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rous Exhaustion" (New York, Wood). Dr. 

 John Wilson has written a suggestive volume 



on " Health and Health Resorts " (Philadelphia, 

 Porter & Coates). A valuable work on Euro- 

 pean medicinal springs is Dr. Edward Gut- 

 mann's " Watering-places of Germany, etc." 

 (New York, Appletons). Dr. Beard's "Sea- 

 Sickness " propounds an entirely new theory of 

 the cause and treatment of that malady (New 

 York, Treat). " The Summer and its Diseases," 

 hy James C. Wilson, M. D. ; " Winter and its 

 Dangers," by Hamilton Osgood, M. D. ; " The 

 Throat and the Voice," by J. Solis Cohen, 

 M. D. ; and " Brain-Work and Overwork," by 

 Dr. H. C. Wood, are some of a series of Amer- 

 ican " Health Primers " edited by Dr. W. W. 

 Keen (Philadelphia, Blakiston). Dr. J. M. 

 Anders's " Hygienic and Therapeutic Relations 

 of House-Plants " (Philadelphia, Lippincott) 

 treats of a subject of practical concern, and 

 gives the results of interesting observations. 

 Other treatises on hygiene and medicine for 

 popular use are, " The Throat and its Func- 

 tions," by Louis Elsberg (New York, Putnams), 

 and " A Doctor's Suggestions to the Commu- 

 nity, 1 ' by Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa (New York, 

 Putnams). Contributions to sanitary science 

 are " Our Homes," by Dr. Henry Hartshorne 

 (Philadelphia, Blakiston) ; and " Water Analysis 

 for Sanitary Purposes " (Philadelphia, Blakis- 

 ton), a reliable manual by the noted chemist, 

 ~ r. Frankland. Special treatises of interest 



nd value are Roosa and Ely's " Ophthalmic and 



tic Contributions" (New York, Putnams); 



It on "The Human Eye" (Putnams); the 

 translation of Wecker's large work on " Ocu- 

 lar Therapeutics " (New York, Wood) ; Jacobi 

 on "Diphtheria"; Bosworth's "Diseases of 

 the Throat and Nose," and Robinson on " Ca- 

 tarrh " ; the translation of Frey on the " Micro- 

 scope " ; Rosenthal's revised work on nervous 

 diseases (New York, Wood) ; and Gross on 

 " Tumors of the Mammary Gland " (New York, 

 Appletons). A pharmaceutical journal in Ger- 

 man, of scientific scope, is edited by Dr. George 

 W. Rachel, and published in New York. 



The excellent methodical treatises on the 

 Law, of which the juristic literature of Amer- 

 ica possesses a great number, are receiving new 

 accessions ; and, concurrently, some of the 

 legal writers are turning their attention to 

 the preparation of popular expositions of the 

 theory and operation of the laws for the in- 

 struction of lay-readers, a commendable prac- 

 tice, pregnant with beneficial consequences. 

 B. V. Abbott's "Judge and Jury" (New York, 

 Harpers) is a pleasantly instructive outline of 

 the more important laws now in force in the 

 United States, the changes which the law has 

 undergone, the system of the judiciary, etc. 

 "The General Principles of Constitutional 

 Law in the United States," by Thomas M. 

 Cooley (Boston, Little, Brown & Co.), is an 

 able analytical and historical treatise in concise 

 form of the American Constitution and its 

 present interpretation and workings. 



low's " History of Procedure in England " is 

 a learned work upon a subject connected with 

 the history of our jurisprudence (Boston, Little, 

 Brown & Co.). Special treatises issued by the 

 same publishers are Bigelow's " Bills, Notes, 

 and Checks"; Benjamin liobbins Curtis's "Ju- 

 risdiction and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the 

 Courts of the United States " ; F. F. Heard's 

 " Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions " ; 

 Professor C. C. Langdell's " Summary of the 

 Law of Contracts " ; " Schouler on Bailments, 

 including Carriers, Innkeepers, and Pledge " ; 

 and " The Trial by Jury," a text-book prepared 

 for the Harvard School, by Thomas Starkie. 

 The " Brief Synopsis of the Collection Laws 

 of the United States and Canada" (New 

 York, Appletons) supplies information which 

 was greatly needed by business men in an ac- 

 curate and handy book. The " American Man- 

 ual of Parliamentary Law," by George T. 

 Fish (New York, Harpers), is an excellent new 

 hand-book of the recognized customs of de- 

 liberative assemblies (New York, Harpers). 



Among the American books on Art and the 

 history of the arts, the following are worthy of 

 notice : Three excellent manuals for students 

 and amateurs are " Pottery Decoration under 

 the Glaze," by M. Louise McLaughlin, " In- 

 structions in the Art of Modeling in Clay," by 

 A. L. Vago, and " Charcoal Drawing without 

 a Master," by Karl Robert, all published by 

 Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati. " Some 

 Practical Hints on Wood Engraving," by W. J. 

 Linton (Boston, Lee & Shepard), is a harsh dia- 

 tribe against the experiments and innovations 

 of the new school of artistic wood-engraving, 

 by one of the early leaders in the movement 

 which he deplores. " Great Lights in Sculp- 

 ture and Painting " (New York, Appletons) is 

 a manual for young students of art history, by 

 S. D. Doremus. The elaborate "History of 

 Painting " by Woltmann and Woermann is pro- 

 duced in New York by Dodd, Mead & Co. 

 " The American Art Review " is an aesthetic 

 journal of rather high standing and purpose, 

 published in Boston by Estes & Lauriat. 



The handy volume on " Great Singers," by 

 George T. Ferris (New York, Appletons), is 

 a very agreeable, gossipy account of the 

 famous lady opera-singers of bygone times. 

 Louis Nohl's " Life of Mozart," translation by 

 John J. Lalor, is a model musical biography 

 (Chicago, Jansen, McClurg& Co.). Schumann's 

 volume of essays and criticisms, entitled " Mu- 

 sic and Musicians," has been translated and 

 published with annotations by Fanny Raymond 

 Ritter (New York, Schuberth & Co.). 



No comprehensive work of Hutory, of Amer- 

 ican authorship, has appeared during the year, 

 but a few books of research on special subjects 

 have come out. Of outline sketches and di- 

 gests for popular reading and instruction there 

 is an abundant supply. Dr. Schliernann was 

 assisted in his " Researches and Discoveries on 

 the Site of Troy," a magnificent volume, pub- 

 lished in this country by Harpers, by the la- 



