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and Faces, with Some Considerations respecting 

 the Ki-e and Development of Art "; and I '.. I'-. 

 m on lie-lure- and Alt it tides," giving a 

 practical expo-it mn of the teachings of belsarte. 

 I. \\ . Shoemaker prepared " Del-arhan 

 Mexican Painting and Paint- 

 , i.ert H. Lamborn, gave a brief sketch 

 (>f the' development of the Spanish school of 

 painting in Mexico; while "Colonial Furniture 

 land " was A Study of the Domestic 

 Furniture in IV in the Seventeenth and Kight- 

 eenth Cent uric.-." by I r\ ing Whitall Lyon, M.I). 

 A Message to China Decorators" was deliver, ,l 

 by Mr-. I . (ioodyear. Helen M. Sparmann made 

 -An Attempt at an Analysis of Music"; "Pre- 

 ludes and Studies: .Mii>icnl Themes of the Day." 

 treated liy W. .1. Henderson; and " The 

 Theory of Music as applied to the Teachings 

 and Practice of Voice and Instrument in the 

 New Knglaiid Conservatory," by Louis C. Klsoii. 

 "The Study of Vocal Physiology" was recom- 

 mended liy Otto T. Simon. "How shall I prac- 

 by Julie Hosewald, contained practical 

 suggestions to students of vocal music, and Hen- 

 r\ L. Kivhbiel made "Studies in the Wagnerian 

 Drama." "Landscape Gardening." by Samuel 

 Paixins. Jr., Superintendent of Parks of New 

 York city, is a work as valuable as handsome. S. 

 H. Kochlcr compiled a "Catalogue of the En- 

 graved and Lithographed Work of John Cheney 

 and Seth Wells Cheney," and from Leon Barritt 

 we have " Engravings : how to estimate their 

 Co-t." Among gift books are to be mentioned 

 "Scenic Utah, Pen and Pencil," by Alfred Lam- 

 bourne ; " Leaves from an Artist's Field-book," 

 by Wed worth Wadsworth ; "Ideals of Beauty," 

 fae-siiniles of new pointings in water colors by 

 Maud Humphrey, with poems by various poets, 

 illustrated by Joseph M. Gleeson and other art- 

 ist s ; " Yvernelle : a Legend of Feudal France," 

 illustrated by J. J. Bissegger, John J. Bovle. F. 

 S. Church, and others; "Our Amateur Circus, 

 The Greatest Sho\v on Earth: Society," by II. 

 W. MeVickar ; "Where Meadows meet the Sea," 

 sea songs and pastoral lays, edited by II. S. Morris, 

 and illustrated by F. 'F. English ; "Favorite 

 Water-colors," fac-similes of favorite works, by 

 Francis Day. Charles Howard Johnson, H. W. 

 MeVickar. and others; "Through Woodland 

 ami Meadow and other Poems, with Sketches 

 from Nature," by Marie Low and Maud West. 

 Fine editions were issued of " Ben Hur," by Gen. 

 Lew Wallace, with over one thousand marginal 

 drawings; of William Dean Howells's " Venetian 

 Life "; of Washington Irving's" Alhambra" and 

 " Sketch-Book." and of Mrs. Stowe's " Uncle 

 Tom's Cabin." " ^Elizabethan Songs " and Whit- 

 tier's Snow- Bound " were illustrated by Ed- 

 mund II. Garrett. and Holmes's " Onc'-Hoss 

 Shay "by Howard Pylo. 



General Science. But 97 works of this 

 class were published during the year. II. W. 

 Conn wrote; "The Living World, whence it 

 came and whither it is drifting"; Hubbard 

 Winslow Mitchell, M.I)., on "The Evolution of 

 Life, or Cau-es of Changes in Animal Form, a 

 Study in Biology"; N. S. Shaler, on "Nature 

 and Man in America"; "Caucasian." an "An- 

 thropology for the People," a refutation of the 

 theory for the Adamic origin of all races; and 

 Thomas II. Musick, " The Genesis of Nature con- 



sidered in the Light of Spencer's Philosophy, as 



lia-ed upon the Persistence of Energy"; while 

 in .s|>ecial departments, Montagu Chamlx-Haiii 

 supplied "A I'-.pular lland-liook of the Ornithol- 

 ogy of the Tnited States and Canada," Im-ed on 

 Nultall's Manual, in two volume*; John B. 

