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broken up. The book before us will well repay a careful reading, 
and every physician should be familiar with the subject of which it 
treats. 
ENGLISH, PAST AND PRESENT. By Richard Chenevix Trench, D. D., Arch- 
bishop of Dublin. The Humboldt Pub. Co., 28 Lafayette Place, New York. 
Two parts ; pp. 162. Price, 15 and 30 cents. 
Archbishop Trench’s book has been before the public too long 
as the standard on English language to need an introduction. 
There are many, however, who have not yet read this delightful 
history of our language, and many more who will be glad to re-read 
what has proved so instructive and entertaining in the past. The 
book as published by the Humboldt Publishing Co., in two parts, is 
well printed on good paper, and in their well-known convenient 
form it is just the book for quiet summer afternoons. Nos. 108 and 
109 of the Humboldt library series. 
A MANUAL OF THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE NORTHERN UNITED 
SratEs, ETc., by David Starr Jordan, President of the University of 
Indiana. Chicago, 1888: A. C. McClurg & Co. Pp. 375. 
Dr. Jordan’s Manual is already so well known to teachers and 
students of natural science, that it is only necessary for us to call 
attention to the fact that the work has recently appeared in its fifth 
edition, entirely rewritten and much enlarged. The latest correc- 
tions and additions render the book as perfect as it is possible for 
such to be, and no teacher who is interested in his work will fail to 
add the new edition to his library. As a clear, concise and forcible 
writer, Dr. Jordan has few equals; and as an analytical key to 
vertebrate fauna, his Manual still remains unrivaled. 
CORRESPONDENCE AND QUERIES. 
H. D. R.,, Covineron, Ky.—The best work on urinary sedi- 
ments is the “Atlas of Physiological and Pathological Sediments in 
the Urine,” by Ultzmann & Hoffmann. It contains numerous beau- 
tiful plates. Although it is designed to go with their work on 
urinalysis, any other good text-book will answer. 
Frankel & Pfeiffer’s Atlas of Bacteriology has not yet been 
translated into English or re-published in this country. It will 
appear in 15 parts ; parts I and II, including the introduction and 
ten photo-micrographic plates, are now ready for distribution. We 
can furnish the parts as they appear for $1.50. It is needless to 
say that this work will be the finest of the kind ever published. 
