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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



how to cause them, instead of serving ex- 

 clusively the interests of the least numer- 

 ous, the least industrious, and the wealthiest 

 class, to be employed for the benefit of all. 

 Against these evils, Providence has sent us 

 competition, whose opposite is monopoly, 

 another evil ; and socialism, while it has not 

 succeeded in regulating competition and 

 keeping it from becoming anarchical, is pow- 

 erless against monopoly, so that we see all 

 reforms ending " now in hierarchical corpo- 

 ration, now in state monopoly, or the tyr- 

 anny of communism." These contradictions 

 and evils constitute a "long succession of 

 torments " through which it was necessary 

 that society should pass in order that the 

 victory of intelligent and free labor might 

 produce all its consequences. Still other 

 necessities must be met, to disappear, until 

 " the supreme necessity, the triumphal fact, 

 which must establish the kingdom of labor 

 forever," shall come at last. 



The American Anthropologist. Quarterly. 

 Washington: Thomas Hampson. Pi-ice, 

 $3 a year. 



"With January, 1888, the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington began the publication 

 of this magazine as a continuation of the 

 " Transactions " heretofore published, and 

 for the additional purpose of affording a me- 

 dium for recording the work of investigators 

 in anthropology who are not members of 

 the society. The first number contains four 

 papers : " The Law of Malthus," by Dr. 

 James C. Welling ; " The Development of 

 Time-keeping in Greece and Rome," by F. A. 

 Seely ; " Anthropological Notes on the Hu- 

 man Hand," by Frank Baker, M. D. ; and 

 " The Chane-abal Tribe and Dialect of Chia- 

 pas," by Daniel G. Brinton, M. D. Dr. Ba- 

 ker's paper is of a popular character, deal- 

 ing with beliefs in the curative or magical 

 virtue of the " dead hand," with palmistry, 

 with expression in the hand, etc. The sec- 

 ond number contains the annual address of 

 the retiring president of the society, Major J. 

 W. Powell, delivered March 16, 1886. This 

 is followed by a review of Dr. Rink's " Es- 

 kimo Tribes," a paper on " Discontinuities 

 in Nature's Methods," by Henry H. Bates, 

 and " The Prayer of a Navajo Shaman," by 

 Dr. Washington Matthews, with miscellane- 

 ous notes and news. 



A Hand-Book of the Lick ObRei-vatory 

 has been written by the director. Prof. Ed- 

 ward 8. Holden (The Bancroft Company). 

 The book contains a sketch of the life of 

 James Lick, descriptions of Mount Hamilton, 

 and the buildings and instruments of the 

 Lick Observatory, information for intending 

 visitors, a poem " To the Unmounted Lens," 

 by A. V. G., together with chapters on the 

 work of an observatory, telescopes, astro- 

 nomical photography, clocks and time-keep- 

 ing, and the principal observatories of the 

 world. The text is illustrated with wood- 

 cuts. 



A little book of Chemical Problems has 

 been prepared by Dr. J. P. Grahfield and 

 Mr. P. S. Burns, of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology (Heath). The prob- 

 lems are classified according to the chemical 

 principles on which their solutions depend. 

 These principles are stated briefly at the 

 head of each section, and the method of 

 solving the problems is illustrated. The lat- 

 ter half of the volume is made up of exami- 

 nation papers, which consist partly of prob- 

 lems and partly of questions. 



The three introductory lectures on 77^e 

 Science of Thought, by Prof. F. Max MiXller, 

 and the correspondence on " Thought with- 

 out Words," all of which has been published 

 in " The Open Court," are now issued in book- 

 form (The Open Court Publishing Company, 

 75 cents). The three lectures deal with 

 " The Simplicity of Language," " The Iden- 

 tity of Language and Thought," and " The 

 Simplicity of Thought." In the second of 

 these the author sets forth his doctrine that 

 it is impossible to think without words, 

 which provoked the correspondence that is 

 appended. The writers of these letters are 

 Prof. Miiller, Mr. F. Galton, the Duke of 

 Argyll, Mr. George J. Romanes, and others. 



It will be pardonable to give a little 

 space to Law of Heat, by Mrs. Maria R. 

 Hcmiup (The author, Geneva, N. Y., 75 cents), 

 with the view of dissuading others from 

 wasting time and money as she has done in 

 promulgating impossible theories in science. 

 Twenty years ago Mrs. Hemiup hit upon a 

 theory to account for the bursting of con- 

 taining vessels by freezing water, differing 

 from the one commonly accepted. The. pres- 

 ent volume consists of her original newspa- 

 per article stating the theory, with some 



