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The Patent System of the United States has 

 been published by Levin H. Campbell (the 

 author, Washington, 50 cents). Mr. Camp- 

 bell introduces his subject with a chapter on 

 the early English patent system, and goes 

 on to tell of the appearance of the system 

 in the American colonies, and the changes 

 in organization and practice that it has un- 

 dergone in the past century. 



The English Series, by W. H. Maxwell, 

 has been completed by the publication of 

 Advanced Lessons in English Grammar 

 (American Book Company, 60 cents). This 

 book is designed for a high-school or the 

 last two years of a grammar-school course, 

 and besides its use as a text-book it is in- 

 tended to be available for reference when 

 difficulties are met with in composition ex- 

 ercises, or in the critical study of literature. 

 The first three chapters give a bird's-eye 

 view of the parts of speech and of the con- 

 struction of the English sentence. The 

 usual divisions of English grammar are 

 then taken up in succession. Etymology is 

 defined as treating of the classification, 

 inflection, and formation of words. The 

 chapter given to the last of these topics 

 includes lists of English, Latin, and Greek 

 affixes, and models for word-analysis. There 

 is a chapter on Economy of Attention, based 

 on Herbert Spencer's Philosophy of Style, 

 which contains certain things that can not 

 well be placed elsewhere. The author is 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction in 

 Brooklyn. 



The method adopted by David Salmon, 

 the author of Longman's Primary-School 

 Grammar (Longman's, 35 cents), is that of 

 " making children familiar first with the 

 thing, then with the name." Accordingly, 

 the child is first required to pick out all 

 names of persons in a given series of sen- 

 tences, and the other requirements of the 

 first exercise are : " Give the names of ten 

 boys ; ten girls ; ten persons whom you 

 know ; ten persons about whom you have 

 read." After ten similar exercises on nouns 

 of different sorts the first definition is given 

 to be learned. The author says that he has 

 made his definitions so that young children 

 can understand them although in doing so 

 he has made some of them unsatisfactory to 

 a logician. 



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Adams, Charles F., Worcester, Mass. Examina- 

 tion Questions lor Normal Schools. Pp. 42. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins and 

 Reports : Connecticut. Grass, Onions, and Cream. 

 Pp. 11. Georgia. Crop Report for May. Pp. 23. 

 Commercial Fertilizers and Chemicals. Pp. 34. 

 Massachusetts. Analyses of Cotnmercial Fertilizers. 

 pp. 4. Michigan. Kerosene Emulsion and New 

 Insects. Pp. 16. Foot-rot in Sheep. Pp. 6. New 

 York Estimate of Feeding Materials. Pp. 20. 

 Fertilizers. Pp. 32. Ohio. Corn Pp. 88 Pur- 

 due University. Commercial Fertilizers. Pp. 16. 



Allen, Grant. What's bred in the Bone. Bos- 

 ton : Benjamin R. Tucker. Pp. 238. 



Barrett, Jay A. Evolution of the Ordinance of 

 1787. Putnams. Pp.95. $1. 



Bonney. G. E. Electro-platers' Handbook. D. 

 Van Nostrand Co. $1.20. 



Boughton, William H. Abyssinia. Pp. 9. 



Bower, John A. Science of Every -day Life. 

 Pp. 128. Science applied to Work. Pp. 128. Cas- 

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Brooklyn Institute Biological Laboratory. Cir- 

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Burt, Stephen Smith. M. D., New York. Ethics 

 of Experimentation upon Living Animals. Pp. 4. 



Call, R. Ellsworth. Artesian Wells in Iowa. 

 Pp. 6. 



Cams, Dr. Paul. Fundamental Problems. Open 

 Court Publishing Co. Pp. 373. $1.50. 



Central Park Menagerie. Report for 1890. Pp. 

 45. 



Culin. Stewart, Recording Secretary. Report of 

 the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Phila- 

 delphia. Pp. 86. 



Currier. Andrew F M. D. Electricity in Gynae- 

 cology. Pp. 20. The Unrestricted Evil of Prostitu- 

 tion. Pp. 19. 



Davis, Floyd. Elementary Handbook on Pota- 

 ble Water. S*iiver, Burdett & Co. Pp. 118. $1. 



Dolbear, A. E. Chemism. Pp. 16. 



Edwards, Charles L. Tales from Bohemia Folk 

 Lore. Pp. 14. 



Evening News Association, Oetroit. Quarterly 

 Register of Current History. May, 1891. Pp. 120. 

 25 cents ; $1 a year. 



Fernow, B. E. Report on Forestry for 1890. 

 Washington. 



Fewkes, J. Walter, Editor. Journal of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology and Archaeology. Vol. I. Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co. Pp. 133. 



Fletcher. Robert. M. D., Washington. The New 

 School of Criminal Anthropology. Pp. 38. 



Foster, Michael, and others. Editors. The Jour- 

 nal of Physiology. Cambridge, England. Six 

 shillings. 



Fraenkel, Carl, M. D. Text-book of Bacteriology. 

 Translated by J. H. Linsley, M. D. New York: 

 William Wood & Co. Pp. 3S0. $3.75. 



Frazer, Persifor. Tables for the Determination 

 of Minerals. Lippineott Co. Pp.115. $2. 



Geographic Names. United States Board on. 

 Bulletin No. 2. Washington. Pp. 12. 



Gilbert, Charles II. Fishes collected at the Gal- 

 apagos Islands. Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 8. 



Ginn & Co. Catalogue and Announcements for 

 1891. Pp. 96. 



Goss. John Dean. History of Tariff Administra- 

 tion in the United States. Columbia College. Pp. 

 89. 50 cents. 



Greely, A. W. Report of the Chief Signal Officer 

 for 1890. Washington. Pp. 718. 



Groszman. Maximilian. Workingman's School, 

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Honner, Rev. James W. Theoretical Astronomy 

 from a New Base. Fleming H. Revell Co. Pp. 

 56. 



