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reports. A pica is made for the extension 

 of the system of Government surveys over 

 all the States a step which political econo- 

 mists would deprecate, and which men of 

 science are not disposed to believe would 

 be of any real advantage to the cause they 

 serve. 



A Manual of Sugar Analysis : Including 

 the Applications in General of Analytical 

 Methods to the Sugar Industry. With 

 an Introduction on the Chemistry of 

 Cane-Sugar, Dextrose, Levulose, and 

 Milk-Sugar. By J. H. Tucker, Ph. D. 

 New York : D. Van Nostrand. Pp. 353. 

 Price, 3.50. 



This book supplies a want, there being 

 no work in English that treats of sugar 

 analysis, and only a few scattered and in- 

 complete dictionary articles. Yet a great 

 amount and variety of analytical work are 

 required for the various interests connected 

 with sugar, and it is not always convenient 

 for the chemist to have to depend upon 

 German and French treatises, numerous and 

 good though they may be. The author, in 

 endeavoring to fill this gap in chemical lit- 

 erature, has brought the matter up to the 

 present time, and believes that he has given 

 fuller treatment to some points than can be 

 found elsewhere. 



Book of ttie Black Bass : Comprising its 

 Complete Scientific and Life History, 

 together with a Practical Treatise on 

 Angling and Fly-Fishing, and a Full De- 

 scription of Tools, Tackle, and Imple- 

 ments. By Jamf.s A. Hensiiall, M. D. 

 Fully illustrated Cincinnati : Robert 

 Clarke & Co. Pp. 463. Price, 3. 



The author is regarded as an authority 

 on the black bass, and is an expert angler. 

 He has apparently embodied in this volume 

 all the lore on the subject, giving the color 

 of justice to the publisher's assertion that 

 it is the most complete and exhaustive mon- 

 ograph ever published upon any game-fish. 

 The fish itself deserves the most respectful 

 treatment, for it is a game-fish of the high- 

 est order, is pre-eminently American, inhab- 

 its the whole United States cast of the 

 Pocky Mountains, except New England and 

 the Atlantic waters of the Middle States, 

 and is found also in Eastern Mexico. Its sci- 

 entific treatment has hitherto been unsatis- 

 factory, for different authors have not been 



able to agree as to whether there should be 

 two or four or more species, in what the 

 specific differences should consist, and what 

 the names should be. The author gives 

 one hundred and thirty-two pages to the 

 consideration of what has been written on 

 this subject, and adds his own views that 

 there are two species, the large-mouthed 

 ( Microptcrus salmoidcs ) and the small- 

 mouthed (Micropterus dolomicu), which are 

 apt to sport into indefinite varieties. He 

 gives his own descriptions of the fish and 

 its habits, and fills half the volume with de- 

 scriptions and suggestions respecting bass- 

 fishing tackle, and the methods of fishing. 



An Artistic Treatise on the Human Fig- 

 ure : Containing Hints on Proportion, 

 Color, and Composition. By Henry 

 Warren, K. L., author of " Artistic 

 Anatomy," etc. Edited by Susan N. 

 Carter, Principal of the Woman's Art 

 School, Cooper Union. New York : G. 

 P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 82. Price, 50 

 cents. 



A manual of suggestions, adapted to 

 practical application, in one of the most 

 important departments of art. The author 

 seeks to point out errors in the present sys- 

 tems of drawing the figure errors arising 

 out of unconsidered conditions of placement 

 and pose ; to explain what is natural and 

 what is merely conventional. Color and 

 chiaro-oscttro, handling and manipulation, 

 are touched upon. Generally, enough is at- 

 tempted to set the student thinking upon 

 the best means of economizing the time 

 which he has at his disposal. 



The WANDF.r.i\r, Jew. By Moncite Daniel 

 Conway, author of " Demonology and 

 Devil Lore." New York : Henry Holt 

 &Co. Pp.292. Price, $1.50. 



Mr. Conway in this work considers the 

 legend of the Wandering Jew in all the 

 forms which it has assumed in different 

 countries. As reasons for undertaking the 

 work he offers : no other treatise on the 

 same subject exists in our language ; in 

 the pamphlets that have appeared in other 

 languages, the relations of the legend with 

 Eastern mythology have been little consid- 

 ered, and its connection with Hebrew and 

 Christian mythology almost ignored; and 

 those studies of it which In 1 has read con- 

 sider it mainly as a curiosity. "But the 



