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though it depends upon natural princi- 

 ples. The best movements for taking 

 advantages of the physical laws involved 

 in it have been studied by competent 

 men, and a brief and clear presenta- 

 tion of them is attempted here. First, 

 Ave have the lessons for tlie beginner, 

 ■\vho must, before all things, " have con- 

 fidence." The difFerent strokes are de- 

 scribed in detail and illustrated; the dif- 

 ferent modes of swimming and the pos- 

 tures, swimming in clothes, taking off 

 clothes in the water, diving and swim- 

 ming under water, swimming in waves, 

 and other features are explained; and, 

 finally, the life-saving directions are 

 given, and public education in swim- 

 ming is insisted upon. 



The Southern Magazine is a new 

 monthly, published at Manassas, Va., by 

 the Southern Publishing Company, of 

 which we have the third number, that 

 for August. It has a definite flavor of 

 the old South, for which we find no 

 fault with, for there was much about 

 the old South which ought to be pre- 

 served, and no little that was too pre- 

 cious to be lost. Among the matters of 

 special interest in this number are the 

 Sketch of Sidney Lanier, by Ellen Man- 

 derson, with selections from his writ- 

 ings: The Last Meeting of the Confed- 

 erate Cabinet (held, by a curious coin- 

 cidence, at Abbeville, S. C, where seces- 

 sion was started), by Walter L. Miller; 

 an account of the University of Vir- 

 ginia, by John S. Patten, which appears 

 to be the first of a series on Southern 

 Educational Institutions; and an article 

 on South Carolina in Letters, by Colonel 

 J. P. Thomas. 



The fifth yearly number of IJAnn^e 

 Psycholoiiique of MM. Alfred Binet, H. 

 Beaunis, and Th. liibot is a volume of 

 902 pages, of which 591 pages are in- 

 cluded in the first part, devoted to Origi- 

 nal Memoirs and General lleviews. The 

 papers are nineteen in number, on such 

 subjects as muscular fatigue, the fore- 

 shortening of objects rising from the 

 horizon, stereognostic perception and 

 stereoagnosy, suggestibility, applica- 

 tions of the calculation of probabilities 

 to psychology, colored audition, mental 

 Jabor and nutritive changes, measure of 

 mental fatigue, sensations of smell, pho- 

 nographs and the study of the vowels, 

 cephalometry, pedology, volume of the 



arm and muscular force, chronophoto- 

 graphic and other apparatus, and mus- 

 cular sense; and the authors are MM. 

 Van Biervliet, of Ghent; Blum, of 

 Xlmes; Bourdon, of Rennes; Clapar&de, 

 of Geneva; Claviore, Delage, Demeny, 

 Druauit, Mile. Joteyko, MM. Larguier, 

 Manouvrier, Marage; JNIarbe, of Wiirz- 

 burg; Obersteincr, of Vienna; Tschern- 

 ing and Zwaardemaker, of Utrecht. M. 

 V. Henri's paper on Muscular Sense 

 would make a volume by itself. The 

 second part — Analyses — consists of re- 

 views of psychological publications en- 

 tered under ten headings. The Bibliog- 

 raphy contains 2,558 titles, and the 

 index of authors fills upward of seven- 

 teen double-columned pages. (Paris: 

 Scheicher Freres. ) 



Valuable papers on Comparative 

 Tests of Bituminous Steam Coals, by 

 John W. Hill; the Artificial Preser- 

 vation of Railroad Ties by the Use of 

 Zinc Chloride, by W. W. Curtis; and 

 the Theory of Concrete, by G. W. Raf- 

 ter, are given in the Proceedings of the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers 

 (vol. XXV, No. 4, April, 1899), together 

 with discussions respecting street grades 

 and cross-sections in asphalt and cement 

 and to loads and maximum stress on 

 members of a bridge truss; also bio- 

 graphical sketches of D. L. Barnes and 

 W. R. IMichie. 



A valuable addition to D. Appleton 

 and Company's International Educa- 

 tion Series, and a .sprightly book in 

 itself withal, is Montaigne on the Edu- 

 cation of Children, a volume of selec- 

 tions bearing on the subject from the 

 writings of the quaint old Frenchman, 

 translated and annotated by L. E. Rec- 

 tor. The significance of Montaigne, as 

 the editor of the series observes in his 

 preface to the volume, lies chiefly in his 

 protest against pedantry, and the trans- 

 hitor finds JMontaigne's modernity shown 

 in his attempt to degrade men learning 

 from the first place, and to lay the 

 emphasis on fitness for practical life, 

 ability to use one's judgment, and mo- 

 rality and virtue. While Montaigne 

 had limitations and defects in his edu- 

 cational views, such as are pointed out 

 by Dr. Harris, he still appears to have 

 been far in advance of his own time, 

 and in some respects of the present time 

 as well. The solution of the human 



