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tion of a system of useful knowledge, its 

 greatest value lying in affording the only 

 course in strict reasoning with which the ma- 

 jority of students will become acquainted." 

 With these two beliefs as guides, the author 

 has made an attractive and useful little text- 

 book. 



Magnetism : its Potency and Action, is the 

 title of a volume in which George W. Holley 

 has recorded some of his observations, ex- 

 periments, and speculations on the magnetic 

 force (Arena Publishing Company, $1.25). 



Among the topics that he discusses are the 

 influence of magnetism on animal and vege- 

 table life, the experiments of M. Hertz, 

 " electric girls,'' spiritual phenomena, thought 

 transference, hypnotism, and the action of 

 the planchette. He sees magnetism mani- 

 fested in the action of the brain and the 

 heart, in the homing faculty of animals, the 

 transformation of grubs, and various other 

 phenomena. In this volume also the author 

 outlines a new cosmography, which he illus- 

 trates by a diagram. 



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Alien. A Daughter of the King. Chicago and 

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Allman, Alphonse. Statesman and Demagog. 

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