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tions of Aurora Borealis," " Thunder and 

 Lightning," and " Miscellaneous Phenome- 

 na," embracing " temperatures of wells," of 

 " river, rain, and cellar," " Extremes of At- 

 mospheric Pressure or Temperature," " So- 

 lar Ilalos and Parhelia," lunar halos, and 

 " General Remarks." Vol. XX, Part II, of 

 the same series records the Observations 

 made at. the Blue Hill Meteorological Observ- 

 atory, Massachusetts, in 1888, with a state- 

 ment of the local weather predictions, under 

 the direction of A. Lawrence Rotch. 



A paper on Domestic Economy in Public 

 Education, by Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 is published in the series of " Educational 

 Monographs " of the New York College for 

 the Training of Teachers. The success of 

 the manual training system that has been 

 developed out of the carpentry classes for 

 boys has prompted the author to look for a 

 kindred course adapted to the life of girls. 

 She finds it in domestic economy, in which 

 the purposes of sanitary science and hygiene 

 should play an important part. A schedule 

 for a four years' course is introduced. In 

 it cooking "kitchen science" is promi- 

 nent, and this, the author insists, can be 

 placed on a level with the use of workshop 

 tools as a means of mental and physical 

 training. Having mentioned the scientific 

 principles involved in the processes of pre- 

 paring a meal, the author maintains that 

 " the school-girl who has had the elements 

 of chemistry and physics, which are often 

 taught as abstract sciences, summed up and 

 applied to the making of a simple dish, has 

 had her mind awakened to the relations and 

 interdependence of things as no other train- 

 ing now given can awaken it." In an ap- 

 pendix are given summaries of the provis- 

 ions made for teaching domestic economy in 

 several public schools and colleges in the 

 United States and in the girls' schools of the 

 city of Paris. Another number of the same 

 series is an essay on Graphic Methods in 

 Teaching, by diaries Barnard, with an in- 

 troduction by Prof. John F. Woodhull, set- 

 ting forth " Training in Natural Science as 

 an Essential Factor in the Education of the 

 Citizen." Mr. Barnard's essay embodies the 

 relation of experiences in training children 

 to the observation of natural facts and phe- 

 nomena, and to keeping regular records of 



them by means of the graphic system, with 

 specimens of the actual work of certain 

 children in that line. Of the value to the 

 child of thus recording weather observa- 

 tions the author says : " The making of the 

 diagram (printed forms should never be 

 used) is something in the way of mechanical 

 drawing that is a good training for the hand 

 and eye. Secondly, the diagram, being fast- 

 ened upon the wall in some convenient 

 place, becomes a reminder of stated work to 

 be done at a fixed hour a capital training 

 in punctuality, promptness, and precision." 

 Then the thermometer is a tool which the 

 child learns to use. He is induced to go 

 out of doors. Pride is taken in the work as 

 it goes on, developing a regular course. It 

 is instructive and a useful exercise in neat- 

 ness and accuracy, and when it is done " the 

 child has two graphic statements of real 

 phenomena in nature observed by himself 

 and so recorded that at the end the entire 

 work of the month is plainly seen." 



The Globe, a New Quarterly Review of 

 World-Literature, Society, Religion, Art, and 

 Politics, of which we have the first number, 

 October to December, 1889, is projected by 

 William Henry Thome, in Chicago, to be a 

 " first-class literary review," which he be- 

 lieves we have not ; and he aspires " to 

 edit and publish something better, broader, 

 stronger, and more cosmopolitan " than any 

 existing American periodical. After a care- 

 ful inspection of his work we are forced to 

 say with regret that he has not reached the 

 object of his aspiration, and that the want 

 he describes, if it existed before, is still un- 

 supplied. The initial number of The Globe 

 contains articles on " The Fuss about Bruno," 

 " The English, French, and American Stage," 

 " The Heroic and Commonplace in Art," 

 " Emerson and his Biographers," " Socialism 

 and Poetic Retribution," " Dr. McCosh and 

 Modern Philosophy," etc. 



Edenic Diet, the Philosophy of Eating 

 for the Physical and Mental Man (Isaac B. 

 Rumford, Santa Cruz, Cal., 25 cents), is in- 

 tended primarily to exalt an exclusive vege- 

 table diet and furnish recipes involving its 

 principles. To this are added a mass of 

 rhapsodical matter and a scheme for " an 

 Edenic home " which those may enjoy to 

 whose mode of thought they are adapted. 



Mr. J. Madison Cutts, of Washington, 



