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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1892. 



Ware ; Sheridan's " School for Scandal " ; and 

 Irving's "Conquest of Granada," the illustra- 

 tions being mostly in photogravure. 



General Science. The paucity of works of 

 standard value in this department observed for 

 many years is found in 1892. "Evolution in 

 Science, Philosophy, and Art," popular lectures 

 and discussions by eminent authorities before 

 the Brooklyn Ethical Association, were collected 

 into a volume, and Robert Grimshaw published 

 the " Record of Scientific Progress for the Year 

 1891." " The Three Circuits : A Study of the 

 Primary Forces," by Taylor Flick, was an at- 

 tempt to prove electricity the direct cause of 

 physical fact, and " Matter, Ether, and Motion," 

 by'A. E. Dolbear, reviewed the factors and rela- 

 tions of physical science. " Biological Teaching 

 in the Colleges of the United States," by John 

 P. Campbell, was issued as one of the " Circulars 

 of Information of the United States Bureau of 

 Education " ; Arabella M. Buckley (Mrs. Fisher) 

 reviewed " The Moral Teachings of Science," in 

 six chapters, originally written for ' The Chau- 

 tauquan," while " The Doctrine of Evolution, 

 its Scope and Influence," in the "Evolution 

 Series," was from the pen of John Fiske. Vol- 

 umes III and IV were issued of " The Silva of 

 North America," by Charles Sprague Sargent. 

 " Trees of the Northern United States " were 

 treated by Prof. Austin C. Apgar, for the use of 

 schools and private students ; "Our Trees" was 

 a popular account of the trees in the streets and 

 gardens of Salem, and of the native trees of 

 Essex County, Mass., by John Robinson ; and J. 

 T. Edwards, D. D., described "The Silva of 

 Chautauqua Lake." Part XII of the third series 

 of " The Butterflies of North America," by W. 

 H. Edwards, was issued. A. A. Crozier supplied 

 " A Dictionary of Botanical Terms," and Har- 

 riet C. Cooper made " Short Studies in Botany 

 for Children." " Leaves and Flowers ; or, Plant 

 Studies for Young Readers." by Mary A. Spear; 

 " The Making of Flowers," by Rev George Hen- 

 slow, in the " Romance of Science Series " ; " The 

 Vacation Club," by Adah J. Todd ; " A Song of 

 Life," by Margaret Warner Morley; and No. 4 

 of " Nature Readers ; Seaside and Wayside," by 

 Julia McNair Wright, were all calculated to 

 simplify and awaken a popular interest in scien- 

 tific pursuits. Rev. J. A. Zahm enlarged into a 

 volume a course of lectures delivered by him on 

 " Sound and Music " before the Catholic Univer- 

 sity of America, at Washington, D. C. George 

 Frederick Wright, D. D., contributed " Man and 

 the Glacial Period " (with an appendix on " Ter- 

 tiary Man," by Henry W. Haynes) to the " In- 

 ternational Scientific Series " ; " Har-Moad ; or, 

 The Mountain of the Assembly," by 0. D. Miller, 

 D. D., was a series of archaeological studies, 

 chiefly from the standpoint of the cuneiform in- 

 scriptions; "Technology and Civilization," by 

 F. Reuleaux, was reprinted from the " Smith- 

 sonian Report for 1890," as was " Primitive Urn 

 Burial," by J. F. Snyder, M. D. ; " Primitive Man 

 in Ohio," by Warren K. Moorehead, contained 

 an elaborate presentation of recent explorations 

 made among the prehistoric mounds in the val- 

 ley of the Ohio river ; while " Recent Archajo- 

 logical Explorations in the Valley of the Dela- 

 ware" were chronicled by Charles C. Abbott in 

 the " University of Pennsylvania Series in Phi- 



lology, Literature, and Archaeology." " Tracts 

 for Archaeologists," by T. H. Lewis, were re- 

 printed from various periodicals. " Humanity 

 in its Origin and Early Growth," by E. Colbert, 

 traced man's progress through the lowest stages 

 of evolution to his first conceptions of civiliza- 

 tion and government ; while " The Speech of 

 Monkeys," by R. L. Garner, contained the re- 

 sults of novel experiments made in pursuance of 

 an interestiny theory. " Little Brothers of the 

 Air " were lovingly dealt with by Olive Thome 

 Miller, and Richard Avis gave brief directions 

 for " Bird Preserving, Bird Mounting, and the 

 Preservation of Birds' Eggs." " A Laboratory 

 Course in Invertebrate Zoology," by Hermon 



C. Bunapus; "An Introduction to Qualitative 

 Chemical Analysis by the Inductive Method," 

 by Delos Fall ; " A Manual of Chemistry, Inor- 

 ganic and Organic," with an introduction to the 

 study of chemistry, by Arthur P. Luff. M. D. ; 

 " A Manual of Physics," by William Peddie, for 

 university students ; a " Manual of Plane Geome- 

 try on the Heuristic Plan," by G. Irving Hop- 

 kins, for advance work, and " The Theory of 

 Errors and Method of Least Squares," by 

 William Woolsey Johnson, are educational or 

 theoretical ; while to science practically applied 

 belong : " Some Observations upon the Con- 

 ductivity of a Copper Wire in Various Dialec- 

 trics," by Fernando Sanford, in " Publications of 

 Leland Stanford, Junior, University Studies in 

 Electricity" ; the "Standard Electrical Diction- 

 ary," by T. O'Connor Sloane, who published also 

 "Electric Toy Making, Dynamo Building, and 

 Electric Motor Construction " ; " The Practical 

 Management of Dynamos and Motors," by 

 Francis B. Cracker and Schuyler S. Wheeler ; 

 "Electric Motor Construction 'for Amateurs," 

 by C. D. Parkhurst; "Electricity up to Date 

 for Light, Power, and Traction," by John B. 

 Verity; "Transformers: Their Theory, Con- 

 struction, and Application simplified," by Caryl 



D. Haskins ; " Dynamometers and the Measure- 

 ment of Power," by J. J. Flather; "Practical 

 Directions for Winding Magnets for Dynamos," 

 by Charles Hering ; Edward Trevert's three 

 books, Practical Directions for Armature and 

 Field-Magnet Winding," " Practical Directions 

 for Electric Gas Lighting and Bell Fitting for 

 Amateurs," and " How to' make and use Induc- 

 tion Coils"; "Telegraphic Connections: Em- 

 bracing Recent Methods in Quadruplex Teleg- 

 raphy." by Charles Thorn and Willis H. Jones, 

 the first work of the kind in which colors are 

 employed in showing the different lines ; " The 

 Mechanical and Other Properties of Iron and 

 Steel in Connection with their Chemical Com- 

 position," by Augustus Vosmaer ; " The Metal- 

 lurgy of Lead and the Desilverization of Base 

 Bullion," by H. 0. Hofman; and a " Manual of 

 Qualitative Blow-Pipe Analysis and Determina- 

 tive Mineralogy," by F. M. Endlich. 



Works on intellectual science were few. viz.: 

 " A History of Modern Philosophy," from the 

 Renaissance to the present, by 'B. C. Burt; 

 "The Philosophy of Reid, as contained in the 

 'Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Princi- 

 ples of Common Sense,' " with an introduction 

 and selected notes by E. Hershey Sneath, in the 

 " Series of Modern Philosophers " ; an abridg- 

 ment by William James of- his larger work 



