SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



foreign-born denizens ; sickness does not pre- 

 vail in them to any greater extent, and most 

 of the bacteria found in the air of the tene- 

 ments are harmless ; the occupations of the 

 slum population are as varied as those fol- 

 lowed in other districts, and their earnings 

 are " quite up to the average earnings of the 

 people generally and at large." But few 

 tenements could be reported as hi excellent 

 sanitary condition ; in Philadelphia and Bal- 

 timore those classed as good formed the 

 largest division, while in New York and Chi- 

 cago those reported as fair were the largest 

 class. Cases of overcrowding were numerous. 

 Part XXVII of the Proceedings of the 

 Society for Psychical Research opens with an 

 account of some experiments in thought 

 transference, by Henry G. Rawson, in which 

 drawings were reproduced and cards were 

 named correctly in a large proportion of 

 cases. The chief contribution in the num- 

 ber is a second installment of the experiences 

 of the late W. Stainton Moses, communicated 

 by F. W. H. Myers. These experiences are 

 what are commonly known as spiritual com- 

 munications. There is also a paper on the 



Apparent Sources of Subliminal Messages, 

 and reviews of books on hypnotism, the ex- 

 posure of Mme. Blavatsky, and other psy- 

 chical subjects. 



In The Coming Revolution (Boston, 

 Arena Publishing Company) the position is 

 assumed by Henry L. Call that the prevail- 

 ing discontent among the " toiling masses " 

 is a sign that the present conditions of so- 

 ciety and the relations of the rich and the 

 wage workers are all wrong and a revulsion 

 is imminent. The author accordingly begins 

 his diagnosis with an examination into the 

 condition of society, and follows it up with 

 inquiries into the causes that have produced 

 that condition; the nature of these causes, 

 and whether they rightfully admit of a rem- 

 edy and its justification ; the application of 

 the remedy to each of the causes in turn ; 

 the effects of the remedy ; and the manner 

 in which it is to be achieved. The causes 

 of the trouble are abuses of privilege of a 

 political nature and origin. The remedy is 

 to enforce the law of freedom of social 

 and industrial as well as political freedom ; 

 and it is to be secured by political means. 



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Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins. 

 North Dakota Weather and Crop Service. Au- 

 gust, 1895. Pp. 16. Purdue University, Lafa- 

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American Forestry Association. Proceedings. 

 Part of Vol. X. Pp.42. 



Baldwin, James. A Guide to Systematic Read- 

 ings in the Encyclopaedia Britanm'ca. New York 

 and Chicago : The Werner Company. Pp. 316. 

 $2. 



Beesey, Charles E., University of Nebraska, 

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 tains. Pp. 8. 



Buck, Gertrude. Figures of Rhetoric : A Psy- 

 chological Study. University of Michigan : F. 

 Newton Scott. Pp. 27. 



Cincinnati Souvenir. Cotton States and In- 

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Clarke, Agnes M. The Herschels and Mod- 

 ern Astronomy. New York and London : Mac- 

 millan&Co. Pp.224. $1.25. 



Cohen, Isabel E., Compiler. Readings and 

 Recitations for Jewish Homes and Schools. Phila- 

 delphia : The Jewish Publication Society of Amer- 

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Day, William C. The Stone Industry in 1891. 

 Washington : United States Geological Survey. 

 Pp. 83. 



Hoffman, Walter James. The Beginnings of 

 Wri.ing. New York : D. Appleton & Co. (The 

 Anthropological Series.) Pp. 209. $1.75. 



Houston, Edwin J., and Kennelly, A. E. Al- 

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Lassar-Cohn, Dr. A Laboratory Manual of 

 Organic Chemistry. Translated by Alexander 

 Smith. Macmillan & Co. Pp. 403. $2.25. 



Locomotive, The. August, 1895. Hartford, 

 Conn. : Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance 

 Company. Pp. 16. 



McLellan, James A., and Dewey, John. The 

 Psychology of Number, and its Application to 

 Methods of Teaching Arithmetic. New York : D. 

 Appleton & Co. 



Macmillan, Conway, State Botanist. Minne- 

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 the Bibliography of American Algae. By Jo- 

 gephine E. Tilden. Minneapolis. Pp. 124. 



Niagara, State Reservation at. Eleventh An- 

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Old South Leaflets, Nos. 58 to 64. English 

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 for Socrates ; Snips Money Papers ; Pym's 

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 Speech ; Milton's Free Commonwealth ; Sir 

 Henry Vane's Defence. Pp. 8 to 24 each. 



Reeve, C. H., Plymouth, Ind. Penal Legisla- 

 tion with a View to the Prevention of Crime and 

 Reformation of Offenders. Pp. 10. 



Rolker. Charles M. The Production of Tin in 

 Various Parts of the World. Washington, D. C. : 

 Geological Survey. Pp. 88. 



Shenstone, W. A. Justus von Liebig, his Life 

 and Work. New York and London : Macmillan 

 &Co. Pp.219. $1.25. 



Spanhoodf, A. W., Editor Germania Texts 

 (No. 1. Buyer's Leon; re. Pp. 32 ; No. 2. Gervinus's 

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 No. 3. Cholevius's Klopstock's Bedeutung fur 

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Spencer, J. W. The ^ uration of Niagara Falls 

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