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those on Boarding Houses and Clubs for 

 Working Women, by Mary S. Ferguson, in 

 the March number; The Alaskan Gold 

 Fields and the Opportunities they afford 

 for Capital and Labor, by S. C. Durham, in 

 the May number ; Economic Aspects of the 

 Liquor Problem ; Brotherhood Relief and In- 

 surance of Railway Employees, by E. R. John- 

 son, Ph. D. ; and The Nations of Antwerp, by 

 J. H. Gore, Ph.D., in the July number. Sum- 

 maries of reports of labor statistics, of legisla- 

 tion and decisions of courts affecting labor, 

 and of recent Government contracts constitute 

 regular departments of the bulletin. (Wash- 

 ington.) 



For delicate humor and refined art of ex- 

 pression few writers can excel Jean Paul 

 Friedrich Richter, but the sources of his rich 

 flow of humor are so deeply hidden and his 

 expression is so very subtle that the gener- 

 ality of those who attempt to read his works 

 fail to appreciate him or even to understand 

 him, and give him up. The pleasure of appre- 

 ciating him is, however, worth the pains of 

 learning to do so. Those who are willing to 

 undertake this, and who read German, may 

 find help in the Selections from the Works of 

 Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, prepared by 

 George Stuart Collins, and published by the 

 American Book Company. The book is in- 

 tended for students of German who have at- 

 tained a certain mastery of the language. 

 Pains have been taken to avoid such passages 

 as might from their mere difficulty discourage 

 the reader, and to choose such as would be 

 complete in themselves. The selections are 

 made from the shorter writings of the au- 

 thor, and each is intended to be representa- 

 tive of some feature of his manifold genius 

 and style. 



A notice of the Stenotypy, or system of 

 shorthand for the typewriter, of D. A. 

 Quinn, was published in the Popular Science 

 Monthly in March, 1896. It is really a sys- 

 tem of phonography to be used with the type- 

 writer whenever it is practicable to employ 

 that instrument. A second edition of Mr. 

 Quinn's manual and exercises for the prac- 

 tice of the system is published by the Ameri- 

 can Book Exchange, Providence, R. I. 



A paper on Polished- Stone Articles used 

 by the New York Aborigines before and dur- 

 ing European Occupation, published as a 



Bulletin of the New York State Museum, is 

 complementary to a previous bulletin on ar- 

 ticles of chipped stone. Both papers are by 

 the Rev. Dr. W. M. Beauchamp, and are illus- 

 trated by figures from his large collection of 

 original drawings, made in nearly all parts of 

 New York, but mostly from the central por- 

 tion. While the chipped implements are 

 more numerous and widespread than those 

 treated of in the present bulletin, the latter 

 show great patience and skill in their higher 

 forms and taste in selecting materials, and 

 they give hints of superstitions and ceremo- 

 nies not yet thoroughly understood. 



Henry Goldman has invented, in the 

 arithmachine, what he claims is a rapid and 

 reliable computing machine of small dimen- 

 sions and large capacity, with other advan- 

 tages. He now offers, as a companion to it, 

 The Arithmachinist, a book intended to serve 

 as a self-instructor in mechanical arithme- 

 tic. It gives historical and technical chapters 

 on the calculating machines of the past, de- 

 scribes the principles controlling the con- 

 struction and operations, and furnishes ex- 

 planations concerning the author's own de- 

 vice. (Published by the Office Men's Record 

 Company, Chicago, for one dollar.) 



The Bulletin from the Laboratories of Nat- 

 ural History of the State University of Iowa, 

 Vol. TV, No. 3, contains two technical ar- 

 ticles: On the Actinaria, collected by the 

 Bahama Expedition of the University, in 

 1891, by J. P. McMurrich, and the Brachyura 

 of the Biological Expedition to the Florida 

 Keys and the Bahamas in 1893, by Mary J. 

 Rathbun; and a list of the coleoptera of 

 Southern Arizona, by H. F. Wickham. Mr. 

 Wickham observes that the insects of north- 

 ern Arizona are widely different from those 

 of the southern part, a fact which he ascribes 

 to difference of altitude, and, consequently, 

 in vegetation. The Bulletin is sold for fifty 

 cents a copy. 



Two books in English — Elementary Eng- 

 lish and Elements of Grammar and Compo- 

 sition — prepared by E. Oram Lyte, and pub- 

 lished by the American Book Company, are 

 intended to include and cover a complete 

 graded course in language lessons, grammar, 

 and composition for study in the primary 

 and grammar grades of schools. The en- 

 deavor has been made to present the subject 



