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and conveys a good deal of information in a smaircompass. As 

 a popular account of Stanley's work, it is worthy of commenda- 

 tion. 



AMONG THE PUBLISHERS. 



The latest issues of the Modern Science Essayist, devoted to 

 popular evolution essays and lectures, are as follows: No. 25, 

 "Evolution of Arms and Armor," by John C. Kimball; No. 26, 

 "Evolution of the Mechanic Arts," by James A. Skilton; and 

 No. 27, "Evolution of the Wages System," by George Gunton. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. will soon publish editions of three of 

 Moliere's comedies, — "Le TartufEe," " Le Bourgeois Gentil- 

 homme," and "Le Medecin Malgre Lui," edited by F. E. A. 

 Gasc. 



— Readers of " Robert Elsmere " will be interested to find in Dr. 

 G. P. Fisher's "Nature and Method of Revelation," just issued by 

 the Scribners, a chapter devoted to the discussion of the reli- 

 gious views of Matthew Arnold as advocated by Mrs. Humphry 

 Ward in her novel. 



— The interest in meteorology is on the increase in Russia, and 

 by the end of this year or the beginning of next the Geographical 

 Society proposes to start a monthly meteorological journal called 

 Meteorofjigeski Wjestnik. Friends of meteorology are requested 

 to inform the society of their intention to subscribe to it. If a 

 sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained, the journal will 

 be started. It will pay great attention not only to bibliography, 

 but also to reviews, and extracts from meteorological works in 

 Russia and abroad, and to the applications of meteorology to ag- 

 riculture, hygiene, etc. 



— One of the popular writers in France to-day is M. Imbert de 

 Saint Amand. During the past few years he has written a series 

 of interesting biographical volumes relating to the famous women 

 of the French Court, which have passed through numerous French 

 editions, and are now being translated into English by Mr. T. S. 

 Perry for the Scribners. The first two volumes, entitled " The 

 Wife of the First Consul," and " The Happy Days of the Empress 

 Marie Louise," have already been published. The next volume, 

 " Marie Antoinette and the End of the Old Regime," will appear 

 at an early date, and other volumes are in preparation. 



— Mr. George E. Brett, who established the New York branch 

 of Macmillan & Co. twenty years ago, and who successfully man- 

 aged it until his retirement from duty on the Ist of this month, 

 died at his residence in this city on Wednesday, June 11, of con- 

 sumption. He had been ailing for several months, but his many 

 friends had hoped that his well-earned rest would soon restore 



him to health. The business of Macmillan & Co. in this city will 

 hereafter be carried on by Mr. George P. Brett, who was ap- 

 pointed to the management on June 1, upon his father's retire- 

 ment. 



— Dr. Newman Smyth's new book, entitled "Personal Creeds," 

 just published by the Scribners, aims to show men "how to form 

 a working theory of life." It appeals to the class of individuals 

 who, while unable to accept every thing they have been taught 

 in religion, would not miss the best faiths implied in right living. 



— Following in the line of the large English publishers who 

 have opened agencies to the United States comes the announce- 

 ment that the Religious Tract Society of London are also about to 

 establish a depository in this country. Mr. Fleming H. Revell 

 (New York and Chicago) has been appointed sole agent for the 

 society, and will supply both the wholesale and retail trade from 

 both points. The publications of the Religious Tract Society are 

 by no means confined to "tracts." On the other hand, they are 

 among the largest publishers in Great Britain of fine illustrated 

 gift books, works of travel, science, healthy fiction, and popular 

 juveniles, as well as most valuable theological and devotional vol- 

 umes. 



— The University of Pennsylvania has begun the publication of 

 a series of monographs on philosophical themes, the first of which 

 is entitled "On Sameness and Identity," by George S. FuUerton, 

 professor of philosophy in the university. He begins by calling 

 attention to the different senses of the word "same," and the 

 confusion that often flows from not attending to the distinction 

 between them. He then proceeds to distinguish what he believes 

 to be seven different meanings of the word, explaining each of 

 them at such length as seems to him necessary. Having thus set 

 forth his own views, he devotes the rest of his work to a criti- 

 cism of other thinkers for their ambiguous use of the term, deal- 

 ing with various writers from Heraclitus to the present day. For 

 our part, however, if we wanted examples of the confusion of 

 thought resulting from a misuse of the word in question, or from 

 want of attention to its different meanings, it is to the pages of 

 Mr. Fullerton's work that we should go. For instance, there is 

 no difference between the second and fourth cases of sameness 

 that he enumerates, while in the seventh case there is no same- 

 ness at all. The grand defect of the book is that its author has 

 no consistent theory of the ego and the external world. He de- 

 nies that we have any immediate knowledge of these things, but 

 whether the things themselves really exist or not is a point about 

 which he does not seem to have made up his mind; and in conse- 

 quence of this his discussion of sameness and identity is full of 

 mistakes and inconsistencies. 



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