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Aryan race to the writings of mediaeval days. The author re- 

 views the labors of Sanscrit scholars in this vast field of literature, 

 and then gives a survey of the great Indian epics, whose character 

 and scope are illustrated by copious extracts. Her work has 

 elicited the cordial interest of such authorities as Professor Max 

 Mtiller and Sir Monier Williams, professor of Sanscrit in Oxford 

 University; and the latter has done her the high honor of revising 

 the chapter on " Krishna." 



— Messrs. E. & F. N. Spon announce as nearly ready, " Mining 

 and Ore Dressing Machinery," by C. G. Warnford Lock, being a 

 comprehensive treatise dealing with the modern practice of win- 

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 all the operations incidental thereto, and preparing the product 

 for the market ; and as just published ' ' Waterways and Water 

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 Stephen Jeans. The purpose of this latter volume is to deal with 

 water- transjiort only, and more particularly that part of water- 

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 and the dates at which the principal canal and river navigations 

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— The following announcement by the D. Van Nostrand Com- 

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 " Fuel," by C. William Siemens, is now out of print, but it is to 

 be entirely rewritten and very much enlarged by Mr. Arthur V. 

 Abbott. The additional matter will take up the subject of gas 

 and petroleum as fuel ; whUe the chapter on artificial fuel, by John 

 Worn maid, will be retained, with some qew matter. Tables will 

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ready soon, will be "Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical 

 Description of the Edison System, by L. H. Latimer, to which is 

 added the Design and Operation of Incandescent Stations by C. 

 J. Field, and a Paper on the Maximum Efficiency of Incandescent 

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— The Quarterly Journal of Economics, published for Harvard 

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 with the number for October. The number will contain papers 

 by Professor A. G. Warner of Nebraska, on " Some Experiments 

 in Behalf of the Unemployed," describing interesting experiments 

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Life in Death, as Manifest in Falling Leaves. 

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Ants of France. 

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