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8cribner's Magazine is the result of extended observation, especially 

 in the West and South-west, where Mr. Spears made a journey at 

 the time of the Oklahoma boomer excitement. It is illustrated 

 from photographs made by the auther of some very unique frontier 

 dwellings. There has been a great deal of discussion during late 

 years in regard to shortening college courses, and higher univer- 

 sity work. Professor Josiah Royce of Harvard, in an article in 

 the same number on "Present Ideals of American University 

 Xiife," makes a plea for the raising rather than lowering of the 

 university standard, and sets forth the past and present college 

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 university of the future should work. In the same issue of the 

 -magazine Mr. James Ricalton, writing of the wonderful old ruins 

 of monuments and shrines at Anuradhapura, the City of the Sacred 

 Bo-Tree in Ceylon, says : " From the days of the mound builders 

 down to the Eiffel tower, man has shown himself to be a monu- 

 ment-erecting being; the Christians have their cathedrals, the 

 Mohammedans have their mosques, and the Buddhists have their 

 shrine-tombs, designated differently in different countries as 

 pagoda, tope, and dagoba. The pagodas of China are entirely 

 dissimilar to those of Burmah, and the dagobas of Ceylon are quite 

 unlike those in either country; yet all serve the one purpose of 

 relic sepulture. They are not altogether a thing of the past ; they 

 are still erected near the temples; but those of modern construc- 

 tion are small and unimportant when compared with those that 



have withstood biennial monsoons for two thousand years; even 

 their half-buried ruins are stupendous." 



— It will be remembered that the edition of "Catalogue of 

 Minerals and Synonyms," by Thomas Egleston, Ph.D., which 

 was originally published by the government, was soon exhausted, 

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