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frontii^piece; and Dr. Prosper Bender discusses " The French Cana- 

 dian Peasantry." The " Prospectus of the First American Edition 

 of Shakespeare," a curious antique treasure, appears in minor 

 topics, and "Sixty Waymarks in the World's Progress" furnishes 

 a list worthy of careful preservation. 



— Messrs. Ginn & Co. announce to be published in August or 

 September Shelley's " Defense of Poetry," edited by Albert S. 

 Cook, professor in Yale University. Shelley's "Defense" may be 

 regarded as a companion-piece to that of Sidney. Both are the 

 productions of poets who are also distinguished for their prose ; of 

 poets essentially lyrical, whose highest praise is given to the epic 

 and the drama; and in both a substantially identical philosophy is 

 set forth with fervid eloquence. In their diction, however, the 

 one is of the sixteenth century, and the other of the nineteenth. 

 For this reason a comparison of the two is of interest to a student 

 of historical English style. But, apart from this, the intrinsic 

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 and expounds is one which peculiarly needs enforcement at the 

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— Messrs. Macmillan will issue early next month a reprint from 

 the collected works of Edward Fitzgerald (1889) of his famous 

 version of the Eubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which is practically 

 unobtainable, except in those three volumes. The author, as is 

 well known, never put his own name on the titlepage of any of the 

 four editions which appeared during his lifetime, and the show of 

 anonymity is still preserved. In accordance with their admirable 

 custom, which other publishers would do well to follow, Messrs. 

 Macmillan have given on the verso of the titlepage a brief bibli- 

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volume of Professor Alfred Marshall's long-expected treatise enti- 

 tled "Principles of Economics." It is an attempt to present a 

 modern version of old doctrines with the aid of the new work, and 

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^Babyhood for August cautions parents against allowing chil- 

 dren to hear too much about " mad " dogs, since hydrophobia is 

 so rare a disease that most physicians never, in fact, see a case of 

 it; while lyssophobia (i.e., dread of hydrophobia), a purely nervous 

 affection, may and sometimes does prove fatal. This number of 

 the magazine contains also a few hints as to water sports for chil- 

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 of resuscitation from drowning. There is an article upon "Hives," 

 and one upon ' ' Signs of Disease in Early Life, " each by an eminent 

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 the season, are discussed, and the interesting series " Kindergarten 

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— The August number of The Forum will contain a remarkable 

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 populated portions of Europe, and he shows the ease with which 

 the number of acres now cultivated in the civilized parts of the 

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 the United States, for instance, can be made to sustain in plenty, 

 and with much greater cheapness than now, a population at least 

 ten times as dense. The writer shows conclusively why it is that 

 such slow progress is made in these revolutionary improvements 

 in agriculture, but he predicts with confidence that we are on the 

 eve of the reign of plenty. He proposes that a hundred acres be 

 cultivated in this way as a part of the exposition at Chicago, in 

 order to demonstrate the possibilities of multiplying many times 

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