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a number of truly wonderful caves. 

 Some of the more important of these 

 caves and the scenery amid which they 

 lie are described by Mrs. Luella Agnes 

 Oicen in the book Cave Regions of the 

 Black Hills (Cincinnati: the Editor 

 Publishing Company), and we have been 

 much interested in reading the accounts. 

 The descriptions are introduced by sum- 

 maries of the methods of the formation 

 of caves and of the results of the geo- 

 logical and topographical explorations 

 of the regions in which they are situated, 

 as presented in official reports and scien- 

 tific memoirs. The descriptions are for 

 the most part relations of the author's 

 personal explorations of the caves. The 

 most important of these caves are Mar- 

 ble Cave, " the finest yet explored in 

 Missouri," and Wind Cave, in South Da- 

 kota, said to be the largest known after 

 the Mammoth Cave. Others are Fairy, 

 Powell, Stone County, Oregon County 

 Caves and the Grand Gulf in Missouri, 

 and the Onyx and Crystal Caves in 

 South Dakota. Many illustrations are 

 given. The author has fine descriptive 

 powers, but her literary style needs dis- 

 cipline. She is the first American, and 

 the only woman, so far, elected to mem- 

 bership in the Soci6t§ de Speleologie of 

 Paris. 



A valuable paper on Sympathetic 

 Strikes and Sympathetic Lockouts is 

 published by Mr. Fred S. Hall as the 

 first number of the eleventh volume of 

 the Columbia University Studies in His- 

 tory, Economics, and Public Law. In 

 it, the author having fixed the definition 

 of sympathetic strikes and lockouts as 

 distinguished from those not sympa- 

 thetic, and having found the diff"erence 

 between a strike and a lockout, dis- 

 cusses the origin and development of the 

 two sympathetic movements, analyzes 

 them, and forecasts the future as it is 

 indicated by the past. Illustrations are 

 freely drawn from the important strikes 

 and lockouts that have occurred in the 

 United States and abroad for a number 

 of years past. 



The Tear Book of Colorists and Dyers, 

 in the opinion of the author, Mr. Har- 

 wood Huntington, supplies a want, for) 

 so far as he is aware, there are no other 

 portable works in the English language 

 to Avhich the color-chemist can refer and 

 find the information which he requires 



the oftenest. The object of the present 

 publication is to meet the demand for a 

 review of the advances made annually 

 in the special field worked in by dyers 

 and colorists — in the bleaching, dyeing, 

 printing, and finishing of textiles — and 

 it endeavors to do this with accuracy 

 and brevity. (Published by the author, 

 New York.) 



The first number of The Socialist Al- 

 manac and Treasury of Facts has been 

 issued in accordance with a decision of 

 the National Convention of the Socialist 

 Labor Party, held in New York in July, 

 1896. It has been prepared by Lucien 

 Sanial, to whom the task was assigned 

 by the National Executive Committee. 

 A large proportion of it is historical, 

 and consists mainly of monographs pre- 

 senting views of the movements and con- 

 dition of " militant socialism " in Ger- 

 many, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Bel- 

 gium, from its beginning to the present 

 day. Special attention is invited by the 

 author to the monographs on Italy and 

 Spain as tracing the struggle between 

 socialism and anarchism to its begin- 

 ning. The second part of the book con- 

 tains statistical matter and comments 

 on economical and social conditions, 

 which, if the argument on " Who owns 

 the Savings? " is a specimen of its qual- 

 ity, must be accepted with many reser- 

 vations. 



Prof. William Wadden Turner, a na- 

 tive of England who came to this coun- 

 try at an early age, became an eminent 

 scholar in Oriental literature, and in 

 1842 a professor of that subject in Union 

 Theological Seminary. He was called 

 thence to Washington in 1852 to organ- 

 ize the library of the Patent Office, where 

 his work was of great value. Thence he 

 was taken by Professor Baird to cata- 

 logue and arrange the library of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. He associated 

 his sister with him in this work and as 

 recorder of scientific collections and ex- 

 changes in 1858. She continued there 

 after his death the next year, and served 

 the library faithfully and efficiently, go- 

 ing with it to the Congressional Library 

 when it was removed there, till 1886, 

 when she resigned on account of age. 

 She died in 1896. A Memorial of the 

 two and of their elder sister Susan has 

 been prepared by Mrs. Caroline H. Dall 

 and has been printed privately. 



