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AMONG THE PUBLISHERS. 



LovEKS of the camera will read with interest Ellerslie's Wal- 

 lace's article on " Orthocliromatic Films and Plates," in Outing 

 for November. 



— Some time ago we noticed the first volume of a work en- 

 titled " Hermetic Philosophy," and the second volume has now 

 appeared from the press of Lippincott. It purports to be written 

 by " Styx, of the H. B. of L.," and in style and cliaracter is a fit 

 companion of its predecessor. It is impossible to give an intelli- 

 gible idea of the book, for the simple reason that the book itself is 

 not intelligible; but an extract from it will perhaps give our read- 

 ers some notion of its general character. Speaking of life, the 

 writer says: " A germ of life enters the matrix of its conception 

 as a secondary point in a line of projection, and this line is pro- 

 jected from a paternal fountain of both intelligence and life ; and 

 the germ, in order to attain to the freedom of a point, must be 

 stripped of its affiliations with special measurements. When thus 

 liberated, it has simply cast off the physical and resumed its nor- 

 mal psychical habitude. Then in its freedom it may affiliate 

 with the energies which flow in a line, even in those which follovp 

 the lunar rays of light; we say in the lunar, because such an en- 

 tity is yet of a psychical consistency " (p. 86). Elsewhere we 

 read that " we have in us earth, water, air, and fire, which yet 

 are neither earth, water, air, nor fire, nor anything truly " (p. 56); 



and in our humble opinion this so-called " hermetic philosophy '' 

 is neither philosophy, science, nor religion, nor "anything 

 truly." 



— " Higher Education in Indiana " is the title of a monograph by 

 Professor James Albert Woodburn of the Indiana University, pub- 

 lished by the government Bureau of Education as Circular of 

 Information No. 1, 1801. It contains an outline of the free com- 

 mon school system of Indiana; a brief account of that State's 

 educational history in the development of its common schools; 

 and a historical account of the origin, growth, and development of 

 Indiana's various institutions for higher education, together with 

 a glance at their present condition. The monograph makes a 

 volume of two hundred pages. 



— The October number of the Quarterly Journal of Economic&r 

 which has been delayed for a week or two after its usual date of 

 publication, has made its appearance, with a varied table of con- 

 tents. Noteworthy among the articles are a paper by Bishop 

 Keane, rector of the Catholic University of America, on the rela- 

 tion of the Catholic Church to the social questions of the day ; an- 

 other by Professor William Carey Jones of California on the 

 Kaweah Co-operative Colony in that State ; and one by Professor 

 Bemis of Vanderbilt University on the action of trades-unions 

 with respect to apprentices. Several writers continue the discus- 



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