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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1881. 



gines and Applied Steam Motors " (Spon) ; L. 

 R. Hainersly's "Naval Encyclopaedia," and 

 T. Wilhelin's "Military Dictionary and Gazet- 

 teer" (Philadelphia, L. K. Hamersly & Co.); 



E. 8. Philbrick^s "American Sanitary Engi- 

 neering " (New York, Sanitary Engineer Of- 

 fice), R. S. Christiani's "Technical Treatise 

 on Soap and Candles" (Philadelphia, II. C. 

 Haird&Co.); J- B. Denton's "Sewage Dis- 

 posal " (New York, Spon) ; J. Parry's " Water, 

 its Composition, Collection, and Distribution " 

 (New York, Scribner & Welford) ; J. CnndalPs 

 " Bookbindings Ancient, Media3val, and Mod- 

 ern," with plates (Scribner & Welford); G. P. 

 Brown's "Sower Gas and its Dangers" (Chi- 

 cago, Jansen, McClnrg & Co.) ; A. Spitzli's 

 "Enlarged Manual for Managers, Designers, 

 and Weavers" (Troy, New York, W. H. Young); 

 T. P. Teale's " Dangers to Health," a pictorial 

 guide to domestic sanitary defects (Philadel- 

 phia, Blakiston); and A. J. Downing's pleasant 

 and profitable " Rural Essays " (New York, 

 Wortbington). 



In Medical Science the publications of the 

 year are numerous and valuable. A large por- 

 tion of these are new and revised editions, or 

 works rewritten under additional light and 

 larger experience. Drs. G. M. Beard and A. 

 D. Rockwell present " Medical and Surgical 

 Uses of Electricity," in a third revised edition 

 (New York, William Wood & Co.). Dr. Austin 

 Flint, Sen., gives a new edition of his " Princi- 

 ples and Practice of Medicine " (Philadelphia, 

 H. C. Lea's Son & Co.), and Dr. A. Flint, 

 Jr., a new edition of the "Text-Book of Hu- 

 man Physiology " (New York, D. Appleton & 

 Co.). Dr. T. S. Kirkbride's "Insanity, and 

 Hospitals for the Insane " (Philadelphia, Lip- 

 pincott & Co.) appears in a second edition. 

 The second volume of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew's 

 great treatise on " The Principles and Practice 

 of Surgery" (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott 

 & Co.) is among the noteworthy books of 

 the year; as is also a translation of Dr. Just 

 Lucas- Championniere's work entitled "Anti- 

 septic Surgery : the Principles, Modes of Ap- 

 plication, and Results of the Lister Dressing " 

 (Portland, Maine, Loring, Short & Harmon). 

 The translator and editor of the volume, Dr. 



F. H. Gerrish, is quite enthusiastic in support 

 of the views set forth in the work. A very 

 interesting and valuable publication is by Dr. 

 R. Bartholow, " On the Antagonism between 

 Medicines and between Remedies and Dis- 

 eases" (New York, D. Appleton & Co.). Dr. 

 J. Tyson's "Treatise on Blight's Disease and 

 Diabetes, with Special Reference to Pathology 

 and Therapeutics" (Philadelphia, Lindsay & 

 Blakiston) is timely and important ; it has also 

 a section on retinitis in Bright's disease, added 

 by Dr. W. F. Norris. Drs. J. B. Bell and W. 



f. Laird give a new edition of " Homceopathio 

 Therapeutics of Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Chol- 

 era," etc. (New York, Boerricke & Tafel). Dr. 

 W. A. Hammond has brought out a seventh 

 and revised edition of his work " On the Dis- 



eases of the Nervous System " (New York, D. 

 Appleton & Co.). Dr. W. H. Byford's " The 

 Practice of Medicine and Surgery applied to the 

 Diseases and Accidents incident to Women " 

 (Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston) is a work 

 of great value, as revised and largely rewritten. 

 In the same connection comes also Dr. F. A. 

 Purcell's valuable treatise " On Cancer, its Al- 

 lies and other Tumors, with Special Reference 

 to Treatment " (same publishers). Dr. Bulk- 

 ley's work on " Eczema and its Management " 

 (New York, Putnam's Sons) is thorough and 

 important, in view of the interest of the facul- 

 ty in cutaneous disorders at the present time. 

 Other works, which deserve to be mentioned 

 here with approbation, are Dr. "W. T. Lusk's 

 " Science and Art of Midwifery " (New York, 

 D. Appleton & Co.) ; Dr. H. H. Kane's " Drugs 

 that Enslave," the opium, morphine, and chlo- 

 ral habit (Philadelphia, Blakiston); Dr. R. 

 Glisau's "Modern Midwifery," a text-book of 

 American practice (same publisher) ; Dr. A. L. 

 Ranney's " The Applied Anatomy of the Nerv- 

 ous System " (New York, D. Appleton & Co.). 

 The same publishers issue "The New York 

 Medical Journal and Obstetrical Review," edit- 

 ed by Dr. F. P. Foster ; and F. Leypoldt (New 

 York) sends out the "Index Medicus," a 

 monthly record of medical publications. 



American literature is fairly represented in 

 works on Law and Government. Codes of the 

 different States, digests, statutes, etc., are in- 

 creasing in number and value from year to year, 

 and American jurisprudence is assuming high 

 importance in the estimation of foreign civil- 

 ized nations. The Reports of the Supreme 

 Court of the United States, and of the Supreme 

 Courts and Courts of Appeals of the several 

 States, and the volumes (some thirty in num- 

 ber) containing the "American Decisions" are 

 looked for with great interest, and are of spe- 

 cial moment to the educated lawyer. A " Trea- 

 tise on the Law of Injunctions " by J. I. High 

 (Chicago, Callaghan & Co.), has reached a sec- 

 ond edition, and is a work of merit. So, also, 

 is F. A. Lewis's volume, "Law relating to 

 Stocks, Bonds, and other Securities" (Phila- 

 delphia, Rees, Welsh & Co.). B. R. Curtis's 

 very valuable work, "Jurisdiction, Practice, 

 and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of 

 the United States " (Boston, Little, Brown & 

 Co.), has been enriched with notes by G. T. 

 and B. R. Curtis. Of equal, if not superior, 

 value is J. N. Pomeroy's "Treatise on Equity 

 Jurisprudence as administered in the United 

 States " (San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & Co.). 

 It is adapted for all the States, and to the 

 union of equitable and legal remedies under 

 the reformed procedures. O. "W. Holmes, Jr., 

 has written a thoughtful and interesting book 

 entitled "The Common Law" (Boston, Little, 

 Brown & Co.) ; and the same publishers send 

 out E. L. Pierce's important "Treatise on the 

 Law of Railroads." Professor F. Wharton's 

 "Treatise on the Conflict of Laws" is ex- 

 tremely suggestive, and is in its second edition 



