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Agriculture in The Public Schools. By Les- 

 ter S. Ivins, M. S. 208-212 Wright Ave- 

 nue, Lebanon, Ohio: March Brothers. 

 This is an interesting handbook especially 

 adapted to the schools of Ohio, but sugges- 

 tive and helpful, in many respects, in other 

 places wherever the interests of the farm 

 are taught to the young people. The price 

 is thirty-five cents. 



tions, can easily be performed wtih simple 

 apparatus. 



House-Flies and How Tliey Spread Disease. 



By C. G. Hewitt, D. Sc. New York City: 



G. P. Putnam's Sons. 

 Here is a convenient little handbook on 

 the well-known insect pest. We had sup- 

 posed that the general public could appre- 



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TURRET OF LYCOSA CAROLINENSIS. 

 From "The Spider Book." 



The Evolution of Worlds. By Percival Lowell, 



A. B., LL. D. New York: The Macmillan 



Company. 



This is a collection of university courses 



of lectures before the Massachusetts Institute 



of Technology but it contains a vast amount 



of interest for the general reader. 



Clark's Laboratory Manual in General 

 Science. By Bertha M. Clark, Ph. D. 

 Head of Science Department, William 

 Penn High School for Girls, Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania. New York and Chi- 

 cago : American Book Company. 

 In this Manual eighty-nine experiments are 

 presented, which are designed to make the 

 pupil familiar with some of the facts and 

 theories of general science. The experi- 

 ments, which are accompanied by full direc- 



ciate entomology from the economic and uti- 

 litarian point of view, even if not from that 

 of pure science, but the author tells in his 

 preface that he had troubles of his own in 

 investigating the subject. He says: 



"The educational work necessary is not 

 easy; it is often discouraging. Early in my 

 work the editor of a well-known London 

 weekly journal recommended my incarcera- 

 tion in a lunatic asylum, and another eminent 

 medical man suggested that had I pro- 

 pounded such doctrines a few years ago a 

 commission might have been appointed to 

 inquire into the state of my mind. But it is 

 ever so, and that stage in the history of this 

 doctrine is past. The hostile period is 

 practically over; the indifferent and apathe- 

 tic period is waning. People can avoid hypo- 

 theses but they cannot escape facts." 



