LITERAR Y N TICES. 



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Annual Report of the Board of Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution for the 

 Year 1S76. Government Printing-Offiee, 

 Washington. Pp. 488. 



In addition to the report of the secreta- 

 ry, on the operations, expenditures, and con- 

 ditions of the Institution, this volume con- 

 tains the following elaborate and important 

 papers. "Eulogy on Gay-Lussac," by M. 

 Arago ; " Biographical Sketch of Dom Pe- 

 dro II., Emperor of Brazil," by Anpriso 

 Fialho ; " Kinetic Theories of Gravitation," 

 by Wm. B. Taylor ; " The Revolutions of 

 the Crust of the Earth," by Prof. George 

 Pilar; "Ethnology," by Otis T. Mason. 



The Religious Feeling, a Study for Faith. 

 By Newman Smyth. New York : Scrib- 

 ner, Armstrong & Co. Pp. 1*71. Price, 

 $1.25. 



This is an earnest, and intended to be 

 a philosophic and liberal, discussion of the 

 modern problems of religious thought in re- 

 lation to science, positivism, and Darwinian 

 and Spencerian doctrines. It is too brief to 

 have finished up the inquiry ; but its issue 

 is thus stated by the author : " The problem 

 of problems, upon which the thought of 

 our time labors, may be reduced in the last 

 analysis to the simple alternative: is man, 

 through whatever intermediate forms he 

 may have descended, the son of God, or is 

 he the unintended product of molecular 

 forces ? " It is hardly necessary to say that 

 the writer accepts the former alternative, 

 and vigorously belabors the school of think- 

 ers which he charges with holding the latter 

 opinion. 



Sanitary Condition of City and Country 

 Houses. By G. E. Waring, Jr. Pp. 145. 

 Magnetism of Iron Vessels. By F. 

 Rogers. New York : Van Nostrand. 

 Pp. 126. Price, 50 cents each. 



The first of these little volumes contains 

 two papers read by Mr. Waring at meetings 

 of the American Health Association, togeth- 

 er with the rather voluminous correspond- 

 ence occasioned by their publication in the 

 American Architect. In this correspondence 

 some of the author's facts and conclusions 

 are criticised by other sanitarians. Mr. 

 Waring's replies to these strictures form a 

 very valuable appendix to the original pa- 

 pers. Of the other volume named above, 

 we need only say that it was originally pre- 



pared for a manual designed to be published 

 by the Navy Department. The publication 

 of the manual having been abandoned, the 

 treatise was incorporated into Van Nos- 

 trand's " Science Series." 



How to use the Microscope. By John 

 Phin. New York: Industrial Publica- 

 tion Co. Pp. 181. Price, 75 cents. 



Two years ago we noticed the first edi- 

 tion of this little manual for beginners with 

 the microscope, and now we have to record 

 the appearance of a second edition, fully 

 illustrated and greatly enlarged. Its essen- 

 tial character as an elementary treatise is, 

 however, still rigidly preserved. 



Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico. 

 Mexico: Imprenta de C. Ramiro. Vol. 

 I., Part I. Pp. 40. . With Plate. 



This initial number of the "Anales" is 

 devoted mainly to Mexican archaBology. 

 The principal paper is a description, by Don 

 Manual Orozco y Berra, of a curious cylin- 

 drical monument of stone, the Cuauhxicalli 

 of Tizoc, supposed to be a sacrificial stone 

 employed in human sacrifices. This mon- 

 ument is elaborately engraved with human 

 figures. The second paper is by Dr. G. Men- 

 doza, and describes an Aztec idol of Chi- 

 nese type, found in a tumulus in the State 

 of Puebla. The third and last paper is a 

 general introduction to the " Paleontology 

 of Mexico," by Mariano Barcena. 



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Rotation of the Earth. By W. L. Walker. 

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Daily Bulletin of the Signal Service, United 

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What was He? or, Jesus in the Light of the 

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