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On Soa-Sioknoss. By Fordyce Barker. M. D. 



la Practice in Diseases of Children. By 

 ']. S.-iiil.l.T, M. l>. 

 < 'ii tlm Waiting Diseases of Infants and Children. 



Smith, M.D. 



I 'in >i. MI Exploration of the Reotnm; with an 

 ::<lix on tlio Ligation of Hmmorrhoidul Tumors. 



l'.\ \V. ll,"U'lili!i!iirr, M. D. 



rnitv; a Popular Troatiso for Young Wives 

 u.-i.l Mutli.Ts. By T. S. Verdi, M. D. 



Conjugal Sinn against the Laws of Lift and Health. 

 i\. (iurdner. 



Tho 1'n vontivo Obstacle, or Conjugal Onanism. 

 From the French of Bergeret, by P. De Marmon, M.D. 



I'luin Talk about the Human System. By Edward 

 Foote, M. D. 



Personal Beauty ; How to Cultivate and Preserve 

 it. 15y D. G. Briuton and G. II. Nanheys. 



['radical Anatomy ; a Manual of Dissections. By 

 Christopher Heath. F. R. C. S. Edited, with Addi- 

 l.y William W. Keen, M. D. 



Homoeopathic Treatment of Hooping-cough. By 

 C. yon Bonninghausen, M. D. Translated, with Ad- 

 ditions, by Carroll Dunham, M. D. 



Tho Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Dis- 

 eases ; including the Results of Recent Investigations 

 upon the Subject. By Freeman J. Bumstead, M. D. 

 Third edition, enlarged. 



The Clinical Guide ; or. Pocket Repertory for the 

 Treatment of Acute and Chronic Diseases. By J. H. 

 G. Jahn. Translated by Charles J. Hempel, M. D. 

 <! and enlarged from the German third edition, 

 enriched by the Addition of New Remedies. By 

 Sam. Lilienthal, M. D. 



Lectures, Clinical and Didactic, on the Diseases of 

 Women. By B. Ludlow, M. D. 



Lectures upon Diseases of the Rectum. By W. II. 

 Van Buren, A. M., M. D. 



Archives of Ophthalmology and Otology. 



Braithwaite's Retrospect. 



THE USEFUL ARTS. The practical genius of 

 our time and country manifests itself in an 

 extensive literature of invention, and the ap- 

 plication of mechanical, chemical, and other 

 sciences, of which we note the following : 



Hydraulic Motors. By M. Bresse. Translated 

 by F. A. Mahan, and revised by I). H. Mahan. 



Long Span Railway Bridges with numerous for- 

 mulae ana tables. By B. Baker. 



Hand-book of the Steam-Engine. By John Bourne, 

 C. E. 



The Sheet-metal Worker's Instructor. By Reuben 

 II. Worne. 



The New Elements of Hand Railing. By Robert 

 H. Riddell. 



The Practical American Millwright and Miller. By 

 David Craik. 



Roasting of Gold and Silver Ores and Extraction 

 of their Respective Metals without Quicksilver. By 

 G. Kustel. 



A Treatise on Roll-turning for the Manufacture of 

 Iron. By Peter Turner, member of the Austrian 

 Ministry of Mines, etc. Translated and adapted by 

 John B. Pearse, Metallurgist. 



New System of Ventilation. By H. A. Gou 



Carpenter's and Builder's Guide. By P. W. Plum- 

 mcr. 



Bams, Out-buildings, Gates, and Fences. By G. 

 E. Harney. 



A Helping Hand for Town and Country ; an 

 American Homo Book of Practical and Scientific 

 Information. By Lyraan C. Draper and W. A. 

 Croffut. 



Peach Culture. By James A. Fulton. 



The Gentleman's Stable Guide. By Robert Mc- 

 Clive, M. D., V. S. 



The Strawberry and its Culture. By J. M. Mcr- 

 rick, Jr. 



Cranberry Culture. By Joseph J. White. 



A Simple Flower-Garden for Country- women. By 

 Ch. Barnard. 



Tho Handy Book of Husbandry. By George E. 

 Waring. 



A 1'ructical Treatise on Soluble or Water Glass, 

 Silicates of Soda and Potash for Silicifying Stones, 

 Mortar, Concrete, and Hydraulic Lime, rendering 

 Wood and Timber Fire and Dry-rot Proof, etc. By 

 Dr. Low is Feuchtwanger. 



Tactics for Non-Military Bodies. By Brevet Major- 

 General Emory Upton. 



A Sot of Alphabets of all the Various Hands of 

 Modern Use, with Examples in Each Style, etc., etc. 

 Drawn and arranged by Frederick 8. Copley. 



School-House Architecture. Illustrated in Seven- 

 teen Designs, with Full Descriptive Drawings, etc. 

 By Samuel F. Eveleth. 



The Complete Phonographer. By James E. Man- 

 son, Official Stenographer to the Surrogate Court of 

 New York. 



Explosions of Steam-Boilers : how they are caused, 

 and how they may bo prevented. By J. R. Robin- 

 son, Steam-Engineer. 



Illustrated Manual for Hunters and Trappers. By 

 Joshua Hunter. 



Music AND A'RT. In the criticism of either, 

 scarcely any thing has come under notice be- 

 yond the current daily and weekly press re- 

 views. The following musical books are ex- 

 clusive of Sunday-school and other juvenile 

 melodies : 



The Tone Masters. A Musical Series. Three 

 volumes [biographical]. 



First Steps in Music. By George B. Lpomis. 



Theoretical and Practical Harmony with a Treat- 

 ment of Thorough Bass, etc. By B. F. Baker. 



New Method for the Reed Organ. By W. H. 

 Clark. 



Organ Companion. By the same author. 



Short Voluntaries and Responses. Bv the same. 



The Organist's Portfolio. A Series ofVoluntarics, 

 etc. Selected by Edward F. Rimbault. 



The Victory: a collection of Religious and Secular 

 Music, including the last Compositions of W. B. 

 Bradbury. By W. F. Sherwin and C. G. Allen. 



Songs of Yale. Edited by Charles S. Elliott. 



New and Improved Method for the Guitar, to which 

 is added a Selection of the most Popular Songs, etc. 

 By W. L. Hayden. 



The Sabbath Guest : a Collection of Anthems, 

 Sentences, Chants, and Choruses. By L. O. Emer- 

 son and G. H. Morey. 



The Princes of Art : Printers, Sculptors, and En- 

 gravers. Translated from the French by Mrs. S. E. 

 Urbino. 



FICTION. In the department of prose fiction, 

 no very striking success has marked the year. 

 " Hedged In," by E. Stuart Phelps, is one of 

 the most notable as a work of art, showing 

 rare skill, and treating a difficult subject with 

 delicacy, and with no less impressiveness. Of 

 great merit in a different style, and of still 

 greater popularity, is " An Old-fashioned Girl," 

 by Miss Alcott, author of ".Little Women." 

 Some new ventures in this line by authors of 

 note in other branches of literature have been 

 made: "Joseph and his Friend," by Bayard 

 Taylor, and " Beyond the Breakers," by Robert 

 Dale Owen, for example. Both are works of 

 decided merit, the one chiefly for its charac- 

 ters, and the other for the art shown in its 

 construction, neither of them, however, making 

 a marked impression. " The New Timothy," 



