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Foster, Michael, and others, Editors. The " Jour- 

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Kansas Academy of Sciences. Transactions, 

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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



The Disaster at Toronto. On the even- 

 ing of February 14th the larger portion of 

 the University of Toronto was laid in ashes. 

 Its governing body have met the disaster 

 with commendable promptitude and spirit. 

 Plans are afoot not only to rebuild the 

 structure in its original beauty of outline, 

 but to extend it for the accommodation of 

 the ever-growing number of the university's 

 students. Last summer the university was 

 the home of the American Association. The 

 cordial hospitality of its venerable principal, 

 Sir Daniel Wilson, and his staff of profess- 

 ors, on that occasion, have done not a little 

 to widen the circle of sympathy felt with 

 Ontario's capital in its grievous loss. 



Irish Holiday Customs. A paper by Mr. 

 James Mooney, on the " Holiday Customs of 

 Ireland," presents the Celtic peasant in a 

 different aspect from that under which he is 

 exhibited in the English Unionist accounts 

 of his misery and turbulence, and one which, 

 we may easily believe with the author, is 

 more really illustrative of his character and 

 home life. The old customs are, however, 

 decaying in Ireland as elsewhere, and many 

 of the observances which were once general 

 are now confined to remote mountain dis- 

 tricts or live only in the memory of the older 

 people. Yet others are still common through- 

 out the country. As there is but little com- 

 munication among the peasantry of differ- 

 ent districts, except at the fairs in the sum- 

 mer-time, the customs common in one par- 

 ish are sometimes entirely unknown in an- 



