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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



rooms, and other pictures that deserve to be 

 well spoken of. (S3 and 85 Duane Street, 

 New York; price, $10 a year.) 



The microbe has, during the past few 

 years, assumed so prominent a place, both in 

 dietetics and therapeutics, that nowadays 

 a medical school of any standing must in- 

 clude in its curriculum, some sort of a course 

 in bacteriology. The book before us, A 

 Course of Elementary Practical Bacteriology, 

 by A. A. Kanthack, M. D., and /. H Drys- 

 dale, M. B., has grown out of the teacher's 

 and student's needs at the St. Bartholomew 

 Hospital in London, and is designed simply 

 as a laboratory handbook. It is arranged 

 in three parts. Parts I and II, Elementary 

 Bacteriology and Bacteriological Analysis, 

 encompass three months' work. The third 

 part consists of an introduction to bacterio- 

 logical chemistry. (Macmillan, $1.10.) 



A Report on the Geology of the Coastal 

 Plain of Alabama has been issued by the 

 Survey of that State. The coastal plain in- 

 cludes all but the northeastern two fifths of 

 the State. It is an agricultural region, and 

 contains only such useful minerals as fer- 

 tilizers and building materials. It is inter- 

 esting scientifically from the remarkably com- 

 plete series of Eocene and Cretaceous strata 

 exposed in its river banks. 



The piece of special pleading for Greek 

 in which John Kennedy essays to answer the 

 question Must Greek go ? is likely to be in- 

 effective because of its extravagance (Bar- 

 deen, 50 cents). The author claims for 

 Greek the excellence of Shakespeare, Burns, 

 and Keats, to whom Greek culture was ac- 

 cessible only at second hand, also the " Spirit 

 of "76 " and the beauty of the Columbian 

 Exposition, allowing no credit to our inher- 

 itance from our Germanic ancestors. His 

 claims are tricked out in a multitude of 

 jingling phrases, many of which are too 

 hackneyed for the columns of a one-cent 

 newspaper. 



A manual of technical directions for the 

 grinding, finishing, setting, testing, and com- 

 puting of lenses, prepared by Henry Orford, 

 has been issued under the title Lens Work 

 for Amateurs (Macmillan, 80 cents). The 

 directions are full and explicit, and are sup- 

 plemented by two hundred and thirty-one 

 cuts. The author disclaims any attempt to 

 give an easy method for the manufacture of 



lenses, but he has aimed to furnish a service- 

 able guide to both young workmen and ama- 

 teurs. 



The Psychological Review has undertaken 

 a series of Monograph Supplements, in which 

 may be published longer dissertations than 

 can be admitted to the Review. The first 

 issued is On Sensations from Pressure and 

 Impact, by Harold Griffing. The results 

 obtained from the investigations herein de- 

 scribed relate to discrimination between dif- 

 ferent intensities and durations of stimuli, 

 between the same stimuli applied to different 

 areas and different parts of the body, the 

 difference in the discriminative powers of 

 different individuals, etc. 



In an article on Evolution and Christian- 

 ity, reprinted from the Wooster Quarterly, 

 Prof. Horace A 7 ". Mateer gives a popular 

 statement of what evolution is, assenting to 

 its validity, but affirming also the truth of 

 all the important doctrines in the Bible. 

 He says that the position of the Bible is 

 strengthened by placing it upon a scientific 

 foundation. 



Four essays by as many writers, reprinted 

 from The Engineering Magazine, have been 

 issued as a pamphlet with the title Architec- 

 tural Education for America. In the first of 

 these Arthur Rotch tells what is the influ- 

 ence of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts ; Robert 

 D. Andrews describes a practical training ; 

 the English method is set forth by R. W. 

 Gibson ; and Barr Ferree closes with An Out- 

 sider's View. The object of the pamphlet 

 is to bring together the chief points of merit 

 in the systems most familiar to the American 

 architect, so as to throw some light on the 

 question, How shall the American architect 

 be trained professionally to reach the best 

 results for architecture in his own country ? 



The first of the 1895 series of Ethical. 

 Addresses is What we mean by Duty, by W. 

 L. Sheldon (S. Burns Weston, Philadelphia, 

 yearly, $1 ; single number, 12 cents). After 

 pointing out that popular conceptions of duty 

 regard it as something stern and forbidding, 

 the author shows that it should rather be re- 

 garded as the conformity of conduct to natu- 

 ral order. 



In a pamphlet published by the Theo- 

 sophical Society, Tacoma, Wash., Fred G. 

 Plummcr attempts to prove a Change of the 

 EurUi's Axis. His argument is clearly put 



