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[Vol. XVI. No. 399 



— Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will publish early next month, in 

 their Adventure Series, " The Buccaceers and Marooners of 

 America " (edited and illustrated by Howard Pyle), being an 

 account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of certain 

 notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main. Mr. Gladstone's new 

 book, entitled "Landmarks of Homeric Study," will be issued 

 immediately by the same firm. The author says in a recent letter, 

 " Please to bear in mind that this little work was planned for 

 America. The form of it seemed to me more suited for an Ameri- 

 can public," 



— Among the new books of C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N.Y., is 

 "Home Exercise for Health and Cure." This is a translation of 

 a German work by D. G. R. Schreber, M.D., which is said to 

 have sold in Germany to the extent of 140,000 copies. The pur- 

 pose of the book is to furnish a cheap, easily understood, and 

 practicable system of physical exercise. 



— Those interested in chemical analysis will find much to inter- 

 est them in '■ Electro-Chemical Analysis," by Edgar F. Smith, just 

 published by P. Blakiston, Son, & Co. The author is professor of 

 analytical chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. These 

 electro-chemical methods of quantitative analysis are in the main 



new, and are constantly being used to a greater and greater extent. 

 Professor Smith has done a service in giving chemists this book, 

 which is rendered the more valuable by a profuse but not obtrusive 

 amount of reference to the literature. 



— Those having classes in solid geometry should send to Mac- 

 millan & Co. for a copy of Hayward's "Elements of Solid Geome- 

 try." The author, who is a fellow of the Royal Society, and is 

 senior mathematical master in Harrow, has produced a compact 

 text-book which departs from the Euclid so beloved in England, 

 and is likely to find many users on this side. 



— The forthcoming visit of the Count of Paris to this country 

 will no doubt excite great public interest, and The Illustrated 

 American has endeavored to cater to this by a lengthy article, 

 profusely illustrated with portraits and scenes with particular 

 reference to the distinguished visitor's career in our civil war. 

 Those who do not know Tlie Illustrated American should buy 

 copies for a few weeks, and they are sure to find matters of inter- 

 est. The recent series of illustrations of French artists and writers 

 at their work were of special value. 



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