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novelties in style or processes. It marks the 

 distinction between cabinet-making and join- 

 ery, and between cabinet-making and decora- 

 tion ; gives a review of the development of 

 furniture, in which the tricks and deceits of 

 a class of dealers in pretended antiques are 

 exposed ; and then furnishes practical infor- 

 mation, with more than two hundred illus- 

 trations, concerning the various matters per- 

 taining to cabinet-making furniture woods, 

 glue, nails, tools, wooden appliances made 

 by the user, grinding and sharpening tools, 

 joints, structural details, construction of 

 parts, drawing, veneering, etc., and the con- 

 struction of various articles. 



Mr. J. Traill Taylor's manual on the Op- 

 tics of Photography and Photographic Lenses 

 (New York : Macmillan & Co., $1) is prac- 

 tical rather than theoretical, and is intended 

 for the users of photographic lenses. It in- 

 cludes the substance of articles furnished to 

 the photographic journals and photographic 

 clubs of Great Britain. It furnishes brief 

 accounts of the nature and properties of 

 light, the principles on which the use of 

 lenses is based, their defects and the means 

 of remedying them, the different classes of 

 lenses ; the methods of preparing, mounting, 

 fitting, and using them ; and such other in- 

 formation as the photographer needs respect- 

 ing them. The author distinguishes the op- 

 tics of photography from that of the tele- 

 scope or microscope by showing that the 

 former takes cognizance of rays transmitted 

 obliquely as well as axially, and brings both 

 the chemical and visual rays to a focus on 

 the same plane. 



A book, small enough to be carried in 

 the pocket and convenient for reference at 

 any time, entitled American Citizenship and 

 the Right of Suffrage in the United States, has 

 been compiled by Taliesen Evans, and is pub- 

 lished by him at Oakland, Cal. It comprises 

 abstracts of national and State laws affecting 

 citizenship and suffrage in the United States, 

 and of such questions relating thereto as 

 have from time to time been passed upon 

 by the courts. The effort has been made to 

 treat the subject in such a way as to make 

 the presentation acceptable and instructive 

 to the American student, and interesting and 

 useful to persons of foreign birth who de- 

 sire to become citizens and voters. It in- 

 cludes general reviews of the conditions of 



American citizenship and of the right of 

 suffrage ; literal quotations of the constitu- 

 tional provisions of each of the States con- 

 cerning the qualifications of voters ; a chap- 

 ter on the qualifications for holding office ; 

 and the Constitution of the United States. 



The Rev. Emory Miller, D. D., LL. D., 

 apparently endeavors, in a book on the Evo- 

 lution of Love, to approach the deepest ques- 

 tions of divinity. Superstition, opinion, and 

 discrimination, he says, are three epochal 

 words, of which the first has had its day and 

 the second its noon, while the sun of dis- 

 crimination is dawning. Casting away super- 

 stition, refusing to be bound by opinions, the 

 author tries, he says, honestly and by the 

 method of discrimination, to seek the truth. 

 In this spirit he discusses the Implication of 

 Being as perceived, as conceived, and as 

 conditioned, and finds perfection of Being in 

 perfect love. He next discusses Creation, 

 with the conclusion that it is an indulgence 

 of love's eternal, altruistic spirit; finds the 

 origin of evil in selfishness, and its solution 

 in conditions within which it is held that 

 provide for either its merciful remedy or its 

 self-extinction. The last chapters relate to 

 The Atoning Fact, The Revelation of Aton- 

 ing Fact, and Eschatology, or the doctrine of 

 " last things." Chicago : A. C. McClurg & 

 Co. Price, $1.50. 



The Bureau of Education has issued a 

 Circular of Information on Sanitary Condi- 

 tions for School-houses, the result of an ex- 

 tended study of this subject by Dr. Albert 

 P. Marble, of Worcester, Mass. This mono- 

 graph is concerned with practical devices for 

 ventilation and heating, drainage and light- 

 ing. Appended to the body of the circular 

 are papers on Ventilation of School-houses 

 heated by Stoves, Hygienic Construction of 

 the Bridgeport High-school Building, Wor- 

 cester School Buildings, Plans and Specifica- 

 tions of School-houses prepared for the Wis- 

 consin State Bureau of Education, and De- 

 signs for School-houses accepted by the De- 

 partment of Public Instruction of the State 

 of New York. The whole document is copi- 

 piously illustrated; the main portion has 

 twenty-three figures in the text and seventy- 

 one plates, showing heating apparatus, the 

 arrangement of ventilating ducts, the course 

 of heated air through rooms, sanitary closets, 

 etc. The appendixes are accompanied by 



