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THE POPULAR SCIEXCE MOXTHLY. 



cation than it has since become, and he was 

 always marked for the reasonableness and 

 temperateness of his views, and the ability 

 and power wi:h which they were presented. 

 Myron Holley was one of the personali- 

 - that are not to be forgotten, and we hare 

 :n to thank Elizur Wright for his pains- 

 taking and srenerous efforts to rescue from 



fonretfulness a character so worthy to be 



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remembered, and admired, and emulated. 

 Anneal Report of the Connecticut Ag- 



EICrLTCKAL-ExPERIlTENT STATION", FOB 



188L New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse 

 i: Taylor. Pp. 122. 



Tez Station has been occupying bor- 

 rowed quarters in the Sheffield Scientific 

 School, which were so limited that it has been 

 able to do little else than oversee the analy- 



jf fertilizers. This it does rrratuitouslv 

 when consumers of the fertilizers, for mod- 

 erate fees when proprietors and sellers, are 

 i:s customers. It having become necessary 

 to remove the Station, the direct <: r sags 

 it be given a situation where it can test the 



icultural value of the fertilizers, and per- 

 form other experiments in practical agri- 



:ure. The act <:: Connecticut in estab- 

 lishing th: Station) been responded to in 

 other States. New Jersey has a Station in 

 connection with the Agricultural Col- 



; : a: New Er-.nswick, which enjoys the 

 advantage of a farm. North Carolina has 



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lately furnished its station with excellent ac- 

 commodations at public expense; and New 

 York is organizing a station at an outlay of 

 I - ,000 a year. The report contains very 

 full accounts of an iIje - and valuation of 

 different kinds of fertilizers, and papers on 

 fodders and feeding-stuffs, with their analy- 



Of immediate and practical inter 

 are articles on the feeding of milch-cc 

 at different dairies and the Xew Jersey Ex- 

 perimental Station, and on feeding with en- 

 silage. 



The Occtlt World. Ev A. P. Slxnett. 

 Boston: Colbv Rich! Pp.172. Price, 



n. 



The author apparently belongs to the 

 band of Theosophists, and asserts that the 

 wisdom of the ancients survives as what he 

 calls the occult philosophy, and that u it was 

 already a system of knowledge, that had been 

 cultivated in secret and handed down to ini- 



tiates for ages, before its professors per- 

 formed experiments in public to impress the 

 popular mind in Egypt and Greece. Adepts 

 of occultism in the present age are capable 

 of performing similar experiments, and of 

 exhibiting results that prove them immeas- 

 urably further advanced than modern sci- 

 ence in a comprehension of the forces of 

 nature.'' He claims, also, that these adepts 

 have peculiar knowledge of the mental and 

 spiritual world. He has met this science 

 during his travels in India, and has assumed 

 to describe in this volume his experiences of 

 it. and the knowledge he has gained respect- 

 ing it. Those who read the book with the 

 expectation of finding anything in it to con- 

 firm the high-sounding pretensions declared 

 at the start will be disappointed. 



Marriage and Parentage, and the Sani- 

 tary and Physiological Laws for the 

 Production of Children of Finer 

 Health and Greater Ability. Xew 

 York: M. L. Holbrook & Co. Pp. 186. 



The doctrine of this bock is that " the 

 race might be greatly improved by wiser 

 and more sanitary marriages, and by more 

 physiological parentage"; and the author 

 suggests that, u if the average standard of 

 ability of the race in intellect, in morals, and 

 in physical power were raised one degree 

 during each century, the results could hard- 

 ly be estimated." The subject deserves 

 discussion in a practical, common-sense man- 

 ner, and receives it here. 



The Xew Infidelity. By ArGrsiTS Rad- 

 cliffe Grote. Xew York : G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons. Pp. 101. Price, $1.25. 



The author has endeavored to show in 

 this work that there is an essential differ- 

 ence between the religious temper of the 

 Aryan race and the Semitic. " Our villages 

 to-dav," he says, M are Aryan settlements in 

 their vital points, not Semitic inclosure? ; 

 and it is so with our religion at bottom it 

 is pagan stilL" He has also tried to show 

 that revealed religion is not directly attacked 

 bv the discoveries of Science. " Only Xat- 

 ural Religion n which is regarded by him 

 as the foundation of paganism " is now as- 

 sailed in her own house, by her own chil- 

 dren, and with her own weapons. This has 

 come to pass through the further develop- 



