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— Dodd, Mead, & Co. will publish immediately "The Diary of 

 Philip Hone," edited by Bayard Tuckerman. Philip Hone, an old 

 Knickerbocker, was mayor of New York, and for many years high 

 in the councils of the Whig party, and closely identified with the 

 leading interests of New York City in the early part of this century. 

 His diary extends from 1828 to 1845, and is rich in reminiscences 

 of the political and social life and events of that period. " The 

 Life of John Davis, the Navigator," by Clemens R. Markham, the 

 first of a series of great explorers and explorations, is also nearly 

 ready. 



— Charles Scribner's Sons published last week a " History of the 

 United States," by Henry Adams. Mr. Adams's work, when com- 

 plete, will cover the period embracing the two administrations of 

 Jefferson and the two following of Madison, from 1801 to 1817. 

 The two volumes now ready are devoted to the first adminis- 

 tration of Jefferson, and to the political, financial, and international 

 questions that arose after the transfer of the control of the govern- 

 ment from the Federalists to the then-called Republican party. 

 The first half-dozen chapters are given over to a review of the 

 economic, social, and intellectual status of the country at the be- 

 ginning of the century, the domestic and foreign policy of Jeffer- 

 son's administration being then taken up. 



— The sixth edition of the well known " Treatise on Dynamics 

 of a Particle," by Professor Tait and the late Mr. W. J. Steele (New 

 York, Macmillan), has been issued. The work was begun by Pro- 

 fessor Tait and Mr. Steele towards the end of 1852, and first ap- 

 peared in 1856. " At Mr. Steele's early death," says Professor 

 Tait in the preface, " his allotted share of the work was uncom- 

 pleted, and I had to undertake the final arrangement of the whole. 

 In the subsequent editions it has derived much benefit from re- 

 vision, first by Mr. Stirling of Trinity in 1865, then by Mr. W. D. 

 Niven of Trinity in 1871, and by Professor Greenhill of Emmanuel 

 in 1878. It last appeared after a general revision by myself, with 

 the assistance of Dr. C. G. Knott and of my colleague, Professor 

 Chrystal. The present edition has been prepared by me, with the 

 assistance of Dr. W. Peddle." 



— Agricultural Science is about to enter upon the fourth year of 

 its existence. From the beginning it has sought to present to its 

 readers, either as original contributions or in the form of abstracts, 

 that work relating to the sciences underlying and as applied to 

 agriculture, such as would serve as an aid in scientific investiga- 

 tion. Popular writing has never found a place in its pages, for the 

 reason that that field is already occupied by ably edited agricultural 

 journals. Among those contributing original articles during 18S9 

 may be mentioned the following : Dr. H. E. Stockbridge, director 

 Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station ; E. S. Gcff, professor of 

 horticulture University of Wisconsin ; Professor H. H. Harring- 

 ton, chemist to Texas Agricultural Experiment Station ; Dr. H. W. 

 Wiley, chemist to the United States Department of Agriculture ; 

 H. L. Bolley, of Purdue University Botanical Laboratory ; F. W. A. 

 Woll, of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station chemical 

 laboratory; Milton Whitney, professor of agriculture in South 

 Carolina University, and vice-director of the experiment station ; 

 Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, late director of the New York State Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station ; Dr. W. E. Stone, chemist to the 

 Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station ; Dr. H. P. Armsby, 

 director of Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station ; J. B. 

 Harrison, chemist to Government laboratory, Barbadoes, West 

 Indies ; and others. C. S. Plumb, of the University of Tennessee, 

 Knoxville, Tenn., the publisher, states that the foreign subscription 

 list has steadily gained from the first, so that at the present time it 

 extends pretty well over Europe, as well as to Japan and the West 

 Indies, while its original contributions are being translated into 

 prominent scientific journals abroad. Consequently, as it also goes 

 into nearly every experiment station in America, it furnishes the 

 best kind of a medium for those persons who wish to submit scien- 

 tific papers on agriculture to the largest and most appreciative 

 audience. All are invited to do what they can to aid in increaing 

 the effectiveness of this journal, either by subscriptions or publish- 

 ing in its pages original contributions. Foreign subscribers are 

 also invited to favor the magazine with contributions, which will 

 be printed either in French or German. 



— D. G. Brinton, M.D. (2041 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia) 

 announces for publication "Rig Veda Americana," sacred songs of 

 the ancient Mexicans, with a gloss in Nahuatl. The very ancient 

 religious chants, on which the title of the " American Rig Veda " 

 has been bestowed, are preserved in two Nahuatl manuscripts, — one 

 at Madrid, the other at Florence, — both of which the author per- 

 sonally collated. The gloss, found in the former only, is a six- 

 teenth-century commentary on the obscurities of the text. The 

 songs, or chants, are valuable not merely as curious antiquities, 

 but as throwing light on the religious thought and mythology of 

 the native Mexicans, and as illustrating the archaic forms and 

 sacred locutions of their tongue. They are, without doubt, the 

 most ancient authentic examples of American literature and lan- 

 guage in existence. The edition will be quite small ; the price, $3,- 

 payable on receipt of the volume. 



— J. B. Lippincott Company will publish shortly "With Gauge 

 and Swallow," by Judge Tourgee, a new novel which gives free 

 scope to his fondness for socio-political questions. 



— To the many other valuable features of " Webster's Diction- 

 ary," Messrs. G. & C. Merriam & Co. have added a pronouncing 

 gazetteer of the world, containing over 25,000 titles, and making- 

 over 100 pages of new matter, briefly describing the countries, 

 cities, towns, and natural features of every part of the globe, compiled 

 from recent and authentic sources. The aim of this gazetteer is 

 to answer concisely the main questions that may. be asked about 

 any of the leading titles in modern geography, — "What is the 

 orthography of the given name } " " What is its correct local pro- 

 nunciation ? " " What are the main features, natural or artificial, of 

 the place itself? " On all these points it has been their object to 

 bring together accurate information in the briefest form. 



— " The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff," a young Russian artist 

 who died in Paris in 1884 at the age of twenty- three, and which 

 has attracted the admiring attention of the foremost critics of 

 Europe, will be published by Messrs. Cassell & Co. about Nov. ri. 

 Among the most enthusiastic in their praise of this journal is the 

 Right Hon. William E. Gladstone, who, in an article in the Nine- 

 teenth Century, pronounces it " a book without a parallel." The 

 translation has been made by Mrs. Mary J. Serrano. A portrait of 

 Mile. Bashkirtseff, and reproduction from her paintings now owned 

 by the Luxembourg Gallery, will accompany this edition. 



— Fechner's "Elemente der Psychophysik," the volume that 

 formed the starting-point of all discussion and experimentation in 

 the study of the intensity of sensations, and which has long been 

 out of print, has now, after the death of the author, been reprinted 

 under the supervision of Professor Wundt. A valuable index of 

 Fechner's works, and many useful references, are added. 



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And their Effect on the Pioduclion and Distribution of Wealth and the 

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