P^EBRUARY 15, 1889.] 



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ance reform. An analysis of the octogenarians of Massachusetts, 

 and a story of heredity, are full of hints. 



— " Sleeplessness in Infancy " is the subject of an article by Dr. 

 M. Allen Starr, professor at the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, New York, in the February number of Babyhood. " The 

 Causes of Common Colds," by Dr. William H. Flint ; " A Mother's 

 Frights," by Mrs. E. W. Babcock ; and " A Reformed Primer," by 

 Mr. Louis Heilprin, — are the other leading articles. 



— Ticknor & Co.'s February books include a novel by the author 

 of " The Story of Margaret Kent," " A Daughter of Eve ; " " Safe 

 Building," by Louis De Coppet Berg, Series I. ; and in their paper 

 series, " The Desmond Hundred" (No. 51), by Jane G. Austin 

 (ready Feb. 2), and " A Woman of Honor " (No. 52), by H. C. 

 Bunner (ready Feb. i6). 



— The Coiitetnporary Revieiv for February (New York, Leonard 

 Scott' Publication Company) contains an article entitled " The Bis- 

 marck Dynasty," which is unsigned, but is attributed to Sir Morell 

 Mackenzie, and is supposed to have been inspired by the Empress 

 Frederick. It reviews many of the incidents preceding the death 

 of the late emperor, as well as those that followed that event. It 

 is not sparing in its criticism of the present emperor, and calls him 

 an apt pupil of a cynical master, who found no difficulty, moral or 

 sentimental, in treating his mother in a fashion after Count Her- 

 bert's own heart, and in treating the Prince of Wales with such 

 discourtesy as to prevent any intercourse between them. The 

 article goes freely into the Geffcken and Morrier affairs. 



— The new and forthcoming books of D. Appleton & Co. in- 

 clude " Capital ; A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production," by 

 Karl Mar.v, translated from the third German edition ; " Nature 

 and Man : Essays, Scientific and Philosophical," by the late Wil- 

 liam Benjamin Carpenter, with an introductory memoir by J. Estlin 

 Carpenter, M. A., and a portrait ; " The Florida of To-day : A 

 Guide for Tourists and Settlers," by James Wood Davidson, with 

 railway and county map printed in colors, and illustrations ; " Ap- 

 pletons' Cyclopsedia of American Biography," edited by James 

 Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Volume VI. (completing the work) ; 

 " Mental Evolution in Man : The Origin of Human Faculty," by 

 George John Romanes ; " The Folk-Lore of Plants," by T. F. 

 Thiselton Dyer ; " A Dictionary of Terms. in Art," fully illustrated ; 

 " The Development of the Intellect," Part II. of " The Mind of the 

 Child," from the German of W. Preyer (International Education 

 Series) ; and " Co-operative Building and Loan Associations, " by 

 Seymour Dexter. 



— A recent number of the Geogi-aphisches Jahrbtcch' covi\.3\\-\s a 

 list of the geographical chairs in the universities of different coun- 

 tries. Germany, as before, takes the lead with nineteen chairs. In 

 Austria-Hungary there are fourteen. Denmark has an extraordi- 

 nary professorship. In France there are nineteen professorships and 

 lectureships connected with the various universities, besides seven 

 lectureships in special institutions. Great Britain figures in the list 

 ■with two chairs. In Italy there are thirteen professorships ; in 

 Holland, one ; in Russia, three ; and in Switzerland, two. 



— The Brooklyn Ethical Association have begun the publication 

 of a series of lectures on the subject of evolution, under the general 

 title of " The Modern Science Essayist ; " and the first number of 

 the series, by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, on " Herbert Spencer," 

 has just been issued by The New Ideal Publishing Company of 

 Boston. It is popular rather than scientific, the object of the lec- 

 tures being to propagate the evolution doctrine among the masses. 

 Mr. Thompson is evidently a thoroughgoing evolutionist, not only 

 in biology and history, but also in ethics and religion, and he puts 

 Mr. Spencer on the highest pinnacle of fame, declaring him to be 

 " much greater than either " Plato or Aristotle, though he conde- 

 scendingly admits that these men were " really worthy Greeks, who 

 would be considered good philosophers, as philosophers go in our 

 time." A part of this lecture, or essay, is occupied with biographical 

 and personal anecdotes of Mr. Spencer, which every reader will find 

 interesting ; and the rest gives a brief summary of his leading doc- 

 trines, with special stress on their religious and ethical bearings. 

