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tional work of Mr. Arnold and an outline of 

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Mr. E. A. Kirkpatrick, of the State Nor- 

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 to the study of mental phenomena, in which 

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The Exercises in Greek Prose Composi- 

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The Principles of Fitting engine fit- 

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The main purpose of the Duchess of 

 Cleveland's relation of The True Story of 



Kaspar Hauser from Official Documents ap- 

 pears to be the vindication of her father, 

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In Castorologia, or the History and Tra- 

 ditions of the Canadian Beaver, Mr. Horace 

 T. Martin has presented a popular mono- 

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 history, while giving each its due present- 

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Mr. D. W. Taylor's book, largely mathe- 

 matical, on the Resistance of Ships and 

 Screw Propulsion originated in the author's 

 own sense of the need of a treatise on 

 the subject, containing data, formulas, and 

 tables. Much of the material has been de- 

 rived, necessarily, from papers read by the 

 late William Froude, and R. E. Froude, his 

 son, before the Institution of Naval Archi- 

 tects ; and much of it is original. The au- 

 thor has intended to discuss ships as they 

 are, not floating bodies in general ; and to 

 set forth methods and deduce results aa sim- 



