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the Medical School of Maine. The object of 

 the work, as stated in the preface, is to supply 

 the want of an English text-book in which 

 the functions of living tissue are closely 

 compared and combined with its texture; 

 or, in other words, a book wherein the rela- 

 tions of physiology to histology are care- 

 fully presented; for, while there are many 

 good works on physiology, to which the 

 student can refer for a knowledge of the 

 subject, a concise treatise, within the limits 

 of the means of medical students, has been 

 a want hitherto supplied only by treatises 

 in French or German. The book is embel- 

 lished with 150 woodcut illustrations. 



Report op the Commissioners op Lunacy 

 TO THE Commonwealth op Massachi:- 

 SETTS. Boston, January, ISYS. 



This pamphlet of 76 pages contains the 

 separate Reports of the Commissioners, 

 Nathan Allen and Wendell Phillips, to 

 which is added, in an appendix, a letter to 

 the Commissioners by S. E. Sewall. The 

 Report gives the number of insane in the 

 State as, approximately, 3,624, but the 

 Commissioners are persuaded that, if more 

 thorough measures were taken for ascer- 

 taining the number, they would exceed /owr 

 thousand. 



We observe with pleasure the ad- 

 dition of four pages to the Engineerinff 

 and Mining Journal, edited by Richard P. 

 Rothwell, C. E., M. E., and Rossiter W. 

 Raymond, Ph. D. Heretofore its weekly 

 issue consisted of sixteen pages, now it is 

 twenty. But, besides enlarging, the pub- 

 lishers announce their intention of other- 

 wise adding to the value of the journal. 

 Thus they will make more liberal use of 

 engravings to illustrate subjects of profes- 

 sional interest, and questions of practical 

 importance in mining, metallurgy, and gas- 

 engineering, will receive special attention. 

 Another new departure, something in the 

 nature of Notes and Queries, is announced, 

 and cannot fail to enhance the value of the 

 paper. It is the publishers' desire to have 

 their pages used as a " " medium for asking 

 and giving information on subjects con- 

 nected with mining and metallurgy, or gen- 

 eral science." Subscription, $4.00. Pub- 

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International Scientific Series. If 

 the last volume of this series, on " Fungi," 

 be thought somewhat remote from the ur- 

 gent solicitudes of the American mind, no 

 such objection can be urged against the 

 contribution of Prof. Jevons to this series, 

 now in press, entitled " Money and the Sci- 

 ence of Exchange." Prof. Jevons is not 

 only a logician of originality and eminence, 

 and author of a recent profound work on 

 the " Principles of Science," but he is a 

 professional student of political economy, 

 and the author of important works upon 

 this subject also. He brings a disciplined 

 mind and a comprehensive knowledge of 

 the subject to the discussion of that im- 

 portant branch of economical science which 

 deals with currency, and may be expected 

 to give in his new volume a clear and com- 

 pact statement of the subject, as far as its 

 scientific principles have been worked out. 

 Such a volume cannot fail to be useful in 

 this country, where the interest in money is 

 so intense as to be surpassed only by the 

 general ignorance of its nature, offices, and 

 laws. 



" The Unseen Universe." Under this 

 title an anonymous work will be shortly is- 

 sued from the press of Macmillan, treating of 

 the religious bearings of the most advanced 

 science, in such a way as to arouse the in- 

 terest of both scientific and religious think- 

 ers. Since its announcement the work has 

 been anxiously looked for, and there is 

 much speculation as to its authorship. 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIVED. 



The Religion of Humanity. By 0. B. 

 Frothingham. Pp. 338. New York : Put- 

 nam's Sons. Price, $1.50. 



Home Sketches in France. By Mrs. 

 Henry M. Field. Pp. 256. New York ; 

 Putnam's Sous. Price, $1.50. 



Fifth Catalogue of Seventy-one Double 

 Stars. By S. W. Burnham, Esq. Duplicity 

 of the Principal Star of New Scorpii (same 

 author). Reprint from Royal Astronomical 

 Society notices. 



Iron and Steel. By Adolf Schmidt," 

 Ph. D. Pp. 12. St. Louis Times ^v'mt. 



History of Greece, By C. A. Fyffe (His- 



