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to be helpful, then joins her, contributing at 

 the rate of $350 a year to the expenses of 

 the household, and the nest quarter's account 

 shows a balance of |63, which is increased 

 to $139 for six months. The story is not a 

 visionary one. The author states that it is 

 "an actual portrayal, step by step, of her 

 own experience, her own wonderful success 

 in carrying out a long-cherished theory of 

 comfortable economy. The every-day life 

 described is not a poetically imagined affair, 

 but one that she has absolutely lived and 

 gloried in." 



A second edition of the Chemical Lecture 

 Notes of Prof. C. 0. Curtman has been 

 issued, and now includes notes on the metals. 

 The volume is edited and published by Prof. 

 IT. M. Whelpley (St. Louis, $1.50), who has 

 extended some of the lecturer's memoranda, 

 and supplied a hundred cuts. Most of the 

 cuts are in the division of chemical physics, 

 which occupies about one third of the book. 

 The chemistry proper is a course in general 

 chemistry, and, although arranged for stu- 

 dents in pharmacy and medicine, is quite 

 full, more so than is generally given to these 

 classes of students. Prof. Curtman's notes 

 on organic chemistry are not included in this 

 volume. 



Mr. IF. H. P. rhyfe, author of "How 

 should I pronounce ? " has now issued The 

 School Pronouncer, based on Webster's un- 

 abridged dictionary (Putnam, $1.25). Mas- 

 tering the 366 pages of this little text-book 

 implies an amount of phonetic drill which 

 should give the pupil a better command of 

 English pronunciation than the average per- 

 son generally has. The book is divided into 

 three parts, in the first of which the sounds 

 of the English language and the diacritical 

 marks used to represent them are set forth, 

 and extended exercises are given on the two 

 hundred and thirty symbols, consisting of one 

 or more letters, by which these sounds are 

 represented in English spelling ; also on the 

 various ways, ranging from two to eighteen, 

 of representing each one of the simple 

 sounds. The lessons in this part are in 

 catechetic form. The author enumerates 

 forty-two sounds in the language, but the dis- 

 tinctions which he makes between e in ermine 

 and u in urge, and between o in odd and 

 o in dog, will be regarded by many as useless 



refinements. The second part comprises 

 drills on the elementary sounds, and seventy- 

 seven graded lists of twenty words each for 

 phonetic analysis. Part third consists of 

 twenty - four hundred words often mis- 

 pronounced, arranged alphabetically, each 

 word, both here and in part second, being 

 respellcd phonetically. Many names of per- 

 sons and places are included in this list. 

 Two appendixes treat of diacritics met with 

 in other books, and eight sounds found in 

 French and German words, but not in Eng- 

 lish. The volume is printed with large and 

 clear type throughout, and there is no 

 crowding of matter on its pages. 



H. C. G. Brandfs First Book in German 

 (Alleyn & Bacon, Boston, $1) is a selection 

 from the same author's " Grammar," con- 

 taining Part I, or the accidence and syntax, 

 with new indexes, and Lodeman's exercises 

 and the complete English vocabulary. These 

 portions of the larger work have been put 

 together for use in secondary schools, in 

 place of some of the short grammars. The 

 distinguishing feature of the part of the 

 grammar here presented is the complete 

 separation of inflection and syntax. The 

 exercises for translating into German, by 

 Prof. A. Lodeman, are intended for the 

 double purpose of furnishing material for 

 translation and of assisting in the analysis 

 and translation of the more difficult illustra- 

 tions in the " Grammar." They are framed 

 upon the theory that examples from the 

 German classics are the proper kind of illus- 

 trations for a text-book of this order. 



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" American Chemical Society, Journal." Month- 

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American Institute of Architects. Proceedings 

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 124. 



Besant, Walter. The Eulogy of Richard Jcfferies, 

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 Co. Pp. 854. $2. 



Brinton, Daniel G., INIedia, Pa. The Language of 

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Cheritree, Olive E., Catskill, N. Y. Evolution. 

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 343. 



C^Iarke, J. M., State Hall, Albany, N. Y. Report 

 on Bones of Mastodon or Elophas, found in Associa- 

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