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Asylum, Wakefield, England ; and " A Manual for Nurses," being 

 a complete text-book, including general anatomy and physiology, 

 management of the sick-room, etc., by Laurence Humphrey, as- 

 sistant physician to, and lecturer at, Addenbrook's Hospital, Cam- 

 bridge, England. 



— A. D. F. Randolph & Co. have in press a work on " The 

 Bible and Modern Discoveries," by Henry A. Harper. 



— The J. G. Cupples Company will publish shortly a volume of 

 European travel, entitled " A Bundle of Letters from Over the Sea," 

 by Louise B. Robinson, well known in artistic and social circles of 

 Boston. 



— P. Blakiston, Son, & Co., Philadelphia, announce that they 

 have arranged with the London publishers to reprint here a new 

 text-book on anatomy, by Professsor Alexander Macalister of the 

 University of Cambridge. 



— A catalogue of a collection of books, comprising Americana, 

 including many rare genealogies and local histories, natural his- 

 tory, biography, numismatics, occult sciences, South America, the 

 West Indies, etc., was issued under date of Dec. 15, 1889, by S. 

 H. Chadbourne, Hotel Dartmouth, 57 Warren Street, Roxbury, 

 Mass. 



— As a memorial of a distinguished administrator, and to fur- 

 ther the cause of imperial federation, Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole has 

 edited the paners of Sir George Bowen, and they will be published 

 immediately in London and New York by Longmans, Green, & Co. 

 In one of Sir George's earlier letters there is a pleasant glimpse of 

 Washington society during Grant's administration. 



— The Open Court Publishing Company of Chicago announces 

 the immediate appearance of the authorized translation of M. Th. 

 Ribot's " Psychology of Attention." The monograph of M. Ribot, 

 who is now professor of experimental and comparative psychology 

 at the College de France, and editor of the Revice PJiilosophique, 

 has been characterized by a prominent French critic as the most 

 important production of the French philosophical press for the 

 present year. 



— Dr. Holmes's " Over the Teacups," and the first instalment of 

 Mr. Frank Gaylord Cook's series of papers on " Forgotten Political 

 Celebrities," are in the Atlantic for January. Dr. Holmes writes 

 about old age. He says, " There is one gratification an old author 

 can afford a certain class of critics, — that, namely, of comparing 

 him as he is with what he was. If the ablest of them will only 

 write long enough, and keep on writing, there is no pop-gun that 

 cannot reach him." Another political article, "The United States 

 Pension Office," by Gaillard Hunt, contains suggestions as to the 

 reform of the present pension system. " A Precursor of Milton," 

 a certain Avitus, Bishop of Vienne in the fifth century, forms also 

 the subject of one paper. 



— The Critic announces that with the new year Dr. W. J. Rolfe 

 of Cambridgeport, Mass., the distinguished Shakspearian scholar, 

 will take charge of a department in that paper to be entitled 

 " Shakspeariana." In this department he will review new editions 

 of Shakspeare's works, together with new publications relating to 

 those works and their author, and will answer any questions con- 

 cerning them that show an intelligent interest in the subject on the 

 part of the inquirer. The study of Shakspeare has assumed such 

 proportions nowadays as to demand special treatment in literary 

 journals of a serious character. Dr. Rolfe will edit the Shak- 

 spearian department of no other periodical while he has charge of 

 the one to be opened next month in the Critic. 



— Mr. Edward Atkinson will open the January Popular Science 

 Monthly with a paper on " The Future Situs of the Cotton-Manu- 

 facture of the United States," in which he answers the questions 

 whether the number of spindles in this country is being increased 

 faster than the demand for their products, and whether the South 

 is likely to become a formidable competitor of New England in the 

 cotton-manufacture. A series of six Chinese pictures, illustrating 

 the processes of cotton-manufacture in China, embellish the article. 

