LITERARY NOTICES. 



853 



provision and encouragement of healthier 

 amusements, from which alcohol shall he 

 conspicuously absent, as it is now conspic- 

 uously present in or near most ordiuary 

 amusements ; and prohibitory legislation. 

 Our temperance friends will hardly find a 

 stronger document in support of their cause 

 than Dr. Oswald offers them. 



The Old Order changes. By W. H. Mal- 

 lock. New York : G. P. Futnam's Sons. 

 Pp. 513. Price, $1. 

 Mr. Mallock, the author of " Is Life 

 worth Living ? " is well known as a forci- 

 ble writer on morals and social questions. 

 The present book is a love-story, in which 

 are interwoven discussions of the " labor 

 problem " and " scientific morals." The 

 bearing of the whole may, perhaps, be 

 learned from the motto, which is a sen- 

 tence of Bastian's, translatable into — " This 

 importunate political economy insinuates it- 

 self everywhere, and mixes itself in every- 

 thing, so that I really believe that it is it 

 that says, ' I think nothing human foreign 

 to me.' " 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Bugbee, James M. The City Government of 

 Boston. Baltimore : N. Murray. Pp. 60. 25 cents. 



Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., New York. 

 The Source of the Mississippi. Pp. 16. 



Coomes, M. F. and Marvin J. B. The " South- 

 western Medical Gazette." Monthly. January, 

 1Ss7. Louisville, Ky. 1'p. 32. $1 per annum. 



Henderson, J. T. Report of the Department of 

 Agriculture of Georgia. Atlanta. Pp 36. 



Philosophical Society of Washington. Bulletin 

 for 1SS0. Smithsonian Institution, "Washington. 

 Pp. 57. 



James, Joseph F. Protozoa of the Cincinnati 

 Group. Oxford, Ohio. Pp. 9. 



Report of the School of Expression. Boston. 

 Pp.3. 



Emerson. J. 9., Van Slyke, L. L., and Dodge, F. 

 8. Killauea after the Eruption of March, 18S6. 

 Dana, J. D. Volcanic Action. Pp. 2S, with Plato. 



Report of the New York Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, for 1836. "Advertiser" Association 

 Print. Elmlra, N. Y. Pp. 398. 



Proceedings of the United States National Mu- 

 seum. Washington : Government Printing-Office. 

 Pp. 127. 



Altgeld, John P. Arbitration in Labor Troubles. 

 Chicago. Pp. 12. 



Dunlap, Lauren. Report of the Commissioner 

 of Immigration of the Territory of Dakota. Bis- 

 marck, Dakota. Pp. 73. 



Report of Johns Hopkins University for 1886. 

 Baltimore, Md. Pp. 100. 



Ward, Lester F. The Use and Abuse of Wealth. 

 New York. Pp. 10. 



History and Work of the Warner Observatory. 

 Rochester, N. Y. Pp. 70. 



Richey, S. O. Prophylaxis in Rhinitis Sympa- 

 thetica. "Chicago. Pp. 4. 



Gruwell, J. P. A Reformed Alphabet of the 

 English Language. "Enterprise" print. Brigh- 

 ton, Iowa. Pp. 10. 



Varieties of Apples for Market. Bulletin of the 

 Agricultural College of Michigan. Lansing: Thorp 

 & Godfrey. Pp. 6. 



Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Pocket At- 

 las of the World. Pp. 191. 



"The Earth." Fortnightly. London: Parry & 

 Co. Pp. 8. One penny. 



The Bancroft Historical Library. Pan Francisco, 

 Cal. : The History Company. Pp. 88. 



The Bibliotheca Sacra. Oberlin, O. : E. J. 

 Goodrich. Pp. 200. 



Rutgers College Catalogue for 18S6-'87. Pp. Tl. 



Crosby, W. O. Geological Collections of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History. Pp. Ib4. 



Rosc-bruch, Dr. A. M., Canada. Telegraphing to 

 and from Railroad Trains. — Luplex Telephony. 

 Pp. 11. 



Medico-Legal Society of New York ; Transac- 

 tions of. Pp. 30. 



Chemical Society of Washington. Bulletin No. 

 2. February 11, JbsO, to January 13, 1887. Pp. 48. 



Mericen Scientific Association ; Transactions. 

 Vol. II, 1S85-'s6. Meriden, Conn. Pp.64. 



Baker, James H. The Sources of the Missis- 

 sippi ; their Discoverers, real and pretended. St. 

 Paul, Minn. Pp. 28. 



McLaughlin, J. W., M. D., Austin, Tex. Re- 

 searches into the Etiology of Dengue. Pp. 28. 



Alabama Weather Service, Auburn. Report 

 for January, 1887. Pp. 6. 



Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society Journal of 

 lSS5-'86. F. P. Venable, Secretary, Chapel Hill, 

 N. C. Pp. 146. 



Arnold, Matthew. General Grant, an Estimate. 

 Boston : Cupples, Upham & Co. Pp. 66. 25 cents. 



"Ours." Monthly. New York: E. L. Miller. 

 Pp. 33. 



Shufeldt, R. W., M. D. Contributions to Science. 

 Pp. 20. 



Baker, Ira O. Leveling. New York : D. Van 

 Nostrand. Pp. 145. 50 cents. 



Barnard, J. G. Analysis of Rotary Motion. 

 New York : D. Van Nostrand. Pp. 66. 50 cent*. 



Schroeder, Seaton. The Fall of Maximilian's 

 Empire. New York and London : G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons. Pp. 130. $1. 



Bowen, John E. The Conflict of East and West 

 in Egypt. New York and London : G. P. Put- 

 namVSons. Pp. 204. $1.25. 



Allen, Alfred H. Commercial Organic Analysis. 

 Vol.11. Philadelphia: Blakiston, Son & Co. Pp. 

 583. $5. 



Feuillet. Octave. The Romance of a Poor Young 

 Man. New York : William S. Gottsberger. Pp. 

 319. 90 cents. 



Ridgwav. Robert. A Nomenclature oi Colors. 

 Boston : Little. Brown & Co. Pp. 129. 



Report of the Chief Signal Officer of the Armv. 

 for 1885. Two Vols. Vol. I, pp. 440. Vol. II, pp. 

 609. Washington : Government Printing-Office. 



Lockyer. Norman. Chemistry of the Sun. Lon- 

 don and New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 457. 

 $4.50. 



Geobol, K.. M. D. Outlines of Classification and 

 Special Morphology of Plants. New York and Lon- 

 don: Macmillan & Co. Pp.472. $5.25. 



Henry, Joseph. Scientific Writings. Two vols. 

 Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Vol. I, pp. 

 523. Vol. II, pp. 559. 



Murrcll, William, M. D. Massage as a Mode of 

 Treatment. Second edition. Philadelphia: P. 

 Blakiston, Son & Co. Pp. 100. $1.25. 



Wells, David A. A Study of Mexico. New 

 York : D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 254. $1.50. 



Wood, U. C, M. D. Nervous Diseases and their 



