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the chapter on abstraction and conception, and also in many 

 cases in the use of the new terminology. Those who wish 

 for novelty in a scientific work may be interested in this one; 

 but most people, we think, will prefer to walk in the old 



AMONG THE PUBLISHERS. 



In The Jenness-Miller Magazine for March is an article on 

 ' 'Physical Culture, ' ' by Mabel Jenness, and another on ' 'The 

 Luxury of the Turkish and Roman Baths," by Annie Jenness- 

 Miller. 



— The issue of London Engineering for Feb. 28 is devoted 

 mainly to an exhaustive and handsomely illustrated article 

 on the recently completed bridge across the Firth of Forth in 

 Scotland. Including advertisements and inserted plates, the 

 number contains 268 pages. It is as notable a work in its way 

 as the bridge it treats of. 



— The Home Journal, which was founded in 1846 by George 

 P. Morris and N. P. "Willis, preserved its original form, four 

 very large pages, until a few weeks ago, when it assumed the 

 more modern form of eight smaller pages. The journal has 

 every appearance of increasing prosperity. 



— ' 'A Digest of English and American Literature' ' is now 

 in the press of S. C. Griggs & Co. of Chicago, being the last 

 work completed previous to the death of its author. Professor 

 A. H. Welsh, whose "Development of English Literature and 

 Language" has passed through ten editions. 



— P. Blakiston, Son, & Co., Philadelphia, will publish about 

 March 15 a new medical dictionary, by Georege M. Gould, 

 A.B., M.D. It will be a compact one- volume book, containing 

 several thousand new words and definitions collected from 

 recent medical literature, while the total number of words is 

 beyond that in any similar book. It includes also tables of 

 the bacilli, leucomaines, ptomaines, micrococci, etc. ; of the 

 arteries, nerves, etc. ; and of the mineral springs of the United 

 States; together with other collateral information. 



— Poet-Lore for March 15 will give another of Mr. Nathan 

 Haskell Dole's papers on the Russian drama, with translations 

 from Tolstoi and Pushkin. Mr. W. G. Kingsland, a friend of 

 Browning's, whose recollections of him date for twenty years 

 past, will give some personal memoranda. Among other inci- 

 dents, the origin of Browning's poem "Memorabilia" is told. 

 The first of a series of selected specimens of Anglo-Saxon poetry, 

 literally translated, by Anna Robertson Brown of Wellesley 

 and Oxford, will be begun. The first selection is from 

 Beowulf. Mr. J. S. Stuart Glennie's opinion of Shakspeare's 

 attitude on the land question, as given in the January Poet- 

 Lore, has called out a letter from a special student of Shak- 

 spearian records, Mr. A. Hall of London, which will be among 

 the minor matters of the magazine for March. 



— The directors of the "Old South Studies in History" have 

 just added to their general series of "Old South Leaflets," 

 published by D. C. Heath & Co., a translation of the Constitu- 

 tion of Switzerland, by Professor Albert B. Hart of Harvard 

 University, with historical and bibliographical notes. It will 

 be of use to those both inside and outside of our colleges who 

 are engaged in the comparative study of politics. Equally 

 interesting to many, at a time when several new States in the 

 Union are just adopting constitutions, will be the Constitution 

 of Ohio, which has also recently been added to this series of 

 leaflets. It is the purpose of the directors of the ' 'Old South 

 Studies" to follow up these with several similar leaflets, 

 enabling every student to possess for a few cents good copies 

 of the constitutions of leading European nations as well as of 

 representative States in the Union. Our young people are very 

 seldom familiar with the constitution of their own State. It 

 is too often because they cannot easily get at it. 



— A good figure of our native St. John's wort, which was 

 discovered by the Swedish botanist Kalm at Niagara Falls, 

 and named in honor of him Hypericum Kalmianum, is given in 



Garden and Forest for last week. Another illustration is of a 

 giant African aloe, which would probably flourish in our 

 Southern States, and make a superb garden-plant. Mr. F. W. 

