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Mallock contiDues his duel with Father Sebastian Bowden on 

 reason and religion in a paper entitled " Reason Alone " Algernon 

 Charles Swinburne contributes a notice of the life and works of 

 the old English poet, Robert Davenport. The number closes with 

 the second instalment of George Meredith's new novel, " One of 

 Our Conquerors." 



— One of the most recent additions to the American Book Com- 

 pany's list of schoolbooks is " The Natural Speller and "Word Book." 

 The word ■' natural" in this connection, we presume. I'elates to an 

 important principle recognized in the higher branches, but too 

 long neglected in the beginnings of school eilacation. In the higher 

 brandies this principle is acted upon in sliowing the intimate 

 relation existing between the various subjecis taught, as niathe- 

 matics. physic^-, astronomy, chemistry, etc. In this Iraok an effort 

 is made in the same direction by showing the relationship between 

 the words in each lesson. As staled in the preface, "there are a 

 certain number of useful vrords which the pupil must learn in any 

 event. The question therefore arises whether it is of more benefit 

 to teach him these words abstractly, or to combine them into 

 various exercises which will prove both interesting and instruc- 

 tive." The latter plan has been adopted in this work, and the 

 idea has been well worked out. In addition to the usual methods 

 of calling attention to special letters and combinations by means 

 of bold-faced type, etc., the use of red ink has been tried, and, in 

 our opinion, with unsatisfactory results. 



— "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections," No. 741, is an 

 " Index to the Literature of Thermodynamics." by Alfred Tuck- 

 erman, Ph.D. This is timilar to the author's "Index to the 

 Literature of the Spectroscope," published in the thirty-second 

 volume of the same collection for 1888. AU of the titles are given 

 in full in the author-index; but in the subject-index, to s-ave use- 

 less repetition, only the authors aud the places where their works 

 are to be found are given, except in the case of books. Applica- 



tions of thermodynamics have been found, and kept, to the num- 

 ber of more than double the titles given, but they were omitted so 

 as not to overload the index with matter of little or no use No 

 titles, however, have been left out which belong to the applica- 

 tions named in the table of contents. The work has been brought 

 down to the middle of the year 1889. 



— "A Woman's Trip to Alaska" is the title of a volume of 

 travels which the Cassell Publishing Company will issue in a few 

 days. The woman who made the trip i3 Mrs. Septima M. Collis, 

 the wife of Gen. C. H. T. Collis of New York. 



— The American publishers of the Contemporary Review, the 

 Leonard Scott Publication Company, announce that the November 

 number of that periodiial will contain an important note on the 

 personal relations of Stanley and Emin Pacha by Dr. Carl Peters, 

 who gives Emin Pacha himself as the authority for his statements. 

 Josephine Butler will write a graceful tribute to Mrs. Booth, the 

 mother of the Salvation Armv. not only describing Mrs. Booth's 

 own part in building up the work of that organization, but point- 

 ing out the great good it has accomplished. Arnold White will 

 tell the story of some recent experiments in colonization as gath- 

 ered from his own observations in South Africa. George Bartrick 

 Baker will contribute a paper on "The Late Crisis on the Stock 

 Exchange," in which he will undertake to point out the causes 

 which ha^e led to the present stringent condition of the money 

 market. Justin McCarthy will review Mr. Lecky's last volumes, 

 the concluding portion of his "History of England in the Eigh- 

 teenth Centru-y ," which are chiefly devoted to the study of the Irish 

 Union. Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett will write on "Infant 

 Marriage in India," and detail the actual life of a Hindoo woman 

 from her cradle. Rev. Dr. Edwin A. Abbott will have a tbou>;ht- 

 ful and interesting essay on " Illusion in Religion." Sir Thomas 

 H. Farrer will continue his examination into the methods of impe- 

 rial finance for the last four years. Vernon Lee's Story, " A 



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