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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XV. No. 374 



Yellow-Fever at Key West. 



The history of yellow-fevei' in Key West (being the most ex- 

 posed point in the United States) dates from a very early period. 

 The frequent occurrence of epidemics of this disease, tlie recur- 

 rence of isolated -cases between epidemic periods, its recent re- 

 appearance in October, 1889, and during the month of January, 

 1890, point, in the opinion of Dr. J. L. Posey of the United 

 States Marine Hospital Service, to but one rational conclusion, — 

 that the disease has finally become endemic in Key West. 



BOOK-REVIEWS. 



Physiognomy and Expression. By Paolo Mantegazza. (Con- 

 temporary Science Series.) New York. Scribner. 12°. 

 $1.25. 

 The author of this work, who has published othei-s on related 

 topics, remarks in his preface that he ' ' takes up the study of 

 expression at the point where Darwin left it, and modestly 

 claims to have gone a step further. ' ' He begins by sketching 

 the history of the study, giving, as it seems to us, altogether 

 too much prominence to the asti-ologists and other fanciful 

 writers, but assigning the highest place to Darwin. His own 

 work is divided into two parts, the first treating briefly of the 

 anatomy of the face and the various features, while the second 

 and much larger part deals with expression strictly so called. 

 In this second part we find a great wealth of facts relating to the 

 outward signs of various emotions, evidently collected with 

 great care, and showing gi'eat keenness of observation; and, so 

 far as our o'.vn experience and knowledge enables us to judge, 

 these statements of fact are for the most part correct.^ They are 

 also well classified and arranged; and, as a description of ex- 

 pression in its various phases, the work can be well recommended. 

 We look in vain, however, for any attempt at explaining the 

 modes of expression. The author quotes Darwin's theories, 

 which, with some modifications, he accepts; but he makes 

 almost no application of them. He also announces what he 

 calls a law of expression, • ' according to which expression is the 

 clearer and more characteristic in proportion as it is j)rovoked 

 by a more powerful, by a better defined emotion, ' ' which would 

 seem to be a truism. But in the main Signor Mantegazza' s 

 work is purely descriptive, and lacking in those philosophical 

 qualities that we find in Sir Charles Bell and in Darwin. As a 

 storehouse of facts it will be useful; but for further light on the 

 theory of expression we shall have to wait for some deeper- 

 thinker. 



AJIONa THE PUBLISHERS. 



Among the more important articles in Harper's Itlagazine 

 for April are "A Suit of Clothes," being one of a series of 

 papers on great American industries, by R. R. Bowker; and 

 "Three Indian Campaigns," by Gen. Wesley Merritt, U. S. A. 

 These articles are handsomely illustrated. There is also a well- 

 written and interesting article, by Richard Wheatley, descriptive 

 of the New York Maiitime Exchange. 



— The Forest and Stream Publishing Company have in press 

 "Trout and Salmon Fishing," by one of New England's best- 

 known anglers; also a new edition of Grinnell's "Pawnee 

 Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. ' ' 



— Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. published last week "Studies in 

 Hegel's Philosophy of Religion," with an appendix on "Chris- 

 tian Unity in America, ' ' by Dr. J. M. Sterrett ; and ' 'The 

 Spiritual Sense of Dante's 'Divina Commedia,' " by W. T. 

 Harris, LL.D. 



— Messi-s. Ginn & Co. announce to be ready in May ' 'Went- 

 worth's School Algebra." The necessity of having new plates 

 for the author's "Elements of Algebra" has given him an oppor- 

 tunity to write a new book, with fresli and interesting problems, 

 and with definitions, illustrations, and arrangements of the sub- 

 ject-matter like those in his ' 'College Algebra. ' ' The work is 

 written for high schools and academies, and is a thorough and 

 practical treatment of the principles of algebra up to and includ- 

 ing the binomial theorem. 



— Porter & Coates have published "Life and Works of the 

 Earl of Beaconsfielcl," by .ludge F. Carroll Brewster. Every 

 work of Disraeli has been sketched so as to afford condensation 

 of plots, characters, and noteworthy passages. They have also- 

 ready, by the same author, "Moliere in Outline," being a 

 translation of all important parts of Moliere' s works, with 

 notes, abridged from Van Laun and others, to which are added 

 the arguments of the play. 



