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includes the outline of the year's work in 

 geometrical drawing including sections on 

 measurement, geometry, working drawings, 

 development, decorative drawing, color, his- 

 toric ornament, design, paper cutting, and 

 model and object drawing. It is marked by 

 the good qualities characteristic of all the 

 books of this series. (American Book Com- 

 pany.) 



A new volume of Statistics of Public Li- 

 braries, compiled by Weston Flint, has been 

 issued by the Bureau of Education. It con- 

 tains a list of three thousand eight hundred 

 and four libraries in the United States hav- 

 ing over one thousand volumes, arranged by 

 States. Many of them are not what is com- 

 monly understood as public libraries, for they 

 belong to schools, societies, and corporations, 

 and a few are even set down as private. 

 With each are given statistics concerning 

 its age, size, income, growth, manner of use, 

 ownership, etc. Prefixed to the list are sum- 

 maries of these various statistics illustrated 

 by comparative diagrams. A statistical list 

 of public libraries in Canada is appended. 



An edition, abridged for the use of jun- 

 ior students, of Baron Roger de Guimps's 

 Pestalozzi, his Aim and Work, is published 

 by C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y., in his 

 Standard Teachers' Library. The transla- 

 tion is by Margaret Cuthbertson Crombie, 

 who has also appended brief, suggestive 

 notes and a bibliography of Pestalozzi. 

 (Price, 50 cents.) 



TJie Art of Living in Australia would 

 not be misnamed were it called The Art of 

 Living Everywhere. It is, in fact, a treatise 

 on hygiene and diet, by Philip E. Muskett, 

 intended especially for Australia, but em- 

 bodying principles that are generally applica- 

 ble. Its main object is to call attention to 

 the need of improvement in the food habits 

 of Australians, who, the author is impressed, 

 are living in special opposition to their 

 semitropical environment. They are con- 

 sumers of butcher's meat enormously in ex- 

 cess of any common-sense requirements and 

 beyond any other people, while their fish- 

 eries are not developed, market gardening is 

 " deplorably neglected," salads are " con- 

 spicuous by their absence," and Australian 

 wine is " almost a curiosity." All this, he 

 thinks, is wrong, and he tries to teach a 

 better way. The Australians are not the 



only people who need instruction or ad- 

 monitions on these subjects. In addition to 

 the discussion of the principles of right liv- 

 ing including adaptation to the climate, 

 ablution, bedroom ventilation, clothing, diet, 

 and exercise the book contains three hun- 

 dred Australian cookery recipes and acces- 

 sory kitchen information, prepared by an ex- 

 pert in such matters. (London : Eyre & 

 Spottiswoode.) 



In Primary Elections a study of methods 

 for improving the Bases of Party Organiza- 

 tion is presented by Daniel S. Remsen. Be- 

 lieving that reform should begin at the pri- 

 mary, the author would have the rules or 

 laws of party aim to induce the largest par- 

 ticipation of party members at that meeting. 

 A method should also be provided which 

 would enable minorities to elect their due 

 proportion of delegates. Holding these 

 principles in view, rules and methods are 

 suggested which, while they may not be per- 

 fect, are believed to be on the right lines and 

 such as will tend to make candidates feel 

 responsible to the membership of their 

 party rather than to any central power. 

 (New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons' Questions 

 of the Day Series. Price, 76 cents.) 



John Phin dedicates his Common-Sense 

 Currency a practical treatise on money in 

 its relation to national wealth and pros- 

 perity to the farmers and mechanics of 

 the United States, in the hope that the 

 principle it sets forth may help them to de- 

 tect the sophistries and avoid the traps of 

 cheap-money demagogues, of avaricious and 

 dishonest legislators who sell themselves to 

 class legislation intending to cheat the work- 

 ingman ; and fanatics, honest, perhaps, but 

 ignorant and enthusiastic, whose wild 

 schemes contradict the fundamental prin- 

 ciples of monetary science. (New York : 

 Industrial Publication Company.) 



The Diseases of Personality and The 

 Psychology of Attention, two well-known and 

 valuable works by the eminent French psy- v 

 chologist, Th. Ribot, are published by the 

 Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, 

 as numbers 4 and 5 of their Religion of 

 Science Library, at 95 cents each. 



In a paper on The Coming Railroad, 

 the Chase-Kirchner aerodromic system of 

 transportation is described and its merits 

 are set forth by the projectors, G. N. Chase 



