August i, 1890.] 



SCIENCE. 



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AMONG THE PUBLISHERS. 



In the August number of the Jenness- Miller Magazine, the 

 phjisical culture article leads, as usual, in interest. 



— John Wiley & Sons announce as in active preparation for 

 immediate publication, "Practical Seamanship," by John Todd 

 and W. B. Whall; "Wrinkles in Practical Navigation," revised 

 and enlarged edition, by Capt. Lecky; and in the Euskin Library 

 "Seven Lamps of Architecture" (1 volume) and "Praeterita" (3 

 volumes). 



— Mrs. Lyman Abbott, wife of the successor to Henry Ward 

 Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, is to become one of the 

 editors of The Ladies' Home Journal on Sept. 1 next. An English 

 edition of this journal is to be brought out in London on a scale 

 never before attempted by an American magazine; and Mr. Cyrus 

 H. K. Curtis, the proprietor, and Mr. Edward W. Bok, the editor, 

 sailed for Europe week before last to perfect arrangements. 



— On Nassau Street in this city is an establishment devoted 

 exclusively to the publication and sale of maps, charts, atlases, 

 guide-books, globes, etc. The business was begun in a small way 

 a few years ago, and the large dimensions it has assumed speaks 

 well for the rapid and steady increase of public interest in geo- 

 graphical matters, as well as for the energy and enterprise of the 

 proprietor. Maps and atlases have long filled an important place 

 in the trade of many of our publishers and booksellers, but an 

 extensive business based exclusively on cartography is a novelty 

 on this side of the Atlantic. 



— The Baker & Taylor Company have just issued " Talks with 

 Ralph Waldo -Emerson," by Charles J. Woodbury, who had excep- 

 tional opportunities for access to and intercourse with Mr. Emer- 

 son. The book is at once an epitome of his philosophy and a 

 commentary upon the time and society in which he lived. It is 

 largely addressed to the youth of our country who aspire to that 

 true cultivation which was never better exemplified than in 

 Emerson's thought, work, and life. A hitherto unpublished por- 

 trait of the Concord philosopher is printed with the volume. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. (Boston) will issue shortly Anatole France's 

 " Abeille," edited by Charles P. Lebon of the English High School, 

 Boston; De Vigny's " Laurette, ou Le Cachet Rouge," edited by 

 Professor Alcfee Fortier of Tulane University, New Orleans ; and 

 "Selections for German Composition,"' with notes and vocabu- 

 lary, by Professor Charles Harris of Oberlin. These selectioni 

 are progressive, and each complete in itself. The book is com- 

 piled with the belief that much practice in translating easy Eng- 

 lish is better than slow and laborious work on diiHcult English. 



— Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, have in preparation an 

 important contribution to American archeeology, entitled "The 

 Antiquities of Tennessee," by Gates P. Thruston. The author 

 describes the recent excavations among the mounds and stone 

 grave cemeteries of Tennessee, which have brought to light a 

 large number of new objects, illustrating the arts and industries 

 of the mound-builders of the Mississippi valley. Many of them 

 have been discovered by the author, or under his supervision. 

 More than five hundred of these objects will be illustrated in the 

 engravings in this work, a number of them unique and of great 

 interest. 



— The July number of the Quarterly Review, issued in this 

 country in the original English form, under authority of the Eng- 

 lish publishers, by the Leonard Scott Publication Company, New 

 York, contains its usual quota of articles. The most important 

 one, so far as Americans are concerned, is unquestionably that 

 which closes the number, dealing with the government of New 

 York City. This paper, entitled ". Twenty Years of Home Rule 

 in New York," treats of the ascendency of the Irish in the local 

 government of the greatest city of America, and wiU undoubtedly 

 attract wide attention. The opening paper of the quarterly, on 

 Eton College, tells the history of one of the most ancient educa- 

 tional institutions in the world, and considers more especially its 

 place in English educational history. An article on the Emperor 

 Frederick, based on Gustav Freytag's " Reminiscences," reviews 



the more important events in the personal history of the ill-fated 

 prince. The study of the modern French novel, begun in the 

 April number, is concluded in a paper on " Realism and Decad- 

 ence in French Fiction," dealing with the works of Balzac, de 

 Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola, Daudet, Bourgot, and some of the more 

