LITERARY NOTICES. 



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often sorely puzzled by these localisms, and 

 Mr. Hallock does well in providing them 

 with an interpreter. 



The Journal of Physiology. Edited by 

 Dr. Michael Foster. Vol. I., Nos. I. to 

 VI., 496 pages ; Vol. II., No. I., 90 pages. 

 New York : Macmillan & Co. 



The first volume of this most valuable 

 periodical is now completed, and the first 

 part of the second volume is also published. 

 We again call the attention of our scientific 

 and medical readers to its merits, and also 

 urge for it the patronage of liberal-minded 

 men whether professional or not. To those 

 interested in its discussions we need not say 

 that it is invaluable, as it represents the 

 progress of research in physiological sci- 

 ence, and gives the latest trustworthy re- 

 sults on a wide range of subjects. It is ed- 

 ited by an able corps of gentlemen, who, of 

 course, contribute their services freely, and 

 with no thought of remuneration, from sim- 

 ple love of the promotion of knowledge. 

 And who is not interested in the advance- 

 ment of this branch of science. " The Jour- 

 nal of Physiology " ought to be taken in 

 every library, college, and high-school, if 

 for no other reason than because it is a 

 public duty to sustain it. It is a scandal 

 to civilization that, when wealth is squan- 

 dered so profusely on absolutely worthless 

 things, men of science, living on stipends, 

 and giving their very life-blood to laborious 

 researches, should have to retrench their 

 vital necessities to pay for the publication 

 of their original work, which is of untold 

 value to the community. 



People generally have but a very imper- 

 fect idea of the activity of scientific inquiry 

 at the present time, because it is a world by 

 itself, with which our literary, political, and 

 religious classes have very little concern or 

 sympathy. The physiological division of 

 science furnishes a very good illustration 

 of the extent of this vigorous original work. 

 The editors of "The Journal of Physiol- 

 ogy " have issued a supplement to Vol. I. 

 containing a list of titles of works and pa- 

 pers of physiological interest published in 

 1878. We subjoin the classified headings 

 of this list, which will convey an idea of the 

 scope of these investigations, and give the 

 number of works that appeared last year in 

 each division: 



Works. 



1. Text-books, Methods, etc 41 



2. General Physiology, General Properties 



of Protoplasm and Cells 89 



3. General Chemistry of Tissues and of 



Animal and Vegetable Substances ... 85 



4. General Physics 22 



5. Structure and Properties of Cartilage, 



Bone, and Connective Tissues 19 



6. Blood, Structure and General Features. 20 



7. Circulation 100 



8. Lymphatic System 6 



9. Alimentary Canal, Digestion, etc 56 



10. Respiration 31 



11. Perspiration, etc 20 



12. Urine 44 



13. General Metabolism of Body 44 



14. Animal Heat 8 



15. Structure of Contractile and Nervous 



Tissues 28 



16. General Properties of Contractile Tis- 



sues, Muscle, and Nerve 41 



17. General Nervous System 99 



18. Eye, Vision 86 



19. Ear, Hearing 16 



20. Skin, Touch 14 



21. Speech 13 



22. Locomotion 2 



23. Reproduction 29 



24. Action of Drugs 83 



25. Ferments, etc 64 



Total 1,010 



Souvenirs op Madame Vigee Le Brun. 

 With a Steel Portrait from an Original 

 Painting by the Author. New York : 

 R. Wortbington. Pp.398. Price, $1.75. 



Madame Le Brun was born in Paris in 

 1755, and died in 1842, and during the 

 greater part of that time was employed in 

 painting the portraits of the reigning fami- 

 lies of Europe. She was the contemporary 

 and friend of Joseph Vernet, of Benjamin 

 West, and of Sir Joshua Reynolds, all of 

 whom bore testimony to her rare ability as 

 an artist. It is said that, on the opening 

 in London of her portrait of Calonne, a by- 

 stander remarked : " It ought to be good, 

 for Madame Le Brun received 3,200 for 

 it"; when Sir Joshua replied, "If they 

 gave me 4,000 for it, I could not have 

 done it as well." Being not only a great 

 favorite at the different European courts, 

 but her salon forming a rallying-point for 

 the most distinguished people in fashion, in 

 literature, and in art, she had at her com- 

 mand a surprising wealth of material, and 

 these reminiscences form a curious though 

 unconscious history of the morals as well 

 as the manners of that interesting period. 



