 

 crater Bullialdus, Mare Humorum, and Mare 

 Imbrium. Sent gratis to astronomers and 

 observatories. 



Nos. 14, 15, 16, and 17 of the Contribu- 

 tions to American Educational History, pub- 

 lished by the Bureau of Education, under the 

 editorial direction of Herbert B. Adams, 

 present the History of Education in Co?i- 

 necticut, by Bernard C. Stdner ; Delaware, 

 by Lyman P. Powell ; Higher Education in 

 Tennessee, by L. S. Merriam ; and Mary- 

 land, by B. C. Steiner. The histories are 

 constructed in general on a common plan, 

 beginning with the first establishment of 

 schools in the State, tracing their develop- 

 ment in the colonial or territorial period and 

 under the State government ; describing the 

 more important academies and the colleges, 

 and then the principal special and technical 

 schools. The story of education in Con- 

 necticut is of peculiar interest ; for that 

 State was a pioneer in the establishment of 

 public schools, which are almost coeval with 

 its existence, and is still behind none. 



In the Delaware history a logical rather 

 than a chronological order is followed. The 

 beginning of educational enterprise is traced 

 to the middle of the seventeenth century, 

 under the Swedish, Dutch, and English set- 

 tlers ; education in the towns is considered ; 

 next the colleges ; then public education 

 from its origin in 1796; and the education 

 of the negro. 



The history of higher education in Ten- 

 nessee is in the main the history of private 

 initiative and activity which has been char- 

 acterized by broad liberality and farsighted- 

 ness. By these means the State has become 

 the seat of an exceedingly interesting and 

 creditable group of academies and colleges 

 of all kinds, and Nashville an important 

 educational center. Of these institutions, 



