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many changes have been made of late in 

 our language that it has been deemed ex- 

 pedient to supersede the old work by this 

 essentially new one. Besides the vocabu- 

 lary proper, it contains tables of words and 

 phrases from foreign languages ; of pro- 

 nunciation of biographical, mythological, 

 and geographical names ; of abbreviations 

 used in writing and printing ; and of weights 

 and measures, the metric system, foreign 

 coins, etc. 



Historical Studies. Edited by Titus Mun- 

 SON CoAN. New York : G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons. Pp. 205. Price, 25 cents. 



This is the fourth number of Messrs. 

 Putnam's " Topics of the Time " series, and 

 includes five essays, viz.: "Village Life in 

 Norfolk Six Hundred Years ago," by the 

 Rev. Dr. Augustus Jessopp; "Siena," by 

 Samuel James Cappar ; " A Few Words 

 about the Eighteenth Century," by Fred- 

 eric Harrison ; " France and England in 

 1793," by Oscar Browning ; and " General 

 Chanzy," from " Temple Bar." 



The Factors of Civilization, Real and As- 

 sumed ; considered in their Relation to 

 Vice, Misery, Happiness, Unhappiness, 

 and Progress. Atlanta, Georgia : James 

 P. Harrison & Co. Vol. i.. Pp. 347. 

 The second volume of this work, in which 

 were considered the unhappiness arising 

 from poverty and that arising from uncon- 

 genial pursuits and labor, was published 

 some months ago, when in our review of it 

 (see the " Monthly " for March, 1883, p. 

 71 J) we indicated the general character and 

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 er in the order of time, is intended to pre- 

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 the unhappiness due to erroneous theologi- 

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 from bad forms of government; and that 

 arising from ignorance. Much attention is 

 given to the doctrines of Mr. Henry George. 



A History of the New York State Teach- 

 ers' Association. With Sketches of its 

 Presidents and Prominent Members. By 

 Htland C. Kirk. New York: E.L. Kel- 

 logg & Co. Pp. 175. 



This book aims to give an accurate ac- 

 count of such matters in the history of the 

 Association as seem to be of the most im- 



portance, and of such as would present the 

 work of the teachers in the advancement of 

 education in the State. Summaries are given 

 of the proceedings of each of the thirty 

 seven meetings of the Association. Many of 

 the biographical sketches are accompanied 

 with portraits of their subjects, which, unless 

 the artist's or the printer's work were bet- 

 ter done, had better been omitted. 



Verbal Pitfalls. A Manual of 1,500 Words 

 commonly misused. By C. W. Bardeen. 

 Syracuse, New York: C. W. Bardeen. 

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This work is intended to include all the 

 words the use of which has been questioned 

 by the numerous verbal critics whose works 

 are current, to collate the verdicts of the dif- 

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 practicable, the weight to be attached to 

 their views. A strictly alphabetical arrange- 

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 by distinctions in type, at the head of each 

 article, whether the word in question is in- 

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Astronomy. By Simon Newcomb, LL. D., 

 and Edward S. Holden, M. A. New 

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The present treatise is a condensed edi- 

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 has been utilized in giving a fuller discus- 

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Finland: Its Forests and Forest Man- 

 agement. Compiled by John Croumbie 

 Brown, LL. D. Edinburgh: Oliver & 

 Boyd ; Montreal : Dawson Brothers. Pp. 

 290. 



Dr. Brown has undertaken, as rapidly 

 as his means will allow, to publish a kind of 

 library of forestry, to which this is the third 

 contribution. The other two volumes, re- 

 lating to forestry in England and in France, 

 have already been noticed in our pages. 

 The object sought in the publications is to 

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