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els, and to popular works, for collateral reading. The book through- 

 out is excellently arranged for easy reference, supplemented by an 

 exhaustive index. Teachers, also, will notice that the more important 

 dates are incorporated in the text, while a free use of marginal dates 

 serves to give more detailed guidance to the reader. Excellent judg- 

 ment and good taste are displayed in the selection of maps and illustra- 

 tions. The colored maps are reproductions of the charts accompanying 

 Professor Herman's well-known Historical Geography of Europe, 

 while the cuts are principally from Prang's Illustrations of the History 

 of Art, and Jaeger's Weltgeschicte. 



The International Medical Annual. 1890. Edited by P. W. 

 Williams, M. D. 8°, cloth, 600 pp. E. B. Treat, New York. 

 (Price $2.75.) 



The eighth yearly issue of this handy reference manual is at hand. 

 But little change has been made this year in the general scope and aims 

 of the Medical Annual, the editor being content to maintain the high 

 standard of former years. It does, however, present two improve- 

 ments which ought to be acceptable to all ; the size of the page has 

 been enlarged, and the binding made more firm and substantial. 



In the preparation of this volume Dr. Williams has had the assistance 

 of thirty-six European and American collaborators, all of whom are 

 well-known specialists in their several departments ; and the result of 

 their combined labor is highly creditable, even to so distinguished a 

 staft' of editors. 



In the Therapeutical Section, there has been introduced, in addition 

 to the Dictionary of New Remedies, a contribution on Baths and their 

 Therapeutic uses ; or, more correctly speaking, the therapeutics of 

 heat as exemplified by baths and bathing ; Electro-Therapeutics has 

 also been brought fully up to date in this part of the issue. Mindful 

 of the fact that Sanitation is a science that is daily pressing to the front, 

 the editors have very properly introduced important papers upon San- 

 itary Science in city and country. The Alphabetical Index of New 

 Remedies, and the Dictionary of New Treatment are both exhaustive, 

 and add much to its value as a reference volume. The important and 

 interesting papers upon Thermo-Therapeutics, and the Medical Exam- 

 iner in Life Insurance are features of special interest. We can but 

 commend the judicious use of illustrations, which are introduced only 

 where they seemed useful to the text. It is truly a helpful volume, a 

 restirne of the year's progress in medicine, keeping the busy physician 

 practitioner abreast of the times with reference to the medical literature 

 of the world. 



The Evolution of a Life. By Henry Truro Bray, LL.D. 12°, cloth, 

 436 pp. Holt Publishing Co., Chicago. (Price, $2.00.) 



The chief character in this work is the author, who, having served 

 for many years as a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church, finally 

 cast aside his surplice for the garments of what seemed to him a higher 

 and diviner faith. The author does not hesitate to make us acquainted 

 with his somewhat strange descent, and the long period of his educa- 

 tion. His domestic relations and home life are also brought before our 

 view, much of the book being in the form of conversation between the 

 author and his wife. The work purports to be a revelation of minis- 



