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chapter is followed by references for reading 

 and a few suggestive questions, while at the 

 end of the book is a chronology of American 

 literature down to 1896. (American Book 

 Company, $1.) 



Under the title The Glory of the Garden, 

 a collection of odes and sonnets has been 

 printed by William V. Byars, with an ap- 

 pended essay on The Horatian Ode and the 

 Tuscan Sonnet. The recent discovery — or 

 rather recovery — which Mr. Byars claims to 

 have made, of the principle of melody gov- 

 erning the verse of the great classical poets 

 from Homer to Horace and Virgil was due 

 to a partial recovery of the accent of the 

 classical languages, effected through a com- 

 parison of the sounds of modern Greek and 

 Italian with ancient Greek and Latin. A 

 modern Greek, a graduate of the High 

 School at Athens, was employed to read 

 Homer aloud, for comparison with the Tus- 

 can of Dante read aloud by an educated 

 Italian. The verse of B^ranger read aloud 

 by a Frenchman was also compared with the 

 lyrics of Horace, but it was to the compari- 

 son of the melody of Dante with the rhythm 

 ©f Homer, when read by its accents, that the 

 recovery of classical accent is chiefly due. 

 When classical verse was read with an 

 accent rather lower than that of modern 

 French, and with the downward value of the 



grave accent equal to the upward value of 

 the acute, the surprising discovery was made 

 that in both Horace and Homer the melody 

 of the verse depended on the systematic use 

 of rhyme — not of regular end rhyme as in 

 modern verse, but of line and staff rhyme, 

 regulated by a method not unlike that used 

 by the old Norse poets. The discovery of 

 Bentley, that the verse of Virgil and Horace 

 is read by " synaphea," without regard to its 

 verse endings, is thus shown to be of the 

 highest importance. 



Vol. I, No. 1, of the A. I. C. P. Notes, 

 which interpreted means American Associa- 

 tion for Improving the Condition of the 

 Poor, has recently reached us. Its space is 

 all given to an account of the utilization of 

 vacant city lots for the purpose of giving 

 the unemployed an opportunity for earning 

 their own living. During recent years sev- 

 eral attempts of a similar nature have been 

 made, some of them being attended with 

 considerable success, notably the Detroit 

 vacant city lot farms, which were inaugu- 

 rated by Mayor Pingree. The attempt in 

 New York is fully described in the above 

 pamphlet, and, while it has not thus far 

 been a remarkable success, still its officers 

 are very enthusiastic and hopeful for the 

 future. Subscriptions are requested. (105 

 East Twenty-second Street, New York city.) 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIVED. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations. Cornell 

 Station : Bulletin 116. Dwarf Apples ; Bulletin 

 117. Fruit Brevities. — Illinois Station : Insects 

 Injurious to the Seed and Root of Indian Corn. — 

 Michigan State College Station : Keport of Botan- 

 ical Department of— New York Station : Silage 

 and Silos ; Provisions of the New Fertilizer Law 

 of New York.— North Dakota Weather and Crop 

 Service : Third Annual Keport. — Ohio State Uni- 

 versity : The College of Agriculture and Domestic 

 Science, 1896-'97.— United States Department : 

 Bird Day in the Schools ; The Mexican Cotton- 

 Boll Weevil ; The Principal Insi'ct Enemies of 

 the Grape ; The Shade-tree Insect Problem in the 

 Eastern United States. 



Aldine, J. 8. A Theory of the Structure of 

 Matter. Passaic, N. J. : (Author), 486 River Drive. 

 Pp. 47. 50 cents. 



American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. Proceedings of Springfield Meeting, Au- 

 gust and September, 1895. Pp. 413. 



Baginsky, Dr. A., Fruhwald, Dr. F., and Monti, 

 Dr. A. Archiv flir Kinderhcilkunde (Archives of 

 PsediatricK), Vol. XX, Nos. 3 and 4. Stuttgart : 

 Ferdinand Enke. Pp. 100. 



Bardeen, C. W. A Manual of Common School 

 Law. Syracuse : C. W. Bardeen. Pp. 290. ^1. 



Bcrger, F. Bcrger's French Method. New 

 York : F. Berger. London : D. Scott. Pp. 158. 

 75 cents. 



Bulletins and Transactions. Colgate Univer- 

 sity : Circular of Information, 1895-'96. — Illinois 

 State Laboratory of Natural History, Vol. IV.— 

 Johns Hopkins University Circular : Notes from 

 the Biological Laboratory.— New York Academy 

 of Sciences : Annals of June, 1890.— New York 

 State University : Examination Bulletin, No. 9, 

 February, 1S9C, and Extension Bulletin, No. 13, 

 May, 18ii6. — Pennsylvania Museum and School of 

 Industrial Art : The Man and the Machine. An 

 address by S. N. D. North.— Philadelphia Geo- 

 graphical Club : Bulletin on Venezuela's Terri- 

 torial Claims, by J. B. Austin.— Rochester Acad- 

 emy of Sciences : Proceedings of. Vol. III. — Royal 

 Institution of Great Britiiin : Proceedings of ; The 

 Past, Present, and Future Water Supi ly of Lon- 

 don, by E. PYankland ; Immunization against Ser- 

 pents' Venom, etc., by Prof. Thomas R. Eraser; 

 The Circulation of Organic Matter, by Prof. C. V. 

 Poore.— Smithsonian Institution : Catalogue of a 

 Collection of Birds made by Dr. W. L. Abbott, 

 and an Index of Smithsonian Publications.— Ten- 

 nessee State Board of Ileallh : Bulleiin, Vol. Xf, 

 No. 11.— United States Geological Survey : Table 

 of Mineral Products (Quantities and Values) of the 

 United States during the Last Decade; Bulletin 

 No. 123. A Dictioniiry of (ieographic Positions ; 

 No. 124. Revision of the American Fossil Cock- 

 roaches, with Description of New Forms ; No. 

 125. The Constitution of the Silicates; No. 121). 

 A Minerah gical Le.xiccn of Franklin, Hampshire, 

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