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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Sunday looking out for trees on which to 

 hang criminals on Monday ; and there is a 

 story of a photographer in Washington Ter- 

 ritory " taking views " of the lynchers hang- 

 ing some men, and " making quite a pile " 

 by the sale of copies. The descriptions of 

 country and scenery are terse and definite, 

 and something may be gathered from the 

 narrative concerning the economical value 

 of the various districts to which it relates. 



Correspondences of the Bible. The Ani- 

 mals. By John Worcester. Boston : 

 Massachusetts New Church Union. Pp. 

 294. 



In the view of the author of this book, 

 " the natural objects of the world about us 

 are images, or manifestations to bodily sense, 

 of the spiritual things in human minds. . . . 

 Every branch of science, with all the par- 

 ticulars of it, is a physical emblem of deeper 

 things tha,n itself; and, if interiorly opened, it 

 presents to our view a corresponding branch 

 of spiritual science, with its particulars , . . 

 Common speech testifies to a general recog- 

 nition of relationship between animals and 

 human feelings" — as when we emblemati- 

 cally use the names of different animals in 

 describing various human qualities. The 

 traits and peculiarities of all the animals 

 named in the Bible are considered under 

 this aspect. 



Geology and Mineral Resources of the 

 James River Valley, Virginia. By 

 J. L. Campbell, LL. D. New York : 

 G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 119, with 

 Map and Geological Sections. 



The object of the author of this report 

 is to lay before the minds of capitalists, 

 immigrants, his fellow-citizens, and others 

 who are interested in Virginia, " a concise 

 yet comprehensive statement of the great 

 extent and variety of available resources 

 within the area under review, which only 

 await capital, enterprise, and labor, to 

 make them productive." The report re- 

 veals a great wealth in iron -ores, lime- 

 stones, and forest products, with manga- 

 nese, gold, slates, granite, steatite, mica, 

 kaolin, barytes, white -sand, and asbestus, 

 which are doubtless destined to have a 

 large development in the future, and which 

 are brought within reach of the market by 

 means of the Richmond and Alleghany 

 Railroad. 



Arithmetical Aids. Boston : Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co. In box. 



The "Aids" consist of single counters 

 and strips of ten counters each, and of cards 

 expressing quantities of goods supposed to 

 be sold, and values. The counters are used 

 in solving problems in the four arithmetical 

 rules ; the goods-cards furnish stock to the 

 pupil, who is supposed to keep a store ; and 

 the value-cards represent money in the 

 hands of the supposed buyer of the goods. 

 By a judicious use of the two kinds of cards, 

 with the addition of such other goods-cards 

 as it may suit the players to devise, all the 

 transactions of store-keeping can be per- 

 formed. Thus exercises in the learning of 

 business, as well as amusement, may be had 

 out of the Aids. A tract packed in the box 

 explains the use of the Aids, and gives sug- 

 gestions of other " arithmetical diversions." 



A Grammar of the German Language. For 

 High-Schools and Colleges. By H. C. G. 

 Brandt. New York: G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons. Pp. 278. Price, $1.50. 



This grammar, which is designed both 

 for beginners and advanced students, em- 

 bodies the results of philological research 

 during the last twenty years, so far as it 

 concerns the German language, and draws 

 from the works of eminent modern writers 

 on the subject. From the brief examination 

 we have been able to give it, it strikes us 

 as a systematic and well-matured work, that 

 can not fail to be useful to those who wish 

 to study the language critically. 



A Reader of German Literature. Pre- 

 pared, with Notes, by W. H. Rosensten- 

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

 Pp. 402. Price, $1.50. 



The Reader is intended for students who 

 have mastered a German grammar and an 

 elementary reader, and are at home in using 

 the dictionary. It aims to confine the se- 

 lections to masterpieces ; to give a full rep- 

 resentation to modern literature ; to add 

 selections from the best and latest works on 

 German history and the history of the civ- 

 ilization and language of the country ; and 

 to set forth accurate texts. Biographical 

 sketches are given of some of the authors, 

 and analyses of the more important works 

 quoted from ; and a chronology of German 

 literature is added. 



