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by Lina Hug and Richard Stead. Due stress 

 is laid upon the interest of the story, which 

 is attractive to American readers by its as- 

 sociation with the other features of the 

 country " the playground of Europe " 

 as well as by the long, arduous, and faithful 

 struggles for liberty which it records. Most 

 of the existing accounts of Swiss history in 

 the English language go no further back 

 than a. d. 1291, the date of the earliest 

 Swiss league, and of the beginning of mod- 

 ern Swiss nationality. The authors in the 

 present volume have gone beyond this, and 

 have included the previous history of the men 

 who founded the league, with the changes 

 which the country has undergone, in being 

 overrun by different barbarous tribes ; ac- 

 counts of Cassar's Helvetians ; and of the 

 lake-dwellers. The lesson of the history of 

 the country is enforced by the citation of 

 the maxim that " it teaches us, all the way 

 through, that Swiss liberty has been won by 

 a close union of many small states." 



Biblia, a monthly magazine devoted to 

 biblical archaeology, furnishes a current 

 record of what is accomplished in the sur- 

 vey and exploration, particularly of the 

 monuments, of the extremely ancient centers 

 of civilization, gives reviews of literature on 

 the subject, and assists the purposes of the 

 Palestine and Egypt exploration funds and 

 other societies engaged in Oriental investi- 

 gation. The subscription price is one dollar 

 a year. The publication office for New York 

 is with B. Westermann & Co. 



The third of the Manuals of Religious 

 Instruction, Doctrinal Series, published by 

 the New Church Board of Publication, is a 

 series of Descriptions of the Spiritual World, 

 for use with children, from the writings of 

 Emanuel Swedenborg. The works chiefly 

 represented are the Heaven and Hell, Con- 

 jugal Love, and the True Christian Religion. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



American Chemical Society. Journal. October, 

 1890. New York : John Polhemus. Pp. 54. $5 a 



year. 



Baker, Daniel W. History of the Harvard College 

 Observatory. Pp. 32, with Plates. 



Baldwin, James. Harper's Sixth Reader. Ameri- 

 can Book Company. Pp. 504. 90 cents. 



Binet, Alfred. On Double Consciousness. Open 

 Court Publishing Co. Pp. 93. 



Binz, Dr. C. (Bonn). Quinine as a Prophylactic 

 against Malarial Fever. New York : Boehringer &, 

 Soehne. Pp. 24. 



Bird. Charles. Elementary Geology. Longmans, 

 Green & Co. Pp. 248, with Map. 



Bissell, Mary Taylor, M. D. Household Hygiene. 

 New York: N. D. C. Hodges. Pp.83. 75 cents. 



Borden, John. Two Essays on Economics. Chi- 

 cago : S. A. Maxwell & Co. Pp. 139. 



Burt, W. H., M. D. Consumption and Liquids. 

 Chicago : W. T. Keener. Pp. 233. $-.50. 



Cajori, Florian. The Teaching and History of 

 Mathematics in the United States. United States 

 Bureau of Education. Pp. 400. 



Clark, J. S., & Co., Louisville, Ky. Epitaphs, 

 Original and Selected. 25 cents. 



Cook, George H. Final Report of the State 

 Geologist of New Jersey. Vol. II, Part II. Zoology. 

 New Brunswick, N. J. : Irving S. Upson, Geologist 

 in Charge. Pp. 824. 



Cornell University Experiment Station. Bulle- 

 tins Nos. 21 and 22. Pp. 28. 



Dawson, George M. Later Physiographical Geol- 

 ogy of the Rocky Mountain Region. Pp.75, with 



Plates. 



Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Newark, Del. Bulletin.No. 10. Pp. 82. 



Ebers. Georg. The Elixir and other Tales. 

 Gottsberger & Co. Pp. 261. 



Fuller, J. Morrison, Boston. To-day. Published 

 weekly. Pp.116. 5 cents. 



Hyatt, Alpheus, and Arms, J. M. Insecta. Heath 

 & Co. Pp. 300. 



Iowa, Pioneer Lawn -Makers, Association. Re- 

 unions of 1SS6 and 1890, Des Moines. Pp. 167. State 

 Board of Health Monthly Bulletin. Pp. 16. 



Jago, William. Inorganic Chemistry. Longmans, 

 Green & Co. Pp. 458. 



Lange, nelene. Higher Education of "Women in 

 Europe. D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 186. 



Lewis, T. H., St. Paul, Minn. Quartz- Workers 

 of Litile Falls. Pp.3. 



Lockyer, Norman. The Meteoric Hypothesis. 

 Macmiilan & Co. Pp. 560. $5.25. 



Locomotive, The. Hartford Steam-boiler Inspec- 

 tion and Insurance Company. Monthly. Pp.24. 



Lowell, Augustus. Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Commemorative Address. Pp. 24. 



Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Analysis of Commercial Fertilizers. Pp. 8. 



Meehan, Thomas, Philadelphia. Contributions 

 to the Life Histories of Plants. Pp. 8. 



Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. Bul- 

 letins 65 to 69. Pp. 7 to 20 each. 



Mitchell, Clifford, M. D. A Clinical Study of Dis- 

 eases of the Kidneys. Chicago: W. T. Keener. Pp. 

 431. $3. 



Morris, I. H. Practical Plane and Solid Geome- 

 try. Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 260. 



New England Meteorological Society, W. M. 

 Davis, Director. Investigations in the Year 1889. 



New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Bulletin No. 24. Pp. 20, with Plates. 



Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Columbus. 

 Bulletin for September, 1890. Pp. 16. 



Oldberg, Oscar. A Manual of Weights and Meas- 

 ures. Pp. 250. $1.50 Do., and Long, John II. A 

 Laboratory Manual of Chemistrv. Pp. 457, with 

 Plates. $3.52. Chicago : W. T. Keener. 



Ontario Department of Agriculture. Foul Brood 

 among Bees. Pp. 30. 



Photo-gravure Company, New York. Sun and 

 Shade. November, 1890. 40 cents. $4 a year. 



Pasadena, Cal. Report of Public Schools for 1S90. 

 Pp. 33. 



Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates 

 in Medicine. Announcement. Pp. 12. 



Pickering, E. C, and Wendell, O. C. Harvard 

 College Observatory. Results of Observations with 

 the Meridian Photometer. 1882- , S8. Pp. 2C7. 