 The second paper of the series will relate to Darwin, while the 



succeeding ones will deal with various aspects of the evolution phi- 

 losophy. 



— Professor Nicholas Murray Butler has given to the public his 

 " Argument for Manual Training," originally read before the 

 American Institute of Instruction, and the pamphlet is published 

 by E. L. Kellogg & Co. of New York. Professor Butler is an en- 

 thusiast on the subject of which he treats, and declares that " a 

 movement at once so philosophic and so far-reaching as that in fa- 

 vor of manual training has not come into educational thought since 

 Comenius burst the bonds of mediasvalism two and a half centuries 

 ago." He holds that under our present system of education there 

 is no adequate training of the executive and constructive faculties, 

 and that the defect can only be supplied by regular manual exer- 

 cises in the common schools. His arguments in favor of the 

 system are not specially new, but they are clearly and forcibly pre- 

 sented, and will be interesting to educators everywhere. An ap- 

 pendix to the pamphlet gives a brief summary of the course of 

 manual training that has been followed for sometime in the schools 

 of Jamestown, N.Y., so that those not already familiar with the 

 system can see what it is. 



— Mrs. Oscar Wilde appears as a contributor to the Woman's 

 World for March (Cassell & Company), as does the famous novel- 

 ist " Guida " and the equally famous author of " How to be Happy 

 though Married." 



— In The Truth Seeker of Feb. 16 will be published " The Limi- 

 tations of Toleration," a discussion between Col. Robert G. Inger- 

 soll, Hon. Frederick R. Coudert, and Gov. Stewart L.Woodford, 

 before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, stenographically 

 reported for The Truth Seeker by I. N. Baker. The publication 

 of this discussion has been delayed from various causes. F. R. 

 Coudert is a Roman Catholic, and one of the best orators of New 

 York. Gov. Stewart L. Woodford is a Protestant, and a splendid 

 speaker. The discussion is the only oral public debate ever en- 

 gaged in by Col. Ingersoll. He had the opening and the closing 

 of the argument, and made two of his most forcible and eloquent 

 speeches. President Palmer's introductions of the orators will also 

 be given. 



— The three methods employed for making window-glass will 



be described and pictured in The Popular Science Monthly for 

 March by Professor C. Hanford Henderson of Philadelphia. Dr. 

 Andrew D. White will conclude the subject of " Demoniacal Pos- 

 session and Insanity," which forms one of his " New Chapters in the 

 Warfare of Science," now publishing in that magazine. The forth- 

 coming article will tell how the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and 

 Calvinistic clergy vied with each other, in exorcising and persecut- 

 ing the unhappy victims of insanity, and how medical science 

 slowly introduced more humane treatment, and finally drove back 

 superstition from this part of the great battle-field. The relations of 

 " Competition and the Trusts " will be discussed by Mr. George 

 lies, who first points out the great waste of effort and other losses, 

 due to competition, and takes the ground that the trusts have, on 

 the contrary, reduced the costs of business, and hence, if duly reg- 

 ulated, can serve the public better than competition. Many educa- 

 tors, who would be glad to use science in the training of young 

 pupils if they knew just how to go about it, will be interested in 

 the practical directions given in an article on " Natural Science in 

 Elementary Schools," by J. M. Arms. Mr. Arms writes with a full 

 appreciation of the true aims of science-teaching, and from an ex- 

 perience of ten years in the work. 



— The Nineteenth Century for February (New York, Leonard 

 Scott Publication Company) contains Professor Huxley's famous 

 article on agnosticism. An interesting symposium is given on 

 noticeable books, with contributions by Mr. Gladstone, Frederic 

 Harrison, Rowland E. Prothero, W. S. Lilly, Augustine Birrell, 

 Hamilton Aide, the Rev. Dr. Jessopp, and Mr. Morley. Further 

 comments are given on the relation of examination to education, by 

 W. Baptiste Scoones, Hon. Auberon Herbert, Sir Frederick Pollock, 

 Sir Joseph Fayrer, Francis Gallon, Dr. Priestley, and the Bishop of 

 Carlisle. Among other contributions is one from his Majesty the 

 King of Sweden and Norway. 



