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volume includes, also, notes to the first two 

 books of Euclid, and added propositions. 



Prof. Proctor has published, also, Easy 

 Lessons in the Differential Calculus (Long- 

 mans, 90 cents), suggested, like the pre- 

 ceding book, by his own experience when 

 a student under clumsy and unpractical 

 teaching. In his treatment of the subject, 

 he aims to show the need of a method of 

 calculation dealing with variable quantities, 

 and how such a method is to be used in 

 practice. The integral calculus he has 

 treated as a department of the differential. 



Prof. W. G. Peck has added to his 

 mathematical series an Elementary Treatise 

 on Analytical Mechanics (Barnes, $1.65), 

 which is intended to embrace all the prin- 

 ciples of this science that are needed by 

 the student of engineering, architecture, and 

 geodesy. The methods and arrangement 

 of the book are based on the author's long 

 experience in teaching at the School of 

 Mines, Columbia College. 



The nineteenth edition of Nystroni's 

 Pocket-book of Mechanics and Engineering 

 (Lippincott, $3.50) has been revised and cor- 

 rected by Prof. William D. Marks, who 

 has added an elementary article on dynam- 

 ic electricity, and one on the expansion of 

 steam. In the form of notes, the reviser 

 has stated some opinions of his own which 

 differ from those of the author, and has 

 given references to the literature of certain 

 topics. 



Higher Ground, by Augustus Jacohson 

 (McClurg, $1), suggests a means of settling 

 the labor question, which has become so 

 troublesome. The author states the difficulty 

 in a few pages, and then names as the remedy 

 the extension of manual training to all the 

 public schools of the country. He would 

 meet the expense by a graduated succession 

 tax. The latter half of the volume contains 

 much information in regard to the courses 

 and results of the training-schools in St. 

 Louis, Chicago, Toledo, and elsewhere. 



Another book which claims to solve the 

 same problem \s Labor, Capital, and Afoney: 

 Their Just Relations, by C. C. Camp (D. W. 

 Lerch, Bradford, Pa.). The author main- 

 tains that " the theory of Ricardo's law of 

 distribution, and its modern renovation by 

 Mr. George," are entirely fallacious. He 

 charges the current commercial disturbances 



to the wrong use of money, and prescribes 

 as a remedy the issuing of money in such 

 volume as to reduce interest to the per- 

 centage of advancing wealth. 



The Old South and the New, by William 

 D. Kelley (Putnam, $1.25), consists of a 

 series of letters describing the industrial 

 and social condition of the people of the 

 Southern States in 1887, as contrasted with 

 their condition in 1867. The general tone 

 of the book confirms the recent reports of 

 wonderful enlivenment in the farm and gar- 

 den districts of Florida, in the coal and 

 iron country, and the new manufacturing 

 cities of the South, while some mistakes 

 that have been made are also pointed out. 



Free Rum on the Congo : W7iat it is do- 

 ing, by William T. Hornaday (Women's 

 Temperance Publishing Association, Chi- 

 cago), concerns a question of vital interest 

 to the friends of humanity, which is occu- 

 pying a large degree of attention in all 

 civilized nations. It is that of the unre- 

 stricted importation of liquors into Africa, 

 which, under the license allowed by the Ber- 

 lin agreement constituting the Congo Free 

 State, has grown into a business of enor- 

 mous proportions. The extent of it is 

 shown by the grand total of 10,377,160 gal- 

 lons — most of it adulterations of the vilest 

 character — which were shipped thither in 

 1885 from five countries. The evils inevit- 

 able under such a traffic do not need to be 

 described or named. Their magnitude is 

 incalculable, and their effects are likely to 

 endure through many centuries. 



Slav or Saxon, by William D. Foulke 

 (Putnam, $1.25), is a study of the growth 

 and tendencies of Russian civilization, in 

 which are briefly described the territory and 

 the people of Russia, and the military au- 

 tocracy, with sketches of Russian conquests, 

 the history of Russia, the reforms of Alex- 

 ander II, and the present despotism. The 

 author urges Americans to give their moral 

 support to England in the collision with 

 Russia which is prophesied to take place in 

 Asia. 



The first number of a journal named 

 Congress (The Congress Publishing Compa- 

 ny, $1 a year) comes to us from Washing- 

 ton. Its purpose in life seems to be the 

 dissipation of that troublesome surplus in 

 the United States Treasury, for nearly every- 

 thing which it proposes to advocate involves 



