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impulse of a spirit of concession to pagan- 

 ism and worldliness ; that the seventh-day 

 Sabbath was preserved much longer in the 

 Eastern churches; and that the present 

 decay of Sunday is a logical outcome of 

 the disregard of the sanctity of the origi- 

 nal, divinely instituted, but never divinely 

 changed Sabbath. Dr. Lewis believes that 

 the general results of civil legislation re- 

 specting the Sabbath like those of legisla- 

 tion on all religious questions have been 

 evil. " Take the question," he says, " out 

 of politics, out of the realm of caucussing 

 and plotting, and let the Church settle it as 

 it would any other religious issue. For . . . 

 if the day ought to be kept by divine au- 

 thority, the civil law can not strengthen 

 that authority, and by a false application it 

 may weaken and destroy it ; and if he who 

 does not rest out of regard to the Lord, does 

 not truly Sabbatize, his resting is only an 

 empty form or a blasphemous pretense. 

 Under the working of the civil law as the 

 prominent element of authority, Sunday has 

 tended and must tend to holidayism ; and, 

 with the masses, toward debauchery." 



Medicine of the Future. By Austin Flint 

 (Senior), M. D. New York : D. Apple- 

 ton & Co. Pp. 37, with Portrait. Price, 



$1. 



The manuscript of this paper, which 

 was the address the author had intended to 

 read, by special appointment, before the 

 British Medical Association at its meeting 

 in 1886, was found after Dr. Flint's death 

 among his papers. Considering the progress 

 which has been made in medicine during 

 the past fifty years, the author anticipates 

 as great, or greater, in store for the next 

 half-century, and indicates the lines along 

 which, in his view, it may be expected to be 

 realized. 



Life, its Nature, Origin, Development, 

 and the Psychical related to the 

 Physical. By Salem Wilder. Bos- 

 ton: Rockwell & Churchill. Pp. 350. 

 Price, $1.50. 



The author, whose business is an agency 

 for the sale of goods, has been interested in 

 questions indicated by the title of his book, 

 and is not satisfied with the manner in 

 which the physical philosophers of the day 

 try to answer them. He has, therefore, in- 



quired what science and scientific men teach 

 respecting them, and presents the results of 

 his investigation in the first part of the 

 book. The second part is devoted mainly 

 to ethical questions. 



The Olden Time Series. No. 1, Curiosi- 

 ties of the Lottery, pp. 73 ; No. 2, Days 

 of the Spinning- Wheel, pp. 99 ; No. 3, 

 New England Sunday, pp. 65. Boston : 

 Ticknor & Co. Price, 50 cents each. 



A series of collections of advertise- 

 ments, items, and articles illustrating, by 

 contemporary representations, the usages 

 and the ways of thought, as well as the eco- 

 nomical condition, of the people of the 

 " olden time " in New England, culled chief- 

 ly from old newspapers of Boston and 

 Salem, Massachusetts, and arranged, with 

 brief comments, by Henry M. Brooks. The 

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 pocket. The matter of numbers one and 

 three i3 all closely related to the subjects 

 expressed in the titles; that of number 

 two takes a range beyond the spinning- 

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Lessons in Qualitative Chemical Analy- 

 sis. By Dr. F. Beilstein. Arranged, 

 on the Basis of the fifth German edition, 

 by Charles 0. Curtman, M. D. St. Louis, 

 Mo. : Druggist Publishing Co. Pp. 200. 



This is the second edition of a transla- 

 tion of Dr. Beilstein's " Anleitung," a popu- 

 lar German text-book on chemical analysis. 

 Dr. Curtman has, however, considerably en- 

 larged on the original, and made numerous 

 additions. The opening chapter is given to 

 chemical manipulations : it contains sugges- 

 tions on the management of the blow-pipe, 

 the handling of glass-tubing, the working 

 with corks, etc. These directions are sup- 

 plemented by a series of examples for prac- 

 tice in the qualitative analysis of inorganic 

 substances. Directions for the systematic 

 examination of substances containing one 

 base and one acid come next in order, and 

 these again are followed by instructions for 

 a systematic course of qualitative analysis. 



The remaining chapters are devoted to 

 examples for practice on the analysis of 

 organic substances, to volumetric analysis, 

 to the examination of drinking-water, the 

 analysis of urine, urinary sediments, and 



