LIT!:i;AT!'RK. A Ml. KM CAN. IX 1896. 



Amelia M. Watson; ;iiul two illustrated editions 

 ( 'onstantinople " df Ediiiondo de Amieis. 

 "Posters in Miniature" had an introduction by 

 Kd \\ard IVnlield. " .Aland Painting in the Boston 

 Public Library " was tin- subject of a pamphlet by 

 Krncst F. Fenoiloa. 



(eneral Science. Beginning with our planet, 

 we have "The Earth and its Story." a first book of 

 >gy, by Angelo Ileilprin, and " The Geological 

 Story brielly told." by .lames I). Dana, while both 

 the " .Manual of Geology " of the last author and 

 the "Elements of Geology" of Prof. Joseph Le 

 Oontc went through a fourth edition during the 

 year, the former being wholly rewritten and the 

 'last revised and enlarged, and accompanied with 

 new plates and illustrations. Ten monographs on 

 ' The Physiography of the United States," by Major 

 John W. Powell, Profs. N. S. Shaler, Israel Clark 

 Russell, and others, were collected into a volume, 

 and " The Story of a Piece of Coal " was told by Ed- 

 ward A. Martin in the " Library of Useful Stories." 

 Gen. A. W. Greely published a " Handbook qf Arc- 

 tic Discoveries " in the " Columbian Knowledge Se- 

 ries," and G. F. Wright, D. D., and Warren Upham 

 illustrated from original photographs their exhaus- 

 tive study of " Greenland Ice Fields and Life in 

 the North Atlantic." which contained a new discus- 

 sion of the causes of the ice age. " The Method of 

 Darwin " was considered by Frank Cramer in a 

 study in scientific method ; Edward Drinker Cope 

 marshaled " The Primary Factors of Organic Evo- 

 lution " ; while Prof. John M. Tyler delivered the 

 Morse Lectures of 1895 upon " The Whence and 

 Whither of Man," giving a brief history of his 

 origin and development through conformity to 

 environment. " The Biological Lectures delivered 

 at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's 

 Holl, in the Summer of 1895," by various authori- 

 ties, were collected into a volume ; " The Cell in 

 Development and Inheritance " was the theme of 

 Edmund B. Wilson in the " Columbia University 

 Biological Series" ; David Starr Jordan and others 

 opened with " The Fishes of Sinaloa " the " Leland 

 Stanford, Jr., University Contributions to Biology," 

 other issues of which were " The Fishes of Puget 

 Sound." by the same author and Edmund Chapin. 

 and " Xew Mallophaga," by Vernon L. Kellogg; 

 and " The Survival oi' the Unlike " was the title of 

 a collection of evolution essays suggested by the 

 study of domestic plants, by Liberty Hyde Bailey. 

 John A. Mandel prepared a "Handbook for the 

 Biochemical Laboratory." "Queen Moo and the 

 Egyptian Sphinx," by Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon, 

 contends for the earlier civilization of the Western 

 Continent than the Eastern, in contradiction of the 

 usually accepted hypothesis, and a new third edi- 

 tion was issued of Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton's 

 treatise on " The Myths of the New World." " The 

 Pith of Astronomy," by Samuel G. Bayne, contained 

 the latest facts and figures as developed by the 

 giant telescopes, without mathematics, and Herbert 

 A. Howe made " A Study of the Sky " for Chautau- 

 quans. A new revised edition of " The Sun," by C. 

 A. Young, appeared in the "International Scientific 

 Series." and Ernest W. Brown wrote "An Intro- 

 ductory Treatise on the Lunar Theory." The first 

 volume of "An Illustrated Flora," covering the 

 northern United States and the British possessions, 

 by N. L. Britton and Edison Brown, covered" Ferns 

 to Carpet Weed," and will be followed by two more. 

 Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews described' " Familiar 

 Trees and their Leaves," illustrating them with 

 200 original drawings, L. H. Bailey contributing an 

 introduction to the work ; Mrs. William Starr 

 Dana's " Plants and their Children " was illustrated 

 by Alice Josephine Smith ; Caroline E. Billiard 

 proffered " Lessons in Botany " ; and Vol. II ap- 



peared of William J. I'eal's " Grasses of North 

 America." Parts XIII and XIV were issued of the 

 id volume of II. Nehrling's " North American 

 Bin Is " : " A Popular Handbook of t he Ornithology 

 of Eastern North America," by Thomas Nutlall, 

 went through a new enlarged edition, revised and 

 annotated by M. Chamberlain ; " Kvery Bird" was 

 a guide to the identification of t lie birds of wood- 

 land, beach, and ocean, by Reginald II. Howe. Jr. ; 

 C. J. May mini wrote A 1 1 and I took of the Sparrows, 

 Finches, etc., of New England " ; Florence A. Mer- 

 riam went "A-Binling on a Bronco" through 

 southern California; Ernest I). Winlle described 

 "The Birds of Montreal "; and " Papers presented 

 to the World's Congress on Ornithology.'' held at 

 the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, were 

 edited by Mrs. E. I. Rood, under the direction of 

 Prof. Elliott Coues. Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the 

 author of " Bird Ways," was equally successful in 

 her treatment of "Four-Handed Folk," and Rush 

 C. Hawkins pronounced on animal friends, also the 

 subjects of persona] observation, as " Better than 

 Men.'' Edward Knobel wrote briefly of " The Tur- 

 tles, Snakes, Frogs, and Other Reptiles and Am- 

 phibians of New England and the North." John 

 H. Comstock and Vernon L. Kellog prepared an 

 outline of " The Elements of Insect Anatomy " for 

 the use of students in the entomological laboratories 

 of Cornell and Leland Stanford, Jr., Universities. 

 E. Dana Pierce offered " Problems in Elementary 

 Physics"; Preston Smith, " Easy Experiments in 

 Physics " : and R. P. Williams. ""Chemical Experi- 

 ments, General and Analytical," for use with any 

 text-book of chemistry or without a text-book. 

 " Chemical Notes on Equations," inorganic and or- 

 ganic, were made by G. H. Gemmell ; "A Manual 

 of Quantitative Chemical Analysis.'' by F. A. Cairns, 

 was issued in a third edition, revised and enlarged 

 by Elwyn Waller; Frank Hall Thorp wrote on 

 "Inorganic Chemical Preparations"; and Arthur 

 Messinger Comey prepared " A Dictionary of Chem- 

 ical Solubilities (Inorganic)." " What is Electric- 

 it y f" was asked by John Trowbridge for the pur- 

 pose of elucidation in the "International Scientific 

 Series." and " The Story of Electricity " was told by 

 John Munro in the " Library of Useful Stories." Vol. 

 II of a " Text-book on Electro-magnetism and the 

 Construction of Dynamos," by Dougald C. and John 

 Price Jackson, was given to "Alternating Currents 

 and Alternating-Current Machinery"; Frederick 

 Bedell laid down "The Principles of the Trans- 

 former " ; F. C. Allsop's " Induction Coils and Coil- 

 making " went through a second revised and en- 

 larged edition ; Silvanus P. Thompson wrote on 

 "Polyphase Electric Currents and Alternate-Cur- 

 rent Motors" : Vol. I of Francis B. Crocker's " Elec- 

 tric Lighting " appeared, being devoted to " The 

 Generating Plant" ; Edwin J. Houston and Arthur 

 E. Kennelly contributed six volumes to the "Ele- 

 mentary Electro-Technical Series," upon "Electric 

 Incandescent Lighting," " Electric Arc Lighting," 

 " The Electric Motor," " Electric Telegraphy," 

 "Electric Telephone," and "Electric Street Rail- 

 ways.'' Edward P. Thompson wrote at length of 

 the " Roentgen Rays and Phenomena of the Anode 

 and Cathode " ; " the X Ray," by William J. Mor- 

 ton, M. D., and Edwin W. Hammer, went through a 

 fifth edition, which contained appendices by Prof. 

 Rontgen, Thomas A. Edison, and Dr. Oliver Lodge; 

 and William H. Meadoweroft set forth ' The A BC 

 of the X Ray," in addition to publishing the 

 "Scholar's ABC of Electricity." " Parakites " 

 was a treatise on the making and flying of tailless 

 kites for scientific purposes and for recreation, by 

 Gilbert Totten Woglom. Mansfield Merriman and 

 Robert S. Woodward edited "Higher Mathematics 

 for Classical and Engineering Colleges " ; " Ele- 



