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Bridges and Framed Structures. An 

 Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol. I, No. 

 1. April, 1899. Chicago: The D. P. Rauck 

 Publishing Company. Pp. 92. 30 cents. 



Campbell, W. W. The Elements of 

 Practical Astronomy. New York: The 

 Macmillan Company. Pp. 264. $2. 



Fairchild, H. L. Glacial Waters In the 

 Finger-Lake Region of New York. Pp. 36. 

 Glacial Lakes, Newberry, Warren, and 

 Dana, in Central New York. Pp. 14. 



Fiske, John. Through Nature to God. 

 Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin 

 & Co. Pp. 194. $1. 



Greinger, S., M. D. A Case of Abnor- 

 mally High Temperature subsequent to 

 Attack of Tertian Ague. Pp. 5. 



Hague, Arnold. Presidential Address 

 to the Geological Society of Washington, 

 1898. Abstracts of Minutes, etc. Pp. 48. 



Hollick, Arthur. Notes on Block Is- 

 land. Pp. 20, with plates. The Relations 

 between Forestry and Geology in New Jer- 

 sey. Parts I and II. Pp. 24. Additions 

 to the Pakeobotany of the Cretaceous For- 

 mation on Staten Island. No. II. Pp. 12, 

 with plates. 



Hunter, S. J. Alfalfa, Grasshoppers, 

 Bees: Their Relationship. University of 

 Kansas. Pp. 152. 



Jackman, Wilbur S. Nature Study for 

 Grammar Grades. New York: The Mac- 

 millan Company. Pp. 407. $1. 



Jenks, Josephine, Translator. Fried- 

 rich Froebel's Education by Development. 

 New York: D. Appleton and Company. 

 International Education Series. Pp. 347. 



Kemp, James Furman. Preliminary 

 Report of the Geology of Essex County, 

 New York. Pp. 24. Geology of the Lake 

 Placid Region. Pp. 20, with map. 



Marot, Helen. A Handbook of Labor 

 Literature. Philadelphia: Free Library of 

 Economics and Political Science. Pp. 

 96. $1. 



Mason, Otis Tufton. Aboriginal Ameri- 

 can Zootechny. New York: G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons. Pp. 37. 



New England Anti-Vivisection Society 

 Monthly. Vol. IV, No. 4. April, 1899. 

 Pp. 20. Boston. 10 cents. $1 a year. 



Pennwitt, W. C. Memorial to the 

 United States Senate concerning a Na- 

 tional University.. Pp. 16. 



Peck, F. W., Commissioner General. 

 The United States at the Paris Exposition 

 in 1900. Pp. 11. Internationale Exposition 

 Universelle, Paris, 1900. Regulations, 

 Classification. Chicago. Pp. 110. 



Roosa, D. B. St. John, M. D. Defective 

 Eyesight. The Principle of its Relief by 

 Glasses. New York: The Macmillan Com- 

 pany. Pp. 193. $1. 



Russell, Frank. Explorations In the 

 Far North. University of Iowa. Pp. 190. 



Sargent, Frederick Leroy. Corn Plants. 

 Their Uses and Ways of Life. Boston and 

 New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 

 106. 



Smith, D. T., M. D. The Philosophy of 

 Money, and other Essays. Louisville, Ky. : 

 John P. Morton & Co. Pp. 203. $1.25. 



Smith, Edgar F. (authorized transla- 

 tor). Victor von Richter's Organic Chem- 

 istry, or Chemistry of the Carbon Com- 

 pounds. Edited by Prof. R. Anschiitz. 

 Third American from the eighth German 

 edition. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston & Co. 

 Vol. I. The Aliphatic Series. Pp. 625. $3. 



Smithsonian Institution (U. S. National 

 Museum). Cook, O. F. The Diplopod Fam- 

 ily Strioriidae. Pp. 8, with plates. Afri- 

 can Diplopoda of the Family Gomphodes- 

 ruidae. Pp. 64, with plates. 



Swift, Morrison I. Anti-Imperialism. 

 Los Angeles, Cal.: Public Ownership Re- 

 view. Pp. 64. 



United States Commissioner of Fish 

 and Fisheries. Report to June 30, 1898. 

 Washington. Pp. 350. 



Woodman, J. Edmund. Studies in the 

 Gold-bearing Slates of Nova Scotia. Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History. Pp. 42, 

 with 3 plates. 



fragments of Jktetucje. 



The New Zealand Experiment in 

 Woman Suffrage. The right of suf- 

 frage was given to all the women of 

 New Zealand in 1893 without any con- 

 certed action or aggressive demonstra- 

 tions on their part by the free, almost 

 unsolicited, vote of the men. The gen- 

 eral election took place in November of 

 the same year, and is described in the 

 Saturday Review as having been a 

 warm contest, with several questions 

 on which public opinion was sharply di- 

 vided ; but " on the whole, the women 

 took matters wonderfully coolly. They 

 nocked in thousands to the public meet- 

 ings, where, by common consent, the 

 front seats were given up to them." 



Contrary to expectation, they displayed 

 little emotion, and even had to be 

 " coached " to make a pretense of en- 

 thusiasm. " Polling day was awaited 

 with dread by the electioneering agents 

 and returning officers, with doubt by 

 veteran politicians, and with pleasur- 

 able excitement by the women." They 

 all voted, and " what did it all lead 

 to?" "It left things very much as 

 they were. . . . Gradually but irresist- 

 ibly the conviction forced itself upon 

 the New Zealand mind that the women 

 knowing little and caring as little 

 about political details, had voted almost 

 always with the men of their family 

 and class. Sharing to the full the 



