SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



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Germany. Hardly any original work on 

 wages is to be found there for half a century 

 after the publication of Adam Smith's 

 Wealth of Nations, although numerous text- 

 books bearing upon the subject were issued 

 — all for the most part only summarizing or 

 slightly modifying the reasonings and con- 

 clusions of the English master. The con- 

 ditions of economic life in the two countries 

 were different, and the " industrial revolution 

 was slow in developing on the Continent, 

 and in Germany the old industrial order with 

 its restrictions and conservative methods 

 prevailed long after England had replaced 

 the old with the new." These differences 

 between the two countries may adequately 

 account for the great disparity in theoretic 

 development. And Germany is still largely 

 dependent upon other countries in its discus- 

 sions. In the present work, the chief object 

 being to discover progress of thought on the 

 subject, chronology had to be sacrificed, in 

 some instances, to a logical treatment. Those 

 writers are grouped who appear to show the 

 largest number of points of contact, and this 

 leads to placing all the German writers 

 treated in two groups, in one of which a real 

 unity of method and interest prevails, and 

 Hermann is the most important center, while 

 the other group includes van Thiinen, Karl 

 Marx, and Schulze-Gaevemitz, authors who 

 do not belong together in the sense that the 

 others do. 



Among the articles in the Columbia Uni- 

 versity Bulletin for June, 1898, are those on 

 the Department of History, the Preparatory 

 Schools (by G. R. Carpenter), Columbia Non- 

 Graduates (H. G. Paine), the Teaching of 

 Anatomy (by George S. Huntington), and the 

 second of Mr. H. A. Cushing's historical 

 papers on King's College in the American 

 Revolution. 



The report of Filibert Noth, special 

 agent of the Division of Forestry, on For- 

 estry Conditions and Interests of Wisconsin, 

 and the Third Annual Report of the Chief 

 Fire Warden of Minnesota, C. C. Andrews, 

 furnish many facts and suggestions of value 

 to persons interested in the maintenance and 

 protection of our forests. 



D. Appleton and Company publish as one 

 of their Home Reading Books The Story of 

 Hob Hoy, by Sir Walter Scott, condensed for 



home and school reading by Edith D. Harris. 

 The editor of the series, Dr. W. T. Harris, 

 furnishes a preface, pointing out the essential 

 qualities of Scott's works on which their fame 

 rests, and analyzing the features of Scottish 

 and English life of the age to which they 

 relate and which give these stories of the 

 border their interest and charm. In ex- 

 planation of the plan and reason of the 

 present condensation, he says that "it has 

 been found possible to condense the Waverley 

 novels by omitting all lengthy descriptions 

 of scenery, historical disquisitions on the 

 times, and a few passages of dialogue and 

 monologue that do not contribute directly to 

 the progress of the story, or throw light 

 upon the character of the persons who enter 

 upon the scene. It is believed that by this 

 method the interest is preserved intact, and 

 that after a year's interval the story in its 

 unabridged form may be read with as lively 

 an interest as the youth will feel in reading 

 this version." Price, 60 cents. 



A paper, Indices Ponderauz de la Crane 

 (Weight Indexes of the Brain), in the Bulletin 

 of the Anthropological Society of Paris, com- 

 prises the results of a study of the weight and 

 capacity of the brain, the weight of the man- 

 dible, and the cranio-mandibular and cranio- 

 cerebral indices, etc., made upon sixty-four 

 heads of animals by George C rant Mc Curdy, 

 of New Haven, with the collaboration of M. 

 Nicolas Mohyliansky. 



The pamphlet embodying the Proceed- 

 ings of the Tenth Annual Session of the As- 

 sociation of American Anatomists, held at 

 Cornell University in December, 1897, con- 

 tains a portrait and notice, with bibliography 

 of the late Dr. Harrison Allen, the reports 

 of the majority and the minority of the com- 

 mittee on anatomical nomenclature, and sev- 

 enteen papers contributed by members of the 

 association. 



The University Geological Survey of 

 Kansas is conducted under the authority of 

 the Board of Regents of the State Univer- 

 sity, and has issued already several large and 

 elegant volumes recording the operations and 

 results of its work. The fourth volume, now 

 before us, embraces the paleontology of the 

 Upper Cretaceous, and is by Samuel W. 

 Williston, paleontologist. Kansas is famous 

 for its fossils, no equal area in the United 



