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aware that all teachers do not agree with us in this; but we do 

 not hesitate in saying that to this, even now, new method of 

 study " The Elements of Laboratory Work" is an addition, and 

 that those who have such work in charge will find the experi- 

 ments and exercises full of suggestions. 



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" Hints on How to Travel " is the title of a handsomely illus- 

 trated little guide and inforuiatioii book just published by H. D. 

 Newson & Co., 853 Broadway, this city. 



— " The Growth of Yale Athletics," by Walter Camp, illustrated 

 by instantaneous photographs taken on the campus; "Path of 

 the Cyclone," seventeen views of the ruins in Louisville; "Missis- 

 sippi Floods," breaks in the levees, river scenes, as pictured from 

 the government vessel, — are published in Illustrated American 

 No 9, for the week ending April 19. 



— In the May number of the New England Magazine there 

 will be a full-page portrait of George Kennan, whicli appears in 

 connection with a poem on the recent Russian atrocities. 



—"The Better Day" (New York, Fimk & Wagnalls) is the title 

 of the new periodical, the organ of the Better Day Reading Circles. 

 It is a journal of temperance educatiob, to extend tbe work begun 

 by the course of scientific temperance instruction in the public 

 schools. 



— Encouraged by the success of the ' 'Historiettes Modernes, ' ' 

 by Professor C. Fontaine, Washington, D.C., the publishers, 

 D. C. Heath & Co. (Boston) issued on the 21st a second vol- 

 ume by the same author, and edited on the same plan. The 

 stories are short, pure, interesting, and of recent appearance 

 in France, and the notes are full and suggestive. 



— Two American honeysuckles which have often been con- 

 founded are admirably figured in last week's Garden and Forest. 

 They are Lonicera flava and Lonicera Sullivantii, and the por- 



traits will serve to facilitate their identification. Some sound 

 advice about planting new places is given in the leading editorial 

 article, and the great nurseries of the Messrs. Veitch & Sons, near 

 London, are described. Besides the usual variety of seasonable 

 horticultural matter, the number contains a review of Dr. Hein- 

 rich Mayr's important work on the forests of North America. 



— Roberts Brothers have ready "London of To-Day," by 

 Charles Eyre Pascoe, an illustrated handbook for the season of 

 1890. 



— An article in Lippincott' s Monthly Magazine for May of 

 timely interest is "Subsidies and Shipping," by Henry W. 

 Raymond. Mr. Raymond points out that all nations who are 

 leaders in commerce grant subsidies to their shipping, and 

 argues that in order to compete successfully with foreign 

 nations we must adopt their methods. 



— Charles Scribner's Sons have ready "The Wife of the 

 First Consul," translated from the French of St. Amand by T. 

 S. Perry, and have in press two more books by the same au- 

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 and 'The Happy Days of the Empress Louise." A revised 

 edition has been prepared of Lafayette C. Loomis's "Index 

 Guide to Travel and Art Study in Europe." 



— tittle, Brown, & Co. will publish next month ' 'The 

 Influence of Sea Power upon History." by Capt. A. T. Mahan, 

 U.S.N. , with twenty-five charts illustrative of great naval 

 battles. The object of the work is an examination of the 

 general history of Europe and America, and exemplification of 

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 from 1660 to the end of tbe American Revolution. 



— Messrs. Ginn & Co. announce for publication May 1, 

 "Common School Music Charts," by W. S. Tilden, teacher of 

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(reological Map of the Province of Ne^t Bruns- 

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Davis, E. H. The Fourth Beading-Book. Philadel 

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Heroic Ballads. With Poems of War and Patriot 

 ism. Ed. with notes by D. H. M. Boston, Ginn 

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Mendenhall, T. 0. A Century of Electricity. 2d 

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SwEDENBORG, E. Angelic Wisdom concerning the 

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 Amer. Swedenborg Publ. Co. 375 p. 24°. 



U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Annual Change 

 of the Magnetic Declination for the Epoch Janu- 

 ary, 1890. Washington, Government. f°. 



■ Isogenic Chart of the United States tor the Epoch 



1890. Washington, Government. f°. 



Magnetic Meridians of the United States for 



January, 1890. Washington, Government. f°. 



Ward, R. H. Plant Organization. 2d ed. Boston, 

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