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of its aspects. The author has had an " un- 

 rivaled experience" of twenty years' prac- 

 tice in the class of diseases of which he 

 treats ; and this, with the conscientious la- 

 bor he confesses to have put upon it, seems 

 to be all that should be needed to cei'tify it 

 a work of most eminent merit and value. 



An Outline of the Future Religion of 

 THE World. With a Consideration of 

 the Facts and Doctrines on which it will 

 probably be based. By T. Lloyd Stan- 

 ley. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. 

 Pp. 588. Price, $3. 



The author assumes that theological crit- 

 icism having demonstrated the unsound 

 foundations of many of the hitherto received 

 dogmatic beliefs, it is in place to indicate 

 a philosophically sound basis for religious 

 trust in the future. The Hebrew, Vedic, 

 Zoroastrian and Buddhist religious systems 

 are reviewed, in a spirit friendly to all ; the 

 Christian system is considered at greater 

 length, as superior to them all, and the con- 

 clusion arrived at that the world's religion 

 of the future is destined " to rest mainly on 

 the teaching of Christ, as that teaching be- 

 comes separated by criticism from the addi- 

 tions made to it by his disciples and by the 

 early Church, and more fully expounded and 

 understood. The Great Unity, the Unity of 

 Life, physical and spiritual, will be recog- 

 nized as a prominent feature of the Master's 

 teaching. But the Christianity of the future 

 will be relieved from the incubus of the 

 marvelous and the legendary." This Prin- 

 ciple of Life — " that all lives form part of 

 one endlessly progressive Universal Life, 

 culminating in Supreme Mind " — is asserted 

 to be the essential truth of religion, " whose 

 law is declared by the voice of conscience in 

 each heart," and has been expounded as 

 altruism. 



Mineral Resources of the T^nited States. 

 By Albert Williams, Jr. Washington : 

 Government Printing-Office. Pp. 813. 



This is one of the reports of the United 

 States Geological Survey. The statistical de- 

 partment contains a section devoted to each 

 of the economical minerals of the country, 

 of length and fullness proportioned to the 

 importance of the mineral and the magni- 

 tude of its commercial production. This is 

 followed by special papers on " The Divin- 



ing Rod," by R. W. Raymond ; " Electrolysis 

 in the Metallurgy of Copper, Lead, Zinc, and 

 other Metals," by C. 0. Mailloux " ; " The 

 Minor Minerals of North Carolina," by W. 

 C. Kerr " ; " Minor Minerals of the Pacific 

 Coast " ; and a table of localities of the use- 

 ful minerals of the United States. 



Education by Doing. By Anna Johnson. 

 New York : E. L. Kellogg k Co. Pp. 

 109. 



The author of this manual is a teacher 

 in the Children's Aid Society schools of this 

 city. Believing that Froebel's discovery of 

 education by occupation is capable of being 

 extended to the public school and adapted 

 to a later age, she has endeavored to show 

 some of the ways and suggest others in 

 which the children may be kept pleasantly 

 and profitably employed. We have in the 

 course exercises with blocks, beans, cards, 

 pins, shoe-pegs, etc., to teach number ; simi- 

 lar exercises with appropriate tools to teach 

 weights and measures, form and geography, 

 and color and form ; exercises with pictures 

 and cards to teach language ; " busy work " 

 to teach reading, writing, spelling, and cor- 

 rect speech ; and miscellaneous exercises 

 and " slate-work." 



Life and Labor in the Far, Far West. 

 Notes of a Tour in the Western States, 

 British Columbia, Manitoba, and the 

 Northwest Territory. By W. Henry 

 Barneby. London and New York : Cas- 

 sell & Co. Pp. 432. Price, $2. 



Mr. Barneby is a young Englishman, 

 with not much experience in literary work, 

 but a good traveler. With two companions 

 he traveled in 1883 through the regions 

 named, saw much that was new to him, 

 though it might not all be new to older 

 travelers, and enjoyed his trip. He made 

 regular notes of what he saw and sent them 

 to his wife, who set them down in a book. The 

 value of the sketches lies in the unaffected 

 accuracy with which the author's off-hand 

 impressions are recorded. Some suggestive 

 glimpses are given of conditions of frontier 

 life that are being pushed farther and far- 

 ther away from the States. There is, for in- 

 stance, the British Columbian justice, who, 

 when he had to preserve order at Cariboo 

 during the gold-fever, did it so well that 

 he was said to spend his leisure hours on 



