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that the subjective mind is constantly amen- 

 able to control by suggestion. The third, or 

 subsidiary, proposition is, that the subjective 

 mind is incapable of inductive reasoning." 

 The author proceeds to discuss the various 

 classes of psychic phenomena on the basis of 

 these propositions, especial attention being 

 given to " psycho-therapeutics," or healing 

 by suggestion. He analyzes carefully the re- 

 sults obtained by the prominent investigators 

 of hypnotism, rejecting many of the infer- 

 ences of certain too enthusiastic hypnotists. 

 He denies that a hypnotic subject can be led 

 into criminal acts by suggestion when the 

 subject would not commit such acts inde- 

 pendently. The common principle underly- 

 ing the healing effect of the faith cure, mind 

 cure, Christian science, etc., is sought for, 

 and a new system of mental therapeutics is 

 then set forth. The author accepts the 

 phenomena of spiritism as realities, but de- 

 nies that they are produced by the agency 

 of the dead. In the closing chapters the 

 physical manifestations and the spiritual 

 philosophy of Christ are discussed. The book 

 is temperate in tone, and its style is graceful 

 and concise. 



MINERVA. JAHRBUCH DER GELEHRTEN WELT 

 (Minerva. Year-Book of the Learned 

 World). Edited by Dr. R. KUKULA and 

 K. TRUBNER. Third Year: 1893-'94. 

 Strasburg, Germany: Karl J. Triibner. 

 Pp. 861. 



THE compilers profess in this, the third 

 year's issue of their work, to have endeav- 

 ored to approach still nearer to their pur- 

 pose, which is denned to be to furnish the 

 most authentic and complete data possible 

 concerning the scientific institutions of the 

 whole world. The accounts of many insti- 

 tutions have been made more complete, and 

 others which were wanting have been added. 

 Of German institutions the more important 

 archives have been revised and a number 

 of libraries not before included ; of Austrian, 

 the archives and the university institutes ; of 

 French, the provincial libraries, for which 

 last the special services of Ulysses Robert, 

 inspector-general of French libraries and 

 archives, are acknowledged. Other addi- 

 tional and fuller facts have been furnished 

 concerning Scandinavian and Russian insti- 

 tutions by Prof. Lundell, of Upsala. Assist- 

 ance has been given by Signer Chilovi, of 



the National Central Library in Florence ; 

 Prof. T. E. Holland, of Oxford; Prof. J. 

 E. Sandys, of Cambridge; Prof. Gallic, of 

 Utrecht; Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, of 

 New York; and others in Bucharest and 

 Vienna. Dr. Reinold Rost, of the India Of- 

 fice, London, describes the institutions of 

 India, and Dr. Vallers, of Cairo, the Arabian 

 Academy of that place. The volume contains 

 a list of the institutions arranged geograph- 

 ically ; descriptions of technical and agricul- 

 tural high schools, veterinary schools, acad- 

 emies of forestry, and other independent 

 scientific institutions, libraries, and archives, 

 arranged in alphabetical order ; statistics of 

 students attending the institutions ; and a 

 personal register. In the United States are 

 described twenty-eight universities and col- 

 leges, two technical schools, two theological 

 seminaries, twenty-seven libraries (not college 

 libraries), nineteen independent observatories, 

 four learned societies (in New York and Phil- 

 adelphia), six museums, and the department 

 institutions in Washington. 



The Report for 1892, of the Board of 

 Control of the New York Agricultural Ex- 

 perimmt Station notices the improvements 

 that were made in the property of the sta- 

 tion, and carries with it, in the reports of 

 the director and others, accounts of the re- 

 searches that were carried on. These re- 

 searches, which were also the subject of 

 bulletins, concern the feeding of hens and 

 chickens, black knot on the plum and cherry, 

 spraying with fungicides, analyses of mate- 

 rials used in spraying and the influence of 

 copper compounds in soils on vegetation, 

 analysis of commercial fertilizers, the manu- 

 facture of cheese, and diseases of the bean. 

 An address by Director Peter Collier on What 

 is the New York Agricultural Experiment 

 Station doing for the Farmer ? is published 

 in the report, and conveys much information 

 concerning the general working of the station 

 and its usefulness. 



Dr. Eduard Suess, Professor of Geology 

 at the University of Vienna, published a vol- 

 ume a few years ago on The Future of Gold, 

 in which he tried to show that from geologi- 

 cal indications we must expect in the future 

 a scarcity of gold and an abundance of sil- 

 ver, and that the extension of the gold 

 standard to all civilized states is impossible. 