 recent French literary critics. An important paper on " Shak- 

 speare's Ghosts, Witches, and Fairies " discusses the belief of the 

 poet in the realities of these beings. An article on "The Acrop- 

 olis of Athens." accompanied with a map, reviews the more im- 

 portant of recent archaeological discoveries at this famous place 

 and the light they throw upon the ancient Athenian civilization. 

 An article on " Penny Fiction," which will attract great atten- 

 tion, considers the present state of the "penny-dreadful," and 

 presents a characteristic picture of English literary life below 

 stairs. Most of the publications noticed in this essay are almost 

 unknown in America, but they possess a decided importance of 

 their own from their wide circulation and almost total want of 

 literary merit. The personal and political history of Sir Robert 

 Walpole is discussed in an important study of the great states- 

 man and his times. An article on " Western China : its Products 

 and Trade," opens up the question of intercourse with the interior 

 of China; and a paper on " Mesmerism and Hypnotism " brings 

 the number to a conclusion. 



— The Edinburgh Review for July, issued in this country in the 

 original English form, under authority of the English publishers, 

 by the Leonard Scott Publication Company, New York, opens with 

 a paper on "The Earls of Haddington." The founder of this 

 family was the most influential man in Scotland in his day; and 

 the story of his life, and the progress of his family, are concerned 

 with many important events in Scottish history. The recent 

 promulgation, by the Mikado of Japan, of a monarchical consti- 

 tution, serves as a text for a highly picturesque account of progress 

 in Japan, wherein the remarkable and rapid civilization of this 

 Oriental power is concisely depicted. The comparisons between 

 old and new Japan in this paper will be found particularly inter- 

 esting. An article on " The Life and Works of Lavoisier " gathers 

 together many scattered fragments concerning the personal his- 

 tory of the celebrated French scientist, whose murder in the Revo- 

 lution was one of the darkest plots upon that dark time. An 

 essay on ' ' The Origin of Alphabets " traces the beg inni ngs and 

 early progress of the most useful invention of mankind. It briefly 

 considers the various theories that have been put forth to explain 

 its origin, and traces the linguistic, political, geographical, com- 

 mercial, and religious causes that have produced it. An article on 

 " Montchreslien, the First French Economist," tells the story of the 

 life and works of a man who preceded Adam Smith in the study 

 of social science. The history of this scholar has been aluiost lost 

 in obscurity, and the present is the most available account in 

 English of the nature of his studies. Another article in social 

 science deals with religious persecution in Russia, treating the 

 subject historically from the earliest times to the present. It 

 throws much light on the present status of Protestants and Cath- 

 olics in the Russian Empire. A study of birds in great Britain 

 reviews the natural history of birds native to the British Isles. 

 Their relations to man, and general place in the economy of nature, 

 are carefully considered. The biographical papers in the number 

 are increased by articles on Marie Bashkirtseff, and Charles, Prince 

 de Ligne, the latter one of the most picturesque figures in the 

 social life of Europe in the eighteenth century. A paper on " The 

 Campaign in the Sudan " deals with the late war in that region, 

 and devotes considerable space to Gen. Gordon's part in it. The 

 number concludes with the usual political article entitled " The 

 House of Commons Foiled," dealing with the paucity of results 

 accomplished by the present session of Parliament. 



— "For the sake of the American author who is now robbed, 

 for the sake of the foreign author who is now plundered, for the 

 sake of that vast body of people who read books in the United 

 States, and upon whom we now force all the worst and cheapest 

 stuff that the presses of the world pour forth, a bill for inter- 

 national copyright ought to be passed. Most of all, it ought to be 

 passed for the sake of the country's honor and good name." So 

 writes Henry Cabot Lodge on " International Copyright " in the 



