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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Charms, suggesting an affinity between ho- 

 moeopathy and Swedenborgianism. 



A paper by G. W. Hambleton, M. D., on 

 The Suppression of Consumption, to which 

 we called attention some months ago, when 

 it was published in Science, has been re- 

 printed in a neat pamphlet, with flexible 

 cloth covers (N. D. C. Hodges, 40 cents). It 

 forms the first number of a series to be called 

 Fact and Theory Papers. Dr. Hambleton 

 maintains that consumption is produced by 

 causes that check free respiration and by 

 dusty air, and the first aim of his treatment 

 is to secure the breathing of a full supply 

 of pure air. 



Count Tolstoi's Kreutzer Sonata, trans- 

 lated by Benjamin R. Tucker and published 

 by him in Boston, is a story of a man's ve- 

 hement passion for his own wife, and his 

 consequent jealousy. These feelings become 

 ungovernable upon hearing the performance 

 of the music which gives the story its title, 

 and events following this incident prompt 

 the sufferer to murder. The author's inten- 

 tion, though his method may be mistaken, is 

 to teach a salutary moral lesson. 



The First Annual Report of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- 

 versity covers the eight months from April 

 30, 1888, to the end of the year. The re- 

 ports of the director and other officers relate 

 mostly to the business of organization. In 

 transmitting the report to the Governor of 

 New York, Prof. C. K. Adams, President of 

 Cornell University, states that, in organizing 

 the station, the trustees of the university 

 availed themselves in every practicable way 

 of the large resources already forming a 

 part of the College of Agriculture. The 

 completeness of this outfit decided the trus- 

 tees to use the expenditure for buildings 

 provided for by the Hatch Act in erecting a 

 building for the careful study of noxious in- 

 sects. Appended to the report are the four 

 Bulletins^ which were also issued separately 

 during the year. The chief topics treated 

 in these Bulletins are an Experimental Dairy 

 House, Experiments in feeding Lambs, The 

 Insectary of Cornell University, and Grow- 

 ing Corn for Fodder and Ensilage. All of 

 these papers are illustrated. 



Under the title of How to remember 

 History, the J. B. Lippincott Company pub- 

 lish a Method of memorizing Dates, with a 



summary of the most important events of 

 the last four centuries, by Virginia Conser 

 Shaffer. Each century is represented by 

 a chart, and the chart is divided into a 

 hundred squares, one for each year. Each 

 square is divided into five subdivisions, 

 answering respectively to events in war and 

 peace ; in politics, social and religious life ; 

 in literature, science, and art ; miscellaneous 

 events ; and deaths. Different countries are 

 represented by devices of color. When the 

 date of any event is to be fixed, it is noted 

 by filling, in the square standing for the 

 year, the subdivision corresponding with the 

 character of the event, with the color or colors 

 corresponding with the country or countries 

 to which the event relates. To the charts, 

 which are given as specimens of what may 

 be done, texts are appended, embodying a 

 chronological table of the events represented, 

 and reading accounts of the same events of 

 considerable fullness. The plan is capable 

 of indefinite modification and enlargement. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Abel, Mrs. Mary Hinman. Practical Sanitary 

 and Economic Cooking. Rochester, N. Y. : Ameri- 

 can Public Health Association. Pp. 190. 



Armas y Cardenas, Jose de. Medico-legal Ob- 

 servations on the Case of Don Esteban Verdu (in 

 Spanish). Habana. Pp. 32. 



Bean, Tarleton H. New Fishes collected off the 

 Coast of Alaska, etc. Washington : Smithsonian 

 Institution. Pp. 8. 



Browning, Oscar. Aspects of Education. New 

 York : Industrial Education Association. Pp. 48. 

 20 cents. 



Childs, George "W. Recollections of General 

 Grant. Philadelphia : Collins Printing House. Pp. 

 104. 



Chisholm, George G., and Leete, C. H. Long- 

 man's School Geography for North America. New 

 York: Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 3S4. $1.25. 



Coast, IT. 8., and Geodetic Survey. Chart Cor- 

 rections of the Coast. 



Cox, Charles H. Protoplasm and Life. New 

 York : N. D. C. Hodges. Pp. 67. 75 cents. 



Crooker, Joseph Henry, Madison, "Wis. Differ- 

 ent New Testament Views of Jesus. Pp. 70. — The 

 Bible and the Public Schools, or Dr. Bascom and 

 the Supreme Court. Pp. 18. 



Dall, William H., U. 8. National Museum. New 

 Species of Land Shell from Cuba (Vertigo Cubana). 

 Pp. 2. 



English, George L. & Co., Philadelphia. Cata- 

 logue of Minerals for sale. Pp. 100. 



Fall. Prof. Delos, Albion, Mich. Sanitary Sci- 

 ence. Pp. 10. 



Gilbert, Charles H. Preliminary Report on 

 Fishes collected bv the Steamer Albatross on the Pa- 

 cific Coast of North America. Washington : Smith- 

 sonian Institution. Pp. 78. 



Goode. G. Brown. Museum-History and Muse- 

 ums of Historv. Pp. 22.— Origin of the National 

 Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United 

 States. Pp. 112. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. 

 —The Literary Labors of Benjamin Franklin. Phil- 

 adelphia. Pp. 21. 



