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Science, Part II. Classics, Mediaeval and Modern Languages, and 

 History (Michaelmas Term, 1890), Part III. Mathematics and Sci- 

 ence, Part rv. (Jlassios, Law, and History (Lent Term, 1891); and 

 three volumes in the Pitt Press Mathematical Series — " An Ele- 

 mentary Treatise on Plane Trigonometry for the Use of Schools," 

 by E. W. Hobson, fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and uni- 

 versity lecturer in mathematics, and C. M. Jessop, fellow of Clare 

 College; " Arithmetic for Schools," by C. Smith, master of Sidney 

 Sussex College, Cambridge ; " Solutions to the Exercises in Euclid, 

 Books I. -IV.," by W. W. Taylor. 



— A portrait of James Russell Lowell, made from a recent pho- 

 tograph, forms the frontispiece of the September Writer, which is 

 a Lowell memorial number. The magazine opens with an article 

 on " Lowell in Private Life," by John H. Holmes of Cambridge, 

 brother of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and for years an intimate so- 

 cial companion of Mr. Lowell. Following this are personal trib- 

 utes to Mr. Lowell, written at the request of the editor of the 

 Writer, by Francis Ellingwood Abbott, C. A. Bartol, James Par- 

 ton, Laurence Hutton, -George Makepeace Towle, Thomas Nelson 

 Page, Frank R. Stockton, Edward Everett Hale, N. P. Oilman, 

 Edward Eggleston, Lucretia P. Hale, Edwin Lassetter Bynner, 

 Margaret J. Preston, Agnes Repplier, Ernest IngersoU, Arthur 

 Gilman, George Parsons Lathrop, Oscar Fay Adams, James Jef- 

 frey Roche, W. H. Furness, Louise Imogen Guiney, Joel Benton, 

 Thomas S. Collier, Danske Dandridge, Lucy Larcom, Arlo Bates, 

 Sylvester Baxter, Noah Brooks, Kate Field. An interesting com- 

 parison between Lowell and Matthew Arnold is made by Edward 

 T. McLaughlin, assistant professor of English at Yale College. 

 Tbe Writer is working, in the interest of writers, for a reduction 

 of postage rates on manuscripts, which now go at letter rates. 



— J. B. Lippincott Company have published "The Natural 

 History of Man," by Alexander Kinmont, being a series of lec- 

 tures originally delivered and published some fifty years ago. 

 The author was a Scotchman by birth and education, but settled 

 in the United States when a young man, and labored here as 

 clergyman and teacher. The subjects of the lectures are certain 

 phases of human nature and human history, such as the races of 

 mankind, tbe origin and uses of language, the predominance of 

 the religious sentiment in early ages, the elements of American 

 civilization, etc., all of which are treated from a religious point of 

 view. There is no unity of plan in the book, so far as we can 

 discover; but many of the topics are well handled, though with- 

 out any striking originality. The distinguishing characteristic of 

 the book is a simple and unaffected piety, which in these days of 

 skepticism and half-hearted belief is refreshing. The moral tone 

 of the lectures is also excellent, and the style is easy and flowing, 

 though somewhat diffuse. The author's science and history are 

 sometimes at fault, and there are passages in the book which 

 could not have been written at the present day ; yet to persons of 

 a religious temper these lectures will be a source of interest and 

 profit. 



— Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. announce a new volume of 

 "Fragments of Science: being Detached Essays, Addresses, and 

 Reviews," by John Tyndall, F.R.S. ; "About Ceylon and Borneo: 

 being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, One Visit to Borneo, 

 and how I Came Home and was Rocked to Sleep on the Bosom of 

 — well, ' The Suez Canal,' " by Walter J. Clutterbuck, author of 

 "The Skipper in the Arctic Seas," and joint author of "Three in 

 Norway," and " B.C. 1887," with illustrations; "Anthropological 

 Religion," the Gifford lectures delivered before the University of 

 Glasgow in 1891, by F. Max Miiller; "An Introduction to Human 

 Physiology," being the substance of lectures delivered at the St. 

 Mary's Hospital medical school from 1885 to 1890, by Augustus D. 

 Waller; "Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics," with 

 numerous illustrations, by C. E. Armand Semple, M.R.C.P. Lond., 

 member of the Court of Examiners, and late senior examiner in 

 arts at Apothecaries' Hall, etc. ; "Outlines of Theoretical Chemis- 

 try," by Lothar Meyer, professor of Chemistry in the University 

 of Tubingen, translated by Professors P. Phillips Bedson and W. 

