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ture are very fraokly and decidedly materialistic. He says that 

 he has "fouDd it convenient to omit from the definitions and de- 

 scriptions here used all terms implying subjective conditions 

 which are incapable of direct observation by our senses" (p. 

 37). In another place he speaks of "the physical action called 

 'thought' " (p. 39); and again he expresses the opinion that 

 "thought consists in the formation of the union of cells whose 

 motor or efferent action produces expression of the thought" (p. 

 40). A considerable part of the book is taken up by general dis- 

 cussions about the brain, the body, and the life of animals and 

 plants, much of which has no bearing on the ostensible sub- 

 ject of the work. Whenever we come to the essential part of 

 the book, we find it to be in the main a study of abnormal 

 and pathological states of young children, with advice as lo 

 the best mode of dealing with them. On these points he shows 

 abundant knowledge, and makes suggestions that we should think 

 teachers would find useful. He is specially concerned for chil- 

 dren that have some mental or physical defect, and points out 

 how faults of temper, as well as inattention and idleness, often 

 arise from physical defect or from vpeariness. At the end of the 

 book is a catalogue of a museum of natural history, such as the 

 author has found useful in giving instruction, and which will 

 doubtless be interesting to teachers. 



AMONG THE PUBLISHERS. 



The question of hours of labor is discussed by Gen. Walker in 

 the Atlantic for June. This and Hannis Taylor's consideration of 

 " The National House of Representatives: Its Growing Inefficiency 

 as a Legislative Body," are the two articles which make up the 

 solid reading of the number. 



— ' ' With Fly-Rod and Camera " is the title of an elaborately 

 illustrated work announced for immediate publication by the 

 Forest and Stream Publishing Company. The author is Edward 

 A. Samuels of Boston. The book contains 150 full page i-eproduc- 

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 devoted the vacations of several years on the picturesque salmon 

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— The size of the American Machinist has been increased to 

 twenty pages, the four pages thus added being divided between 



readers and advertisers. On and after June 1, 1890, the subscrip- 

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— Not all new things come from the effeie East. The Bannack 

 and Crow Indians and other tribes in the northern Rockies are 

 laboring with an extraordinary delusion that Christ has come to 

 earth, and is now in the Big Horn Mountains, somewhere between 

 Fort Custer and Fort Washakie, Wyoming Territory. Gen. James 

 S. Brifbin, U.S.A., commanding in Montana, has in the New 

 York Ledger of May 17 an interesting letter concerning the hallu- 

 cination, and giving full and interesting details about it. 



— Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. have in preparation an en- 

 tirely new and complete large-paper edition of the writings of 

 James Russell Lowell. These have been re-arranged by Mr. 

 Lowell, and will appear in volumes not bearing the titles by 

 which his works have heretofore been known, but titles suggested 

 by the new classification. Thus thei'e will be "Literary Est^ays," 

 in four volumes ; " Political Essays," in one volume ; " Literary 

 and Political Addresses," in one volume; "Poems," in four vol- 

 umes. These will comprise all of Mr. Lowell's writings up to 

 date which he wishes to preserve, and will include several ad- 

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 Mr. Lowell has carefully revised the whole, prose and poetry. 

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 at the time of their publication, to their many personal and politi- 

 cal allusions almost as much as to their wit, full explanatory 

 notes are added, which will render these remarkable papers more 

 intelligible to readers of this and future generations. Thus his 

 writings in this issue will bear the form which he regards as final, 

 and which for the future will represent his definitive contribution 

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— In the Department of Arizona, on May 17, Lieut. Witten- 

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 miles from Jlount Reno, near Fort McDowell, to Mount Graham, 

 near Fort Grant, where it was received by Capt. Murray. The 

 latter, by turning his instrument, flashed the message to Fort 

 Huacbuaca, a distance of 90 miles, making a distance of 215 

 miles with only one intervening station. This is the best work 

 yet accomplished in heliography, the longest distance heretofore 

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