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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The Caue and Culture op Children. A 

 Practical Treatise for the Use of 

 Parents. By Thomas S. Sozinskey, M. 

 D., Ph. D., author of the "Culture of 

 Beauty,'' etc. Philadelphia : II. C. Watts 

 & Co. 1880. Pp. 484. Price, $2.50. 



The author's object in this work is to 

 give such information and advice as will en- 

 able parents to perform intelligently their 

 duty to their children in matters of physical 

 and mental training, in health and sickness. 

 The first part relates to the care of children, 

 and includes chapters on the conditions of 

 health, diet, clothing, cleanliness, exercise, 

 etc., the prevention of disease, and treat- 

 ment in sickness of whatever character. In 

 the second part, physical and intellectual 

 culture is discussed, with faithful attention 

 to details and an evident desire to cover 

 the whole subject. The style is in many 

 places brief and pointed, in others diffuse. 



Baldwin Locomotive Works. Illustrated 

 Catalogue. Second edition. Philadel- 

 pia: J. B. Lippincott. 1881. Pp. 152. 

 Price, $5. 



This, while being a very elegant trade 

 catalogue, is also something more, by reason 

 of the summary of the progress of locomo- 

 tive construction in this country which it 

 contains. The account is in the form of a 

 history of the works, but, as Mr. Baldwin 

 was one of the first and most successful loco- 

 motive-builders, the history of his efforts is 

 largely that of the continuous improvements 

 which have transformed the locomotive of 

 1830 into that of to-day. In the catalogue 

 proper the various types of locomotives now 

 made at the works are illustrated by photo- 

 graphs and scale drawings. 



"Change" as a Mental Restorative. By 

 Joseph Mortimer-Granville. London : 

 David Bogue. 1880. Pp. 32. 



Change of place, surroundings, or oc- 

 cupation is, the author believes, too often 

 prescribed without sufficient discrimination, 

 so that sometimes the patient's situation is 

 not improved, or may even be made worse, by 

 the new exercise or in the new place. The 

 present essay is a study of the manner in 

 which change may opecatc beneficially, of 

 the kind of change that is good, and of the 

 principles by which the prescription of it 

 should be guided. 



Pueblo Pottery. By F. W. Putnam. From 

 the " American Art Review " for Feb. 

 ruary, 1881. Pp. 4, with colored Plate. 



In this paper are described a number of 

 specimens of pottery of the Pueblos of New 

 Mexico, with peculiar decorations, some of 

 which provoke comparisons with the or- 

 namentation of the Cyprian potteries. The 

 largest vessel, from Zuni, is marked with 

 considerable taste, and displays striking fig- 

 ures of deer in black, and a conventional- 

 ized shrub in red. A water-bottle from San 

 Ildefonso is rudely fashioned in the shape of 

 a bird, and is decorated, like some of the Cyp- 

 rian pottery, with figures of birds painted in 

 black upon a white ground. A third vessel 

 shows a more common ornamentation of 

 Pueblo pottery. A comparison of modern 

 specimens with ancient shows that the art 

 has deteriorated. The ornamentation in 

 both kinds is confined to figures expressed 

 in color. No specimen of incised work is 

 known. The representation of natural forms 

 appears to be of modern introduction. 



Adam Smith. By J. A, Farrer. New 

 York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1881. Pp. 

 201. Price, $1.25. 



This is the opening volume of a series 

 to be devoted to an exposition of the chief 

 contributions made to philosophy by English 

 thinkers. In explanation of the purpose of 

 the project, the editor. Professor Iwan Mill- 

 ler, says in the preface : " We seek to lay 

 before the reader what each English philos- 

 opher thought and wrote about the prob- 

 lems with which he dealt. . . . Criticism 

 will be suggested rather than indulged in, 

 and these volumes will be expositions rather 

 than reviews. ... It is hoped that the se- 

 ries, when complete, will supply a compre- 

 hensive history of English philosophy." 

 Professor H. Sidgwick will contribute a 

 volume under the title of " Introduction to 

 the Study of Philosophy," and arrangements 

 have already been made for the early ap- 

 pearance of volumes upon Bacon, Berkeley, 

 Hamilton, J. S. Mill, Mansel, Bentham, Aus- 

 tin, Shaftesbury and Ilutcheson, Ilobbes, 

 Hartley and James Mill. These will be 

 followed by others upon Locke, Hume, Pa- 

 ley, Reid, and later philosophic writers. 

 The design of the series is excellent, and, 

 if all the contributors do their work as well 



