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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Take for instance her naive accounts of 

 her intercourse with the Duchess du Barry, 

 Catharine II., and Lady Hamilton. The 

 most interesting of her souvenirs are those 

 connected with the reigns of Louis XVI. 

 of France, of Catharine II. and Paul I. of 

 Russia, of Queen Caroline of Naples, and of 

 George III. of England, and the most dis- 

 tinguished of their subjects in every de- 

 partment. D'Alembert, La Harpe, Abbe 

 * Sieyes, Talleyrand, Prince Kaunitz, Ponia- 

 towski, Potemkin, Angelica Kauifmann, 

 Catalini, Mademoiselle Mars, Madame Re- 

 camier, the Duchess of Devonshire, Her- 

 schel, Sir Francis Burdett, etc., furnish 

 abundant subject-matter for her lively and 

 gossiping details. 



Outlines of Field Geology. By Archi- 

 bald Geikie, F. R. S., Director of the 

 Geological Survey of Scotland. New 

 York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 222. 

 Price, $1. 



Professor Geikie's lectures upon this 

 subject, delivered at the South Kensington 

 Museum in 1876, and subsequently printed 

 in a pamphlet form, were noticed at the 

 time of their appearance. He dwelt upon 

 the methods of observation requisite in or- 

 dinary field geology, with practical direc- 

 tions for .noting and recording the facts 

 observed. It met with a cordial reception, 

 and a large impression was disposed of. 

 The author has now rewritten and enlarged 

 the work, dropping the lecture form, in- 

 creasing the" illustrations, and giving it a 

 shape that will make it a standard guide for 

 geological students. The book assumes 

 that the young geologist has read some good 

 text-book and got a general knowledge of 

 the elementary principles of the subject, 

 and then wishes to become acquainted with 

 the science as a reality. It is for the use 

 of those who, having a book-knowledge of 

 geology, "find themselves helpless when 

 they try to interpret the facts which they 

 meet with in the field. The practical knowl- 

 edge of which they feel the want is not to 

 be gained from books. It must be sought 

 in quarries and ravines, by hillside and sea- 

 shore. But hints regarding what should be 

 looked for and how to set about the search 

 may not be without some usefulness ; and 

 these it is the object of the following pages 

 to give." 



Manuals for Teachers. No. 1. The Cul- 

 tivation of the Senses. Philadelphia : 

 Eldridge & Brother. Pp. 96. Price, 50 

 cents. 



It is announced that this series will con- 

 tain four more works " The Cultivation of 

 the Memory," " On the Use of Words," " On 

 Discipline," and " On Class-Teaching." The 

 publishers say : " These manuals were origi- 

 nally published in England, having been pre- 

 pared, at the request of the Literature Com- 

 mittee of the National Educational Society, 

 by men distinguished at their several uni- 

 versities, and possessed of large experience 

 as teachers. They have been carefully re- 

 vised and adapted to the wants of American 

 teachers, and it is hoped will prove a valu- 

 able addition to the literature of the art and 

 science of teaching." We suspect that these 

 distinguished university men are myths ; at 

 any rate the present volume betrays no such 

 distinguished origin. It is a very good lit- 

 tle compilation from various authorities ; but 

 how comes it that, while Spencer, Taine, and 

 Darwin are quoted, no mention is anywhere 

 made of Miss Youmans's essay " On the Cul- 

 tivation of the Observing Powers of Chil- 

 dren," which is freely copied, and whole 

 pages taken bodily without any recogni- 

 tion ? The publishers bring out the series 

 in a very neat and substantial form. 



Eleventh Annual Report of the Trustees 

 of the Peabody Museum of American 

 Archeology and Ethnology. Vol. II., 

 No. 2. Cambridge: The Trustees. 1878. 

 Pp. 286. 



During the past year the Trustees of the 

 Peabody Museum took possession of the new 

 building specially erected at Cambridge for 

 the purpose of holding their ethnological and 

 archaeological collections. The report con- 

 tains, besides a description of this building, 

 a history of the Peabody Museum, by the 

 Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, the report of the 

 Curator, and a number of contributions on 

 archaeological subjects, viz. : Dr.- Abbott's 

 second report on implements found in the 

 glacial drift of New Jersey; remarks on the 

 method of manufacture of several articles 

 by the former Indians of southern Califor- 

 nia, by P. Schumacher ; on cave-dwellings 

 in Utah, by E. Palmer ; on the manufacture 

 of soapstone pots by the Indians of New 

 England, by F. W. Putnam ; on a collection 