 Hei-bert Spencer was recently quoted in the London Times as 

 favoring the nationalization of land, which drew out a letter from 

 him repudiating the doctrine as ascribed to him. This led to a 

 lively discussion, in which Professor Huxley, Sir Louis Mallet, and 

 others took part, and a variety of views on the general question 



were expressed. The correspondence will be printed in the same 

 number under the title " Letters on the Land Question." " Public 

 Schools as affecting Crime and Vice " is the title of another article, 

 by Benjamin Reece, to appear in this number. Mr. Reece cites 

 figures which show that crime does not decrease as illiteracy is 

 diminished, and says that our school system should be made more 

 effective by the addition of moral teaching. An interesting account 

 of the " Irrigation of Arid Lands" in the Far West will be given 

 by Henry J. Philpott. The effect which this practice has on the 

 methods of agriculture, the interest of farmers in the science of 

 meteorology, and on state and national legislation, are also brought 

 out in the article. 



— Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. have nearly ready the concluding 

 volume of Justin Winsor's valuable " Narrative and Critical His- 

 tory of America." It covers the later history of British, Spanish, 

 and Portuguese America. A general index accompanies it. They 

 will also publish at an early day a new brochure by Professor E. 

 N. Horsford, on " The Discovery of the Ancient City of Norum- 

 bega." The substance of the book was communicated to the 

 president and council of the American Geographical Society, at a 

 special session in Watertown, on the 21st of November last. In 

 addition to the historical address, there will be photographs of the 

 site of the ancient city, sixteen maps from Icelandic sources down 

 to the United States Coast Survey, and an original map of the 

 valley of the Charles River from Stony Brook to Cambridge. The 

 book will also include the " Poem of Vinland," delivered at Water- 

 town by Mr. E. H. Clements of the Boston Transcript. 



— The fourth number of the second volume of the American 

 Journal of Psychology, just at hand, contains an interesting col- 

 lection of folk-tales of the Bahama Islands, by Charles L. Edwards ; 

 a critical exposition of the characteristics of symbolic logic, by 

 Christine Ladd Franklin ; and the concluding chapter of Dr. W. 

 H. Burnham's historical study of memory, this chapter dealing 

 with recent theories and the results of experiment, and closing 

 with an extended bibliography of the whole topic ; the usual fifty 

 odd pages of reviews, abstracts and notes on the nervous system 

 (by Dr. H. H. Donaldson), experimental psychology (including an 

 original paper on colored shadows by E. B. Delabarre), hypnotism, 

 etc., covering from seventy-five to eighty books and articles. The 

 notes are followed in this number by a brief survey, by the editor, 

 of progress in the psychological field during the two years of the 

 journal's existence. With the first number of Vol. III., to appear 

 in January, 1890, material changes in the form of the journal are 

 promised, and a new department will be added. Special efforts 

 will be made not only to enlarge the scope and improve the quality 

 of the journal, but more attention will be given to foreign work in 

 psychological lines. During Dr. Hall's recent year in Europe, he 

 was at pains to make such foreign connections as will forward this 

 end. In Vol. III. the following larger contributions will appear : 

 a very detailed examination of the brain of Laura Bridgman, 

 several studies in paranoia and other rare and borderland forms of 

 mental alienation, a continued history of reflex action, and a series 

 of articles embracing reviews of recent and important literature on 

 heredity and the psychology of sex. It is probable, also, that the 

 educational material will be increased on both its psychological and 

 university sides. During the past year the journal has been under 

 the efficient editorial care of Dr. E. C. Sanford : with the next 

 number Dr. Hall will re-assume personal direction, and will prob- 

 ably associate with himself in the editorial work other well-known 

 psychologists. 



— The Ladies' I/ome /o!ernal'(Fh\\a.de\phi3.) has secured its large 

 circulation by believing in woman and home as the two greatest 

 factors of human life. It has aimed to cover every department of 

 life in which women are interested. Its purpose has been to make 

 woman's daily life easer and brighter. The actual circulation is 

 said to be 542,500 copies per month in 18S9. For iSpothe journal 

 has a most promising prospectus, including among many others 

 such features and authors as " Two Sides of Washington Life," 

 by two of the " most famous women " at the nation's capital, tell- 

 ing of the trials and pleasures of official and social life in Wash- 

 ington ; " New York Fashionable Life and Women " as seen by 

 Mrs. John Sherwood ; " Woman's Life in Foreign Lands," by sev- 



