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Reform in the West, the burden of which is 

 the installation of science and the elimina- 

 tion of all religious teaching in all the schools. 

 (The Commonwealth Company, Boston.) 



The character of the Essays included by 

 Mr. Henry Smith under the general title of 

 Religion of the Brain is indicated by the 

 frontispiece, which pictures an ivy- grown 

 tree with the motto, " The Ivy has nearly 

 killed the tree, Theology has all but destroyed 

 religion. Science will kill Theology, then 

 Religion will revive." Submitting to theo- 

 logical teachings during half of his life, he 

 professes to have found them barren. Then 

 he turned to science, and, while it took from 

 him the hope of heaven, it taught him how 

 to make this life happy ; it took from him 

 theology, and gave him natural religion. He 

 sets forth in this book how he accepts 

 the teaching of science and declines that of 

 theology. (Watts & Co., London. Price, 

 2s. &d.) 



Karl Heinzen, the author of a volume on 

 The Rights of Women and the Sexual Rela- 

 tions, published by Benjamin R. Tucker, Bos- 

 ton, is described by Karl Schmemann, editor 

 of this present edition, as " one of the most 

 enlightened and humanitarian spirits of our 

 time, whose libertarian and reformatory la- 

 bors were not limited to his German father- 

 land and our republic, but extended to the 

 entire civilized world by their unique and 

 masterful many-sidedness." The author ad- 

 vocates, with great freedom and little reserve, 

 the complete emancipation and independence 

 of woman, with " liberty to choose her com- 

 panion and liberty to change." 



Instead of a Book is published by the au- 

 thor, Benjamin R. Tucker, because, he says, 

 he was " t3O busy to write one " ; that is, to 

 give orderly arrangement, finish, symmetry, 

 and due subordination to his thoughts on the 

 cause he champions. He has been for twelve 

 years editor of a journal called Liberty, in 

 which he has expounded the principles of 

 "Philosophical Anarchism." Pending the 

 arrival of the man having time, means, and 

 ability to produce the book that is desired in 

 maintenance of this cause, he has put forth 

 " as a makeshift " a partial collection of his 

 writings for his journal. The volume opens 

 with a paper on State Socialism and An- 

 archism, which represents, in a way, a sum- 

 mary of the entire scope of the work. In the 



sections, or groups of essays following this, 

 the fundamental principles of human asso- 

 ciation (as he regards them) are dealt with ; 

 applied to the two great economic factors, 

 money and land ; the " authoritarian social 

 principles that go counter to them " are dealt 

 with ; and the methods by which the cham- 

 pioned principles can be realized are dis- 

 cussed. Other articles, less subject to classi- 

 fication, follow. While the work is highly 

 objectionable from the conservative point of 

 view, it is not at all wanting in vigor and 

 earnestness. ($1.) 



In preparing his Standard Arithmetic for 

 schools and academies, President William J. 

 Milne of the Normal College at Albany, has 

 aimed to secure together in the student skill 

 in numerical computations and a proper un- 

 derstanding of the reasons for the steps in 

 the explanation of processes and the solution 

 of problems. Either can be acquired with- 

 out the other, but the student will not then 

 be a full arithmetician, while with both he is 

 qualified for any work. The book, therefore, 

 contains examples to promote accuracy and 

 rapidity, and exercises to train the analytical 

 powers and develop the reasoning faculties. 

 Business methods of computation are pre- 

 ferred to the processes of the schools. (Ameri- 

 can Book Company.) 



Mr. R. Lachlan's Elementary Treatise on 

 Modem Pure Geometry, and the Elementary 

 Treatise on Pure Geometry of Mr. J. W. Rus- 

 sell, cover substantially the same ground in 

 very similar manners. Pure geometry is de- 

 fined in the new regulations for the Cambridge 

 Tripos as " namely, Euclid ; simple properties 

 of lines and circles ; inversion ; the element- 

 ary properties of conic sections treated geo- 

 metrically, not excluding the method of pro- 

 jections ; reciprocation ; harmonic properties ; 

 curvature." Mr. Lachlan has brought togeth- 

 er in his treatise all the important proposi- 

 tions bearing on the simple properties of 

 lines and circles that might fairly be con- 

 sidered within the limits of this regulation ; 

 and has at the same time endeavored to 

 treat every branch of the subject as com- 

 pletely as possible, in order to attract a 

 larger number of students to the science. 

 Mr. Russell has attempted in his treatise to 

 bring together all the well-known theorems 

 and examples connected with harmonies, an- 

 harmonies, involution, projection (including 



