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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XIX. No. 477 



the inorganic brancli of chemistry, and the names of the distin- 

 guished chemists througliout Europe and America whose co-opera- 

 tion the editor has been fortunate in securing would appear to 

 promise well for its Talue and success. The first number, says 

 Nature, contains the following six original memoirs : " Phosphorus 

 Sulphoxide," by T. E. Thorpe and A. E. Tutton; "The Double 

 Acids of Heptatomic Iodine," by C. W. Blomstrand; "The Action 

 of Hydrogen Peroxide upon certain Fluorides," by A. Piccini ; 

 "Atnmoniacal Platinum Compounds," by O. Carlgren and P. T. 

 Cleve ; " Preparation of Tungstates free from Molybdenum," by 

 C. Friedheim and E. Meyer; "A Lecture Experiment," by C. 

 Winkler. 



— "Humanity in its Origin and Early Growth," by E. Colbert, is 

 a work recently issued by the Open Court Publishing Company 

 of Chicago. It is, of course, mainly historic in character, and 

 much that it contains is familiar. The history of religion is the 

 leading topic in it, but considerable space is also devoted to the 

 origin and growth of language and the rise of the industrial arts. 

 The book, however, is full of crude and often fantastic theories, 

 the author being one of those men, by no means rare in these 

 days, who have thrown off all traditional religious belief and taken 

 an attitude of religious skepticism, but are, nevertheless, extremely 

 credulous of new- fangled theories and alleged scientific discoveries. 

 Thus Mr. Colbert tells us with an air of assured conviction that 

 man originated at the North Pole, and also that some thousands 



of years hence most of the land in the northern hemisphere will 

 be submerged by the ocean, while a vast southern continent will 

 arise from the waters. Religion, he thinks, originated in the 

 worship of the heavenly bodies; and expressly says that the Greek 

 and Roman Jupiter is nothing else than the planet of that name 

 (p. 230). He thinks that religion was nuinly the work of the 

 priests, who used the popular belief in astrology and magic as a 

 means of domineering over men; and he nowhere shows any con- 

 ception of the grandeur of the religious sentiment nor any respect 

 for the religious beliefs of mankind. Yet he is half inclined to 

 believe in astrology himself, holding that "a great deal may be 

 said in justification of the old fashioned idea of stellar and plane- 

 tary rule over the affairs of men" (p. 390j. Altogether the book 

 is a curious one, especially as revealing the character of the 

 author's own mind. 



— Houghton, Mifflin & Co., have recently issued a large- 

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 John Fiske, a work in four volumes, forming the beginning of 

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 supremacy from the Spanish race to the English, etc. The work 

 contains^abundant foot-notes, which are the results of vast research. 

 We understand that the whole of this large-paper edition has al- 



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