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under the microscope, of milk, butter, and 

 other fats, starches, spices, and organisms 

 found in water ; also with plates represent- 

 ing tea and other leaves and the construc- 

 tion of the polariscope. This work will 

 have a value to American analysts over all 

 previous books on food-adulteration in the 

 respect of being written in this country, 

 and hence giving most attention to the 

 adulterations most practiced here. The 

 latest results attained by our National and 

 State Boards of Health in regard to sophis- 

 tications of food are also inserted. The ap- 

 pendix comprises a bibliography of the sub- 

 ject, with the full text of the most impor- 

 tant laws, and a summary of others, recently 

 enacted in this country for the prevention 

 of food-adulteration. The thoroughness and 

 care with which the subject is presented, to- 

 gether with the valuable character of the 

 illustrations, and the helpful features in- 

 cluded in the appendix, make the book well 

 suited for the main dependence of the 

 American food-analyst. 



A TREATISE on The Art of Inveding, by 

 a New York Broker (Applcton, 75 cents), 

 is what many people will be glad to have. 

 This little book gives the chances for profit 

 and the risks connected with Government 

 and municipal obligations, railroad and oth- 

 er stocks, mortgages, water-works loans and 

 securities, with hints as to when to buy, and 

 — what many investors never think of — 

 when to sell. There is a chapter on specu- 

 lating, which furnishes many and strong 

 reasons why the inexperienced should let 

 that form of gambling alone. An appen- 

 dix contains lists of securities, transcribed 

 from the books of our principal exchanges, 

 showing when each security is payable and 

 the amount issued. 



A description of TJie Vosburg Tunnel 

 has been published by Leo von Rosenberg 

 (the author. New York, $1), in the form of 

 a handsome, abundantly illustrated pam- 

 phlet, of quarto size. This tunnel is located 

 near Tunkhannock, Pa., on one of the lines 

 associated with the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 

 It was completed in June, 1886, and is a 

 trifle less than three fourths of a mile long. 

 The pamphlet describes the surveying work 

 for the tunnel, the method of tunneling and 

 the machinery used, the construction of the 



arching, and various minor matters. There 

 are also tables of progress in excavation 

 and construction, of brick and cement tests, 

 and of contract prices and wages. The 

 many plans, maps, and views make up a 

 record of experience which will doubtless 

 be of value to all in charge of similar works. 



The History of the Ottawa and Chip- 

 pewa Indians of Michigan, by Andrew J. 

 Blackbird (the author. Harbor Springs, 

 Mich., $1), is a unique publication. It is 

 written by an educated Indian, whose father 

 was chief of the Ottawas, and comprises, 

 besides a historical sketch of the tribes 

 mentioned, a brief history of the author's 

 life, and a grammar of the Ottawa and Chip- 

 pewa language. Mr. Blackbird has been a 

 United States interpreter under several In- 

 dian agents, and afterward was postmaster 

 at Harbor Springs for eleven years, when, 

 the position having become a desirable one, 

 he was ousted. He is now nearly seventy 

 years old, and in scanty circumstances. 



Dr. A. I'. Peabody has written a volume 

 of Harvard Reminiscences (Ticknor, $1.25), 

 which every one who has been in any way 

 associated with the venerable preacher emer- 

 itus, or the university, will welcome. It con- 

 sists of sketches of the college officers whose 

 names appeared with that of the author in 

 the several annual catalogues in which he 

 was registered as undergraduate, theologi- 

 cal student, and tutor. There is also a sup- 

 plementary chapter describing Harvard Col- 

 lege sixty years ago. 



Mrs. L. M. Morchead has put together 

 A Few Incidents in the Rife of Prof. Janus 

 P. Espy (Clarke & Co.), in order to correct 

 an impression that his early education was 

 neglected, which is given by the statement 

 in Ben : Perley Poore's reminiscences that 

 at the age of seventeen Espy could not read. 

 Had his wife survived him, or had he left 

 any children, we should probably have had 

 a fuller account of the life of the able au- 

 thor of " The Philosophy of Storms." 



The Soxil, or Rational Psychology of 

 Emanuel Swedenborg, is published by the 

 New Church Board of Publication, New 

 York, in a translation by Mr. Frank Sewall 

 from the Latin edition of Dr. J. F. Imman- 

 uel Tafel. It forms the seventh part of the 

 author's great work on " The Animal King- 

 dom." The position from which Sweden- 



