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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



EOW WE LlYK ; OR, THE HuMAN BODT, AND 

 HOW TO TAKE CARE OF IT. By JaMES 



JoHONNOT and Eugene Bocton, Ph. D. 

 New York: D. AppletOQ & Co. Pp. 

 162. Price, 50 cents. 



This book presents an elementary course 

 in anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. Its 

 method is deductive, each new topic grow- 

 ing out of the one that precedes it ; and it 

 aims to present the laws of life in such a 

 practical and reasonable way that they will 

 become a guide to living. In the treatment 

 of each topic, function is considered before 

 structure, and the endeavor is made to pre- 

 sent the relations of part to function in 

 such a way that the hygienic law applicable 

 to the case shall follow as a matter of course. 

 As an incentive to study, the authors have 

 appended at the close of each chapter a list 

 of questions on subjects suggested by the 

 text, which will prompt the pupil to think 

 and observe for himself. 



Book of Cats and Dogs and other Friends, 

 FOR Little Folks. By James Johonnot. 

 New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 96. 

 Price, 20 cents. 



The object of this book, with its enter- 

 taining stories, its extracts from Mother 

 Goose, and its beautiful illustrations, is the 

 pleasure and the instruction of children, 

 and it is well adapted to it. Through their 

 love of pets, of stories, of jingle and fun 

 and incongruity, says the author, their lit- 

 tle opening minds " may be led to careful 

 observation, comparison, and descriptions 

 — steps at once necessary to mental growth, 

 and leading up to the portals of science. 

 By insensible degrees, play may be made 

 to merge into study, and fun take on the 

 form of fact. Upon these ideas of the 

 basis and method of thonght, this little 

 work has been constructed." The " other 

 friends " include horses, cattle, sheep, goats, 

 and pigs. 



The True Issue, New York, G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons, pp. 79; and Wages and 

 Tariffs, pp. 47, by E. J. Donnell, 

 New York, Wilcox & O'DonncU Compa- 

 ny. Price, 10 cents. 

 In the former of these pamphlets, Mr. 

 Donnell maintains that industrial depres- 

 sion and political corruption result from the 

 existence of great monopolies which are fos- 

 tered by the tariff. He endeavors to show 



that the wool-tariff is suicidal, the tariff on 

 manufactures a sham, and that there has 

 been no steady, genuine prosperity since 

 the present high protective policy began. 

 He calls iron the key to the arch of monop- 

 oly, and says it is the article with which 

 tariff reform should begin. He suggests 

 that, if a bounty should take the place of the 

 tariff, the people would see what protection 

 costs them, and whether the return justified 

 the expenditure. In " Wages and Tariffs," 

 which is an address delivered before the 

 Brooklyn Revenue - Reform Club, May 8, 

 1884, he gives some account of protective 

 legislation in this country, aiming to show 

 that its effect, especially on wages, has been 

 mischievous. 



Outlines of Roman Law. Bv William C. 

 MoREY, Ph. D. New York : G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons. Pp.433. Price, $1.75. 



The importance of the Roman law as a 

 part of liberal education has been strongly 

 emphasized of late years in England, and has 

 received some recognition in this country. 

 It seems now to be a well-estabhshed fact 

 that the history of modern systems of law, 

 and the principles of comparative jurispru- 

 dence, can not be properly understood with- 

 out some knowledge of that branch. The 

 validity of this statement, which we give al- 

 most in Mr. Morey's words, becomes obvious 

 when we reflect that the Roman law com- 

 prised a highly perfected and elaborate sys- 

 tem of jurisprudence that covered the whole 

 extent of the empire through many centuries, 

 and which avowedly constitutes the founda- 

 tion of the legal systems of nearly all civil- 

 ized states. The law of all Europe, except 

 Russia and England, is built directly upon 

 it. Recent investigations have shown that 

 it has had much more to do with the struct- 

 ure of English law than the old text-books 

 taught, and that the common law, though 

 further removed in descent than the civil 

 law, was in its essential features a legiti- 

 mate outgrowth from it. In the United 

 States it appears in its full force in the ju- 

 risprudence of Louisiana, which is of the 

 civil and not of the common law, and in 

 modified forms in the institutions of the other 

 States, derived from the common law. Pro- 

 fessor Morey's treatise is first historical, 

 considering the growth of the Roman law 



