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H. F. Morland Simpson) ; ' Sources of the Etrus- 

 ■can and Basque languages,' by Robert Ellis ; 

 * Greeko-Slavonic literature, and its relation to the 

 folk-lore of Europe during the middle ages,' by 

 M. Gaster ; ' Garibaldi, recollections of his public 

 and private life,' by Elpis Melena (translated from 

 the German by Charles Ed wardes) ; ' Air analysis,' 

 by J. A. Wanklyn and W. J. Cooper ; ' For hap- 

 piness,' by Alexander Calder ; ' The Indian em- 

 pire, its people, history, and products,' by W. W. 

 Hunter ; ' Miscellaneous essays on subjects con- 

 nected with the Malay peninsula and the Indian 

 Archipelago,' edited by R. Rost ; ' Manava- 

 dharma-castra, the code of manu,' by J. Jolly ; 

 'The life of Hiuen Tsiang,' by the Shamans Hwui 

 Ei and Yen-Tsung, with a preface containing an 

 account of the works of I-Tsing by Samuel Bael ; 

 ' A sketch of the modern languages of Oceanica,' 

 by R. N. Oust ; ' Phantasms of the living,' by 

 Edmund Gurney, Frederick W. H. Myers, and 

 Frank Podmore ; ' Al Beruni's India,' and trans- 

 lation of the above into English, by Edward 

 Sachau ; ' The social history of the races of man- 

 kind,' by A.- Feathermann ; 'A dictionary of the 

 Targumin, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, 

 and the Midi-ashic literature,' compiled by M. Jas- 

 trow ; ' Dictionary of the Kongo language as 

 spoken at San Salvador, the old capital of Congo,' 

 with an introduction by R. N. Cust, and 'A 

 grammar of the Kongo language,' by W. Holman 

 Bentley ; ' South-African butterflies,' by Roland 

 Tritnen ; ' Reports of the archaeological survey of 

 southern India,' by James Burgess ; ' The imperial 

 gazetteer of India,' by W. W. Hunter ; ' Shall 

 Russian treachery win the day ? ' by James 

 Samuelson ; ' Shropshire folk-lore,' edited by 

 Charlotte Sophia Burne, from the collections of 

 Georgina F. Jackson ; ' Language, as illustrated 

 by Bible translation,' by Robert Needham Cust ; 

 ' The church and the stage,' by William Henry 

 Hudson ; ' A condensed Russian grammar,' by F. 

 Freeth ; ' A B C dictionary to the United States, 

 Canada, and Mexico,' by B. Bradshaw ; ' Dorn's 

 code for commercial telegrams,' compiled by Felix 

 Dorn ; ' A Romanised Japanese reader,' by Basil 

 Hall Chamberlain ; ' The Sinhalese hand-book in 

 Roman characters,' by C. Alwis ; ' The tropical 

 agriculturist,' compiled by A. M. and J. Ferguson ; 

 " Indian poetry,' by Edwin Arnold ; ' Colloquial 

 Portuguese, or, The words and phrases of every- 

 day life,' by Alexander J. D. D'Orsey ; ' Elemen- 

 tary bandaging and surgical dressing,' by Walter 

 Pye. 



— Messrs. Ticknor & Company announce for 

 pubHcation on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1886, ' Self- 

 consciousness of noted persons,' by Hon. J. S. 

 Morrill. The senator from Vermont has in this 



work condensed the fruits of years of research in 

 an unfamiliar field. A small edition was privately 

 printed some time since, and met with such 

 praise, that Senator Momll has since revised it 

 for publication. They also announce ' The Vir- 

 ginia campaign of General Pope in 1863,' being 

 vol. ii. of papers read before the Military histori- 

 cal society of Massachusetts ; and ' The house at 

 High Bridge,' by Edgar Fawcett. 



— From the Cambridge University press the 

 following new publications are announced : ' A 

 history of the theory of elasticity and of the 

 strength of materials, from Galilei to the present 

 time,' vol. i. (' Galilei to Saint- Venant, 1639-1850 '), 

 by the late I. Todhunter, edited and completed by 

 Karl Pearson ; ' Lectures on the physiology of 

 plants,' by S. H. Vines ; ' Travels in northern 

 Arabia in 1876 and 1877.' by Charles M. Doughty 

 (with illustrations) ; ' The scientific papers of the 

 late Prof. J. Clerk Maxwell,' edited by W. D. 

 Niven. 



— Three persons in one family were poisoned in 

 Brooklyn last week by eating unwholesome cheese. 

 It is reported that cheese obtained from the same 

 factory has caused sickness in two other Brooklyn 

 families. The matter is now being investigated 

 by the board of health. 



— Another death occurred recently in a Brook- 

 lyn dentist's office while ether was being ad- 

 ministered. The dentist has been brought to 

 court, and the case will be judicially investigated 

 next week. 



— The New York state board of health has 

 found two samples of cream-of -tartar adulterated 

 with oxalic acid. The entire stock of the article 

 has been seized in both the stores where the sam- 

 ples were found, and, if the manufacturers can be 

 found, they will be prosecuted. 



— Nature states that the International geodetic 

 conference will assemble in Berlin on Oct. 20. Its 

 principal business will be to deliberate on the best 

 method of executing the resolutions arrived at 

 at Rome and Washington in 1883 and 1884, re- 

 specting the actual measurement of a degree on 

 the earth's surface, and likewise in reference to a 

 scientific survey of the European continent. The 

 adoption by all nations, of Greenwich as the first 

 meridian, in accordance with the decision taken 

 at Washington, is to be strictly enforced in prac- 

 tice. The introduction of international normal 

 time, on the other hand, has had to be postponed, 

 owing to insuperable practical difficulties con- 

 nected with ordinary business life. In order to 

 promote the project of any international survey of 

 the entire globe, it is proposed to establish a cen- 

 tral geodetic office in Berlin. 



