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SCIENCE. 



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— E. & F. N. Spon announce as in preparation " The Engineers' 

 SI<etch-Book of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Con- 

 trivances, Details, etc.," by T. W. Barber ; " Public Institutions ; 

 their Engineering, Sanitary, and other Appliances, with the Con- 

 struction of Special Departments," by F. Colyer; "Practical Gold 

 Mining," a comprehensive treatise on the origin and occurrence of 

 gold-bearing gravels, rocks, and ores, and the methods by which 

 the gold is extracted, by C. G. W. Lock ; and " Egyptian Irriga- 

 tion," by W. Willcocks. 



— The Baker & Taylor Company announce for early publication, 

 " The Drill-Master in German, based on Systematic Gradation and 

 Steady Repetition," by Solomon Deutsch, Ph.D., author of " Let- 

 ters for Self-Instruction in German," etc. This work the author 

 claims to be an application of the principle of presenting but one 

 difficulty at a time, and illustrating and explaining it so fully and 

 by such numerous examples that it has ceased to be a difficulty 

 before another step is taken. It is sought less to give grammati- 

 cal instruction than to cause the language itself to be so learned 

 that the student without a thought of grammar would never use it 

 except in a grammatical manner. They also announce a " Geneal- 

 ogy of the Farnham Family," by J. M. W. Farnham. 



— A. S. Barnes & Co. will publish at once Ex -United States 

 Minister Theodore S. Fay's long-promised work, " The Three 

 Germanies." Dr. Philip Schaff, who read the work in manuscript, 

 says of it, " Few men have had better opportunities to study the 

 history of Germany than Theodore S. Fay, who for twenty-five 

 years occupied diplomatic positions in the service of the United 

 States at Berlin, London, and Berne, and has been residing near 

 Berlin since his retirement from public life. He was an eye-wit- 

 ness of the important events of 1848, 1866, and 1870. His personal 

 experience and long observation give a fresh and life-like charac- 

 ter to his interesting work on ' The Three Germanies,' especially 

 the greater part of the second volume from the reign of King 

 Frederick William III., to the death of Emperor Frederick III. in 

 June, 1888." 



— The Worthington Company have ready a large-paper edition 

 (limited to 500 copies) of David M. Main's " Treasury of English 

 Sonnets." 



— Mrs. Humphry Ward has given up her visit to this country. 



— An outcome of Professor J. P. Mahaf^y's tour of Greece will 

 be a book on the monasteries of that country. 



— Margaret Deland's new novel will be entitled " Sidney Page." 

 Though not dealing directly with theology, it will have a religious 

 motive. 



— The Duke of Argyll has written a new work, entitled " What 

 is Truth ? " in which the question is considered from a scientific as 

 well as from a theological point of view. 



— Marion Crawford's "With the Immortals " is being translated 

 into French, and Renan will contribute a preface. The French 

 Academy has awarded to Mr. Crawford a prize of two hundred 

 dollars for his two novels written by himself in French, and en- 

 titled " Zoroastre" and " Le Crucifix de Marzio." 



— Mr. Josesph Thomson, the author of " Through Masai-Land," 

 and as an African traveller second only to Stanley, has just written 

 a book on his recent explorations, " Travels in the Atlas and 

 Southern Morocco," which will be published immediately in New 

 York by Longmans, Green, & Co. It will contain six maps and 

 more than sixty illustrations. 



— Alfred R. Conkling of New York, the nephew of Roscoe 

 Conkling, generally known as Alderman Conkling, has about com- 

 pleted the work of collecting material for his life of his uncle, and 

 has a portion of the book already written. He expects to have the 

 entire work ready for the press in October. The publishers will 

 be Charles L. Webster & Co. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. have become the American publishers of the 

 Isaac Pitman's shorthand books. They will shortly publish De 

 Garmo's "Essentials of Method." The function of the book is to 

 discover, through "an analysis of the mental activities involved in 

 knowing, what are the essential elements of good method in teach- 



ing." It is accompanied by practical illustrations showing " the 

 application of the general laws of right method to all the branches 

 of the common school curriculum." 



