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a few small corals were brought up in the dredge. Along the 

 shore to the westward of Progreso is a small serpuloid reef. 



— Messrs. Ginn & Co. announce as ready " Quintus Curtius," 

 the Srst two extant books, edited for sight-reading by Dr. Harold 

 N. Fowler of Phillips Exeter Academy, with an introduction on 

 reading at sight by Professor James B. Greenough of Harvard 

 College. This book has been preferred on account of the convic- 

 tion of the editor that for practice in sight-reading some continuous 

 prose narrative not readily accessible in a copiously annotated 

 edition should be in the hands of the pupil. The notes of this 

 edition are confined to translations of unusual or striking words 

 and phrases, with occasional brief hints concerning syntax, the 

 main object of which is to save time in the class-room. In the 

 introduction. Professor Greenough shows by examples the method 

 to be pursued in reading at sight, besides explaining fully his ideas 

 on the subject. 



— The twenty- fifth volume of the Magazine of American History 

 is ojjened with the January number. The leading illustrated 

 paper for the month, from the pen of the editor, is entitled, "John 

 Ericsson, the Builder of the 'Monitor,' " and a portrait of the invent- 

 or forms the frontispiece. The second article following, "The 

 Bladensburg Duelling-Ground," near Washington, written by Mil- 

 ton T. Adkins, is also illustrated. The Georgia historian. Col. 

 Charles C. Jones, jun., contributes a paper on " Dr. Lyman 

 Hall, Governor of Georgia in 1783, and Signer of the Declara- 

 tion of Independence; " Hon. Charles Aldrich of Iowa writes 

 of the eloquence of Andrew Johnson; Hon. James Phinney Bax- 

 ter, president of the Maine Historical Society, contributes "Isaac 

 Jogues, A.D. 1636," a poem; Orrin B. Hallam gives the reader a his- 

 tory of the original treasury accounting office ; and we have the 

 first part of ' • Count de Fersen's Private Letters to his Father, 

 1780-1781," which are the observations and opinions of an officer 

 under Rochambeau in the French Army during the Revolutionary 



war, translated from the French by Miss Georgine Holmes. 

 Among the Shorter papers, "The United States Flag," by J. Madi- 

 son Drake, and " Capital Punishment in 1749," by Bauman L. 

 Belden, are interesting. 



— The Monist for January, 1891, a philosopbical quarterly pub- 

 lished by The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, con- 

 tains "The Architecture of Theories," by Charles S. Peirce; 

 " Illustrative Studies in Criminal Anthropology." by Professor 

 Cesare Lombroso; "The Squaring of the Circle, the History of the 

 Problem from the most Ancient Times to the Present Day," by 

 Hermann Schubert; "The Criterion of Truth, a Dissertation on 

 the Method of Verification," by Dr. Paul Cams; "Five Souls 

 with but a Single Thought: the Psychology of the Star-Fish," by 

 Carus Sterne; " German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century," 

 by Professor Friedrich Jodl; "Recent French Philosojjhical 

 Works," by Lucien Aw'eat; book-reviews; and contents of the 

 philosophical periodicals of America and Europe. 



— "The fancy took me to go to Noto," says Mr. Percival 

 Lowell, in his paper on " Noto : An Unexplored Comer of Japan;" 

 and where Noto is, and how he went there, is not only the sub- 

 ject of the opening article in the January Atlantic, but is to be 

 the subject of several articles which are to follow. Cleveland 

 Abbe's paper, which will command attention, suggests a new 

 university course, this course to be devoted to terrestrial physics 

 as a distinct department of instruction. Mr. Charles Worcester 

 Clark writes about compulsory arbitration, in which he says that 

 one of .the most striking features of our easy-going American 

 character is ready submission to the domination of our servants, 

 whether it be Bridget in our kitchen, the railway in our streets, 

 or Congress in the Capitol at Washington. Professor Royce has 

 a long paper on Hegel, Adolphe Cohn writes about Boulangism, 

 and Mr. Henry Charles Lea indicates the lesson of the Pennsyl- 

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