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accuracy attainable by each method of lev- 

 eling. 



No. 92. Petroleum : Its Production and 

 Use. By Boverton Redwood, F. I. C, 

 F. C. S. New York : D. Van Nostrand. 

 Pp. 210. Price, 50 cents. 



The material of this volume is abridged 

 from a series of Cantor lectures given before 

 the Society of Arts, London, and originally 

 published in the journal of the society. 

 The parts omitted are such as were deemed 

 of no interest to American readers. Almost 

 every topic relating to petroleum has been 

 considered, beginning with the kinds of 

 rocks in which petroleum is found, in the 

 United States and in the Baku district, and 

 taking up in succession the chemistry of 

 petroleum, the construction of wells, meth- 

 ods of transporting crude petroleum, the 

 manufacture of commercial products and 

 their transportation, methods of testing oils 

 and paraffine in considerable detail, followed 

 by a sketch of the progress of invention in 

 oil-lamps. 



Massage as a Mode op Treatment. By 

 William Murrell, M. D. Philadelphia : 

 P. Blakiston, Son & Co. Pp. 100. Price, 

 $1.25. 



The attention which has been given re- 

 cently to massage, in medical books and 

 journals, has excited a demand for a more 

 general introduction of that method of treat- 

 ment, and for operators. But much igno- 

 rance still prevails upon the subject, both 

 among those who require massage and 

 among those who offer themselves as oper- 

 ators. It is too important a matter to be 

 trifled with, and the remedy is too beneficial 

 a one to be neglected when it is practicable 

 to secure its proper application. Hence 

 this little book, telling exactly what massage 

 is, and how it should be applied, and how 

 the operator should be qualified, fills a felt 

 want. It gives the history of massage ; an 

 account of the method of performing it, de- 

 scribing particularly the Von Mosengeilian 

 system as practiced in Holland and Ger- 

 many ; chapters on " The Masseur and the 

 Masseuse " (male and female operators) and 

 "The Physiological Action of Massage"; and 

 indications as to the class of cases in which 

 it is most likely to do good. On the last 

 point the author says : " The ignorant rab- 



ble of course thinks that it will cure every- 

 thing, but as a matter of fact its sphere of 

 action is very limited. If carried out under 

 the direction of a scientific physician, who 

 has had experience in this mode of treat- 

 ment, it yields excellent results ; but if al- 

 lowed to drift into the hands of an ignorant 

 empiric, it soon degenerates into the most 

 arrant quackery." 



Profit-Sharing. By N. 0. Nelson, St. 

 Louis, Mo. Pp. 40. 



This pamphlet is a collection of articles 

 which were written by the author on differ- 

 ent occasions, but always by request, hold- 

 ing up the plan of giving to workmen an 

 equitable share in the profits of the busi- 

 ness as the true solution of the so-called 

 " labor question." Force is given to the ar- 

 guments by the fact that the system which 

 the author advocates has been introduced 

 into the manufacturing establishment with 

 which he is connected, and is in successful 

 operation there. Two of the papers are 

 devoted to accounts of the introduction and 

 workings of the plan. 



Proceedings of the Department of Super- 

 intendence of the National Educa- 

 tional Association, February, 1886. 

 Washington: Government Printing-Of- 

 fice. Pp. 90. 



This is published as one of the " Circu- 

 lars of Information " of the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation. More than sixty superintendents 

 and persons actively interested in education 

 attended the meeting. Among the topics 

 considered in papers read and in discus- 

 sions were, " The Duties of County Super- 

 intendents," "Reading Circles for Teach- 

 ers," " Co-education of the Races," " Edu- 

 cational Statistics," " The Educational and 

 Religious Interests of the Colored People 

 of the South," "Forestry in Education," 

 " Language- Work," " Growth and Benefits 

 of Reading Circles," and "City Superin- 

 tendence." 



The Labor -Value Fallacy. By M. L. 

 Scudder, Jr. Chicago: The Patriots' 

 League. Pp.112. Price, 10 cents. 



This pamphlet is the first of a series to 

 be published by the " Patriots' League " 

 an association of conservative citizens whose 

 purpose is to combat socialist heresies and 



