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C. W. Shields; "Seed Thoughts: a Hand-book 

 of Doctrine and Devotion for Class Leaders, 

 Bible Class and Sunday School Teachers, 

 Young Preachers," &c., by George C. Robin- 

 son. A few works on Spiritualism published 

 the past year may properly bo included under 

 this head: "Three articles on Modern Spirit- 

 ualism by a Bible Spiritualist ; " " History of 

 the ' Supernatural in all ages," by William 

 Howitt (reprint) ; Plain Guide to Spiritualism," 

 by Uriah Clark ; " Arcana of Nature ; or the 

 Philosophy of Spiritual Existence and the 

 Spirit World," by Hudson Tuttle ; " Progres- 

 sive Tracts, Nos. 2, 3 and 4," by A. J. Davis ; 

 " Individuality, or Reason in Search of God ; or 

 Spiritualistic Communications from "William 

 Brown of Buffalo, a Sailor ; " Progressive An- 

 nual for 1863 ; comprising an Almanac, a 

 Spiritual Register, and a General Calendar of 

 Reform." "With a few religious "Works of a 

 miscellaneous character, we close this formi- 

 dable list of the theological religious publica- 

 tions of the year : " The Carmel ; or, the Con- 

 version of Hermann the Pianist ; " " Outposts 

 of Zion ; with Limnings of Mission Life," by 

 Rev. William H. Goode ; " The Kingdom," by 

 Rev. Wm. M. Willett, Part I. ; Scripture His- 

 tory abridged from Mrs. Trimmer (reprint) ; 

 " The Sunday Evening book," by Several Cler- 

 gymen; "The Sunday School Prayer Book," 

 by Rev. Treadwell Walden ; "Life, Death 

 and Futurity," by Horace Welby (reprint); 

 " Hymns and Tunes for the Army and Navy ;" 

 " The Heidelberg Catechism in German, Latin, 

 and English; Tercentenary Edition, with an 

 Historical Introduction ; " " Common Prayer 

 for Christian Worship " (Unitarian). 



The number of works on Moral and Intellec- 

 tual Science has been very small. The most 

 remarkable are : " Evidences of Christianity," 

 by President Hopkins, elsewhere mentioned ; " 

 " History of the Intellectual Development of 

 Europe, by John II. Draper, M.D., LL.D. ; " 

 "The Souls of Things, or Psychometric Re- 

 searches and Discoveries " by William and Eliz- 

 abeth M. F. Denton; "The Logic of Sir Wil- 

 liam Hamilton," by Henry N. Day, D.D., 

 LL.D. ; George Combe's " Moral Philosophy," 

 a new and revised edition (reprint) ; the 

 continuation of the fine Riverside edition of 

 the Works of Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 

 also a reprint ; " Intellectual Freedom, or Eman- 

 cipation from Mental and Physical Bondage," 

 by Charles 8. Woodruff, M.D. In Physical 

 Science, the year has been unusually prolific. 

 Foremost among the works of this class stands 

 Prof. William Chauvenet's magnificent " Man- 

 ual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy," 2 

 vote, with numerous illustrations. Other con- 

 tributions to Astronomical Science were : " An- 

 nals and Report of Harvard College Astronom- 

 ical Observatory ; " " Astronomical and Meteor- 

 ological Observations made at the United 

 States Naval Observatory, during the year 

 1861 ; " " Annals of the Astronomical Observa- 

 tory of Harvard College with account of the 



Great Comet of 1858," by G. P. Bond; "De- 

 scription of a new Cataloguing and Charting 

 Machine," by G. W. Hough. In Geology we 

 have : " Report of a Geological Reconnoissance 

 of Indiana, made during the years 1859 and 

 1860, under the Direction of Richard Dale 

 Owen ; " an elegant reprint of Sir Charles 

 Lyell's " Geological Evidences of the Antiquity 

 of Man ; " " Report of a Geological Survey of 

 the Upper Mississippi Lead Regions," by J. D. 

 Whitney; " Annual Report of the State Geol- 

 ogist of California ; " " Second Annual Report 

 upon the Geology and Natural History of the 

 State of Maine," by the State Geologists; 

 The Great Stone Book, by David Thos. Ansted 

 (Reprint) ; " Air Breathers of the Coal Period," 

 &c., by J. W. Dawson ; " Geological Survey of 

 Canada, with Atlas," &c. ; *' Ancient Mining on 

 the Shores of Lake Superior," by Charles Whit- 

 tlesey. In other departments of Physical Sci- 

 ence we have : " Methods of Study in Natural 

 History," by Louis Agassiz ; " Cursory Thoughts 

 on Some Natural Phenomena;" "Bulletin of 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam- 

 bridge ;" D. Giraud Elliot's magnificent " Mono- 

 graph of the Pittidse;" "A monograph of the 

 Order Pholadacea," by George W. Tryon, jr. ; 

 a new edition of Audubon's " Birds of Ameri- 

 ca;" "On the Origin of Species," by Thomas 

 H. Huxley ; " Evidence as .to Man's Place in 

 Nature," by the same author (both Reprints) ; 

 "The Sunbeam and the Spectroscope," by How- 

 ard Townsend, M. D. ; 0. L. Brace's " Races 

 of the Old World; " " Physiological Memoirs," 

 by William A. Hammond, Surgeon-General 

 U. S. A. ; " The Man of the North and the 

 Man of the South," by 0. V. de Bonstetten 

 (Reprint) ; " Observations on the Genus Unio," 

 &c., by Isaac Lea, LL.D., vol. 9 ; " Plants, il- 

 lustrating in their Structure the Wisdom and 

 Goodness of God ; " " The Annual of Scientific 

 Discovery for 1863," edited by David A. Wells; 

 "The Philosophy of Natural History on the 

 basis of Smellie," by John Ware, M. D. ; " Heat 

 Considered as a Mode of Motion," by John 

 Tyndall, F. R. S. (Reprint) ; " Substance and 

 Shadow, an Essay on the Physics of Creation," 

 by Henry James ; " Class Book of Chemistry," 

 by Edward L. Youmans ; " Blues and Carmines 

 of Indigo," by Felicien Capron de Dole (Re- 

 print) ; " Treatise on the Coloring Matters de- 

 rived from Coal Tar," by Prof. H. Dussauce ; 

 " First Outlines of a Dictionary of the Solubility 

 of Chemical Substances," by Frank H. Storer ; 

 "Chemical Technology, or Chemistry in its 

 Application to Manufactures," by Thomas Rich- 

 ardson and Henry Watts, vol. I. part 3 (Re- 

 print) ; Transactions, Proceedings, and Jour- 

 nals of the Academy of Natural Science at St. 

 Louis, of the California Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 

 Entomological Society of the same city, Ly- 

 ceum of Natural History of New York, Illinois 

 Natural History Society, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, Natural History Society of Montreal, 



