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pace" ; and here is where he locates the 

 presence of God and also that of the depart- 

 ed souls. This invention he apologizes for by 

 saying that it is " a terribly hard thing to real- 

 ize." Nevertheless he assumes its existence 

 and the conditions referred to for the pur- 

 pose of penetrating, without irreverence, into 

 the secrets of the unseen, for he says : " Seek- 

 ing for the truth there is neither presump- 

 tion nor irreverence, nor intrusion into for- 

 bidden ground, always provided that the 

 search is prosecuted in a right spirit." Not- 

 withstanding the ultra-scientific style of Mr. 

 Willink in this work, and although it will 

 not be understood by many, there can be no 

 doubt but that his motive is excellent, and 

 that the book will be read with pleasure by 

 many of those interested in the higher theo- 

 logical subjects. (The World of the Unseen. 

 New York : Macmillan & Co. Price, $1.25.) 

 In issuing a second edition of his work 

 on the Geographical Distribution of Disease 

 in Great Britain, Dr. Alfred Haviland has 

 divided it, making Part I, now published, 

 cover Cumberland, Westmoreland, and the 

 Lake District (Macmillan, $4.50). In this 

 part the geology and physical geography of 

 the region are fully described, and the dis- 

 tribution of different diseases is set forth. 

 There are several colored maps showing geo- 

 logical formations, contours, and the distri- 

 bution of phthisis, cancer, and heart disease. 

 In this edition the statistics of deaths from 

 1861 to 1870 are added to those from 1851 

 to 1860, used in the first edition. An ap- 

 pendix contains a list of plants growing in 

 limestone districts, tables of population, etc. 

 In The Dynamic Theory of Life and 

 Mind an attempt is made by James B. Alex- 

 ander, of Minneapolis, " to show that all or- 

 ganic beings are both constructed and oper- 

 ated by the dynamic agencies of their re- 

 spective environments." The author has 

 gathered into his thousand octavo pages a 

 great number of accepted facts in biology, pa- 

 leontology, physiology, acoustics, optics, elec- 

 tricity, and psychology. Scattered through 

 this mass of material is a limited amount of 

 argument in support of his contention that 

 " organisms, instead of being hand-made and 

 purposive, are machine-built machines, and 

 operated when built by forces outside of 

 themselves." That is to say, that organs are 

 shaped by the influence of functions upon 



parts not yet adapted to those functions, 

 and that the activity of the organism is de- 

 termined by stimuli from without. The data 

 are drawn from competent sources, and all 

 the author's statements are made in a clear 

 and temperate style. Over four hundred fig- 

 ures illustrate the text. 



The Geological Survey has issued a mono- 

 graph on the Geology of the Eureka District, 

 Nevada, by Arnold Hague, with an atlas. 

 The area covered by the survey here recorded 

 is about twenty miles square, and lies in the 

 central part of Nevada. The monograph is 

 a quarto volume of four hundred and nine- 

 teen pages, embracing a general description 

 and a geological sketch of the district, with 

 discussions of the rocks of the several epochs 

 that are represented within the area in ques- 

 tion, and an account of the ore-deposits found 

 there. A Systematic List of Fossils, by C. 

 D. Walcott, and a paper on the Microscopical 

 Petrography of the Eruptive Rocks, by J. P. 

 Iddings, are appended. Eight plates illus- 

 trate the text. The atlas contains eleven 

 folio sheets, one covering the whole district, 

 and the others representing the several di- 

 visions of it on a larger scale. 



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