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mass of this material at the disposal of the 

 archaeologist, and refers in detail to many 

 of the more important inscriptions. Mr. 

 Wood's discovery of the site, and his res- 

 toration of the temple at Ephesus, which, in 

 the time of St. Paul, was one of the seven 

 wonders of the world, Mr. Newton presents 

 in his article on " Discoveries at Ephesus," 

 and the discoveries of Dr. Schliemann at 

 Mycenfe in the one following. " Research- 

 es in Cyprus," " Discoveries at Olympia," 

 *' Greek Art in the Kimmcrian Bosporos," 

 and " Greek Numismatics," complete the 

 papers of the volume. A Greek inscription, 

 engraved on the four sides of a stele of blue 

 marble, which was some years since discov- 

 ered in the Castle of St. Peter, at Budrum, 

 is reproduced in an appendix. 



QaALiTATivE Chemical Analysis. By Silas 

 H. Douglass, M. A., M. D., and Albert 

 B. Prescott, M. D., F. C. S. Third edi- 

 tion, wholly revised. With a Study of 

 Oxidation and Reduction, by Oris Coe 

 Johnson. New York : D. Van Nostrand. 

 18S0. Pp. 305. 



The new feature in this edition of this 

 excellent manual is the text upon oxidation 

 and reduction, by Mr. Otis C. Johnson, in 

 which a new interpretation is given to quan- 

 tivalence. The authors state that the meth- 

 od of Mr. Johnson has proved veiy success- 

 ful in teaching, and bespeak for it a careful 

 examination by chemists. The subject is 

 technical, and can be fully understood only 

 by those acquainted with chemical theory 

 and manipulation. Besides the addition of 

 this new matter, the book has been care- 

 fully revised, and such improvements made 

 as the experience of actual use in teaching 

 has suggested. 



Some Thoughts concerning Education. By 

 John Locke. With Introduction and 

 Notes by Rev. R. II. Quick, il. A. Cam- 

 bridge, Eng. : University Press. 1880. 

 Pp. 240. Price, 90 cents. 



Although put forth so long ago, the 

 " Thoughts " still possess a value for the 

 modern student of education. Locke's ideas 

 of the purpose and scope of education were 

 greatly in advance of the practice of his 

 own time and of much of that of ours. He 

 recognizes that education is properly a de- 

 veloping of the natural powers, and not a 



mere loading down the memory with undi- 

 gested knowledge. Many of his suggestions 

 and recommendations are so entirely in 

 agreement with modem views as to seem 

 commonplace. His advice in the matter of 

 physical education is especially noticeable 

 for its concordance with present medical 

 practice. Dr. J. F. Payne, who contributes 

 valuable notes upon the medical portions 

 of Locke's discourse, finds little to correct in 

 his recommendations, except those advising 

 that children's feet be wot, and they be oth- 

 erwise exposed, to harden them. Besides 

 the treatise of Locke, the book contains a 

 biographical sketch of him, and a critical 

 estimate of his services in education, and his 

 relation to his predecessor in educational 

 reform, Montaigne, and his successor Rous- 

 seau. His plan of working-schools for the 

 children of the poor and his essay "Of 

 Study " form an appendix, while the notes 

 of Dr. Payne, mentioned above, with others 

 not so good, and an index, complete the vol- 

 ume. 



The New Text-Book of Physics. An Ele- 

 mentary Course in Natural Philosophy, 

 designed for Use in High Schools and 

 Academies. By Le Roy C. Cooley, Ph. 

 D. New York : Charles Sciibner's Sons. 

 1880. Pp. 317. 



Professor Cooley was among the first 

 to attempt to introduce into elementary in- 

 struction in physics the modern doctrine of 

 molecules and molecular action. In his 

 text-book of natural philosophy, published 

 some twelve years ago, he sought to give it 

 a form suited to the comprehension of the 

 class of students for whom the book was 

 designed. In this revision of the former 

 work he has aimed to do the same thing 

 for the fundamental conception of the sci- 

 ence that of energy. Heat, light, etc., are 

 accordingly presented as so many different 

 manifestations of energy, and not as a num- 

 ber of distinct forces. The work is ar- 

 ranged to bring out the essential features 

 of the conception, and then to show its ap- 

 plications in explanation of the various 

 groups of phenomena within the scope of 

 physics. The first three chapters are de- 

 voted to a gaining of clear ideas of the 

 properties of matter and laws of motion. 

 These lead up to the doctrine of energy, 

 which is explained and illustrated in the 



