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 seemed best. 



The Distribution of Products, or the 

 Mechanism and Metaphysics oe Ex- 

 change. By Edward Atkinson. New 

 York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 303. 

 Price, $1.25. 



Mr. Atkinson, a man of business, has 

 spoken so often, so intelligently, and so 

 much to the purpose on financial questions 

 as to give him a right to be heard and weight 

 to his views. The present volume includes 

 three essays on " What makes the Rate of 

 Wages ? " " What is a Bank ? " and " The 

 Railway, the Farmer, and the Public." The 

 subject of the first essay is attended with a 

 complication of conditions and relations, 

 and differences of opinion upon it are in- 

 evitable. Mr. Atkinson takes an optimistic 

 view of the prospects of a satisfactory set- 

 tlement of the relations of capital and la- 

 bor on the conditions set forth in his funda- 

 mental proposition. He shows that a high 

 rate of wages does not necessarily signify 

 high cost of production, and vice versa, and 

 enforces a distinction, too often overlooked, 

 between rate of wages and sum of wages in 

 the manufacture of a given product. The 

 second essay presents an exposition of the 

 principles on which safe banking is con- 

 ducted. In the third essay the author shows 

 that the railways have performed a great 

 service in our national economy, and that a 

 large reduction in the costs of transporta- 

 tion has been brought about by the consoli- 

 dation of the principal lines ; and maintains 

 that nearly all the features of our present 

 railway system are working, as a whole, for 

 good. 



Paradise Found: A Study of the Prehis- 

 toric World. By William F. Warren, 

 LL. D. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & 

 Co. Pp. 505. Price, $2. 

 The Count de Saporta, Mr. G. Hilton 

 Scribner, and others, have made our readers 

 familiar with the hypothesis that the cradle 

 of the human race and of all life must be 

 sought at the north pole. The accession 

 of so many men known to be careful ob- 

 servers, imbued with the scientific spirit, 

 and habituated not to express an opinion 

 unless they have reason- nt hand with which 

 to fortify it, as have uttered views consist- 



ent with this hypothesis, has lifted it up 

 out of the category of speculations to a 

 genuine theory, claiming deliberate investi- 

 gation. Dr. Warren, who is President of 

 Boston University, has arrived at conclu- 

 sions nearly coincident with those of Count 

 de Saporta and those who agree with him, 

 through his own independent studies, though 

 not, of course, without having them re- 

 enforced by theirs. In the present work, 

 he offers the considerations by which the 

 theory of polar origin is to be supported, 

 carefully worked out, and in their order. 

 Beginning with a survey of the present state 

 of the question of the location of Eden and 

 of the existing theories upon it, he presents 

 in Part Second his own hypothesis, with a 

 definition of the conditions on which it may 

 be admissible ; in Part Third, the scientific 

 bearing on it of gcogony, geography, geol- 

 ogy, prehistoric climatology, paleontologi- 

 cal botany, zoology, and archaeology and 

 general ethnology; in Part Fourth, confir- 

 mations of the hypothesis by ethnic tradi- 

 tion from ancient cosmology and mythical 

 geography, and from Japanese, Chinese, 

 East Aryan, Iranian, Akkadian, Assyrian 

 and Babylonian, ancient Egyptian and An- 

 cient Greek thought ; in Part Fifth, fur- 

 ther verifications of the hypothesis, based 

 upon a study of the peculiarities of a polar 

 paradise ; and in Part Sixth, the significance 

 of the results he has drawn from these con- 

 siderations. 



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Preliminary Analysis of the P>aik of Fouqueria 

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The Lineal Measures of the Semi-Civilized Na- 

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 G. Brinton, M. D. Pp 14. 



Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, 

 1SS3 and 18o-4 Denver, Col. Pp. 147, with Plates. 



Notes on the Literature of Explosives. By Pro- 

 fessor Charles E. Munroe, Annapolis, Md. Pp. 82. 



Spiritism ; the Origin of all .Religions. By J. P. 

 Dameron, San Francisco. Cal. Pp 10S. 



Elephant Pipes. Davenport, Iowa. By Charles 

 E. Putnam. Pp. 40. 



The Filth-Power. By J. B. Oleott. Pp v 41. 



Starling Medical College, Columbus. Ohio. Pp. 

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Contagiousness of Tuberculosis. By W. II. 

 Webb. M. D. Philadelphia. Pp. 2S. 



Scriptural Temperance. By W. H. Ten Eyck, 

 D. D. New York : P. Brinkerhoff. Pp. 44. 



Liffht of Comparison Stars for Vesta. Pp. 8. 

 Astronomical Observatory, Harvard Collie. Re- 

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 Stars in 1884. Pp. 10. All by Edward C. Pickering. 



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