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Johns Hopkins University Studies in His- 

 torical and Political Science. 



The projectors of the " Johns Hopkins 

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 cal Science " offer a third series of their 

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 so valuable and instructive, to be devoted 

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 The series will include papers on " Local and 

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One Hundred Years of Publishing, 17S5- 

 1885. Philadelphia : Lea Brothers & 

 Co. Pp. 20. 



This is a memorial volume commemora- 

 tive of the hundredth year of the publishing 

 house whose imprint it bears. The business 

 of the house was founded by Matthew Carey, 

 an Irish exile, who began a daily paper in 

 1785, to which he soon added a monthly 

 magazine. He and his successors then pub- 

 lished quarto Bibles the Douay and au- 

 thorized versions the Waverley Novels, the 

 works of Fenimore Cooper, Washington Ir- 

 ving, and other early American authors, with 

 some encyclopedic books which evinced con- 

 siderable boldness of enterprise for their 

 day, and introduced the American public to 

 the genius of Charles Dickens. Gradually 

 the business of the house tended to medical 

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 up literary and miscellaneous works, it has 

 of late years been exclusively devoted. No 

 member of the house has died in the busi- 

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The Mentor. By Alfred Ayres. New 

 York: Funk k Wagnalls. Pp. 211. 



This little book., by an author already 

 well known by his " Orthoepist," " Verbal- 

 ist," etc., is intended " for the guidance of 

 such men and boys as would appear to ad- 

 vantage in the society of persons of the 

 better sort." As the author well says, not 

 wealth, but moral worth, supplemented with 

 education, and enough money to make one's 

 self presentable, are the passport to the 

 better circles of society In the body of the 



work are given common - sense principles 

 respecting what constitutes a good personal 

 appearance and good behavior at the din- 

 ner-table, and in public, in conversation, in 

 calls, and at cards, " odds and ends," and 

 " What is a Gentleman ? " 



The Next Step of Progress : A Limita- 

 tion of Wealth. By John H. Keyser, 

 115 Beekman Street, New York. Pp. 50. 

 Price, 20 cents. 



This document expounds the principles 

 of a new party which has been formed, or 

 is in the process of formation, of which 

 the author appears as one of the active or- 

 ganizers. It proposes to " level up, not 

 down," and to break monopoly by promot- 

 ing a limitation of wealth. For this pur- 

 pose, it would impose a graduated taxation 

 on accumulating and accumulated fortunes, 

 ranging, say, from one half of one per cent 

 on estates of between $10,000 and $20,000, 

 to fifty per cent on estates of $5,000,000 

 and upward. 



School-Keeping, now to do it. By Hiram 

 Orcutt. Boston : N. E. Publishing Com- 

 pany. Pp. 244. Price, $1. 



This volume embodies to a great extent 

 fruits of the author's experience ; incidents 

 that have happened during his school-keep- 

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 have been suggested by them. Its design is 

 to aid and encourage teachers who need and 

 would profit by the experience of others ; 

 and to awaken an interest in the subjects 

 treated, and lead to a more extensive read- 

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 preparation for the important duties of their 

 position. It is a pleasant book, and con- 

 tains good thoughts. 



Diluvium : or, The End of the World. 

 By George S. Pidgeon. St. Louis : Com- 

 mercial Printing Company. Pp. 175, 

 with Plates. 



The author's purpose in publishing this 

 book is to invite consideration of the pos- 

 sible consequences that may follow the exe- 

 cution of such a project as the French one 

 for turning the waters of the ocean into 

 the Desert of Sahara, and forming a great 

 inland sea there. He apprehends that the 

 sudden transfer of so large a mass of matter 



