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— Macniillan & Co. arjnouiice as just ready a folio volume on 

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— Andrew D. White will take "The Antiquity of Man and 

 Egyptology " as the subject of a chapter in the Warfare of Science 

 Series, to appear in the June Popular Science Monthly. His 

 account of how Egyptian chronology was cramped and twisted to 

 make it agree with the belief that the first man was created just 

 4,004 years before Christ, shows an intellectual servility in the 

 past that can hardly be realized at the present day. The June 

 number will also contain " In the Atelier of a Glass- Worker," by 

 Professor C. H. Henderson (the fourth illustrated article on glass- 

 making), which will tell how the beautiful designs are produced 

 that delight us in engraved, etched, and cut glass; the concluding 

 chapters on "Justice," which are to form a part of Heroert 

 Spencer's system of philosophy, in which the sentiment of justice 

 and the idea of justice are carefully analyzed ; and an article de- 

 scribing certain evidences of glacial action in south-eastern Con- 

 necticut, by David A. Wells. This account will be illustrated 

 with pictures of some of the great bowlders which are thickly 

 strewed over this region. 



John Wiley & Sons, New York, are publishing in a neat and 



convenient size some of Mr. Ruskin's most popular works. They 

 are printed from new plates on fine paper, and bound in extra 

 cloth, gilt bead, and uncut edges. This series will consist of at 

 least twelve volumes, 18mo, price one dollar per volume, and will 



be extended to include his complete works. The following vol- 

 umes are now ready; viz., "Sesame and Lilies," " Ethics of the 

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 " Praeterita; or, The Autobiography of John Ruskin " (from new 

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— "Hatred of England," the existence of which in the United 

 States he denies, is discussed in The North American Review for 

 May by Goldwin Smith. In the same number Sir Richard Cart- 

 wright gives an account of " Protection in Canada." Other sub- 

 jects of timely interest are, " A Few Words on Col. Ingersoll," by 

 Archdeacon Farrar; " Audacity in Woman Novelists," by George 

 Lathrop Parsons; " Why Cities are Badly Governed," by State 

 Senator Fassett; and " The Typical Ameripan," by Andrew Lang 

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— "A Catalogue of Minerals and Synonyms," by Professor 

 Thomas Egleston, Ph.D., School of Mines, Columbia College, 

 was published in April, 1889, by the National Museum in Wash- 

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 since the distribution of the first edition, that it is proposed to 

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Philosophical Society, Washington. 



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 that constructed by J. Ramsden, in 1775; 

 W. J. McGee, Recent Geographic Changes 

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Women's Anthropological Society of 

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