32 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Tan. 



solution prevents fermentation. Kvidently the sting- of 

 the bee has a use besides that of defence. 



The Manag-ement of the Journal of Nervous and Mental 

 Diseases announces the following- arrang-ement of the staff 

 for 1S«)7: Dr. Chas. L. Dana, Dr. F. X. Dercum, Dr. Philip 

 Coombs Knapp, Dr. Chas. K. Mills, Dr. Jas. J. Putnam, 

 Dr. B. Sachs, Dr. M. Allen Starr, as editors. Dr. Philip 

 Meirowitz, Dr. Wm. G. Spiller, as Associated Biditors. Dr. 

 Chas. Henry Brown, 25 West 45th St, New York, is Man- 

 ag-ing- Editor. 



Dr. Georg-e M. Sternberg, Surg-eon General of the 

 United States Army, has received the honorary deg-ree of 

 LL. D. from Brown University. 



Dr. W. E. Castle has been appointed instructor in biolog-y 

 in Knox Colleg-e, Galesbury, 111. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



Mystic Masonry, or the Symbols of Freemasonry and 

 the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity. — By J. D. Buck, M. 

 D., Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Co. 2()5 pp. xiv pi. 12mo 

 SI. 50. 



This little book is a compendium of occult knowdedg-e. 

 The world at larg-e will not comprehend it. Most people 

 will not wish to do so. It will fall only into the hands of 

 those who are somesvhat curious reg-arding- that which 

 underlies and is g-reater than all relig-ions and all fraterni- 

 ties. I am not a freemason but if tomorrow I had to part 

 for life with two of the following-three books: Shakespeare, 

 The Bible, Buck's Mystic Masonry— I would keep the lat- 

 ter and let g-o the other two in spite of the mystic meaning- 

 which I now know to be concealed in the twoformer books. 

 My reason is that I can remember much that is in the 

 Bible, and not a little of Shakespeare but this book is new 

 to me and contains the keys to all knowledg-e. I risk this 

 assertion althoug-h I know that the declaration itself will 

 mvstifv nearlv all who read it. — C. W. S. 



