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pie, illustrating them herself, as well as a brief 

 sketch of Little Wanderers of the plant world. 

 Sherman F. Denton followed the first section of 

 Moths and Butterflies of the United States East 

 of the Rocky Mountains, issued last year, with 

 Sections 2-6, and Everyday Butterflies: A Group 

 of Biographies, was from the pen of Samuel Hub- 

 bard Scudder. Animal and Plant Lore, collected 

 from the oral tradition of English-speaking folk 

 by Mrs. Fanny D. Bergen, formed Vol. VII of the 

 Memoirs of the Animal Folklore Society. Vol. 

 XII of The Silva of North America, by Charles 

 Sprague Sargent, was devoted to Coniferse; Plant 

 Relations, by John M. Coulter, belonged to the 

 series of Appletons' Twentieth Century Text- 

 books; The Teaching Botanist, by William F. 

 Ganong, was intended as a manual of informa- 

 tion upon botanical instruction; Field, Forest, 

 and Wayside Flowers, by Maud Going (E. M. 

 Hardinge), contained also chapters on grasses, 

 sedges, and ferns ; Frances Theodora Parsons told 

 How to Know the Ferns in a tasteful volume, 

 illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice Jose- 

 phine Smith: while Alice Lounsberry was the 

 author of A Guide to the Wild Flowers, to which 

 Dr. N. L. Britton contributed an introduction, 

 and which was illustrated with 64 colored and 

 100 black-and-white plates and 54 diagrams. Ed- 

 ward Knobel was again heard from on The 

 Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes of the Northern 

 United States, providing an easy method of iden- 

 tification; Thomas H. Macbride wrote on The 

 North American Slime Moulds, giving a list of all 

 species of myxomycetes hitherto described from 

 North America, including Central America; and 

 Lucien Marcus Underwood discoursed of Molds, 

 Mildews, and Mushrooms. Mark Walrod Har- 

 rington wrote About the Weather for the Apple- 

 tons' Home Reading Books in a highly instructive 

 manner. A. S. Percival drew up a manual of 

 Optics for students, and A Treatise on Photo- 

 graphic Optics, by R. S. Cole, was an acceptable 

 addition to the literature of the art which has 

 proved so popular of recent years. Joseph Tor- 

 rey, Jr., arranged Elementary Studies in Chemis- 

 try; Profs. H. H. Nicholson and Samuel Avery, 

 Laboratory Exercises for the same study, to ac- 

 company any elementary text; and John F. 

 Woodhull and M. B. Van Arsdale, Chemical Ex- 

 periments. The Spirit of Organic Chemistry, by 

 Arthur Lachman, intended as an introduction to 

 the current literature of the subject, had an intro- 

 duction by Paul C. Freer, M.D.; William A. Til- 

 den wrote A Short History of the Progress of 

 Scientific Chemistry in our Own Times; The 

 Arithmetic of Chemistry was a useful handbook 

 by John Waddell; Indicators and Test Papers 

 had their source, preparation, application, and 

 tests for sensitiveness investigated by Alfred I. 

 Cohn; and James Walker was the author of a 

 general Introduction to Physical Chemistry. The 

 Rise and Development of the Liquefaction of 

 Gases was traced by Willett L. Hardin, and Liquid 

 Air and the Liquefaction of Gases was the ab- 

 sorbing theme of Thomas O'Conor Sloane. H. E. 

 Hadley treated of Magnetism and Electricity for 

 Beginners; Electric Wiring, Fittings, Switches, 

 and Lamps, a practical book for electric-light 

 engineers, etc., by W. Perren Maycock, contained 



) illustrations; Maurice A. Oudin described 



Standard Polyphase Apparatus and Systems; 



Franklin and R, B. Williamson exam- 



The Elements of the Alternating Currents 



Mensuration, with Special Application of the 



smoidal Formula, was briefly gone into bv S 



W Furst, and John S. Barr explained the Kine- 



s of Machinery. The Indians of To-day 



were the subject of a sumptuous volume by 

 George Bird Grinnel, with 50 full-page portraits 

 of the most famous chiefs and 4 pictures in color, 

 and American Indians were also the theme of 

 Frederick Starr in the series of Ethno-geographie 

 Readers for schools. Creation Myths of Primi- 

 tive America in Relation to the Religious His- 

 tory and Mental Development of Mankind were 

 studied by Jeremiah Curtin, and from Henry T. 

 Finck we had a volume on Primitive Love and 

 Love Stories, in connection with which may be 

 mentioned The Kiss and its History, by Christo- 

 pher Nyrop, written in all seriousness. Duality 

 of Voice claimed to be an outline of original 

 research by Emil Sutro. 



To intellectual science belong A Theory of 

 Reality, by George Trumbull Ladd, an essay in 

 metaphysical system upon the basis of human 

 cognitive experience; Social and Ethical Interpre- 

 tations in Mental Development, by James Mark 

 Baldwin, whose work upon Mental Development, 

 in the Child and the Race went through a second 

 corrected edition; A Syllabus of Psychology, by 

 James Hervey Hyslop, and A Syllabus of an 

 Introduction to Philosophy, by Walter T. Mar- 

 vin, both in the series of Columbia University 

 Contributions to Philosophy, Psychology, etc.\ 

 Psychology and Life, by Prof. Hugo Munster- 

 berg; A Brief Introduction to Modern Philoso- 

 phy, by Arthur Kenyon Rogers; A History of 

 Modern Philosophy in France, by Lucien Levy 

 Bruhl; a new issue of The Perceptionalist, by 

 Edward J. Hamilton, D. D.; The Will and its 

 World: Psychical and Ethical, by Denton J. 

 Snider; and Harmonics of Evolution, by Florence 

 Huntley. 



History. The History of the United States, 

 under the Constitution, by James Schouler, was. 

 completed by the issue of the sixth volume dur- 

 ing 1899, eight years after the appearance of the 

 fifth volume. It was devoted to a History of 

 the Civil War, 1861-1865. Very nearly the same 

 period was covered by the fourth volume of 

 James Ford Rhodes's History of the United States, 

 from the Compromise of 1850, which brings the 

 work to its midway point. The Greater Repub- 

 lic was the title of a history of the United States. 

 from the earliest days to the present time by 

 Charles Morris, and Julian Hawthorne published 

 a History of the United States from the Landing 

 of Columbus to the Signing of the Peace Protocol 

 with Spain, in three volumes. A History of the 

 American Nation was contributed by Prof. An- 

 drew Cunningham McLaughlin to the Twentieth 

 Century Series. Sidelights on American History,, 

 by Henry W. El son, were confined to the national 

 period before the civil war; The Growth of the 

 Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787 

 was followed by William Montgomery Meigs in 

 an effort to trace the origin and development of 

 each separate clause from its first suggestion in 

 that body to the form finally approved; and from 

 Hamilton P. Richardson we had a work similar 

 in scope, The Journal of the Federal Convention 

 of 1787, Analyzed. The Jacksonian Epoch, by 

 Charles H. Peck, was an interesting sketch of 

 a formative period in our political life; The End 

 of an Era, by John Sergeant Wise, a son of Gov. 

 Wise, of Virginia, pictured antebellum life in that 

 State and the stirring times following John Brown's 

 raid; East Tennessee and the Civil War, by Oliver 

 Perry Temple, may be mentioned in connection with 

 The Civil War on the Border, by Wiley Britton, 

 a narrative of military operations in Missouri, 

 Kansas. Arkansas, and the Indian Territory dur- 

 ing the years 1863-'65; Vol. II of The Story of 

 the Civil War, by John Codman Ropes, covered 



