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arts ; with nearly two thousand illustrations, descriptive notes, and 

 memoranda: and as ready July i, "Practical Gold Mining: a 

 Comprehensive Treatise on the Origin and Occurrence of Gold- 

 Bearing Gravels, Rocks, and Ores, and the Methods by which the 

 Gold is Extracted," by C. G. Warnford Lock, illustrated by nu- 

 merous plates and engravings. 



— The frontispiece of the August issue of Scribners Magazine 

 will be a striking portrait of Lord Tennyson, engraved by Kruell 

 from a recent photograph. Recognition is thus made of Tenny- 

 son's eightieth birthday, which occurs in August. The same num- 

 ber will contain a short essay by Dr. Henry van Dyke on Tenny- 

 son's earliest poems published with his brother ; and the end paper, 

 by Professor T. R. Lounsbury of Yale, will discuss Tennyson's 

 attitude toward life in youth and old age, under the title of " The 

 Two Locksley Halls." The time has arrived when every one 

 wants to know what is being done to advance and extend the art 

 of electric lighting, and President Henry Morton of Stevens Insti- 

 tute, in his article in the same number of Scribners, will explain 

 some of the most recent achievements. He will describe such 

 matters as lighting the Hoosac Tunnel with glow-lamps, the light- 

 ing of Hell Gate, of the great public squares, and other interesting 

 undertakings, all very fully illustrated. James Dwight, M.D., a 

 leading authority in this country and England, on the game of 

 lawn tennis, will contribute a careful study of " Form in Lawn 

 Tennis," based on a series of instantaneous photographs of the 

 best players at work, showing the exact position taken in making 

 all the principal strokes. Models for these photographs were Mr. 

 R. D. Sears, the late champion, assisted by his brother, Mr. P. S. 

 Sears, and Mr. Thomas Pettitt, the professional tennis champion. 

 These have been excellently engraved, and are very picturesque as 

 well as of great value to tennis players. Benjamin Norton, the 

 nephew of Austin Corbin, and second vice-president of the Long 

 Island Railway, will contribute a short paper entitled " How to 

 Feed a Railway," which will describe the purchasing and supply de- 

 partment. The closing article in the railway series will appear in 

 the September nunaber under the title of " Safety Appliances in 

 Railroad Working," by H. G. Prout, editor of the Railroad Ga- 

 zette. 



— "The Spirit of Manual Training" will be set forth by Profes- 

 sor C. H. Henderson of Philadelphia, in an article which is to open 

 the August Popular Science Monthly. Professor Henderson says 

 that the ideal school will aim to develop men, not to produce fine 

 articles of wood or iron, or to cram heads with information, and 

 that the name "manual-training school" does not rightly describe 

 an institution designed to train the " whole boy." Professor Hux- 

 ley will review the main points of the controversy in which he has 

 been engaged, in an article entitled " Agnosticism and Christianity." 

 Some of Cardinal Newman's writings will receive a share of caus- 

 tic criticism in this paper. A suggestive article on " The Wastes 

 of Modern Civilization," by Felix L. Oswald, M.D., will appear, in 

 which Dr. Oswald will point out a number of ways in which the 

 resources of the modern world are used up, with no care for their 

 replenishment, or in producing useless or harmful results ; and 

 "Mr. Mallock on Optimism " is the title of a critical article which 

 Mr. W. D. Le Sueur will contribute to the August Popular Sci- 

 ence. It repels the assertions of Mr. Mallock, that there is not 

 sufficient reason for being gratified with the prospects of the hu- 

 man race, and that no meaning in life can be seen without the light 

 of theological faith. 



— Messrs. Ginn & Co. announce for publication in August "The 

 Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose, their Forms, Prominent Meanings, 

 and Important Compounds, together with Lists of Related Words 

 and English Derivatives," by Addison Hogue, professor of Greek 

 in the University of Mississippi. The material treated in this book 

 is here much fuller than in the lists of irregular verbs in the gram- 

 mars, and much more accessible than in the lexicons. The book 

 contains, after the regular verbs, — pure, mute, and liquid, — the 

 irregular verbs of Attic prose in alphabetical order. Prominent 

 meanings and special uses of frequent occurrence are given, often 

 illustrated by translated examples. The most important com- 

 pounds are added, and also many related words, forming a very 

 practical sort of introduction to word-formation. The first declen- 



sion alone is represented by about 400 substantives, and this in- 

 dicates the range of vocabulary. The English derivatives, of 

 which there are over 450, will prove, it is hoped, an attractive fea- 

 ture to teachers and students alike. To the latter they will be an 

 additional support in learning some five or six hundred Greek 

 words, and will broaden their knowledge of their own tongue. 



