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paper on " The Fundamental Idea of Capital," holding that cap- 

 ital is " every thing on which, labor being expended before the 

 produce is wanted, the return will be increased beyond what it 

 would be if the same labor had been exerted contemporaneously." 

 The paper is of a rambling character, and the author's view is not 

 presented with clearness. The journal contains the usual variety 

 of miscellaneous matter, and closes with the first part of a paper 

 on " Italian Finance," by A. B. Houghton, comment on which 

 may be deferred till the appearance of the remainder. 



— The Open Court for last week contains two articles upon 

 the life and work of the late Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, the founder of 

 the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, entitled " The 

 Universal Faith, an Address upon Mr. Courtlandt Palmer," by T. 

 B. Wakeman ; and " The Founder of the Nineteenth Century 

 Club," by Moncure D. Conway. Professor Georg von Gizycki of 

 Berlin, Germany, has two articles in The Open Court of Dec. 

 27 and Jan. 3, entided " Death and Life," and " The Conservation 

 of Energy in the Moral World." 



— Mr. Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, the new president of the 

 Nineteenth Century Club, and author of " The Problem of Evil," is 

 about to publish an inquiry into the fundamental principles of social 

 ethics and a discussion of the trend of social evolution. " Social 

 Progress" is the title of his book, which will be issued shortly by 

 Longmans, Green, & Co., both in London and New York. Mr. 

 Thompson concludes by declaring his belief that social progress 

 can be attained only through the perfection of social liberty. 



— The first number (January) of the Cumberland Presbyterian 

 Review — a quarterly magazine, devoted to theology, and the dis- 

 cussion of current religious, literary, and scientific topics, and ques- 

 tions connected with church-work and moral reforms, with J. M. 

 Howard, D.D., as editor, and D. M. Harris, D.D., M. B. De Witt, 

 D.D., and W. J. Darby, D.D., as associate editors — contains 

 " Physical Basis of Moral Life," by President A. B. Miller of Waynes- 

 burg College ; " The Family of God," by the Rev. W. H. Black, St. 

 Louis, Mo. ; " The Mosaic Doctrines of Death and After-Death," 

 by Professor R. V. Foster of Cumberland University ; " Preaching 

 without Notes," by Rev. W. S. Danley, Lincoln, 111. ; " Charles 

 Darwin," by Professor J. I. D. Hinds of Cumberland University ; 

 " The Pastor Getting Hold and Holding On," by the Rev. W. J. 

 Darby, Evansville, Ind. ; " The Philosophy of Missions," by Rev. 

 D. E. Bushnell, Waynesburg, Penn. ; " Our Senses : How We Use 

 Them, and What They Tell Us," by John J. Tigert of Vanderbilt 

 University ; " The Decay of Christian Citizenship," by T. M. Hurst, 

 Nashville, Tenn. ; " Spirituality in the Church," by the Rev. P. 

 Ma'rgeson, Marshall, Mo.; and "The Bible and Utility," by the 

 Rev. J. D. Gold, Waukon, lo. ; besides editorials, notes, and re- 

 views of books. Single copies, per year, $2,50; in clubs of five or 

 more, %i. Subscriptions should be sent to John D. Wilson, agent, 

 331 Church Street^ Nashville, Tenn. 



— Cassell & Co. will publish at once the fourteenth and conclud- 

 ing volume of the " Encyclopajdic Dictionary." This work has 

 been in preparation for nearly seventeen years, and extends to no 

 less than 5,629 pages. 



— D. Appleton & Co. publish a translation of Karl Marx's im- 

 portant work on " Capital," edited by Frederick Engels ; also, in 

 their Town and Country Library, " A Fair Emigrant," a story by 

 Rosa MulhoUand. Hereafter the volumes in this library will be put 

 up in a neat cloth binding at 75 cents per volume. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. publish for school use " Selected Poems of 

 Wordsworth," collected and edited by A. J. George. The volume 

 will contain lyrics, sonnets, odes, and narrative poems such as are 

 requisite for a thorough understanding of the genius of the great 

 poet. With the exception of the sonnets, which are grouped ac- 

 cording to subjects, they will be arranged in chronological order. 

 In the matter of annotation, only such material will be furnished as 

 the pupil would not be likely to find elsewhere. 



