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ble characteristics of our social and political 

 life. He notes down his first contact with 

 our people on the journey from Liverpool to 

 New York, and his impressions of the me- 

 tropolis on its social side, as revealed in pub- 

 lic and private functions. He devotes a chap- 

 ter to the American business man, one to 

 politics, and one to the newspaper. He pays 

 flying visits to Boston, Concord, Plymouth, 

 Cambridge, and Chicago, the Black Belt, and 

 to various summer resorts. Perhaps the 

 most biting chapter is that on Young Amer- 

 ica, as indeed the difference in rearing chil- 

 dren here and on the other side with its 

 well-known results most forcibly strikes a 

 foreigner. The author dubs our children 

 " young Saxon Bedouins, the most terrible of 

 all enfants terribles" The book may not flat- 

 ter our vanity, but as a fearless criticism on 

 some of the crudities of western civilization 

 it should open our eyes a little more to our 



own shortcomings. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 

 1897, $1.25 ) 



The value of Mr. Frederick J. Brown's 

 statistical study of The Northern Movement 

 of the Colored Population rests, it seems to 

 us, not so much upon any evidence it affords 

 as to a definite or very great movement 

 northward, as upon its explanation of the 

 tendencies of the movements of the negroes. 

 They seem to act very much as the whites 

 do to go where they can do best, north, 

 south, or to other parts of their own region 

 of residence. They are governed by the 

 prospect of employment, by social motives, 

 and by the promise of good treatment 

 drawn, not driven, as the author expresses 

 it in one place. A goodly number come 

 north, and goodly numbers go in the other 

 directions (Baltimore: Gushing & Co. Price, 

 25 cents). 



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Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins 

 and Reports. Connecticut: Twentieth Annual 

 Report for Ib96. S. W. Johnson, Director, New 

 Haven. Pp. 414. Cornell University : NOB. 138- 

 136. The Army Worm in New York. By M. V. 

 Slingerland. Pp. 16 ; Strawberries under Glass. 

 By C. E. Hunar and L. H. Bailey. Pp. 8 ; Forage 

 Crops. By I. P. Roberts and L. A. Clinton. Pp. 

 26; Chrysanthemums. By L. H. Bailey and Wil- 

 helm Miller. Pp. 241. North Dakota Weather 

 Service. Fourth Annual Report for 1896. By B. 

 H. Bronson, Fargo. Pp. 78 United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. Insect Control in Cali- 

 fornia. By C. L. Marlatt. Pp. 24 ; The Aspara- 

 gus Beetle. By F. H. Chittenden. Pp. 12 ; Use 

 of Steam Apparatus for Spraying. By L. O. 

 Howard. Pp. 24. North Dakota Climate and 

 Crop Service. April and May, 1897. Pp. 8 each. 



Alabama Polytechnic Institute. State Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College, Auburn. Cata- 

 logue 1896-'97. Pp. 94. 



American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. Preliminary Announcement for the 

 Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Detroit, Mich. Pp. 

 32. 



Bellamy, Edward. Equality. New York: 

 D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 412. $1.25. 



Binet, Alfred, Editor. I/Am e"e Psychologique 

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 Schleicher Freres. Pp. 824. 15 francs. 



Britton, N. L., and Brown, Hon. Addison. An 

 Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, 

 Canada, and the British Possessions. Vol. II. 

 Portulaca to Gentian. New York : Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. Pp. 643. $3. 



Bullock, Charles Jesse. Introduction to the 

 Study of Economics. Boston : Silver, Burdett 

 & Co. Pp. 511. $1.28. 



Columbia University, 1897. Description of the 

 New Site and Buildings. Letterpress and plates. 



Comstock, John Henry. Insect Life. New 

 York : D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 349. $2.50. 



Genealogical Magazine, The. A Journal of 

 Family History, Heraldry, and Pedigrees. Lon- 

 don : Elliot Stock ; New York : J. W. Bouton. 

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Hopkins, Thomas L. The Building Materials 

 of Pennsylvania. I. Brownstones. Pennsylva- 

 nia Agricultural College. Pp. 122. 



Howard, Clifford. Sex Worship. An Exposi- 

 tion of the Phallic Origin of Religion. Washing- 

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Indiana, Department of Geology and Natural 

 Resources. Twenty-first Annual Report. W. 8. 

 Blatchley, State Geologist, Indianapolis. Pp. 719*. 



Jordan, David Starr. Matka and Kotik. A 

 Tale of the Mist Island. San Francisco : The 

 Whittaker & Ray Company. Pp. 68, with plates, 



Le Conte, Joseph. Light ; an Exposition of 

 the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision. 

 Second edition, revised and enlarged. D. Apple- 

 ton & Co. (International Scientific Series.) Pp. 

 318. $1.50. 



Lewis, Prof. Henry Carvill. Papers and Notes 

 on the Genesis and Matrix of the Diamond. 

 Edited from his Unpublished Manuscripts by 

 Prof. T. G. Bonney. London and New York : 

 Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 72, with plates. 



Lilly, Eli, Indianapolis, Ind. Formaldehyde. 

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Merton, A. J., Pittsfleld, Mass. The Common 

 Sources of 2.10 Trotting and Pacing Speed. Pp. 

 32. 50 cents. 



Minnesota, Forest Preservation. Second An- 

 nual Report of the Chief Fire Warden for 1896. 

 St. Paul. Pp. 111. 



Mortillet, Gabriel de. Formation de la Nation 

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Municipal Affairs. Quarterly. June, 1897. 

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Muse~e Sociale, La (The Social Museum). Soci- 

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 of August 31, 1894. Statutes, Organization, and 

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 the General Public ; Series B, cf more technical 

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New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and 

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 to 6. January to June, 1896. Pp. 176. 