— The prospect is that the exploration and conquest of Africa 

 will be the problem of the twentieth centuiy. Already nearly 

 every nation has its Stanley. France has here in the person of 

 M. Trivier, whom she prefers, however, to call her Livingstone. 

 An article on this ' 'French Livingstone' ' by Henry Fouquier has 

 the post of honor in The Transatlantic of April 1. The peaceful 

 method employed by Ti-ivier in his recent two years' journey 

 across Africa is contrasted by the vrriter with the warlikt? and 

 bloody methods of Baker, Emin Pacha, and Stanley. Following 

 this ai-ticle Caliban (Emile Bergerat) ridicules the anti-Jewish 

 crusade, Enrico Panzacchi critically sketches the decadent school 

 of writers, and there are extracts from the new volume of Ed- 

 mond de Goncourt's "Memoira," accounts of new novels by 

 Zola and Tolstoi, and an interview with Louise Michel regarding 

 her operetta, ' 'In the Moon. ' ' 



— Dr. Martineau's forthcoming book, "The Seat of Authority 

 in Religion,'' will be published almost'immediately by Longmans> 

 Green, & Co. The work is addressed, not to philosophers or 

 scholars, but to educated persons interested in the results of mod- 

 ern knowledge. 



— "Old Friends," Mr. Andrew Lang's new book, to be issued 

 here at once by the Longmans, is not unlike his " Letters to Dead 

 Authors." It describes the meetings of the characters of one 

 novelist with those of another. For example, Dugald Dalgetty 

 tells of his duel with one of the " Three Musketeeis," Barry Lyn- 

 don describes his playing cards with Allan Stuart Breck (fron> 

 "Kidnapped"), and TroUope's Mrs. Proudie sets forth Becky 

 Sharp's assault on the bishop. 



— The April number of College and- School (Utica, N. Y.) is a 

 "Gen. Spinner number," containing two portraits of the ex- 

 treasurer, with his famous signature appended. The general 

 himself contributes the last article from his pen to appear in 

 print, — an interesting reminiscence of his school-days in the 

 Mohawk valley, where, as he says, he was " educated to igno- 

 rance." Three pages of the manuscript are reproduced in fac- 

 simile. Another facsimile reproduction is a translation, by the 

 general, of a German poem, " Ich bin nicht einsam wen allein.'' 

 In his article, 'The Watch Dog of the Treasury," A. G. Rich- 

 mond relates an incident of the Breckenridge attack upon Wash- 

 ington, which strikingly illustrates the foresight of the man who 

 was the guardian of the country's treasure. " Spinner, the Stu- 

 dent," is an account of the formation of the general's lifelong 

 habit of reading. L. L. Merry, in his "Recollections of Geii. 

 Spinner," narrates in a familiar way some things which only an 

 old friend would be likely to know. L. R. Tuttle, ex-assistant 

 treasurer of the United Slates, tells how he tried to persuade the- 

 general to let Mr L. D. Ingersoll write a memoir of his life, 

 while Louis Lombard has a word to say about the general's re- 

 markable memory and his garretful of note-books The number 

 is eight pages larger than usual, and contains, besides the Spinner 

 papers, Mr. WiUiam H. Hayne's " Editor's Library Table," and 

 the usual departments of college news, literary notes, and book- 

 reviews. 



— Messrs. Ginn & Co. announce as published last month 

 " Sidney's Defence of Poesy," edited by Albert S. Cook, professor 

 in Yale University. Sir Philip Sidney's " Defence of Poesy," in 

 which, says Taine, " we meet with genuine imagination, a sin- 

 cere and serious tone, a grand commanding style, all the passion^ 

 and elevation which he carries in his heart and puts into his 

 verse," has not hitherto been accessible to the school and college- 

 student in a handy and readable edition, notwithstanding the ex- 

 istence of one or two literal reprints of the earhest copies. The 

 attempt is here made, by modernizing the spelling and punctua- 



