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describing one style of work after another, 

 from the simplest to the most elaborate. 

 The text is illustrated with over fifty figures 

 of patterns, many of them representing 

 work executed during the middle ages. 

 There is also a special chapter on patterns 

 and design. Directions for gilding are in- 

 cluded in the volume and there is a sug- 

 gestive list of articles that may be made of 

 leather. The mechanical work of the vol- 

 ume is tasteful and appropriate, the leather 

 cover being stamped with a design by the 

 author. 



Rev. Henry C. Kinney, an Episcopal 

 missionary at the Chicago stock-yards, has 

 published a pamphlet entitled Why the Co- 

 lumbian Exposition should be opened on Sun- 

 day. It is a vigorous plea in behalf of the 

 workingmen who could not visit the fair on 

 any other day of the week, and undertakes 

 to prove that Sunday opening would not be 

 irreligious nor in conflict with the Illinois 

 statute, nor lead to any of the consequences 

 that many pious persons dread. 



The Treatise on Diseases of the Nose pre- 

 pared for physicians two years ago by Gre- 

 ville Macdonald, M. D. (Macmillan, $2.50), has 

 already reached a second edition. It consists 

 of descriptions of the diseases of the nose and 

 its accessory cavities, and the methods of 

 treatment which the author has found advis- 

 able. A considerable number of instru- 

 ments designed for nasal surgery are de- 

 scribed and figured. There are also cuts and 

 a colored plate representing morbid growths 

 in the nose. In the second edition a num- 

 ber of important additions and modifications 

 have been made. 



Part XXII of the Proceedings of the So- 

 ciety for Psychical Research, July, 1892, con- 

 tains five papers. In the first, On Indica- 

 tions of Continued Terrene Knowledge on the 

 Part of Phantasms of the Dead, F. W. H. 

 Myers gives cases in which an apparition 

 has seemed to the person seeing it to act as 

 if the dead person whom it represented had 

 a remembrance of the events of his life, and 

 other cases in which persons in a trance 

 have gained knowledge that they did not 

 have before. Mr. Myers will perhaps show 

 later how any information as to the knowl- 

 edge possessed by the dead can be gained 

 from the workings of the minds of the liv- 

 ing. The second paper is an account by 



Richard Hodgson of Mr. Davey's Imitations 

 by Conjuring of Phenomena sometimes at- 

 tributed to Spirit Agency. The conjuring 

 includes some wonderful slate-writing and 

 materializing tricks, and is valuable material 

 for those who wish to combat the spiritual- 

 istic superstition. Miss R. C. Morton con- 

 tributes a Record of a Haunted House, in 

 which the main narrative is well supported 

 by independent accounts. The third of Mr. 

 Myers's papers on The Subliminal Conscious- 

 ness follows. Its special topic is The Mech- 

 anism of Genius, and it deals largely with 

 mathematical prodigies. The concluding pa- 

 per is a supplement to Dr. Backman's experi- 

 ments in clairvoyance previously published. 



The society is represented in America by 

 Richard Hodgson, 5 Boylston Place, Boston. 



A very full manual of Directions for Col- 

 lecting and Preserving Insects has been pre- 

 pared for the National Museum by Dr. C. V. 

 Riley. In these directions the apparatus is 

 first described, and the student is then told 

 how to collect in the four seasons of the 

 year, how to find insects under stones, in 

 rotten stumps, in living trees, and on sandy 

 places, how to take insects of the several 

 orders, etc. Then follow directions for kill- 

 ing and preserving insects, for preparing and 

 mounting them, for the preservation of alco- 

 holic specimens, for labeling and arranging 

 collections, and for protecting them against 

 museum pests and mold. Other subjects on 

 which information is given are insect boxes 

 and cabinets, the rearing of insects, and 

 packing and transmitting specimens ; direc- 

 tions for collecting arachnids and myriapods 

 are given also. The manual is introduced 

 by an account of the classification of the 

 hexapods, in which some forty species are 

 figured, and concludes with a list of the en- 

 tomological works most useful to the student. 

 The whole number of illustrations is one hun- 

 dred and thirty-nine. 



One of the Bulletins of the United States 

 Geological Survey recently issued, No. 76, is 

 of much popular and practical interest. It 

 is the second edition of a Dictionary of Alti- 

 tudes in the United States, compiled by Henry 

 Gannett, the first edition of which was pub- 

 lished in 1884. The present work is consid- 

 erably enlarged, mainly by the addition of 

 determinations of altitudes by railroads, so 

 that the volume now contains 393 pages. 



