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study new plants, and determine their qualities and uses under 

 cultivation, investigate the animal and insect pests of the vegeta- 

 ble kingdom that have injured and still menace local plantations, 

 devise means to aid in providing the growing population of the 

 continent with good things to eat and plenty of them, prosecute 

 inquiries into the medicinal virtues of herbs, and, in a word, can- 

 vass the whole possibilities for good, of the world of plants, we 

 may expect to see our country enter upon a scene of prosperity 

 not unworthy of our hopes and promises." This is an idea that 

 deserves to meet with encouragement, and it is to be hoped that 

 its suggestion willlead to its fultilment. Charles Howard Shinn, 

 in an article entitled "West of the Sierras," gives an excellent idea 

 of the rapid growth and development of the State of California, 

 as well as of its climatic advantages, the beauty of its scenery, 

 the productiveness of its soil, etc. Mr. Shinn's descriptions of 

 the winter resorts of California will have a particular interest at 

 this season. 



— The "Handbook of Florida," by Charles Ledyard Norton, 

 just issued by Longmans, Green, & Co., New York, will certainly 

 prove useful to tourists and intending settlers. The book is 

 illustrated by forty-nine maps and plans, especial attention being 

 given to county maps showing lines of railway. It is claimed 

 that these last have never before been published together in such 

 convenient shape. 



— The Farmers' Alliance of Delaware has invited Professor 

 Edmund J. James, president of the American Academy of Politi- 

 cal and Social Science, to address the State convention at Wil- 

 mington on the subject of " Our System of Taxation in its Rela- 

 tion to the Farming Classes." The farmers wish to know espe- 

 cially whether any State has solved the problem of relieving the 

 farming classes of the burdens which rest upon them. It will be 

 interesting to learn what a theoretical student of taxation has to 

 say upon this subject, and whether he will give the farmers much 



satisfaction. Would it not be a desirable thing for the govern- 

 ment to call for a report upon our financial system from some of 

 the expert students of taxation in the country, and try to find out 

 whether the scholars have any thing valuable to say on this sub- 

 ject which is vexing everybody just now ? 



— The Shakespeare Society of New York, 21 Park Row, New 

 York City, announces a four-text edition of " Hamlet," present- 

 ing a parallelization of the three versions of that play, which ap- 

 peared in 1603, 1604, and 1633, exactly reproducing the archaic 

 typography and characteristics of the same, verb. lit. et punct., 

 accompanied by a translation of the German version performed 

 in Dresden in 1626, and supposed to have been brought into Ger- 

 many from London by English actors in 1603, and which throws 

 a curious historical light upon the actual stage rending of the 

 tragedy as presented by the London actors. The project of a four- 

 text " Hamlet " was a favorite with the New Shakespeare Society 

 of London, which, as long ago as 1874, promised one, but suc- 

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— In Outing for February, 1891, %ve note "Cycling in Mid- 

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 by E. H. Morris; " Ice-Fishing in the Sea of Azoflf," by C. A. P. 

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