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brace all fossil MedusfB. His work is now 

 jjublished as a separate memoir, Fos- 

 sil Medusa', as one of the Monographs of 

 the United States Geological Survey 

 (Vol. XXX). The Middle Cambrian Me- 

 dusa; are first described, and then, in 

 order, the Lower Cambrian of the United 

 States and of Sweden and Bohemia and 

 the Jurassic of Bavaria. The text is 

 illustrated by forty-seven excellent 

 plates. 



A new edition, revised and with ad- 

 ditions, of the Mechanics and Heat of 

 Edward L. 'Nichols and IF. <S. Francis is 

 published by the Macmillan Company 

 ($1.50). The book is the first volume of 

 the Elements of Physics of the authors, 

 which is complete in three volumes. We 

 find in it no explanation of the nature 

 and extent of the revisions and ad- 

 ditions. 



The publication of such a book as 

 Catering for Tico — Comfort and Econ- 

 omy for small Households (G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons, $1.25) — has been suggested 

 to Alice L. James by the difficulty of 

 reducing the average rules of the cook- 

 book to meet the wants of a family of 

 two or three. The work embodies the 

 results of sixteen years' experience in 

 labor and study, and the author hopes 

 that with it the way may be made eas- 

 ier for others whose bills of fare may 

 be made for two. The directions are 

 claimed to be throughout exact and re- 

 liable, and the dishes to be nourishing, 

 appetizing, and inexpensive. The au- 



thor's plan is to take a bill of fare with 

 a comfortable variety of dishes, and 

 direct explicitly how each is to be pre- 

 pared. 



The manual on Testing Milk and its 

 Products, prepared for dairy students, 

 creamery and cheese factory operators, 

 food chemists, and dairy farmers, by 

 E. H. Farrington and F. W. Noll, has 

 reached a fourth edition, the first three 

 editions having been exhausted in about 

 a year. The present edition has been 

 thoroughly revised, and such additions 

 have been made to it as have been neces- 

 sary to bring it up to date. It has been 

 adopted as a text-book or reference-book 

 in the dairy schools of twelve States of 

 the Union and in a number of schools 

 in Canada. (Published by the Mendota 

 Book Company, Madison, Wis. $1.) 



The Silver C7-oss, or the Carpenter 

 of Nazareth (International Publishing 

 Company, New York), is a short story 

 selected and translated from The Mys- 

 teries of the People of Eugene Sue, and 

 published for the sake of the illustra- 

 tions it is supposed to afford of the 

 tyranny of the ruling class and the op- 

 pression of the working people and the 

 poor and their sufTering thereby which 

 prevailed in the grand days of the Ro- 

 man Empire, as well as always before, 

 and is assumed to have continued down 

 to the present. It is the story of the life 

 and sufferings of Jesus of Nazareth, told 

 in the thrilling style of the great French 

 novelist. 



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