LITERARY NOTICES. 



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coal3 of Pennsylvania. The coals, though 

 all bituminous, are of many kinds and 

 qualities. The amount mined during the 

 past fifteen years had increased in a very 

 rapid ratio from 11,000 tons in 18Y0 to 

 2,225,000 tons in 1885 ; and the amount of 

 coke manufactured from 60,781 tons in 1880 

 to 304,509 tons in 1885. The Warrior 

 coal-field has besides its coal three or four 

 seams of blackband iron-ore, considerable 

 clay ironstone, great quarries of the best of 

 building and paving stones, and forests of 

 most excellent timber. 



A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 

 Edited by Sir George Grove. London 

 and New York, Part XXII : Maemillan 

 & Co. Pp. 134. Price, $1. 



The present part completes the text of 

 this important and compi-ehensive work, 

 although an appendix and a full index are 

 announced as in preparation. The " Dic- 

 tionary " as a whole bears ample evidence 

 of the scholarship and careful research of 

 its editor and contributors. It is worthy of 

 a place among the best cyclopaedias, while it 

 is also of great account as a literary work 

 and has a very high value as a book of ref- 

 erence. A course of musical instruction 

 might be gathered from the articles in it. 

 It gives accounts of all the different kinds 

 and styles of music ; those of the different 

 nations, of different epochs, of the different 

 schools, those which mark the individual 

 traits of composers, those which respond to 

 peculiarities of the people, and those which 

 illustrate or are illustrated by passing events. 

 The several kinds of compositions are de- 

 scribed, defined, and distinguished. The 

 various instruments have places among the 

 articles. Biographies are given of all 

 musicians, including composers and per- 

 formers, who have made their names known, 

 which are full according to the importance 

 of the subject. In short, whatever pertains 

 ta the history, character, and accessories 

 of music, is treated, or intended to be 

 treated, in its alphabetical order, in the 

 four volumes. The literary merits of the 

 longer articles make the book desirable 

 from that point of view. The present 

 part contains the articles from " Waltz " 

 to " Zwisehenspiel," or the end of the 

 list. The fullest and most interesting 

 among them is Dr. Philipp Spitta's account 

 VOL. xxxii. — 27 



of Carl Maria von Weber and his works, 

 which occupies more than forty pages, and 

 is bright with the warmth of the writer's 

 appreciation of the brilliant composer and 

 his inspiring music. 



Rkpout of Spencer F. Baird, Secretary op 

 THE Smithsonian Institution, for the 

 Year 1885-'86. Washington: Govern- 

 ment Printing-Office. Pp. 83. 



Among the interesting features of this 

 report is the account of the growth of the 

 National Museum, which included, at the 

 time of reporting, 2,420,934 " lots " of speci- 

 mens. Among the special collections are to 

 be noted that of scientific instruments, to 

 many of which rare historical associations 

 are attached ; the baskets, throw-sticks, and 

 sinew-backbones ; the aboriginal American 

 pottery ; the department of invertebrate 

 fossils, which contains more than 81,000 

 specimens ; and the department of fossil 

 and recent botany, which has been consider- 

 ably enriched. In field-work, accounts are 

 given of explorations of stone-villages in 

 Arizona and New Mexico — which are de- 

 cided to be the work of still-existing tribes 

 — and of studies among living Indians. 



Twentieth Annual Report of the Trus- 

 tees OF THE PeaBODY MuSEUM OF AMER- 

 ICAN Archeology and Ethnology. 

 Professor F. W. Putnam, Curator. Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. Pp. 74. 



The museum has now become a depart- 

 ment of Harvard University through the 

 recognition of Dr. Putnam, its curator, as 

 Peabody Professor of American ArchEeology 

 and Ethnology in that institution. The col- 

 lections have already outgrown the capacity 

 of the new building to fitly accommodate 

 them, and enlargement is called for. The 

 accessions include the Bucklin collection 

 from ancient graves in Peru, a collection of 

 pottery from Piura, Peru ; and pottery ves- 

 sels, whistles and other objects made of 

 pottery, stone implements and carved stones, 

 some circular and others resembling ani- 

 mals, from Chiriqui. The field-work in- 

 cluded the watching of operations at the 

 Damariscotta shell-heap, Maine, which is 

 being removed, for human-made objects ; 

 Dr. Abbott's explorations in the Trenton 

 gravels ; mound and grave explorations in 

 the Little Miami Valley, Ohio, where evi- 