 (irant. "Our Common Birds and how to know 

 them." giving Uit varietie- of the Northern State- ; 

 N. S. (io-.-.a History of the Birds in Kansas"; 

 ( haile>.l. Maynard. " A Manual of North Ameri- 

 can Butterflies"; Charles S. Newhull, "Tie 

 Collector's Hand-book and Herbarium"; and 

 Charles Sprague Sargent, Vol. II of "The Silva 

 of North America. "Typical Kims and other 

 Trees of Massachusetts," by Lorin L Dame, had 

 an introductory chapter by Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes, and Fanny I). Bergen caught "(ilimp-es 

 at the Plant World." " Nature's Wonder Work- 

 ers," by Kate R. Lovell, consisted of short life 

 histories in the insect world ; Alphens Hyatt and 

 J. M. Arms described " Insecta' ; W. K. Brooks, 

 "The Oyster " (a popular summary of a scientific 

 study) ; William T. Hornaday, for eight years 

 Chief Taxidermist of the United States National 

 Museum at Washington, published a volume on 

 " Taxidermy and Zoological ( 'ollecting." " Fossil 

 Resins : a Compilation, ' was the work of Clarence 

 Lown and Henry Booth, and in the miscella- 

 neous collections of the Smithsonian Institute 

 (No. 785) Alfred Tuckerman prepared a " Bibli- 

 ography of the Chemical Influence of Light." 

 Thomas Egleston's " Catalague of Minerals and 

 Synonyms contains, it is claimed, several thou- 

 sand more names than any other published in- 

 dex; and from Thomas Sterry Hunt we have a 

 "Systematic Mineralogy," based on a natural 

 classification. G. Frederick Wright gave 29 pages 

 to " Supplementary Notes to the Third Edition of 

 'The Ice Age in North America,' "and James D. 

 Dana wrote "On the Four Rocks of the New 

 Haven Region," in illustration of the features 

 of non-volcanic igneous ejections, with a guide 

 to walks and drives about the city. A second re- 

 vised edition was made of Prof. Joseph Le Conte's 

 " Evolution " ; Josiah Parsons Cooke published a 

 companion volume to "The New Chemistry" in 

 " Laboratory Practice " ; Samuel P. Sadtler. " A 

 Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry"; 

 Arthur V. Abbott, "A Treatise on Fuel " ; Edwin 

 ]I. Hall and Joseph Y.,Bergen, Jr.," A Text-book 

 of Physics," largely experimental, on the basis of 

 the Harvard College "Descriptive List of Ele- 

 mentary Physical Experiments." "Experiments 

 of Aerodynamics," by Prof. Samuel P. Langlev 

 ("Smithsonian Contributions to Know! 

 No. 801), attempted to demonstrate not explain 

 any act of mechanical flight as possible. Sid- 

 ney Perley made a study of "Historic Storms" 

 from 1620 to the present time, and a revised 

 edition was published of " W T ar and the Weat her." 

 by E. Powers. Samuel Sheldon supplied Chap- 

 ters on Electricity " ; T. O'Conor Sloane, " Elec- 

 tricity Simplified " ; Philip Atchinson, " The 

 Klemonts of Dynamic Electricity and Magnet- 

 ism " : Kdward Trevert, " Electricity and it- He- 

 cent Applications" and " Dynamos and Klectric 

 Motors and all about them." " Dynamo Con- 

 struction," by John W. Urquhart, and " Electro 

 Motors," by S. R. Bottone and Alfred M. A. 

 I Scale. " A Practical Guide to the Testing of In- 

 sulated Wires and Cables," by Herbert Laws 



