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(Blakiston). It includes the exercises that 

 have been given for several years in the 

 Woman's Medical College and in the Penn- 

 sylvania College of Dental Surgery, in Phila- 

 delphia. The first fourteen pages are de- 

 voted to descriptions of apparatus and ma- 

 nipulations, illustrated with forty-two cuts. 

 The rest of the book is occupied by direc- 

 tions for 253 experiments arranged to illus- 

 trate successively the general principles of 

 chemistry, the properties of the important 

 elements, and electrical decomposition. The 

 authors state that they have "given much 

 attention to details as to quantity of mate- 

 rials to be used and arrangements of appa- 

 ratus. Some of the experiments and forms 

 of apparatus are new, and have been devised 

 especially with a view to economy." The 

 book is "adapted for use in conjunction 

 with any manual of elementary chemical 

 principles, or to be supplemented by lect- 

 ures." 



Henry C. Northam has prepared a Man- 

 ual of Civil Government (Bardeen), intended 

 for public instruction in the State of Mis- 

 souri. It is arranged in the form of a cate- 

 chism, and takes up the history of the or- 

 ganization of the Government of the United 

 States ; city, village, and State government 

 as existing in Missouri, giving the duties and 

 salary of each officer ; the organization and 

 jurisdiction of the various courts ; presiden- 

 tial elections ; the two Houses of Congress ; 

 etc. The Declaration of Independence and 

 the Constitution of the United States are 

 appended. The State Constitution of Mis- 

 souri is not given. 



A little calisthenic manual, entitled Home 

 Exercise for Health and Cure, by D. G. R. 

 Schrebcr, M. D., has been translated by 

 Charles R. Bardeen (Bardeen). It consists 

 of directions for forty-five exercises which 

 require no apparatus. These are followed 

 by combinations of the exercises, adapted to 

 different forms of weakness and to the daily 

 needs of persons of different ages and both 

 sexes. General suggestions and remarks 

 precede and follow the above matter. Where 

 clearness requires it the exercises are illus- 

 trated. The publisher states that in Ger- 

 many teachers are expected to be familiar 

 with the book, and tliat 140,000 copies of it 

 had been sold up to 1889. 



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Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Au- 

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Atkinson, Edward, Boston. The Eight Applica- 

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Babcock, William H. The Two Lost Centuries 

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Baker, Sir Samuel W. Wild Beasts and their 

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Bessey, Charles E., and Webber., Herbert J. Re- 

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Billings. Frank S., M. D. Preventive Inocula- 

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Bolton, Henry Carrington. Contributions of 

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Boston Society of Natural History. Proceedings. 

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Brinton, Daniel G., M. D. Paces and Peoples. 

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Collier, Peter. The Future of Agriculture in tho 

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Colman, Lucy N. Reminiscences. Buffalo, 

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Colorado College. Papers read before the Scien- 

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Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. 

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Ellis, Major A. B. The Tshi-speaking Peoples 

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Elson, Louis C. The Theory of Music, as ap- 

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Entertainment. Monthly, October, 1S90. Coun- 

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Flynn, P. J. Flow of Water in Open Channels. 

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Green, W. L. Notice of Prof. James D. Dana's 

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Halsted, Byron D. Reserve Food-materials in 

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Hendrick. Will ird. Brief History of the Empire 

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Japan, Imperial University of. Calendar for 18S9- 

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