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Nothing more is needed by way of descrip- 

 tion but to give the chapter headings ; these 

 are : The Site and the Soil ; Hygiene in Arch- 

 itecture ; The City House and Plumbing ; The 

 Country House ; Ventilation and Heating ; 

 Our Water-supply; Kitchen and Table Hy- 

 giene ; Sanitary Furniture ; The Sick-room ; 

 Roof Gardens. 



Open Sesame ! Poetry and Prose for School- 

 davs. By Blanche Wilder Bellamy 

 and Maud Wilder Goodwin. Vol. III. 

 Boston: Ginn & Co. Pp. 861. 



This volume, the closing one of the series, 

 is intended for pupils over fourteen years of 

 age, and young students in search of some- 

 thing to read or recite can scarcely fail to be 

 satisfied with its varied contents. 



There are rhymes of old-fashioned flavor 

 from Chaucer and Robert Ilerrick and verses 

 of modern seasoning by Joaquin Miller and 

 Walt Whitman. The shorter masterpieces 

 of English are given, as well as poems culled 

 from Omar Khayyam, Schiller, and Victor 

 Hugo. Famous stirring addresses are chosen 

 from the time of Thucydidcs and onward, 

 and wise words of counsel from Prof. Hux- 

 ley and Jane Welch Carlyle. 



The selections are grouped under five 

 headings Sentiment and Story; Art and 

 Nature ; Loyalty and Heroism ; Song and 

 Laughter ; Holidays and Holy Days and to 

 each section an illustration is prefixed. 



The State University of Iowa publishes 

 semi-annually a journal entitled The Transit, 

 edited by the Engineering Society in that in- 

 stitution (price, 50 cents). The second issue 

 was that for December, 1890, and is largely 

 devoted to the details of a series of cement 

 tests carried on in the department of en- 

 gineering. The paper was prepared by Mr. 

 Hubert Remley, one of the authors of the 

 article on cements in the Monthly for March, 

 and is illustrated with diagrams and cuts of 

 apparatus. Besides this, there are two short 

 papers on cements in this issue, and other 

 papers on The Preservation of Timber, A 

 Simple Method of determining Latitude, and 

 on Paving-Brick and Brick Pavements. Two 

 of the university buildings are described, 

 with illustrations, and the issue contains also 

 editorial matter and a list of courses in en- 

 gineering given by the university. 



Two addresses by Prof. Delos Fall have 

 been reprinted together from the Report of 

 the Michigan State Board of Health for 1890. 

 One, on School Hygiene, urges attention to 

 everything that affects the health of children 

 during school hours. The other is A Study 

 of the Action of Alcohol on the Human Body, 

 and presents, without any fanatical ranting, 

 the evils which physiologists say that alco- 

 hol inflicts upon the human body. It also 

 quotes General Greely as stating that the 

 regular taking of alcohol is useless, or worse, 

 in very cold regions, and Mr. Stanley as hav- 

 ing the same opinion of its use in very hot 

 regions. 



Some of the experimental psychological 

 studies of Alfred Binct have been published 

 in a pamphlet entitled On Double Conscious- 

 ness (Open Court, 50 cents). An essay on 

 Experimental Psychology in France is pre- 

 fixed to these studies, in which the special 

 fields are mentioned that the leading psy- 

 chologists of that country are engaged in, 

 most of these being embraced in the domain 

 of pathological psychology. By double con- 

 sciousness is meant the capability of hys- 

 terical persons to respond to excitations of 

 an insensible part of the body without being 

 aware that the excitation or response has 

 been made. The author describes experi- 

 ments performed on the insensible arm and 

 the hysterical eye, defends the hypothesis 

 of double consciousness against the theory 

 of unconscious automatic action, and dis- 

 cusses various topics connected with his gen- 

 eral subject. 



A pamphlet manual of Invertebrate Dis- 

 sections has been published by Prof. Henry 

 L. Osborn, of Hamline University, St. Paul, 

 Minn, (price, 40 cents). It tells what parts 

 are to be observed and where to look for 

 them in each specimen. The creatures 

 chosen for dissection are readily obtainable, 

 and include the sponge, various hydroids, 

 coral, star -fish, angle-worm, crayfish, etc., 

 ending with the grasshopper. The author 

 states that the accounts of type specimens 

 contained in this manual are incomplete, 

 and should be supplemented with details 

 of anatomy, embryology, paleontology, etc., 

 gathered from reading or lectures. 



A lecture on Organic Evolution delivered 

 by Prof. Samuel E. Tillman at the United 

 States Military Academy has been printed at 



