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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



interest, is followed by a chapter of Personal 

 Recollections by the author, who was one 

 of Pestalozzi's pupils at Iverdun; and by 

 accounts of his Religion, his Philosophy, and 

 his Elementary Method, and of Niederer's 

 Collaboration. 



Report of the Royal Commission on the 

 Mineral Resources op Ontario and 

 Measures for their Development. To- 

 ronto : Warnick & Sons. Pp. 566. 



The plan of the commission in outlining 

 its work included inquiry into the geology of 

 the province, with special reference to its 

 economic minerals ; description and maps of 

 the working mines and important undevel- 

 oped mineral resources ; trade in mineral 

 products ; information and suggestions on 

 the subject of mining laws and regulations ; 

 and inquiry into the best means of pro- 

 moting metallurgical industry. Its methods 

 included examination of witnesses and per- 

 sonal visitation of important districts and 

 places. A section of the report on the ge- 

 ology of the province includes a systematic 

 account of each of its rock formations, with 

 such a sketch of the general geological feat- 

 ures of North America beyond Ontario as was 

 necessary to make the description more com- 

 plete and intelligible. In it the entire re- 

 sults of the geological surveys, otherwise 

 scattered through many volumes of reports, 

 are summarized and made accessible. The 

 evidence that Ontario possesses great min- 

 eral wealth is abundant and is constantly ac- 

 cumulating. There are iron ores, gold, ga- 

 lena, arsenic, mica, fibrous serpentine, apa- 

 tite, granite, and plumbago in the central 

 and eastern counties ; copper and nickel 

 mines in the Sudbury district ; gold-bearing 

 quartz, copper, and nickel in the town- 

 ship of Denison ; gold and silver bearing 

 veins, iron, copper, galena, and "immense 

 quarries of marble" along the north shore 

 of Lake Huron ; gold, silver, copper, iron, 

 galena, plumbago, zinc, granite, marble, ser- 

 pentine, and sandstone north of Lake Su- 

 perior; a rich silver district west of Port 

 Arthur, and beyond this district gold-bearing 

 quartz, magnetic iron ore, and what is be- 

 lieved to be a continuation of the Vermilion 

 iron range of Minnesota; and gold-bearing 

 veins in the islands of the Lake of the 

 "Woods. A practical business basis has been 



reached in the development of a number of 

 the minerals, as, for example, in the produc- 

 tion of salt, petroleum, phosphate, mica, ce- 

 ment, gypsum, and building stones, and in 

 the manufacture of brick, terra-cotta, tile, 

 and sewer-pipe. Silver, copper, and nickel 

 mines are worked with much skill and en- 

 ergy ; iron-mining has been intermittent, but 

 has good prospects ; and it is confidently 

 hoped that gold-mining will become one of 

 the established industries of the country. 



Glimpses of Fifty Years : The Autobiog- 

 raphy of an American Woman. By 

 Frances E. Willard. Introduction by 

 Hannah Whitall Smith. Chicago : Wom- 

 an's Temperance Publication Associa- 

 tion. Pp. 700. 



The journals in this voluminous record 

 are psychologically a contrast to the diary of 

 Marie Bashkirtseff. "I have the desire of 

 living upon this earth by any means in my 

 power," wrote the young Russian artist, con- 

 sumed by feverish thirst for fame. Twen- 

 ty years earlier, a girl upon the Wisconsin 

 prairie, struggling with aspiration, cried out, 

 "What is it — what is it that I am to be, 

 God ? " In this effort to be — not merely to 

 be celebrated at any cost — there are no mor- 

 bid yearnings for sensation, but a healthful 

 striving for extended usefulness. 



Miss Willard views her life in six 

 phases : The welcome child, the happy stu- 

 dent, the roving teacher, the tireless travel- 

 er, the temperance organizer, and the woman 

 in politics. Three chapters descriptive of 

 her girlhood, passed on a farm in Rock 

 County, Wisconsin, give attractive sketches 

 of pioneer life happily conditioned. There 

 were no schools in this district, nevertheless 

 the family was well educated. The mother 

 had been a school-teacher, and was well 

 read ; the father was a student of Nature, 

 and trained the children to observe the ways 

 of birds and butterflies, the habits of go- 

 phers, squirrels, and ants ; to know the vari- 

 ous herbs, and what their uses were ; to no- 

 tice different grasses, and learn their names ; 

 to tell the names of curious wild flowers. 



Very naturally the daughter became in 

 later years " Preceptress in Natural Sci- 

 ences." Her girlish habits show an early 

 distaste for ordinary feminine occupations. 

 Her life, as a student at Milwaukee College 

 and the Northwestern Female College, is de- 



