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show a connection between all the subjects, illustrating the prin- 

 ciple of evolution. The volume proposed to follow in this series 

 will contain various papers on astronomy and physics, including 

 "The Sun and Solar Energy;" "The Moon;" ""Weighing the Sun 

 and Moon;" "Size and Mass of the Earth;" "Planet Worlds and 

 Suds;" 'Fixed and "Variable Stars;" "Star Clusters, Nebulse, and 

 Comets;" "Contents of Space;" "Formation of the Heavenly 

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— Two of the recent publications of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity may interest some of our readers. One is on "The Study of 

 History in Germany and France," by Paul Fredericq of the Uni- 

 versity of Ghent, translated by Henrietta Leonard, and gives a 

 somewhat minute account of the methods now pursued in teach- 

 ing history in the universities of Germany and in the various 

 higher schools in Paris. The historical courses in the German 

 Universities are of tvi^o kinds, theoretical and practical, of which 

 the former are like those in our own colleges, while the latter are 

 intended to teach the student how to investigate and criticise the 

 original authorities. It is these practical courses, as pursued in 

 the historical seminaries, that M. Fredericq most esteems; and 

 he devotes many pages to an account of the way they are carried 

 on, the students doing most of the work, and the teacher making 

 suggestions and criticisms. Some foreign observers have thought 

 that this mode of investigating history was degenerating into a 

 mere criticism of texts and study of trifles; but M. Fredericq 

 thinks otherwise, though he admits that it might do so. The 

 French historical courses in general he esteems less highly, but 

 speaks with enthusiasm of those at the Practical School for Ad- 

 vanced Study (L'Ecole Pratique des hautes etudes), founded in 

 Paris a few years since, and which resemble to some extent those 

 of the German universities. On the whole, M. FredSricq's mono- 

 graph, though too minute for most readers, is well prepared, and 

 will doubtless be suggestive to American educators. The other 

 pamphlet to which we alluded is "Notes on the Progress of the 

 Colored People of Maryland since the "War," by J. E. Brackett. 

 This author had previously published an account of the negroes 

 and of slavery in Maryland before the war, to which the present 



work is therefore a supplement. He speaks first of the political 

 action of the negroes, which, in his opinion, has not helped them 

 much, and then goes on to state what they have done in accumu- 

 lating property and otherwise improving their condition. He re- 

 ports, that, according to the best information obtainable, not 

 more than two thousand of the Maryland negroes own any prop- 

 erty, though the number of negroes in the State is over two hun- 

 dred thousand. Considerable difficulty has been experienced by 

 them in gaining admittance to the professions of law, medicine, 

 and teaching; but they have finally succeeded in all these cases. 

 Some prejudice and caste feeling still prevails; but, on the whole, 

 the status of the negro in Maryland seems to be improving as fast 

 as could reasonably have been expected. 



— The Shakespeare Society of New York announces that it will 

 immediately resume its publications (temporarily discontinued, 

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 and edited English plays contemporary with Shakespeare's own 

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 and 16mo. page heretofore used, and hereafter all of the society's 

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