— At this time, when the centennial anniversaries of the various 

 events connected with the beginning of the French Revolution are 

 coming so thick and fast, many who desire to make new studies of 

 that great period of history will get help from the Old South leaf- 

 let on the French Revolution, issued by the directors of the Old 

 South Studies in History, and published by D. C. Heath & Co.. 

 This little sixteen-page leaflet, which is sold for five cents, contains 

 one of the powerful chapters from Carlyle's history, on the condi- 

 tion of France on the eve of the Revolution, brief extracts from- 

 John Morley and others, and several pages of historical and biblio- 

 graphical notes by Mr. Edwin D. Mead. All the important books 

 upon the Revolution are noticed, with brief estimates of their sev- 

 eral merits ; the French Revolution is compared with the English 

 Revolution of 16S8 and with the American Revolution; and a spe- 

 cial section is devoted to the various significant events taking place 

 in the world in the eighteenth century, which will prove useful for 

 fixing in the minds of students some important dates worth remem- 

 bering in relation to each other. 



— The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Boston, George H^ 

 Ellis) closes its third year with the July number. Edward Cum- 

 mings contributes a study of the present condition of the English 

 trades-unions, made with great advantages on the spot ; Professor 

 Dunbar reviews the history of the direct taxes of the United States,, 

 from the tax of 1798 to the last, in 1861 ; Stuart Wood develops 

 his new theory of wages ; and several notes on a variety of topics 

 follow, including one by the new president of Brown University,^ 

 Professor Andrews, on the late copper syndicate. The usual full 

 bibliography and copious indexes for the volume fill the remaining 

 pages. 



— The Educational Times (London) says, "We cannot be too 

 lavish in our praise of the series of Greek authors now being pub- 

 lished by Messrs. Ginn & Co. The book before us [" Homer's. 

 Odyssey," Books I. — IV., by B. Perrin] forms one of this series,, 

 and is in no way inferior in binding, paper, printing, and general 

 style, to the other productions of this firm, which we have previ- 

 ously noticed with real pleasure. The notes and appendices fur- 

 nish considerable material for the higher criticism of the poem, but 

 at the same time sufficient assistance of an elementary character- 

 has been provided to make the volume useful as an introduction to 

 the study of Homer. Text and notes appear on the same page, 

 which does not seem to us a good plan ; but, to make the work 

 thoroughly complete, with each edition of text and notes the pur- 

 chaser receives a separate copy containing the text only, and, since 

 this text edition can only be obtained separately at a very small' 

 cost, we heartily recommend it to our readers." 



— We have received from the Theosophical Book Company of 

 Boston a pamphlet entitled " Light on the Path," which is intended 

 as an initiation into the mysteries of occultism. It is said to have 

 been "written down by M. C; " the real author, we suppose, being, 

 some supermundane intelligence. The actual contents of the 

 pamphlet are in part taken from Buddhism and other Eastern sys- 

 tems, and in part concocted by the author himself. The Buddhist 

 doctrine of Karma is taught, and the reader is also told that he- 

 must kill out every kind of earthly desire. Besides these two tenets 

 of Buddhism, various precepts are set forth, of which the following 

 are specimens : " Hold fast to that which is neither substance nor 

 existence. Listen only to the voice which is soundless. Look 

 only on that which is invisible alike to the inner and the outer 

 sense" (p. 17). The whole work, we are told, "is written in an 

 astral cipher, and can therefore only be deciphered by one who 

 reads astrally ; " and we should think so. At the end of the pam- 

 phlet is a catalogue of the books issued by the publishers, to which 

 they prefix this request : " Send us the addresses of those among 

 your acquaintances who might be -interested in the class of litera- 

 ture of which we make a specialty." So if any of our readers. 