— The Long Island Historical Society will soon print, for sub- 

 scribers, about one hundred and fifty unpublished letters of Wash- 

 ington, from its manuscript collections, in a large and handsome 

 octavo volume, entitled " George Washington and Mount Vernon." 

 It will contain a portrait of Washington, not heretofore engraved, 

 from an original painting by Charles Peale (1787), owned by the 

 Rev. Mason Gallagher of Brooklyn ; also a portrait of Betty Lewis, 

 Washington's only sister. The historical introduction and annota- 

 tions will be prepared by Mr. Moncure D. Conway, biographer of 

 Edmund Randolph. 



— L. Prang & Co. have published a little booklet containing 

 illustrations in color of the mayflower and the golden-rod, with 

 charming verses by Hopewell Goodwin, in which each flower sets 

 forth its own merits to the choice for America's national flower. 

 Its object is chiefly to decide which of the two is considered the 

 most popular flower, and which therefore might be considered the 

 national flower of America. To ascertain the respective popularity 

 of these and our other American flowers, and thereby hasten, if 

 possible, a solution of the question, the above little work is pub- 

 lished. A postal-card accompanies each book, on which the pur- 

 chaser is requested to fill out, with full address, his choice, and re- 

 turn it. The result, as it appears from time to time, will be pub- 

 lished in the daily papers in different parts of the country, and on 

 Jan. I, 1890, L. Prang & Co. will mail to every voter the final 

 decision. 



— A. C. Armstrong & Son are preparing " The Complete Works 

 of William Wordsworth." They are to be known as the " New 

 Handy Volume Red Line Edition," and will be issued in eight 

 volumes. 



— George Brumder, 286 Water Street, Milwaukee, Wis., has 

 just ready the first part of a work on " North American Birds." 

 No efforts have been spared to make this one of the most excellent 

 works on the subject. The colored plates are made after the origi- 

 nal water-color paintings by Professor Robert Ridgway of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, Professor A. Goering of Leipzig, and Gus- 

 tav Muetzel of BerUn. The firm which produced these originals in 

 a highly finished style, Ernst Kaufmann, in Lahr, Germany, and 

 New York, is well known in art-circles for its specialty, chromo- 

 work. Mr. Nehrling is an original writer, not simply a compiler. 

 He has observed the life of our birds in the woods of Wisconsin, 

 where he was born, in the prairies of Illinois, in Florida, Texas, 

 Missouri, and many other States. The work will be in twelve 

 parts, of forty to forty-eight pages reading-matter, and three col- 

 ored plates, and will be completed in the fall of 1890. 



— Swan, Sonnenschein, & Co. have published the collection of 

 early letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Mr. D. G. Ritchie. 

 In addition to those of Mrs. Carlyle, the volume includes eleven 

 unpublished letters of Carlyle, dealing chiefly with his studies in 

 connection with the projected history of German literature and his 

 " Cromwell." 



— Ginn & Co. announce in the College Series of Latin Authors, 

 Cicero's " Brutus," edited by Martin Kellogg. In the " Brutus" 

 which was composed in 46 B.C., and purports to be a conversation 

 with Atticus and Brutus, Cicero traces the development of oratory 

 among the Romans down to his own time, with critical notices of 

 about two hundred speakers. The long catalogue is relieved of 

 dryness by the dialogue form, the freedom of digression, and by 

 Cicero's fresh and teeming style. Professor Kellogg has edited the 

 work especially for early college-reading. The introduction touches 

 upon points of interest to those to whom Cicero is no stranger, and 

 contains a full conspectus. The notes deal with the subject-mat- 

 ter, historical relations, and diction of the dialogue rather than 

 with the commonplaces of grammar. Parallel passages are freely 

 given, especially from Cicero's other rhetorical works and from Quin- 

 tilian. The book is believed to be a substantial addition to the ap- 

 paratus for the intelligent study of one of the most characteristic 

 and valuable works in Latin literature. 



