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that we are not surprised to find much new 

 matter which has never before been fully 

 presented iu any systematic treatise, and, to 

 those who wish to keep abreast with the 

 times and with the latest views of geologists 

 on all important questions, we can recom- 

 mend a perusal of Professor Geikie's work, 

 the value of which to the student is greatly 

 enhanced by his copious references to au- 

 thorities and works consulted. 



Annals of the Astronomical Observatory 

 of Harvard College. Volume XIII. 

 Part I. Micrometric Measurements. 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts : John Wil- 

 son & Son. Pp. 204. 



The work tabulated in this volume was 

 done with the equatorial telescope of fif- 

 teen inches aperture, from 1866 to the close 

 of 1881, under the direction of Professors 

 Winlock and Pickering, the successive di- 

 rectors of the observatory, and includes ob- 

 servations of double stars, nebula?, the 

 satellites of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and 

 Mars, the asteroids, comets, and occultations. 

 Micrometric determinations of position, ex- 

 cept in the cases of small stars near the 

 equator and in and near the nebula of 

 Orion, the results of which have appeared 

 in former volumes, have formed only a small 

 part of the work done with the large tele- 

 scope ; and the present volume records 

 chiefly the miscellaneous micrometric work 

 that has been accumulated during the in- 

 tervals of other investigations. 



Quintus Claudius : A Romance of Imperial 

 Rome. By Ernst Eckstein. From the 

 German by Clara Bell. New York: Will- 

 iam S. Gottsberger. 2 vols., pp. 313, 303. 

 Price, $1.75. 



This is an attempt to reproduce in a life- 

 like form, and with the interest of a romance, 

 the manners and moods of a past age. With 

 reference to the particular era selected, the 

 period of imperial Rome at the close of the 

 first centur}-, the author observes that it 

 bears, in its whole aspect, a stronger resem- 

 blance to the nineteenth century than per- 

 haps any other epoch before the Reforma- 

 tion ; and that hardly another period "ha> 

 ever been equally full of the stirring conflict 

 of purely human interest, and of dramatic 

 contrasts in thought, feeling, and purpose." 

 The numerous allusions to peculiar features 

 of the time are explained in foot-notes. 



Traits of Representative Men. By George 

 W. Bungay. New York : Fowler & Wells. 

 Pp. 2S6. 



This, says the author, is not a book of 

 biography, but of pen and pencil pictures 

 of men of the time who have distinguished 

 themselves in their respective callings, from 

 which the young may derive lessons that will 

 be of service to them. Among the thirty- 

 five men whose biographies are given, with 

 their portraits, politics, literature, the clergy, 

 finance, and art are represented, but science 

 not at all. 



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Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

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