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— Scribner will begin an Australian edition with the Janaary 

 number, and a group of articles on that country will appear during 

 the coming year. Josiah Royce of Harvard writes his " Impres- 

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— Henry M. Stanley, in his article on "African Pygmies,"' to 

 appear in the January Scribner, says, " For the benefit of such of 

 your readers as take an interest in pygmy humanity. I have taken 

 the trouhle to write this article, that they may have a little more 

 considerateness for the undersized creatures inhabiting the Great 

 Forest of Equatorial Africa. They must relieve their minds of the 

 Darwinian theory, avoid coupling man with the ape, and banish 

 all thoughts of the fictitious small-brained progenitor supposed to 

 be existing somewhere on land unsubmerged since the eocene 

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 the equals of about fifty per cent of the modern inhabitants of any 

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— A new departure has just been made in periodical literature 

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 the more important articles in magazines and journals. The re- 

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 The quarterly is published by Messrs. T. &T. Clark of Edinburgh, 

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— The Political Science Quarterly for December opens with a 

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