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indeed tbey do not constitute, all material 

 forms of being. These spiritual realities 

 are revealed directly to the spirit of man, 

 while the forms within which they are 

 contained arc made known to him through 

 his physical organs of perception." It is 

 through the recognition of these and corre- 

 lated truths " that the mind becomes able 

 to perceive the harmony that exists between 

 reason and faith." The author has endeav- 

 ored to reach these truths and to show this 

 harmony by the aid, primarily, of mechani- 

 cal science and the analogies which it af- 

 fords. 



FoDRTH Annual Report of the United 

 States Geological Sprvey. 1882-'83. 

 By J. W. FowELL, Director. Washing- 

 ton: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 

 473, with Plates. 



The operations of the survey have been 

 extended over the eastern part of the United 

 States, under the authority of a provision 

 in the appropriation act of 1882-'83, re- 

 quiring it to make a geological map of the 

 United States. The general map is to be 

 made on a scale of 2 sikTooi or four miles to 

 the square inch. Besides the general re- 

 port of the progress of the work of the 

 survey and the administrative reports of 

 the heads of divisions (embracing geologic, 

 paleontologic, and chemic work), the pres- 

 ent volume contains papers on " Hawaiian 

 Volcanoes," by Clarence Edward Button ; 

 " The Mining Geology of the Eureka Dis- 

 trict, Nevada," by J. S. Curtis ; " Popular 

 Fallacies regarding the Precious Metal Ore 

 Deposits," by Albert Williams, Jr. ; " The 

 Fossil OstreidcB of North America," by Dr. 

 Charles A. White ; and " A Geological 

 Reconnaissance in Southern Oregon," by 

 Israel C. Russell. 



SoCTAL Wealth. The Sole Factors and 

 Exact Ratios in its Acquirement and 

 Apportionment. By J. K. Ingalls. 

 New York : The Truth-Seeker Company. 

 Pp. 320. Price, §1. 

 The professed purpose of this book is 

 to direct inquiry to questions intimately 

 related to all human life and employment. 

 The author assumes that "we are living 

 under a system of capitalistic aggrandize- 

 ment or commercial raonarchism," and that 

 " our political savants offer us nothing but 

 what is most delusive and contradictory, 



while servilely bowing to the demands of a 

 dominant plutocracy." On the other hand, 

 we have the ideas of the European radicals 

 etc., " with suggestions of revolution and of 

 measures of reform ranging from anarch- 

 ism to the control of social industry by the 

 state." He thinks there must be some 

 natural relation between the worker and the 

 soil, some principle of law which will give 

 an equitable share of the products of indus- 

 try to each who shares the labor, and a just 

 principle of agreement and consent in re- 

 gard to such production and division; and 

 endeavors to discover these principles. 



Mineral Resources of the United States, 

 Calendar Years 1S83 and 1884. By 

 Albert Williams, Jr. Washington: 

 Government Printing-OfBce. Pp. 1016. 

 Price, 60 cents. 



This volume is the second of the series. 

 While it bears the same title, with the ex- 

 ception of the date, as the former volume 

 which covered the calendar year 1882, it 

 is not a reprint, or second edition of that 

 report. The tables of production are re- 

 given ; but it has been the endeavor to avoid 

 as far as possible a reproduction of the de- 

 scriptive matter. While some of the main 

 topics discussed in the former volume, con- 

 cerning which nothing new has been brought 

 out, are omitted, other subjects, which were 

 not adequately discussed before, are now 

 dealt with at considerable length. A con- 

 siderable number of the articles appear as 

 special contributions, with the authors' 

 names attached. 



The Greek Islands and Turkey after the 

 War. By Henry M. Field, D. D. New 

 York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 

 228. Price, $1.50. 



The region of which this book gives the 

 author's views of travel is not only one of 

 the finest of the earth in its scenery, but is 

 also predominantly rich in associations of 

 profane and sacred history and literature 

 and art, which are regarded by the majority 

 of reading people with the warmest inter- 

 est. It is also becoming the scene of stir- 

 ring movements of progress and political 

 reconstruction, and thereby a center of great 

 contemporary interest. In describing it as 

 a whole and in its different parts, Dr. 

 Field has an eye to all these points of inter- 



