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told that it cannot be understood by ordinary intelligence, — a fact 

 that we are not inclined to dispute. We did, however, find one 

 proposition in the book which we not only understood, but believed. 

 We read on p. 61 that " that which is immortal is not mortal; that 

 which is mortal is not immortal." This we solemnly believe to be 

 true, and we can only regret that the rest of the book is not 

 equally valuable. 



— Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls will publish in November a narra- 

 tive poem in blank verse by William Cleaver Wilkinson, entitled 

 " The Epic of Saul." The poem treats of the career of Saul the 

 Pharisee up to the time of his con version. Passages of the ' ' Epic 

 of Saul" have appeared in The Century, The Independent, and 

 other periodicals, entitled as separate poems. 



— The Cliauiaiiqimn for November presents, among other arti- 

 cles, the following : "The Intellectual development of the English," 

 by Edward A. Freeman; "The English Constitution," II., by 

 Woodrow Wilson; "The Religious Historv of England," II. , by 

 Professor George P. Fisher; "How the Saxons Lived," Part II., 

 by R. S. Dix; "The Tenure of Land in England," Part IL, by D. 

 McG. Means; " The Knight of the Round Table." by James Bald 

 win; "The Silver Bill," by Thomas H. Hamilton; "Studies in 

 Astronomy," II., by Garrett P. Serviss; "How to see Southern 

 Italy," by J. P. Mabaffy; "The Origin in Literature of Vulgar- 

 isms," by Professor Edward A. Allen; "Light-Houses and Other 

 Aids to Navigation," by William Mooney ; " Observations on Green- 

 land," by Charles M. Skinner; "Silk Industries in France," by 

 Albert de la Berge; " Home Building," I., by Byron D. Halsted. 



— Herbert Ward, the African traveller, in "The Tale of a Tusk 

 of Ivory," in the Bfovember Scribner, says, "From time imme- 

 morial the smooth, shining tusks of elephants have been acknowl- 

 edged as currency by the savage tribes of the far interior of 

 Equatorial Africa; and even in these days countless numbers of 

 human lives are sacrificed in the bloody figh'ts which are constantly 



waged, both between the tribes themselves and the armed bands 

 of half-caste Arab freebooters, solely for the sake of gaining pos- 

 session of these tusks of ivory, which, by a series of novel exchange 

 and bartering transactions, gradually reach the little stations of 

 the white trader on the surf -bound coast." Professor N. S. Shaler, 

 in his ethnographic researches, sought the record of a body of 

 troops whose ancestors had been for many generations upon 

 American soil, and he found it in the first brigade of Kentucky 

 troops (Confederate). He says, "On May 7, 1864, this brigade,- 

 then in the army of Gen. Joseph Johnston, marched out of Dalton,. 

 1,140 strong, at the beginning of the great retreat upon Atlanta, 

 before the army of Sherman. In the subsequent hundred days, 

 or until Sept. 1, the brigade was almost continuously in action 

 or on the march. In this period the men. of the command re- 

 ceived 1,860 death or hospital wounds; the dead counted as- 

 wounds, and but one wound being counted for each visitation of 

 the hospital. At the end of this time there were less than fifty 

 men who had not been wounded during the hundred days. There 

 were 340 men left for duty, and less than ten 'men deserted. A 

 search into the history of warlike exploits has failed to show me 

 any endurance of the worst trials of war surpassing this." It is 

 doubtful whether the survey of the great railroad in the Andes 

 surpassed in danger and stirring adventures the exploits of the 

 engineering party led by Robert Brewster Stanton last winter 

 through the canons of the Colorado. In less than 500 miles 530 

 rapids, falls, and cataracts were encountered. Mr. Stanton will 

 describe this expedition in the November Scribner. A series of 

 photographs was taken, some of which \pill be used to illustrate 

 the article. A number of nurses in the New York City Training 

 School have written for Mrs. Frederick Rhinelander Jones (who 

 offered prizes for the best) sketches of their actual experiences in 

 a typical day, or night, of hospital woi'k. These will be embodied 

 in Mrs. Jones's article " On the Training of a Nurse," also in the 

 November number. 



CATARRH. 



Catarrhal Deafness— Hay Fever. 



Sufferers are not generally aware that these 

 diseases are contagious, or that they are due to 

 the presence of living parasites in the lining 

 membrane of the nose and eustachian tubes. 

 Microscopic research, however, has proved this 

 to be a fact, and the result of this discovery is 

 that a simple remedy has been formulated where- 

 by catarrh, catarrhal deafness and hay fever are 

 permanently cured in from one to three simple 

 applications made at home by the patient once 

 in two weeks. 



N.B. — This treatment is not a snuff or an 

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 table physicians as injurious. A pamphlet ex- 

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RACES AND PEOPLES. 



By DANIEL G. BRINTON, M.D. 



This book is a review of the whole domain 

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 the white or European race, the Aryan 

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CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES. 

 Biological Society, Washington. 

 Oct. 18.— H. E. Van Deman, Cultivated 

 Fi'uits in the Mountains of North Carolina ; 

 T. N. Gill, On the Super-Family Cyclop- 

 teroidea ; Lester F. Ward, American Ti-ias- 

 sic Flora. 



A New Method of Treating Disease. 



HOSPITAL REMEDIES. 



What are they ? There is a new departure in 

 the treatment of disease. It consists in the 

 collection of the specifics used by noted special- 

 ists of Europe and America, and bringing them 

 within the reach of all. For instance, the treat- 

 ment pursued by special physicians who treat 

 indigestion, stomach and liver troubles only, 

 was obtained and prepared. The treatment of 

 other physicians celebrated for curing catarrh 

 was procured, and so on till these incomparable 

 cures now include disease of the lungs, kidneys, 

 female weakness, rheumatism and nervous de- 

 bility. 



This new method of "one remedy for one 

 disease " must appeal to the common sense of 

 all sufferers, many of whom have experienced 

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 are guaranteed to cure every ill out of a single 

 bottle, and the use of which, as statistics prove, 

 has ruined ni07-e stomachs than alcohol. A cir- 

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