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and Educational Studies,' by Herbert B. Adams of Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



— Charles W. Sever, Cambridge, Mass., announces a new and 

 enlarged edition of ' Songs of Harvard.' It contains all the latest 

 and most popular songs and glees sung by the Harvard Glee Club 

 and students of other American colleges. The book has already 

 run through three large editions, and has met with great favor 

 wherever introduced. Of Stories from the Persian, ' Abdulla of 

 Khorassan ' and ' Ahmed the Cobbler,' published by the same 

 house, and edited by l^rof. F. J. Child, the Boston Advertiser says, 

 " These tales are taken from Malcolm's ' Sketches of Persia,' 

 one of the most agreeable books in the English language, though 

 it seems scarcely to be known to the present generation of Amer- 

 icans. If the two tales herein preserved are a sample of the entire 

 book, it fully deserves the high praise that Professor Child has 

 given it. 



— In the Magazine of Art for January (New York, Cassell & 

 Co.) the frontispiece is a photogravure from a painting by R. Caton 

 Woodville. called 'Saving the Guns at Mainward.' The opening 

 article, by Cosmo Monkhouse, gives a sketch of 'the young English 

 sculptor, Alfred Gilbert, and a portrait. ' Art in the Theatre' is the 

 subject of the next paper, giving some illustrations from the work 

 of some famous scene-painters. ' Salisbury Hall ' is a description 

 with pen and pencil of one of those picturesque old places found 

 nowhere in such perfection as in England. The second paper on 

 the ' Liverpool Corporation Collection ' shows that shipping-centre 

 to be a liberal patron of the fine arts. William G. Rossetti has 

 another paper on the portraits of his brother Dante Gabriel. ' E.x- 

 pressions in Drapery ' is a carefully prepared paper by Annie Wil- 

 liams, for which studies by Sir Frederick Leighton serve as illustra- 

 tions. A full-page engraving of Mr. Homo Thornycroft's statue of 

 General Gordon, erected in Trafalgar Square, brings us to the 

 notes, which are full. 



— The romantic and picturesque side of ' Castle Life in the Mid- 

 dle Ages' will be described by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield in the 

 January Scribner's, with many illustrations from drawings by E. 

 H. Blashfield ; Gen. E. P. Alexander, president of the Georgia Cen- 

 tral Railroad, and one of the most widely known railroad men in 

 the South, will write of ' Railway Management ; ' Thomas Bailey 

 Aldrich, editor of The Atlantic, will write of some bright memories 

 of his birthplace, Portsmouth, N.H. (his paper, entitled ' Odd SMcks,' 

 is the first of the series of final papers which replaces the feature 

 contributed last year by Robert Louis Stevenson) ; Miss Sarah Orne 

 Jewett, whose work has heretofore dwelt with New England char- 

 acter, will contribute a story in an entirely different field, describing 

 the family life of a respectable Irish-American saloon-keeper; and 

 Robert Louis Stevenson, who spent last winter in the Adirondacks, 

 describes a series of remarkable adventures in that region. The 

 time is in the last century, when the wilderness was almost path- 

 less. 



— The United States Geological Survey has just published Bulle- 

 tin 47, an analysis of the waters of the Yellowstone Park, by Messrs. 

 Gooch and Whitfield of Prof. F. W. Clarke's staff. The analyses 

 seem to have been verv thorough, and sufficiently numerous to 

 make accurate generalization possible. Physicians will be inter- 

 ested in the fact that arsenic and lithia were present in appreciable 

 quantities, while iodine was conspicuously absent, and bromine was 

 rarely found. 



— John Wiley & Sons have just issued a new and improved 

 edition of ' The Principles of Thermodynamics, with Special Ap- 

 plications to Hot-Air, Gas, and Steam Engines," by Robert Ront- 

 gen, teacher in the Polytechnic School at Remscheid ; translated, 

 revised, and enlarged by A. Jay Du Bois, Ph.D., professor of dy- 

 namic engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. 

 Very considerable additions have been made to the present editioii. 

