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theria prevails among fowls to a larger extent than is supposed. 

 Their habits of living, running at random over wide ranges, 

 picking food from garbage and manure piles, render them espec- 

 ially liable to infection. It is a common practice to bring sick 

 chickens into the house for treatment, where childrea are per- 

 mitted to handle them, and it is evident this disease is spread 

 in this manner more extensively than has been supposed, 

 and that many cases of mysterious sources of infection of 

 children could be traced to infected poultry.— /oi(;a Health Bul- 

 letin. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



^A*''ashington ; or the Revolution. An Historical Drama. 

 By Ethan Allen. In two parts ; both ready. Published by F. 

 Tennyson Neely, Chicago and New York. Each part, paper, 

 50 cents; cloth, $1.50. 



It was Solomon who said, " There is no new thing under the 

 sun." Had he lived in our day, he never would have said it. 

 There is in literature something that in the wide world was 

 never known before. Mr. Ethan Allen, of the New York Bar, 

 has found time to step aside from professional duties to drama- 

 tize the tragic story of the struggle for American Independence. 

 Where is the record that such a thing in regard to any epoch 

 was ever done until this day ? Nowhere. Incidents in history 

 have been clothed in dramatic form. Shakespeare did this. 

 But around one central historic figure are waves of fiction 

 which drown the chief character for all historical purposes. 

 Shakespeare called upon liistory to aid his romance. Allen 

 called upon romance to aid in the full and correct recital of 

 history. The central purpose of Shakespeare was tO' amuse an 

 audience with a fiction diluted and spiced with historic names. 

 The central purpose of Allen has been to teach the world in 

 dramatic form, the story of the American Revolution, with only 

 enough of fiction to tie together the firm strands of historic 

 truth. The same comparison may be made with an}' writer 

 since Greece was classic and supreme. Hence this effort of Mr. 

 Allen is novel, unique and wholly new. 



