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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, 



setting forth " the exact truth as embodied 

 iu historical and statistical facts of undeni- 

 able authenticity." 



Is Consumption contagious, and can it 



BE transmitted BY MeaNS OF FoOD ? 



By Herbert C. Clapp, A. M., M. D. 



Boston and Providence: Otis Clapp & 

 Son. 1881. Pp. ITS. Price, $1.25. 



Considerable evidence is offered in this 

 work tending to show that, " to a certain ex- 

 tent, at least, and under certain conditions, 

 consumption is contagious." This evidence 

 is derived from incidents in the history of the 

 disease, the statements of physicians, and 

 special reports of twenty-five cases. The 

 subjects of contagion in cattle, the possi- 

 bility of the transmission of tuberculosis 

 by means of food, and the inoculability of 



tubercle, are also considered. 







The Spirit of EDUCATtoN. By M. L'Abbe 

 Amable Beesau. Translated by Mrs. 

 E, M. McCarthy,' Syracuse: C. W. Bar- 

 deen. Pp. 825. Price, $1.25. 



This little work, by a pious French ec- 

 clesiastic, is said to have been very popu- 

 lar in his country. Its author is a Catholic 

 priest, and the work is written from the 

 point of view of the system he represents. 

 It is endorsed by high authorities of the 

 Church as a volume to which Catholics may 

 Took with confidence. An interesting feat- 

 ure of the book is its numerous extracts 

 from the writings of eminent Catholics in 

 past times on the subject of education. As 

 might be expected, there is very little rec- 

 ognition of science in the work, and no ref- 

 erence to the more urgent of the modern 

 questions that are agitating the public on 

 the subject of education. It might have 

 been written a thousand years ago. 



Lectures on Electricity in its Relations 

 TO Medicine and Surgery. By A. D. 

 Rockwell, A. M., M. D. New York : 

 William Wood k Co. Pp. 99. Price, 

 $1. 



These lectures deal chiefly with the prac- 

 tical points of the subject, and give special 

 consideration to the methods of general far- 

 adization and central galvanization meth- 

 ods already familiar by name to the profes- 

 sion, but which the author thinks might be 

 better understood and appreciated. 



The Logic of Christian Evidences. By G. 

 Frederick Wright. Andover: Warren 

 F. Draper. 1880. Pp. 306. Price, $1.50. 



In consequence of the constant changes 

 in the condition of the world and the lines 

 of thought, each generation approaches the 

 subject of the evidences of Christianity from 

 a slightly different point of view. Hence 

 a re-presentation of the subject, correspond- 

 ing with the new conditions, is always in 

 place. The author regards the power of 

 Christianity to adjust itself in form to dif- 

 ferent degrees of civilization, while its sub- 

 stance remains unchangeable, as in fact one 

 of the evidence? ; for the power is a conse- 

 quence of its spiritual nature, and of its in- 

 dependence of transitory phases of intel- 

 lectual and social development. The aim of 

 this treatise is to bring into view the exter- 

 nal and the internal evidences of Christianity 

 as they now stand, and as they appear when 

 compared with the evidences on which the 

 beliefs of science are based. 



First German Book, after the Natural or 

 Pestalgzzian Method, for Schools and 

 Home Instruction. By James H. Wor- 

 man, a. M. New York and Chicago: 

 A. S. Barnes & Co. Pp. 63. Price, 35 

 cents. 



This book is intended for beginners 

 wishing to learn the spoken language of 

 Germany, which is taught in it by direct 

 appeal to illustrations of the objects men- 

 tioned, and without the use of English. The 

 author has designed in it to present in a few 

 pages all the essentials of German grammai' 

 so as to make their mastery easy, and pre- 

 pare the student, after going through it, to 

 enter upon the study of the more I'ccondite, 

 complicated, and irregular principles of the 

 language. 



PUBLICATIONS KECEIVED. 



Torn Paine on Trial, and the Infidels in 

 Court. Brooklyn : D. S. Ilohnes. Pp.87. Price, 

 25 cents. 



On Statical Electro-Tlierapentics, or Treat- 

 ment of Dis^easi! by Franklinism. By W. J. 

 Morton, M. D. New York. 1S81. Pp. 28. 



Trances and Trancoidal States in the Lower 

 Animals. By George M. Beard, A.M., M. D. 

 1881. Pp. 17. 



Ohpcrvations on Jnpiter. By L. Trouvelot. 

 Pp. 23. 



On the Geographical Distrihution of the Tn- 

 dicennus Plants of F^urope and the Northeast 

 United States. By .loseph F. James. 1881. Pp- 

 18. 