 The application of the calculus to the subject has been given with 

 sufficient fulness, in the shape of additions to Chapters VII. and 

 XVIII. All examples and formula; are given throughout the work 

 in both French and English imits, and the steam tables of Zeuner 

 are given complete, both in their original French units, and also 



reduced throughout to English units. Many new examples have 

 been added. 



— Prof. David P. Todd of Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 

 has published a very useful pamphlet, ' Instructions for observing 

 the Total Eclipse of the Sun, Jan. i, 1889.' In a recent issue of 

 Science we traced the course of this eclipse through California. It 

 will be visible from northern California to Manitoba, the duration 

 of totality decreasing from im 57» to cm 12a. Valuable observa- 

 tions inay be made by amateurs without the aid of elaborate in- 

 struments, and it is particularly for the use of this class of observers 

 that these instructions have been compiled. Professor Todd de- 

 sires them to make sketches of the entire corona, and of the corona 

 near the north and south poles of the sun's disk ; sketches of the 

 outer corona ; and observations of the duration of the total eclipse. 

 The latter observation is particularly desirable at places near the 

 limits of totality. Instructions to amateur photographers conclude 

 the useful pamphlet. The author requests that drawings or obser- 

 vations of this kind be forwarded to him. 



— The third number of \\\t. Journal of American Folk-Lore, 

 which has just been issued, concludes the first volume. While the 

 journal was originally not intended to appear at regular intervals, 

 the large amount of available material, and the general interest in 

 its contents, have made it necessary to issue it as a quarterly. The 

 present number contains a valuable paper by Prof. Horatio Hale 

 on ' Huron Folk-Lore,' which will be continued in the next num- 

 ber ; descriptions of Onondaga customs, by De Cost Smith and W. 

 M. Beauchamp, and several other papers on Indian lore. Mr. W. 

 W. Newell publishes a collection of a number of English folk-tales 

 as told in America. For the coming volume a number of interest- 

 ing contributions are announced on Indian lore as well as on that of 

 Europeans settled in America. Attention will be paid to a full 

 record of publications on American folk-lore. 



— With the recent publication of the sixth part of his 'But- 

 terflies of North America,' Mr. Edwards has issued eighteen 

 plates of that incomparable iconography within two years, which is 

 almost exactly fulfilling the promise of the first part. Considering 

 the special difficulties which have stood in his way, this result is 

 very gratifying. The present part is a most interesting one, giving 

 such full illustrations of every stage of Anthocliaris geniitia and 

 Neonympha areolatiis as to leave hardly any thing to be desired. 

 The artists have taken such evident pains in the execution of every 

 detail, that the truthfulness of the illustrations is almost self-evi- 

 dent. We miss in part the exquisite work that Mrs. Peart has done, 

 for she was unquestionably without a rival among American artists 

 in this class of delineation on stone; but her standard has induced 

 such excellence in her followers, that, but for what had preceded, 

 we should be inclined to call this perfection. Credit must be given 

 Mr. Edwards for this, for such excellence comes only from demand 

 and from persistent purpose. Western species of ^/////('tV/rt;-/^ and 

 Papilio, with the chrysalis of the former, complete the series. 

 Thanks mainly to Edwards, the complete histories of nearly all the 

 various types of Satyrids in our country are now very well known, 

 — better known, indeed, than are those of Europe, where, from the 

 greater diversity of forms in this group, the opportunities are very 

 much greater. 



— Prof. Robert T. Hill, in a recent bulletin of the United States 

 Geological Survey, gives a very useful summary of the history of 

 geological investigation in Texas up to the year 1 886. The first 

 part of his work treats of the history of surveys, describing those of 

 European travellers — among whom F. Roemer's work is of special 

 importance — first. Next the L'nited States military reconnais- 

 sances and explorations are recorded, and a history of the attempts 

 to establish a Slate geological survey is given. The second part 

 treats in a concise manner of the results of these investigations, the 

 foundations on which the present work is to be carried on. Pro- 

 fessor Hill has worked hard to arouse interest in geological work in 

 Texas, and it is a matter of congratulation that his endeavors have 

 been successful. His own contributions warrant that the work 

 undertaken under his direction will yield important results. 



