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Practical Life and the Study of Man. 



By J. Wilson, Ph. D. Newark, New 



York : J. Wilson and Son, Publishers. 



Vp. 390. Price, $1.50. 



A volume of sober essays on topics re- 

 lating to one or the other of the subjects 

 mentioned in the title, expressed in plain 

 language and pleasant style. The author's 

 object is simply to interest and instruct 

 those who are seeking improvement, by 

 bringing to notice, on the subjects consid- 

 dered, the best thoughts in the language, 

 in his own words, when they have seemed 

 fitting, in the words of others, where they 

 expressed them best. The work has been 

 done not to make a book, but because the 

 author, as he remarks, " feels that he knows 

 much that ought to be written," and with 

 assurance, " because he has studied what 

 he says, and has confidence in his state- 

 ments." 



Schilling's Transcendental Idealism. A 

 Critical Exposition. By Professor John 

 Watson, LL. D., of Queen's University, 



i Kingston, Canada. Chicago : S. C. 

 Griggs & Co. Pp. 250. Price, $1.25. 



This is the second of the series of " Ger- 

 man Philosophical Classics," which Messrs. 

 Griggs & Co. are publishing, under the 

 general editorial supervision of Professor 

 George S. Morris, of the University of 

 Michigan. In the present volume the ed- 

 itor has endeavored to exhibit the phases 

 of Schelling's philosophical development as 

 they are registered in the various treatises 

 which form their vehicle, supplying all the 

 elements for an independent judgment, to- 

 gether with some hints of weak points of 

 the system. 



Speech and its Defects, considered Path- 

 ologically, Historically, and Beme- 

 dially. By Samuel 0. L. Potter, M. A., 

 M. D. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston & Co. 

 Pp. 117. Price, $1. 



The first prize was accorded to this 

 work as a thesis by the unanimous vote of 

 the faculty, at the fifty-seventh annual com- 

 mencement of the Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, Philadelphia. The author selected the 

 subjeet for his prize thesis, because it was 

 one on which from his own sufferings and 

 experiments he felt " somewhat qualified to 

 write," and could contribute to knowledge ; 

 for he had made, in his own person, prac- 



tical trial of several of the recognized meth- 

 ods of cure, and had examined all the at- 

 tainable literature on the subject. We give 

 a note of warning from the author to those 

 who have cases of stammering to deal with : 

 " The ignorance of this subject which pre- 

 vails among those having the care of chil- 

 dren, is productive of much distress and 

 serious results . to the innocent sufferers. 

 The child who manifests a disposition to 

 stutter is usually abused in more ways than 

 one. The affection is intensified by any 

 cause which disturbs the equipoise of the 

 nervous system ; and the most frequent 

 and potent cases of this kind are derived 

 from the reception which his infirmity re- 

 ceives from those who are endowed with 

 perfect speech themselves. Mockery on the 

 part of companions, and threats, even blows 

 from parents and teachers, have made more 

 confirmed stutterers than any other exten- 

 sive influence, besides making the life of 

 the patient cne of unutterable wrctched- 



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ness. 



The Magazine of Art. London, Paris, and 

 New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & 

 Co. December, 1882. Monthly. $3.50 

 a year. 



We have received Messrs. Cassell, Pet- 

 ter, Galpin & Co.'s " Magazine of Art," as 

 it has appeared in monthly numbers through 

 the year, with much satisfaction, and are 

 pleased to commend it as a good represent- 

 ative of what is true and meritorious in 

 art. In its letterpress it teaches what it is 

 well to teach in art, in a manner that ap- 

 peals to the popular understanding and is 

 likely to elicit popular interest. Its illus- 

 trations are selected with discrimination 

 from worthy and agreeable subjects, and 

 are well executed, while the typography is 

 nearly perfect. Its articles arc varied in 

 subject and method, and its news and other 

 departments are acceptably sustained ; and 

 a fair degree of attention is given to Ameri- 

 can art. In the December number some of 

 the American pictures at the Salon of 1882 

 are candidly criticised ; articles are given 

 on Japanese book illustration ; a subject of 

 prehistoric art ; a department of ceramics ; 

 the works of an Italian artist ; and Mr. 

 Hamerton's " Graphic Arts," all of which are 

 appropriately illustrated. 