— The Publishers' Weekly states that A. D. F. Randolph & 

 Co. have issued an edition of " The Thumb Bible," by John Tay- 

 lor (born in 1580, died in 1654), commonly called the" Water-Poet." 



Taylor, after fulfilling his apprenticeship to a waterman, seems to 

 have served in the fleet under the Earl of Essex. Afterward he 

 took up the trade of a waterman, and for a time was an excise col- 

 lector. He was not really a poet, although he could string rhymes 

 together with facility. At the approach of the civil war, he retired 

 to Oxford, and was a publican. His sympathies were wholly with 

 the Royalists; and when the town surrendered, he returned to Lon- 

 don, and there kept a public-house. Here he died. He published 

 " Verbum Sempereternum " (an epitome of the Old Testament in 

 verse), dedicated to Charles I. ; " Salvator Mundi " (an epitome of 

 the New Testament in verse). These two were published in one 

 volume in 1693, and dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester, etc., 

 under the title of " Verbum Sempiternum," being an epitome of the 

 Bible, termed from it size " The Thumb Bible." It was reprinted 

 in 1849 by Longman & Co., London, and again during the present 

 year by Hodder & Stoughton. 



— D. Appleton & Co. have now ready the first volume of " An 

 Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary," to be completed in 

 four volumes, compiled under the direction of Dr. Frank P. Foster, 

 editor of the New York Medical Journal, with the collaboration 

 of a dozen of the leading physicians of America. It is to be a dic- 

 tionary of technical terms used by writers on medicine, physics, 

 botany, chemistry, zoology, and other collateral sciences in the 

 Latin, English, French, and German languages. Accuracy, con- 

 venience of arrangement, and comprehensiveness are guaranteed 

 by the practical scholars in charge of this herculean undertaking. 



— " The literary executor of Theodore Parker," says the Boston 

 Transcript, " is preparing a new edition of his ' Historic Ameri- 

 cans,' in which there will be added to Franklin, Washington, John 

 Adams, and Jefferson, Parker's sketches of John Quincy Adams, 

 Dr. Channing, and Webster. The volume will be twice as large as 

 that edited by Octavius B. Frothingham, in 1870, and will contain 

 a larger introduction and more frequent notes. Each biography 

 will be short, not running beyond seventy-five pages, and these will 

 contain the verdict of Parker on the life, character, and results of 

 all of these great Americans, whose career covers the period from 

 1740 to 1850, or more than a century. The volume will be followed 

 next summer by Parker's autobiography, — a work essentially new, 

 though made up largely from materials published by himself and 

 others from 1850 to 1875. Many passages from the diary and letters 

 will be given, however, which have never been published, relating 

 to Parker's acquaintance with Alcott, Emerson, Margaret Fuller, 

 Bettine Brentano, Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and other contem- 

 poraries." 



— Sampson Low & Co. have in preparation " A History of Eng- 

 lish Bookselling," by William Roberts. 



— A work to be issued by the Cambridge University Press is 

 " The Literary Remains of Albrecht Diirer," by W. M. Conway. 

 The volume will contain transcripts from the British Museum man- 

 uscripts, and it will be illustrated. 



— "The Villon Society," says the Academy, "will shortly is- 

 sue an addendum to their edition of ■ The Thousand Nights and 

 One Night.' The new volume will contain the stories of Aladdin 

 and Zeyn el Asnam, translated from the newly discovered Arabic 

 text by Mr. John Payne." 



— The Geographical Society of St. Petersburg has just issued a 

 superb edition of the last work of Gen. Prjevalsky, entitled " From 

 Kiakhta to the Sources of the Yellow River," an exploration of 

 northern Thibet and the route across the basin of Tarim by Lob 

 Nor. The book gives portraits of the author and his companions, 

 and many maps and illustrations. Like all work done by this la- 

 mented author, it is exhaustive and scholarly, and a convincing 

 proof that the untimely death of the writer is a great loss to Rus- 

 sian science. 



— The readers of The Popular Science Alonthly will be glad 

 to learn that Dr. Andrew D. White's " New Chapters in the War- 

 fare of Science " are to be resumed in the February number. Dr. 

 White has devoted several years to the investigation of this subject, 

 and is now in Europe making an examination of the libraries there 

 for additional material, which shall enable him to continue his ac- 