 Burbidge, curator of the Botanical Gardens of Dublin Univer- 

 sity, writes of the home of the pitcher-plants on the mountain 

 slopes of Borneo; Mr. Charles C. Binney, secretary of the 

 American Forestry Association, discusses the means of forest- 

 reform ; and Charles Eliot proposes a plan for saving the grand 

 Waverly Oaks. 



— A cable despatch calls attention to the space occupied in. 

 the March reviews by social and economical discussions. The 

 Ninetee7ith Century, which keeps its lead, has the third of a 

 series by Professor Huxley. In this one, entitled "Capital, the 

 Mother of Labor," he once more attacks Mr. Henry George 

 and his theories. Mr. J. D. Christie, who announces himself 

 as a pastry-cook, contributes to the same review what he calls 

 a "Workingman's Reply to Professor Huxley." Lord Bram- 

 well writes on property. Perhaps Mr. Herbert Spencer's paper 

 on justice may be referred to the same category, though it is, 

 as usual, an a priori argument rather than a practical help, 

 toward any valid theory of political ethics. Similar topics 

 are uppermost in TJie Contemporary Review, where M. de 

 Laveleye discourses on communism, neatly applying the 

 knife to some of its favorite dogmas; Mr. Fletcher Moulton 

 argues for taxaton of ground rents; and Mr. Lyulph Stanley 

 discusses free schools, — a social question that goes deeper than 

 most others. 



— David Starr Jordan, president of the University of Indiana, 

 will open the April Popular Science Monthly with a vigorous 

 article on "Science in the High School." Its object is to. 

 show up the make-believe character of what is offered in many 

 schools to satisfy the modern demand for science-teaching. 

 An article by Professor Huxley, entitled "On the Natural 

 Inequality of Men," will be printed. It deals with Rousseau's 

 idea of the equality of men in the state of nature, with applica- 

 tions to the recent controversy on the land question. The 

 ladies are not yet through with Grant Allen's "Plain Words 

 on the Woman Question." Another answer to Mr. Allen's 

 article will appear in the same number by Miss Alice B. Tweedy, 

 who asks, ' 'Is education opposed to motherhood ?' ' and answers 

 the question with a vigorous negative. Professor C. H. Toy o 

 Harvard will contribute a thoughtful essay on "Ethics and 

 Religion," in which he shows that religions have mainly bor- 

 rowed their rules of conduct from what men have regarded aa 

 right, and that it is doubtful if ethics has received any thing 

 from religion. 



— Messrs. Mudge & Son of Boston have issued a small work 

 by Mary Boole, widow of George Boole, entitled ' 'Logic taught 

 by Love." It is not a connected treatise, but a series of 

 detached essays which had previously appeared in various 

 periodicals. Why it is called "Logic" we cannot see; for 

 there is nothing in it about logic except a few quotations from 

 Mr. Boole and one or two other writers. The greater part of 

 the book is occupied by religious essays of a more or less 

 mystical character, the writer's religious views being a queer 

 compound of pantheism and Judaism. Her leading doctrine is 

 that of "pulsation," which she expresses by saying that "the 

 very life of all that lives consists of some mode or other 

 of pulsation or alternate action;" and again she says that 

 ' 'sound thought is always essentially a free pulsation between 

 extremes." She makes no attempt to prove this doctrine or 

 even to explain it, but takes it for granted throughout the 

 book; yet she does not draw from it any noticeable conclu- 

 sions. In dealing with religious and educational themes she 

 has some interesting remarks, though none that can be called 

 original ; and if she had avoided mysticism and kept within the 

 bounds of common sense, she might have written something of 

 real value. 



— Messrs. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, have just published 

 "Essays of an Americanist, — I. Ethnologic and Archasologic, 

 II. Mythology and Folk-Lore, III. Graphic Systems and 

 Literature, IV. Linguistic," — by Daniel G. Brinton. This 