 Carleton Williams (this book, of about 200 pages, gives a concise 

 account of the theories of modern chemistry, which, it is expected, 

 will not only be of use to advanced students, but will also enable 



those who take a general interest in science, but are unfamiliar 

 with the details of chemical investigation, to gain a general idea 

 of the development of theoretical chemistry) ; " The Dynamics of 

 Rotation," by A. M. Wortbington, professor of physics, and head 

 master of the Dockyard School, Portsmouth; "The Principles of 

 Chemistry," by D. Mendeleef, professor of chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of St. Petersburg, translated by George Eamensky, A.R.S.M. 

 of the Imperial Mint, St. Petersburg, and edited by A. J. Greena- 

 way, sub-editor of the Journal of the Chemical Society, 2 vols. ; 

 " A Manual of the Science of Religion," by Professor Chantepie 

 de la Saussaye, translated by Mrs. Colyer Fergusson (nee Max 

 Miiller), revised by the author; "Solutions: being an English 

 translation (by M. M. Pattison Muir) of Book IV. Vol. I. of the 

 second edition of Ostwald's ' Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Cliemie.' " 



— Messrs. A. and C. Black have in preparation: "Manual of 

 Chemistry," by Dr. Alexander Scott, Durham; "Manual of Bot- 

 any," by Dr. Scott, Bickley; "Dictionary of Birds," by Professor 

 Alfred Newton and Dr. Gadow. 



— Among the contents of the current number of the "Proceed- 

 ings of the United States Naval Institute " are ' ' Explosives and 

 Ordnance Material," by S. H. Emmens; " The Effect of Waterline 

 Damage on the Stability of Unarmored War-ships," by Charles 

 Hemje; "Naval Reserve and Naval Militia," by Lieut. J. C. 

 Soley, U.S.N. ; " The Final Improvement of the Steam-Engine," 

 by Dr. R H. Thurston ; and the usual amount of professional and 

 bibliographical notes. 



— Among the most notable of standard and miscellaneous works 

 announced by D. Appleton & Co. for publication will be Pere 

 Didon's " Life of Christ," in two volumes, with maps and forty- 

 eight full-page illustrations; the third volume of Professor J. B. 

 McMaster's " History of the People of the United States; " a new 

 edition of Herbert Spencer's "Essays," with additions, in three 

 volumes; "The Life of James Boswell " (two volumes), by Percy 

 Fitzgerald, with four portraits; " Lady Dufferin's Journal of her 

 Life in Canada," illustrated ; " The Cause of the Ice Age," by Sir 

 Henry Ball ; " Man and tbe Glacial Period," by Professor G. Fred- 

 erick Wright; "The Farmer's Side," by Hon. W. A. Peffer, 

 United States Senator from Kansas; " Herbart's Psychology," 

 translated by Margaret K. Smith; "The Courses of Study for 

 Schools and Colleges," by W. T. Harris, United States commis- 

 sioner of education; " Applied Psychology and Art of Teaching," 

 by J. Baldwin; " Laboratory Practice," by Professor J. P. Cooke; 

 and " The Dog in Health and Disease," by Wesley Mills, M.D. 



— Amid all the wild speculation that is floating about just now 

 respecting the overflow of the Colorado River into the desert, it is 

 instructive to read such an article as the one in the October 

 Scribner on ."The New Lake in the Desert," by Major J. W. 

 Powell, Director of the United States Geological Survey, who 

 brings to the subject a thorough knowledge of natural conditions, 

 and overthrows many extravagant theories both as to the past and 

 future of the phenomenon. J. N. Hall, M.D., a hunter of experi-. 

 ence, has an article in the same number of unique interest and of 

 practical value to all sportsmen, on " The Actions of Wounded 

 Animals;" and in an interesting article on "The Biography of the 

 Oyster," whose life history we have hardly before properly appre- 

 ciated, Mr. Edward L. Wilson, the well-known traveller and pho- 

 tographer, gives the following figures as representing the work of 

 but one of the important centres of the oyster industry, " The 

 Delaware Bay and Maurice River Cove Oyster Association " of 

 New Jersey. In the fall of the year, when the business is at its 

 height, from thirty to forty car-loads leave there daily, each one 

 carrying away 100 sacks or barrels of oysters averaging 1,000 

 oysters. Thus from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 are shipped daily. 



— According to Bulletin No. 14 of the Iowa Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, the clover seed caterpillar (Grapholitha inter- 

 stinctana), which is described and figured in different stages, has 

 been abundant and detructive, and the conclusion is reached that 

 cutting the clover and storing it while the caterpillars are still in 

 the clover heads results in the entire destruction of the insect. 

 The same bulletin states that experiments with hopper dozers for 

 grass-leaf hoppers show that this method can be used very sue- 



